Overview Easy WordPress Websites

Course Description What is all this talk about WordPress and Blogging? Do you want to build a website but don’t know where to start? No website or programming experience necessary, if you know how to use Word you can create a website. You will learn how to use the WordPress dashboard, add themes and plugins, [...]

New Features in WordPress version 3.1

Two of the features that I really like that are new to version 3.1 are the admin tool bar and the add link screen. Admin Toolbar If you are like me you usually start at your admin login page and then open the public page.You will now notice when you are logged in and viewing [...]

WordPress Checklist: Have you completed everything?

Here is a Quick list to get you started: WordPress installed Unique theme installed In WP Settings —> General make these changes: Site Title, Site Description. Email should be youremail@email.com. Timezone = YourTimezone In Posts —> Categories, change the default “Uncategorized” category In WP Settings —> Permalinks change it to Custom Structure, use /%category%/%postname%/ In [...]

Twitter Widget and Share Button

I think you will be presently surprised at how easy it is to add Your Twitter Widget and a TwitterShare Button. First you do need a Twitter account.   Jump over to http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets For this demo I just used the Profile Badge.

Facebook Badge and Share Button

I think you will be presently surprised at how easy it is to add Your Facebook Badge and a Facebook Share Button. First you do need a Facebook account.   Jump over to http://www.facebook.com/badges/ For this demo I just used the Profile Badge. The Facebook Share Button allows your reading to easily post your page or [...]

Static Front Page 3.x

There are many times that you would want an information page or a sales page as your main page and then you have your posts on another page.

Comments 3.x

Reader Interaction made Easy Comments are the best way to engage your readers and keep them coming back.

Plugins – WP-DB-Backup (WordPress Database Backup)

On-demand backup of your WordPress database. WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

Installing Akismet 3.x

Akismet or Automattic Kismet is a spam filtering service. It attempts to filter link spam from blog comments and spam TrackBack pings. The filter works by combining information about spam captured on all participating blogs, and then using those spam rules to block future spam.

Plugins – XML Sitemap Feed 3.x

This plugin dynamically creates feeds that comply with the XML Sitemap and the Google News Sitemap protocol. There are no options to be set nor file or dir access rights to be tampered with and the feeds become instantly available.

Plugins – Google Analyticator 3.x

Having statistics for your website is a high priority if you are a business.  You want to know where people are coming from to track if you advertising dollars are paying off.  You can also see what information people are looking for most often. Statistics answer the big questions, who, when, where, what. Why would [...]

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