Archive for the ‘How to set up your website’ Category
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
2011 is here and a lot of updating activities are surely in line. New year’s resolutions, wishes and setting targets are just some of things we look forward to do. As bloggers, we are keen to update our blogs, however some forgot to update the copyright date.
This is the best ...
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
We're big advocates of favicons here at WP-Relief. They give a website a professional edge over any website without a favicon. In today's competitive internet markets that competitive edge can be the difference between no dollars, and lots of dollars, success and failure. You get the idea, so pay attention ...
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
We recently completed version 1 of our "How to Set up A Website without breaking the bank" ebook!
It gives you everything you need to:
Get a domain
Change the DNS
Get Hosting (at a discount)
Setup hosting
Setup and Configure WordPress
Including the cost of the book, you can get your domain and hosting and set ...
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Twitter Tools
Plugin Home Page: http://alexking.org/projects/WordPress
WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/
What is it?
Twitter Tools allows WordPress to post the title and link to all of your articles to Twitter as they are published.
You can use this plugin to create posts from your Twitter messages, but we do not suggest this as it gets ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
WordPress Plugins
Plugins are one of the best features of WordPress. They allow you to extend the functionality of the default WordPress site to do thousands of different things. All you have to do is put a couple files in the right place on your server using the built-in Plugin Installer ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Installing Plugins
There are two ways to install Plugins. Through the Automatic Plugin Installer (the easy way) and through FTP (the less-easy way). We'll cover both methods here.
Using The Automatic Plugin Installer
Go to the Plugins page in WordPress
Click "Add New" at the top of the page next to "Manage Plugins"
Search for ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
We recently got this question from a reader Carol:
Is hosting a domain the same thing as maintaining it once it is set up?
Matt responded with an analogy that describes the difference between a domain, hosting, and maintaining a website.
That is a really good question.
A domain is like an address to ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Builds a list or drop down of all of the categories that you have used on your site. The categories will be linked to a list of posts that have this category assigned to them.
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Adding a Widget
To add a widget all you have to do is go to your widgets admin page and drag one of the available widgets into one of the available locations. Each of the available locations are on the right side with a grey background and are directly associated with ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Editing a Widget
To edit a widget, all you have to do is click the arrow on the right side of the widgets you have already added to your sidebar. The widget edit interface will fly out and some options will appear. You can change any of the options, press the ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Removing a Widget
You can remove a widget by opening the "edit" interface for the widget and then clicking "delete". You can also drag the widget out of the sidebar box and drop it somewhere else.
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Puts a search box on your site that will allow visitors to search all of the content on your site by keyword or phrase. When users search then WordPress will list out the posts that match the search criteria.
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