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How to Personalize Your WordPress Blog
After you install the WordPress software and log in, you can put a personal stamp on your blog by giving it a title and description, setting your contact e-mail address, and identifying yourself as the [more…]
How to Manage Comments on Your WordPress Blog
What would your WordPress blog be if it didn’t include discussions and allow comments from your readers? But because what appears on your blog reflects on you, WordPress offers you options to control who [more…]
Using the WordPress Custom Fields Interface
With WordPress themes, templates, and template tags, Custom Fields auto-formatted data allows for flexibility in defining your blog posts. The Custom Fields module appears on the Write Post and Write Page [more…]
Entering Code into Your WordPress Template File
If you are customizing your WordPress blog theme by using HTML code, adding the template tag to your WordPress theme will smooth the appearance of your blog after you have assigned a name and value to [more…]
How to Hide a WordPress Custom Field
If you have added Custom Fields to your WordPress blog template, you might not always want them on display. WordPress has a self-check search enabling blog posts without the Custom Field to appear automatically [more…]
Adding Custom Navigation Menus to Your WordPress Blog
Navigational menus are vital parts of your WordPress blog’s design. They tell your site visitors where to go and how to access important information or areas on your site. The WordPress Menus feature offers [more…]
Five Free WordPress Plugins to Try
WordPress makes it easy to extend functionality through the use of plugins. Jump into the world of plugins by trying one (or all) of these free popular plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory designed [more…]
WordPress Custom Fields Data Display
Adding Custom Fields to your WordPress template files facilitates proper data display on your WordPress blog. To get the data to display properly, you must open the template files and dig into the code [more…]
How to Customize Your WordPress Workspace for Writing
To write a post for your WordPress blog, you open the Add New Post page. There you have options that let you arrange the WordPress workspace and create a custom environment that suits your writing needs [more…]
How to Create a One-Column Page with Twenty Ten WordPress Theme
With the Twenty Ten WordPress theme, it’s easy to apply a one-column layout when you add pages. On your WordPress site, a one-column page layout might be useful for product sales pages, e-mail subscription [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 Change File Permissions Using Filezilla on Your FTP Site
Every file and folder that exists on your web server has a set of attributions, or permissions, assigned that tells the web server three things about the folder or file. On a very simplistic level, these [more…]
What You Can Do with WordPress E-Commerce Plugins
E-commerce solutions for WordPress sites are very popular, as more people turn to the web to make a little money or start a small business. [more…]
Finding and Installing Free WordPress Plugins
Plugins (add-ons) for WordPress provide specific solutions for your website, such as e-commerce (selling products), photo galleries and portfolios, web forms, social networking, and more. Free plugins [more…]
How to Insert an Image from a PC into a WordPress Post or Page
With the WordPress image uploader (and its Add an Image dialog box), adding images to a post or page is easy. You can add images in two ways — either from a location on the web [more…]
How to Manually Install Commercial WordPress Plugins via FTP
Manually installing commercial plugins isn’t as easy as installing free plugins from the Plugin Directory page within the Dashboard. Commercial (or paid) plugins require that you install them manually [more…]
How to Insert Images from the Web into a WordPress Post or Page
Adding images to a post or page is easy with the WordPress image uploader (via the Add an Image dialog box). You can add images in two ways — either from a location on the web [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…]
Choosing the Width of Your WordPress Website
Every website starts with a layout that takes width into consideration. When designing your WordPress website, keep in mind the differences between fixed and fluid widths. [more…]
Building a WordPress Social Community with BuddyPress
The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress enables you to include a social community for visitors to participate in as members. Members of a BuddyPress social community can immediately connect with other members [more…]
Designing a WordPress Website with a Fixed Width
When designing a WordPress website, you can present information as fixed width or fluid width. Fixed width is a static width of a set number of pixels that stays the same size no matter how big or small [more…]
How to Design WordPress Websites with Fluid Width
A WordPress website designed with a fluid width layout has a flexible width. Unlike a fixed width layout, a fluid width layout can expand or contract in width, based on the screen resolution used by the [more…]
WordPress Website Navigation Options
Website navigation through a menu of links (navigation menu) provides visitors with a way to locate the pages of your WordPress site. A well-crafted navigation menu helps to ensure that your readers won’t [more…]
Options for Displaying Content on a WordPress Site
The type of content displayed on your WordPress website plays an important factor in its design and layout. With a WordPress-powered website, content can be displayed in several ways, such as: [more…]
Column Layout Design for WordPress Websites
Choosing the number of columns for page layout is a critical decision in WordPress website design. The more columns in a site's design and layout, the skinnier those columns need to be to fully display [more…]
