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User Roles and Capabilities on WordPress
Before you start adding new users to your WordPress website or blog, you need to understand the differences among the user roles because each user role is assigned a different level of access and grouping [more…]
How to Add New Users to Your WordPress Blog or Website
When users register on your WordPress blog or website, you get an e-mail notification (sent to the e-mail address you set on the General Settings page), so you always know when new users register, and [more…]
How to Change User Accounts on Your WordPress Blog
After users register and settle into their accounts on your WordPress website or blog, you, as the site administrator, have the ability to edit their user information. You may never have to edit your WordPress [more…]
Great Plugins for Managing a Multi-Author WordPress Site
You may love running a multi-author site, but even on WordPress it has its challenges. WordPress tools can help you manage your multi-author site and make your site more interactive by adding features [more…]
Deciding Whether to Allow Comments on Your WordPress Site
Do you want to allow others to leave comments on your WordPress site? Many blog users say that a blog without comments isn’t a blog at all (because the point of having a blog is to foster communication [more…]
Activating Akismet to Control Spam on Your WordPress Blog
No blogger likes spam. In fact, blogging services such as WordPress have spent untold hours in the name of stopping these spammers in their tracks. All WordPress installations have one significant thing [more…]
How to Organize Links on Your WordPress Blog
The WordPress Dashboard lets you organize your links by creating link categories in the Dashboard and then assigning links to the appropriate categories. These categories let you share links with other [more…]
How to Use WordPress Categories to Organize Your Content
In WordPress, a category is what you determine to be the main topic of a blog post. By using categories on your WordPress blog, you can file your blog posts into topics by subject. To improve your readers’ [more…]
Archiving Your WordPress Posts
When you create a post on your WordPress blog, you can file that post under a category that you specify. This feature makes for a nifty archiving system in which you and your readers can find articles/posts [more…]
How to Create a Navigation Menu in WordPress Twenty Ten
A navigation menu provides links to pages, posts, or categories within your WordPress site, or to other sites. No matter what a menu links to, you can define navigation menus on your site through the built-in [more…]
How to Add Web Forms for a WordPress Site Using Plugins
Some website owners need a way for visitors to provide them information through forms, such as order forms, customer surveys, or readership data collection. Examples of forms you can build include: [more…]
How to Install a TweetMeme Button on Your WordPress Blog
If you install the TweetMeme plug-in on your WordPress blog, a button will appear at each individual blog post so readers can share the links to that post with their Twitter followers. When readers click [more…]
Interacting with Readers through Comments on Your WordPress Blog
One of the most exciting and fun aspects of blogging with WordPress is getting feedback from your readers the moment you make a post to your blog. Feedback, referred to as [more…]
Managing Comments and Trackbacks on Your WordPress Site
The best way to understand trackbacks on your WordPress blog is to think of them as comments, except for one thing: Trackbacks are comments that are left on your blog by other blogs, not by actual people [more…]
How to Change the Name of a WordPress Category
Upon installation, WordPress gives you one default category to get you started called Uncategorized. That category name is pretty generic, so you’ll definitely want to change it to one that’s more specific [more…]
How to Create a New WordPress Category
Today, tomorrow, next month, next year — as your WordPress blog grows in size and age, you’ll continue adding new categories to further define and archive the history of your blog posts. You aren’t limited [more…]
How to Use and Create WordPress Tags
If you have an established WordPress blog with categories already created, you can convert some or all of your categories to tags. To do so, look for the Category to Tag Converter link on the right side [more…]
How to Use Categories to Organize Your WordPress Content
In WordPress, a category is what you determine to be the main topic of a blog post. Through the use of categories, you can file your blog posts into topics by subject. To improve your readers’ experiences [more…]
How to Organize Your WordPress Links List
You can create multiple categories for your links on the WordPress Dashboard if you want to have more than one link list. Sometimes, having a large list of links below the Blogroll heading is just too [more…]
How to Add a Link to Your WordPress Blog
If you’ve created your link categories in WordPress, now you just need to add some new links! To add a new link, follow these steps: [more…]
How to Edit Existing Links in Your WordPress Blog
You can edit the links in your WordPress blog by clicking the All Links on the Links menu; the Links page opens and displays a list of all links on your Dashboard. [more…]
How to Make Your WordPress Permalinks Look Pretty
Permalinks are meant to be permanent links to your WordPress blog posts (which is where the perma part of that word comes from, in case you’re wondering). Other bloggers can use a post permalink to refer [more…]
How to Customize Permalinks on Your WordPress Blog
A custom permalink structure in WordPress is one that lets you define which variables you want to see in your permalinks by using the tags shown in the following table. [more…]
Making WordPress Permalinks Work with Your Server
After you set the format for the permalinks for your site by using any options other than the default, WordPress writes specific rules, or directives, to the [more…]
Moderate and Manage Comments and Trackbacks on Your WordPress Blog
The feature that really catapulted blogging (and WordPress) into the limelight is the comments feature, which lets visitors interact with the authors of blogs. They provide a great way for readers to interact [more…]
