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Designing a Website with WordPress Designers
Turn to WordPress designers if you need help designing your website. The look and feel of your website or blog is critical to its success, so take your time when choosing themes, color, and layout. If [more…]
How to Apply a Theme to Your WordPress.com Blog
WordPress offers themes you can use to apply a style to your blog. The example here shows you how to apply the Twenty Ten theme, which has a clean design that is highly customizable. If you are one of [more…]
How to Customize the Header Image in Your WordPress Blog
WordPress’s Twenty Ten theme includes a header uploader, which allows you to upload new and unique custom header graphics for your WordPress blog. Twenty Ten comes preloaded with eight default header images [more…]
How to Add Widgets to Your WordPress Blog
You can add WordPress widgets to your website and then arrange them in the Widget areas in your WordPress theme. That allows you to insert and arrange content [more…]
How to Install and Use the WordPress Text Widget
The Text widget is one of the most highly used and useful WordPress widgets because it allows you to add text and even HTML code into widget areas without editing the theme’s template files. Therefore, [more…]
How to Install the WordPress RSS Widget
After you install the WordPress RSS widget you can pull headlines from almost any RSS feed, including recent headlines from your other WordPress blogs or sites. You can also use it to pull in headlines [more…]
Finding Free Themes for WordPress
With thousands of free WordPress themes available, and new ones appearing all the time, your challenge is to find the right one for your WordPress blog or website. Here are a few things to remember while [more…]
How to Install a WordPress Theme
WordPress themes set the design style of your site, including how content displays on it. Installing a WordPress theme is the easiest way to customize your site. One of the most amazing things about the [more…]
How to Activate WordPress.com Themes
There are lots of WordPress themes to choose from when you set out to personalize your WordPress.com site. After you upload a theme via FTP or the theme installer, you can preview and activate your desired [more…]
How to Create Page Views Using WordPress Templates
A static WordPress page contains content that doesn’t appear on your blog page, but rather as a separate page within your site. You can have numerous static pages on your WordPress site, and each page [more…]
How to Create Sidebar Templates on Your WordPress Website
You can create separate sidebar templates for different pages of your WordPress site by using a simple include statement in your code. When you write an include statement, you’re telling WordPress that [more…]
How to Create Content Types for Your WordPress Website
A new feature in WordPress (new as of version 3.0) is a feature called custom post types. This feature allows you, the site owner, to create different content types for your WordPress site that give you [more…]
Finding and Using WordPress Plugins
By installing WordPress plugins you can provide new features or change the way that WordPress works. Whether you choose a plugin to jazz up your WordPress blog or to hot-rod your whole website, you can [more…]
How to Install WordPress Plugins
Users love WordPress not only because it’s a great program for web publishing, but also because it’s free and support is free. And everyone loves all the free plugins that enhance WordPress blogs and websites [more…]
Finding and Installing WordPress Plugins via the Dashboard
The WordPress Dashboard is the place to go to start your search for plugins that can help you maintain your blog or website or just add a little fun. Simply pull up your favorite web browser and enter [more…]
How to Upgrade Your WordPress Plugins
From time to time, WordPress plugin developers release new versions of their plugins. These new versions may be released to fix problems with the plugin, add new functionality, or make use of new features [more…]
How to Uninstall WordPress Plugins
You may find that you no longer have need for a WordPress plugin or that you have to remove some plugins from your WordPress installation. After all, too many plugins can drain system resources and make [more…]
Advanced Configuration for the WordPress WP Super Cache Plugin
The popular WordPress plugin — WP Super Cache — requires advanced configuration. That is, this isn’t a “set it and forget it” type of plugin. To use this WordPress plugin, you need to perform additional [more…]
Installing and Configuring the WordPress.com Stats Plugin
The WordPress.com Stats plugin provides fairly comprehensive statistics about your website traffic, such as the number of visits, where your visitors are coming from and what content they are viewing on [more…]
Setting Up a Test Site to Test Your WordPress.com Plugins
Because WordPress changes so often, it is useful to create a test site on which you can install and run the WordPress software and plugins to test them before applying them to your live website. If you [more…]
Where to Find Technical Support for WordPress Plugins
Everyone who uses plugins on their WordPress website or blog has had this happen at some point: They find the perfect plugin but have no idea how to use it. What can you do when you can’t figure out how [more…]
How to Install WordPress Plugins Manually
It is not often that you will need to install a WordPress plugin manually because WordPress makes it so easy to install plugins through the Dashboard. However, in case you need to, the mechanics of downloading [more…]
How to Activate (or Deactivate) WordPress Plugins
When you install a plugin within WordPress, the plugin must be activated, or switched on, before it can be used. Activating and deactivating your WordPress plugins is a simple process that you can perform [more…]
How to Find and Install Free WordPress Themes
Free WordPress themes found in the Free Themes Directory are easy to install and use. These appealing themes are great tools for launching new sites, and you can customize themes with Cascading Style Sheets [more…]
How to Apply the Twenty Ten Theme in WordPress
The default theme in WordPress, Twenty Ten lets new users apply a clean-looking theme that utilizes many of the built-in display features standard to a basic WordPress install. These display features include [more…]
