From the Dashboard

Step 1- Under the Settings, Click Permalinks

1. Common Links – there are several options for built in link structures.  – we actually recommend using a custom structure /%category%/%postname%/.  Example : http://www.wp-clique.com/resources/glossary-of-wordpress-and-web-terms/, this adds to your keywords and search engine optimization.

Just keep in mind there is the potential of conflicts if you create two posts with the same names, wordpress will be confused and not know which post to use. The advantage of using this permalink structure is that is much more user readable and more Search engine friendly.  Avoid problems by always using unique titles.

Step 2 – Once you have completed your updates, Click Save Changes

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From the Dashboard

Step 1 – under Settings, Click Discussion

1. Default Article Setting – These settings allow new comments and new comments with links to be added to your artciles
2. Other Comment Settings – Settings including whether a name and email must be used, and if you want the comments to be automatically closed after 14 days.
3. E-mail me Whenever – options on when you what to be emailed, this uses the email address in the General settings
4. Before a comment appears – this allows you to decide whether or not you want to moderate the comments
5. Comment Moderation – you can create a list of specific keywords or links, that always need to be moderated
6. Comment Blacklist – you can create a list of specific keywords or links, that will always to marked as Spam
7. Avatar Display – Sets the option of whether or not you use avatars
8. Maximum Rating – rating of the avatars that you allow on your blog
9. Default Avatar – you can set what will appear if someone does not have a avatar.

Step 2 – once you have completed your updates, Click Save Changes

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From the Dashboard

Step 1 – Under Settings, Click Privacy

1. Blog Visibility – you can toggle whether or not your website is available for goggle to search.

Step 2 – once you have completed updates, click Save Changes

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From the Dashboard

Step 1 – Under the Settings, Click Reading

1. Front Page Display – You can set the front page of your website to be a static page or a list of recent posts.  If you pick a Static page, you have the ability to select what page your would like to use for the front page as well as the post page.  People often create a Welcome page for the front page and a News or Blog page for the posts.
2. Blog pages – this allows you to set the number of posts per blog page.
3. Syndication feeds – this allows you to set the number of posts that appear on your RSS feed page.
4. For Each article in a feed, show – this allows you to select full text or summary, we recommend full text. Most professional bloggers agree that full post in your RSS feed is builds better readership.

Step 2 – Once you have completed your updates, Click Save Changes

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From the Dashboard

Step 1 - Under Settings, Click Writing

1. Size of the post box – allows you to change the size of the box you use when writing the main content of your posts.  I like to set mine to 30, that way I can see more of the article at one time.  You can play with this setting to see what works best for you.
2. Formatting – everyone like smiley’s
3. Default Post  Category – you can set the default category your posts publish to, we recommend that you change this to something other then “uncategorized”  you must create additional categories first, then you can change it
4. Default Link Category – you can set the default category your links are grouped, you can change if you like or you can leave it blogroll
5. Remote Publishing – this allows you to set up alternative ways to publish posts to you blog – this is an advanced feature and will be discussed at a later time.
6. Post via e-mail – this allows you to set up publishing via email – this is an advanced feature and will be discussed at a later time.
7. Update Services – this is “pinging”  this is where you list the services you would like your blog to notify when a post is published.  The default service, Pingomatic is a very popular service that sends to multiple services, there is no need to add others, unless you are planning to ping a very specific niche related service.

Step 2 – once you have finished updating, click Save Changes

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From the Dashboard

Step 1 – Under the Settings Menu, click General

1. Blog Title – the blog title is what you have named the blog, this can be anything you would like, but it should be the same of related to your domain name.  This is added to the Meta tags and is read when Google spiders your site.   This can be changed at any time.  This also appears on the web browser and in bookmarks.
2. Tagline – this is a short description or the tagline for your company.  This can be changed at any time.
3. WordPress address – this is automatically filled in when you install WordPress. This screen capture shows a managed hosting install and this can not be changed.
4. Blog address – this is automatically filled in when you install WordPress. This screen capture shows a managed hosting install and this can not be changed.
5. Email address – this address is filled in during the install process and this is the address that all WordPress automated messages is sent to and from.  This can be changed at any time.
6. Membership – if you check this, you will allow any to register on your WordPress. If you allow this, you can set what level of access they are allowed.  You can read more about the access levels at WP-User Roles
7. Timezone – set to your current time zone, this is important when you are scheduling posts
8. Date Format – set to your preference
9. Time Format – set to your preference
10. Week Starts On – set to your preference, this is important when you display a calendar on your sidebar

Step 2 – When you are finished updating, Click Save Changes

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From the Dashboard

Step 1 – Under the User Menu, Click Add New

Step 2 -Type a Username * keep in mind this is case sensitive, we recommend using lowercase*

Minimum required fields are marked as required. Enter Username, E-mail and Password

The email address has to be unique, WordPress will not allow duplicate addresses.

Step 3 – Click Add User.

The username and password will be emailed to the email address entered on the form.

You should log out of your current account and test your second admin account to confirm it works.

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We will quickly review how to change your current password and then how to change another user password.

Changing your current password

Step 1 – log into wordpress  http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin

Step 2 – Click on Your Profile

Step 3 – Scroll down to the bottom of the page, look for New Password

Step 4 – Enter your new password once in each field

Step 5 – Click Update Profile

Change another users password

Step 1 – log into wordpress http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin

Step 2 – Click on Authors & Users

Step 3 – Find the users you want to change, Click on the Name

Step 4 – Scroll down to the bottom of the page, look for New Password

Step 5 – Enter your new password once in each field

Step 6 – Click Update Profile

How to Create a New User

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A subscriber role is default role that is assigned to any user that registers to the site. A subscriber can comment on your blog without having to enter their details and also modify your database by setting up their profiles.

Subscriber Role in WordPress;

* Modify their Profiles
* Comment on the blog (when logged in) without having to provide name and email, unless you change that in the settings.

Contributor Role

A Contributor to your site can compose articles unlike subscribers, however they cannot publish or schedule the articles. Any article written by a contributor can be saved as draft or under pending review. A contributor can only contribute towards the site, however they do not have rights to publish a article.

Contributor Role In WordPress;

* All of the Subscribers privileges+
* View comments in the administrator panel.
* Add new posts to drafts or to pending review.
* Edit their own posts.
* View posts added by others in post listing section, however they cannot view drafts and scheduled post, but they can see the titles.

Author Role

An author can write articles, add it up as pending review, save it under drafts and they can publish what they write. Be careful to only give this access to people that you have vetted first.

Author Role in WordPress;

* All of the Contributor privileges+
* View posts added by others in post listing section, however they cannot view drafts and scheduled post, but they can see the titles.

Editor Role

The Editor role can do all of the above, they can edit other post and change any post. WordPress does track who last edited a post and when for auditing.

Administrator Role

An administrator account has full control over your entire website, they can DELETE your entire blog, they can DELETE all comments. An admin user on a WordPress blog is responsible for upgrading the blog, upgrading plugins, moderating comments among other things.

We strongly advise that you do not give admin access to anyone but yourself and your technical support person.

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1 – Display the name of your website, it is a link to the public view of your website.

2 – Display the name of the person who is currently logged in, and an option to logout. You can also see a Quick Links button (New Post) that allows you to perform several actions on WordPress.

3 – Sidebar lists all the actions you perform and options you can configure. These include writing new posts, editing them, managing plugins and users and more.

4 -  This section provides information about statistics about your blog with information such as number of posts, number of drafts, number of comments and so on.

5-  QuickPress is a easy and quick way to publish posts and images to your blog.

6 -  A easy way to keep an eye on comments, moderate them and reply to them.

7 -  If you have posted drafts it will show up here, drafts are posts that have not been published yet.

8 -  On this section you will see the latest news from the WordPress development blog.

9 – This section will query Google and display the latest incoming links to your blog.

10 – In this section you will see news from the WordPress community.

Not see on this screen capture:

11 – This section showcases plugins that add to the features provided by WordPress, includes most popular, newest and latest updated plugins.

More to come on the different options available in the sidebar.
How to log into the Dashboard

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