What is a Gravatar?

What is a Gravatar? A Globally Recognized Avatar: Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?   Basically your email address and [...]

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.

Installing and Activating Plugins 3.x

Plugins are tools used to extend the functionality of the WordPress platform. Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs. Installing Plugins Activating Plugins

Sidebars and Widgets 3.x

To Manage the Sidebar, we need to go to the Widgets from the Dashboard. What is a Widget? Widget is a fancy word for tools or content that you can add, arrange, and remove from the sidebars of your blog. Widgets make it easy to customize the content of your blog sidebar. You can access [...]

Installing Themes 3.x

Fundamentally, the WordPress Theme system is a way to “skin” your weblog. Yet, it is more than just a “skin.” Skinning your site implies that only the design is changed. WordPress Themes can provide much more control over the look and presentation of the material on your website. A WordPress Theme is a collection of [...]

New Posts and Pages 3.x

Quick review of Posts vs Pages Pages are where you would store you more static info like “about me” or “contact us”.  Posts automatically appear in reverse chronological order on your blog’s home page (in most themes). Pages Pages are static and are not listed by date. Pages do not use tags or categories. An [...]

Menu Overview Appearance to Settings 3.x

Here is a short overview of the menu options from Appearance to Settings.  We will be going more in-depth later in the course.

Menu Overview Post to Comments 3.x

This is a quick overview of the menus sections Posts to Comments.  We will come back and complete a more in-depth look at Posts and Pages.

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