Monday, June 21st, 2010
We realized recently that there is a gap in the knowledge about how to get your WordPress website set up and running. The posts you will see on the site over the next couple of weeks will teach our visitors how to build their own site, configure ...
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Sometimes, albeit rarely, I will need to move all my posts from one WordPress blog to another one. This is a daunting task, but it does not need to be.
WordPress and .htaccess actually make this very easy! In three easy steps, you can have all of your WordPress content moved ...
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Sometimes you want to make a link to a specific category only on Wordpress. There are a couple ways you can do this:
1) Create a link to the category page
To do this, you can get the category slug and create a url like this: http://my-url.com/category-slug, where category-slug is your category.
2) ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Give us plugins that you know/love in the categories below. We will install them, test them, do a write up on them, and then compare them to other plugins in the category. Yes, I will be looking for plugins in the WordPress Plugin Repository. I will also list the plugins ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
There is a lot of talk going around about the new Beta 1 version of WordPress 2.6.
You can see articles here:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wordpress_26_beta_1_is_now_ava.php
http://mdawaffe.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/post-revisions-in-wordpress-26/
And you can download the beta here: http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.6-beta1.zip
I would NOT suggest that you download this and upgrade your LIVE blog/website with this version. This is simply due to the ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Preface
This article assumes that you already have a domain name, DNS settings, and host set up to house your website.
If you do not have these things, try:
Bust A Name - for finding your ideal domain name (this is what you would type in to get to your site)
1and1 for registering ...
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