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How to Optimize Your Post and Page Titles for Search Engines
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of preparing your WordPress website to make it as easy as possible for the major search engines to crawl it and cache your data in their systems so that [more…]
How to Write Content with Keywords for Search Engines
Your blog posts and pages on your WordPress website should contain keywords to ensure that search engines display your content in the first page of results so that people will find your site. [more…]
How to Use WordPress Categories to Attract Search Engines
The names you give the categories you’ve created provide rich keywords that attract search engines to your WordPress website. To get your site to rise to the top of search results, you'll want to make [more…]
How to Use the ALT Attribution for Images in WordPress
To extend SEO (search engine optimization) in WordPress, you can add keywords to your site by placing ALT attributes within in your image tags to further define and describe the images. You can accomplish [more…]
Color Palettes for Your WordPress Website
Choose color schemes for your WordPress website with confidence after you review some basic color theory and terminology. Making the decision on a color scheme that’s just right can be very time-consuming [more…]
Fonts for Your WordPress Website
Selecting the right fonts that you want to use in your WordPress website is an important part of branding an online identity, so knowing where to find the right fonts and tools to help you make the right [more…]
How to Find Web-Safe Fonts for Your WordPress Content
Web-safe fonts are fonts available on a reader’s computer system. Get to know the common fonts that exist within all operating systems to ensure each reader views your website as intended. The concept [more…]
How to Plant Keywords in Your WordPress Site with Permalinks
For higher rankings for your WordPress website, use custom permalinks with keywords. By using custom permalinks, you automatically insert keywords into the URLs of your posts and pages, letting search [more…]
How to Find and Install Fonts for Graphic Design
On your WordPress website, you're not limited to the types of fonts you can use in graphic design. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of fonts are available on the web. After you find the font that [more…]
Helpful Tools for Creating WordPress Website Color Schemes
You can find tools to help you create just the right color scheme for your WordPress website without spending a lot of time creating different color schemes by using online color wheels and choosing colors [more…]
WordPress Site Design in a Sandbox Environment
A sandbox environment is a critical tool for designing a WordPress website. A sandbox allows you to design and test different website layouts and methods of content delivery before launching the site live [more…]
Test WordPress Designs in a Sandbox Environment
A sandbox is a neutral environment in which a designer can test different web layouts and content delivery designs before launching a WordPress website live on a client’s hosted domain. [more…]
How to Set up a WordPress Blog
WordPress is very widely used by mom bloggers. When your blog is set up on your own hosting account, you have 100 percent control over what you do with your blog. [more…]
How to Install a WordPress Plugin
Many plugins are available to mom bloggers who use WordPress. Plugins can add so many features to your blog that it may be hard to figure out which ones to use. Mostly, you won’t know what you need until [more…]
How to Use WordPress Widgets
WordPress widgets are great little tools for customizing your WordPress sidebar. Widgets act like little boxes of information that you can drag and drop into any position on your blog sidebar. Some widgets [more…]
Add Bio to Your Website with WordPress Widgets
Adding your bio to your mom blog with WordPress is similar to adding any text or HTML to your sidebar. To add a bio, photo, advertising, or anything else custom, you have to put these into a Text Widget [more…]
WordPress Pros and Cons for Mom Bloggers
WordPress and Blogger squash the competition as platforms for setting up new blogs. Each platform has benefits and drawbacks. Mom bloggers should choose [more…]
Add Subhead Tags in WordPress
Adding subheading tags to your mom blog content is easy in WordPress. You’ll first want to have a blog post written with one or more subheadings included as separate paragraphs. Use Heading 2 sparingly [more…]
How to Create a Static Page with WordPress
You use static pages in WordPress to create content that you don’t want to display as part of your blog but do want to display as part of your overall site [more…]
Tweaking Web Pages to Look Like Websites Rather than Blogs
Using a static page as a website front page allows you to get creative with the design and layout of your page. You can assign a page template and/or use widgets to include different types of content and [more…]
How to Make Custom Page Templates in WordPress
Using Page and Category templates in WordPress, you can create custom page templates. These templates provide a different type of reader experience by creating different layouts and styles. [more…]
How to Create Custom WordPress Styles for Sticky, Category, and Tag Posts
WordPress allows you to use a custom tag to display custom styles for sticky posts (posts that stay at the top of your blog at all times), categories, and tags on your WordPress blog. That special tag [more…]
How to Organize Your WordPress.com Blog by Subject
Categorizing your posts in WordPress provides an organizational structure for your blog. Each blog post assigned to a category is grouped with other posts in the same category. When your blog is a few [more…]
How to Create and Categorize Your WordPress Blogroll
A blogroll is a list of links that you display on your WordPressblog. To view your default blogroll, click the Links menu on the Dashboard navigation menu. The Links page opens, and you see the default [more…]
How to Manage Users and Authors on Your WordPress Blog
The WordPress Users page tells you about all the users on your blog. It lists each user’s username, name, e-mail address, role on your blog, and number of posts made to your blog. [more…]
