Archive for the ‘How to set up your website’ Category

Widgets: Links

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Shows all of the blogroll or other links that you have added to your site.  In your sidebar each link section will be listed out with the links under the section header.

Widgets: Calendar

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Builds a calendar with the days of the calendar linked if there were one or most posts on that day.  This is useful for your visitors to see that you consistently post to your site and they can see what you posted about in the past.

Widgets: Archives

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Gives a List of recent months where you posted content to your site.  This is useful for your visitors to see that you consistently post to your site and they can see what you posted about in the past.

Widgets: Meta

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Gives links to special areas of your site including the admin pages, logout pages, posts RSS feed, comments rss feed, and the main WordPress site.

Widgets: Pages

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Gives a list of links to the pages on your site. This is very useful for giving your visitors another way to find your pages, other than your site's menu.

Widgets: Recent Comments

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Shows a list of the most recent comments submitted to any post or page on your site. This is a great feature to help your visitors see the conversation that is currently happening on your site.

Widgets: Recent Posts

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Shows a list of the most recent posts that you have published on your site.  This is very useful if someone comes to a specific place on your site without seeing the homepage.

Widgets: RSS

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Allows you to pull in an RSS feed from any other site and show it on your site. This is a great feature to help promote another site that you like to your visitors.

Widgets: Tag Cloud

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Creates a list in paragraph form of the most commonly used tags from your posts.  The tags used the most will be shown larger than other tags.  Each word in this "cloud" will be linked to a page of the posts associated with that tag.

Widgets: Text

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Text Allows you to put anything you want in the sidebar of your site. This can be plain text or HTML, which leaves the possibilities to be endless. Typically, people will put images, JavaScript, social media links, or many other things in the text widget. Remember to click "Save".

WordPress Widgets: How to Use them, what they do

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Widgets were a HUGE deal when WordPress added them in as a feature, before adding them in to the core system widgets functionality was added through a plugin.  This was clumsy but it worked well at the time. Since being added to WordPress core widgets have allowed site owners to manage ...

Register your domain with 1and1

Friday, July 16th, 2010

After you have found your ideal domain name, go to 1and1 to register it.  All you have to do is find their "Domains" section, enter in the name you have already found and follow their instructions.  Creating an account is very easy with 1and1. If you already have a 1and1 account, ...