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Transfer Files to a Live WordPress Site with BackupBuddy
You use the BackupBuddy plugin to move a client's WordPress website from its temporary hosting environment (sandbox) to its permanent one. Website designers often test their WordPress designs in a sandbox [more…]
Upload WordPress Files to Your Host Server
To upload (transfer) WordPress files to your host server, you will need an FTP client. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) gives you the ability to transfer files from your computer to your web hosting account [more…]
How to Navigate WordPress.com
When you successfully log in to your new account from the main WordPress home page, WordPress returns you to the main WordPress website — where you see a slightly different display on the home page — a [more…]
How to Use the WordPress.com Dashboard
When you click the WordPress Dashboard link under the My Blog navigation tab, you go directly to your WordPress Dashboard page shown. Several modules on the Dashboard provide you with information about [more…]
How to Customize Your WordPress Blog's Background Color
Almost every theme in the WordPress.com theme library supports the Background feature, which allows you to use the handy Background tool to change the background color and/or image that displays on your [more…]
How to Customize the Header Image in Your WordPress Blog
Several themes in the WordPress.com library support the Custom Header feature, which allows you to change the image displayed in the header (or top) of your site through the use of a friendly interface [more…]
How to Personalize Your WordPress Blog with General Settings
After you install the WordPress software and log in, you can use the General Settings to put a personal stamp on your blog by giving it a title and description, setting your contact e-mail address, and [more…]
How to Change Your WordPress Blog's Write and Read Settings
You can really personalize your WordPress blog by changing the Writing and Reading Settings. Click the Writing link in the Settings menu; the Writing Settings page opens. This page lets you set some basic [more…]
How to Display Avatars on Your WordPress Blog
In the final section of the Discussion Settings page, Avatars, you can select different settings for the use and display of avatars on your WordPress site: [more…]
How to Control Media on Your WordPress Blog
On the Media Settings page in WordPress, you can configure the options for how your image files (graphics and photos) are resized for use in your blog. Click the Media link and the Media Settings page [more…]
How to Protect Your Privacy on Your WordPress Blog
You can set your Privacy settings in WordPress by clicking the Privacy link on the Settings menu. Click it to display the Privacy Settings page. This page contains only two options, both of which concern [more…]
How to Create Your WordPress Blog Personal Profile
To really personalize your blog, you need to check out your profile page on your WordPress Dashboard. To access your profile page, click the Your Profile link in the Users menu. You’re taken to the Profile [more…]
How to Log into the WordPress.com Dashboard
When you blog with WordPress, you spend a lot of time on the Dashboard, which is where you make all the exciting, behind-the-scenes stuff happen. The direct approach [more…]
Touring the WordPress Dashboard
You can consider the Dashboard in WordPress to be a Control Panel of sorts because it offers several quick links and areas that provide information about your blog, starting with the actual Dashboard page [more…]
The Right Now Module on the WordPress Dashboard
The Right Now module on the WordPress Dashboard shows what is going on in your blog right now, right this very second! The figure shows the expanded Right Now module in a brand-spanking-new WordPress blog [more…]
The Recent Comments Module on the WordPress Dashboard
The Recent Comments module on the WordPress Dashboard is one of several modules. the Recent Comments module provides information about comments and managing them. Within this module, you find [more…]
Editing the Incoming Links Module on the WordPress Dashboard
The Incoming Links module on the Dashboard lists all the blog-savvy people who wrote a blog post that links to your blog. When your blog is brand new, you won’t see any incoming links listed in this section [more…]
How to Install Plugins from the WordPress.com Dashboard
The Plugins module of the WordPress Dashboard includes three titles of WordPress plugins linked to its page within the WordPress Plugin Directory. The Plugins module pulls information via RSS feed from [more…]
Follow Updates on the WordPress Blog Module in the Dashboard
When you first install WordPress, the WordPress Blog module in the Dashboard is by default populated with the two most recent updates from the official WordPress blog [more…]
How to Arrange Your WordPress Dashboard
You can arrange the order of the modules on your WordPress Dashboard to suit your tastes. WordPress places a great deal of emphasis on user experience, and a big part of that effort results in your ability [more…]
How to Change the Layout of Your WordPress Dashboard
You can change the format of your WordPress Dashboard by choosing to display one, two, three, or four columns — whatever suits your individual preferences. Just follow these few steps: [more…]
How to Find Inline Documentation and Help in the WordPress Dashboard
The WordPress software developers provide users with tons of inline documentation that provides you with several tips and hints right inside the Dashboard. You can generally find inline documentation for [more…]
How to Display Custom WordPress Menus Using Widgets
You don’t have to use the wp_nav_menu(); template tag in WordPress to display the menus on your site because WordPress also provides you with Custom Menu widgets that you can add to your theme. You can [more…]
