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The WordPress Dashboard

The WordPress Dashboard gives you an all-in-one glance at your blog's statistics and activity. Here's a brief look at the main menu items in the WordPress Dashboard that apply across all versions of WordPress [more…]

WordPress Content Types

Content is the lifeblood of a website, regardless of author or topic. Populate your site with a variety of content types to engage reader interest and to ensure return visits. WordPress offers several [more…]

WordPress Resources

If you use WordPress as the platform for your blog or website, you can make use of any or all of the many tools WordPress offers. Tap into some solid information from WordPress user forums, get ideas for [more…]

How to Log Into the WordPress.com Dashboard

When you blog with WordPress, you spend a lot of time in the Dashboard, which holds the settings and options that enable you to set up your blog just the way you want it. To start blogging in WordPress [more…]

How to Use the WordPress.com Dashboard

You can consider WordPress.com’s Dashboard to be a control because it offers several quick links and areas that provide information about your blog, starting with the actual Dashboard page. You can change [more…]

Editing the Incoming Links Module on the WordPress Dashboard

The Incoming Links module on the WordPress Dashboard lists all the blog-savvy people who wrote a blog post that links to your blog. As more people discover you and your inspired writings, this list of [more…]

How to Arrange Your WordPress Dashboard

WordPress has designed the Dashboard to be highly customizable. You can arrange the order of the modules in your Dashboard to suit your taste. WordPress places a great deal of emphasis on user experience [more…]

How to Change the Layout of Your WordPress Dashboard

The folks at WordPress know that everyone works differently. That’s why the WordPress.com Dashboard is designed to be customizable. You can set up your Dashboard screen with one, two, three, or four columns [more…]

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 Change Your WordPress Blog’s Write and Read Settings

WordPress makes it easy to change reading and writing options on your blog. The Write settings let you control things like font size and formatting. Read settings let you control things like how much of [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…]

How to Create Your WordPress Blog Personal Profile

WordPress Dashboard enables you to personalize your blog by visiting your Profile page where you can tailor your personal options and blog preferences to meet your needs. Customize your keyboard shortcuts [more…]

Making WordPress Permalinks Work with Your Server

To ensure the WordPress permalinks for your blog work with your server the .htaccess file on your web server includes specific rules and directives that comply with the permalink structure you choose when [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…]

How to Customize Your WordPress Blog’s Background Color

If you are using the Twenty Ten theme for your WordPress blog, you may want to pick a background color or image that complements your header, especially if you have added a custom image. With the Background [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…]