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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

How to Create a New Post

Think of posts as daily news articles.  Write hints and tips, write ‘how to’ articles, write letter home 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 [...]

How to add a Subscription box to a Sidebar Widget.

This is especially important for small businesses, you want to develop a marketing strategy that allows you to build a relationship with your potential clients.   Staying in regular contact, offering special pricing and learning more about them is the bases for this relationship. There are many ways you can accomplish this, but I think this [...]

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, [...]