Category Archives: WordPress Lessons
Hosting Concerns for your WordPress Site
There are a number of things that you should be aware of when setting up hosting for a WordPress site including the PHP version, server environment and one-click WordPress installation settings. Continue reading
Updating your WP Installation & Plugins
From time to time you will need to update your WordPress installation to the latest version. WordPress has a built in alert system that lets users know when their installations are out of date. Whenever a new version of WP is released you will see a message at the top of your wp-admin dashboard telling you that you need to update your installation. Sometimes security vulerabilties are corrected with new releases and other times new features are added making improvements to the functionality of WordPress Continue reading
WordPress Plugin – All in One SEO Pack
An essential plugin for WordPress is the All in One SEO Pack . This tutorial will explain what it does and show you how to use this plugin on your WordPress site. WordPress already goes a long way toward creating an SEO friendly website but adding this powerful plugin will give you even more control. The All in One SEO pack plugin generates meta data automatically and allows you to customize it as you see fit. Continue reading
WP Lesson: What in the world is a widget?
Widgets are placeholders, they display an information arrangement changeable by the user. Widgets make it easy to customize the content of your blog sidebar without having to change any code. Your theme will come with predefined default items in your … Continue reading
WordPress Lesson: All about Plugins
What is a plugin? How do I install a plugin? How do I update a plugin? This post will answer these questions with screenshots of the WordPress 2.9 wp-admin area. Continue reading
Using Post Thumbnails in WP 2.9
Many magazine style themes use thumbnail images beside the excerpt throughout the theme. Up until now many themes have used a Custom Field to make this association. The Get the Image plugin has been one solution that continues to work seamlessly with the new features of WordPress 2.9. This post assumes that you theme designer has already ensured that thumbnails are working in your theme and is a quick look at how to add associate a thumbnail image with your post. Continue reading
Uploading and Editing Images in WP 2.9 Lesson
Added to WordPress 2.9 is the ability to edit your media library images right in the wp-admin. Without having to add any plugins or use any third party software you can scale, crop, rotate and flip images. While WordPress developers will continue to use image … Continue reading
WP-admin Lesson 3: Pages
In WordPress, you can write either Posts or Pages. You can use WordPress to develop your website and not have blog at all. WordPress is a powerful content management system. This tutorial to using the WordPress administration backend will guide you through how to add a new page to your blog. Continue reading
WP-admin Lesson 2: Writing Your first Post
You are ready to start blogging by writing your first post. Start by editing the WordPress sample post title, permalink and text. You will also learn about post excerpts, publishing, tags and categories. Let’s get started! Continue reading
WP-admin an Introduction
This is the first post in a series of posts providing a step-by-step tour through the WordPress admin for new users. This post includes how to login, reset your password, a view of the Dashboard and configuring a few basic General Settings Continue reading
