How to Add Enhanced Contact Form

This plugin makes it easy to create a very nice contact form on your sites. Step 1. Install plugin look for Enhanced WP-ContactForm Step 2. Activate plugin Step 3.  Update Configuration info.  Go to Settings >> Contact Form Start with the Contact email address and the Subject line that YOU will see when someone sends [...]

Post and Page Visual Editor

As we mentioned in class the formatting options are very similar to what is available in a word processor WordPress comes equipped with some great features to allow you to easily format your blog posts and pages without knowing or even seeing the underlying HTML coding. Here is what the Button bar looks like normally [...]

How to Add a Youtube Video

Once you have done this a couple of times you will be an expert! Step 1. Find a Video on youtube that you would like to share Step 2. Click on the Embed button to open the options Step 3. Select your options, the colours and the size of the viewing screen Step 4. Copy [...]

What is a Widget?

“WordPress Widgets (WPW) is like a plugin, but designed to provide a simple way to arrange the various elements of your sidebar content (known as “widgets”) without having to change any code.” Are you smarter now?    so let me explain a little more.  When looking for your new theme, make sure that you pick [...]

How to Create a Post with Audio

Audio is a great addition to your website. Step 1 -  Install and Activate the Audio Plugin. Step 2 – Configure the plugin options. Step 3 – Create a audio folder on your server. http://www.yourdomain.com/wordpress/audio. * contact your web host for specific information on your ftp access. Step 4 – Create a New Post Step [...]

Install and Activate Akismet

Akismet helps to filter out spam comments. From the Dashboard Step 1 – Install the plugin Step 2 – Activate plugin Step 3 – Get your API Code from Akismet or from WordPress Step 4 – Configure Akismet, Under Plugins Click Akismet Configuration. Step 5 – Enter API and Click Update Options

How to Create a New Page

Some quick differences between posts and pages from WordPress.com Posts are listed in reverse chronological order on the blog home page or on the posts page, depending on how you have set up your website. Posts can be found in the Archives, Categories, Recent Posts, and other widgets. Posts are also displayed in the RSS [...]

Settings – Writing Page

Overview of the Settings, Writing page.   This options are for the admin and user roles that have permission to create/write posts and pages. From the Dashboard Step 1 – Under Settings, Click Writing Size of the post box – allows you to change the size of the box you use when writing the main content [...]