Archive for the ‘Basic Use’ Category

Setting up Widgets

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Widgets are small applications you can drop into your website, the images below will help you to know how to use the widget management screen: Once you have your widgets in the sidebar section, you will be able to go to your homepage and see the results of your work.  If ...

Upgrading Plugins

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Upgrading Plugins WordPress makes it extremely easy to upgrade plugins, all you have to do is go to the plugins page and click the "upgrade automatically" link for each plugin that needs to be upgraded. After you click the "upgrade automatically" link, WordPress will take you to the following page and show ...

Steps everyone completes to create a website

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

There are unavoidable steps that everyone has to do when they set up their website, we have them listed below. There are services out there that will take care of these steps for you, but they are still doing them.  The more of these steps that you can do for ...

The Basics of Writing Posts and Pages in WordPress

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Putting content into WordPress is very intuitive.  You login, and navigate to the Write tab, type out what you want and press publish.  However, there are tons of options that you can use to push the limits of WordPress to your benefits. The difference between posts and pages A post and page ...

Blog Settings

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

The title of your blog is the first thing that your users are going to see.It will more than likely be the  most prominent thing at the top of any page on your site. Think of this as how you are branding your site. The biggest and most prominent things ...

Changing Your Password and Updating Your Profile

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

In order to change your password, you must log into WordPress. Once you are logged in you will see an entire header section to the page: For now, look to the right side. You will see a link in the top right corner (in my picture it is in ...

Logging Into WordPress

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

In order to log into WordPress, you can always go to http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/.  This of course is where "yourdomain" is the domain name you run your site from. If your blog is installed to another directory than the root directory for your website, say /blog/, you would go to http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin/. Enter your username ...