Installing and Changing Your WordPress Themes

Friday, July 4th, 2008

When you get your site set up, or you have your site set up and you have found a theme you like and that fits your website's purpose, you need to install it. Just about the only way to install your theme is to use an FTP program to push it ...

Choosing Your Theme (template)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

When you first install WordPress you will find that the theme is, well, bare.  While some famous blogs like XKCD (also one of my favorite webcomics) choose to leave their blogs with the original theme, this sort of thing only works for people who already have TONS of traffic coming ...

Permalinks

Monday, June 30th, 2008

From Wordpress: Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. ...

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 ...

First Post

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

The first post on your blog can be crucial to the life of the site. The reason for this is that you have an important job to do with your first post. You have to provide any search engine that has a link to your site or that ...