The beauty of working in an open source code environment is that at any given moment their are hundreds or even thousands of developers and entrepreneurs creating a volume of products that they sell back into the community. This gives an astonishing variety of templates both from a design as well as a functionality standpoint. [...]
There are gazillions of WordPress templates to choose from. The two main distinctions are the free templates and the premium templates. Only the hosted version of WordPress allows you to use either free or premium templates. The free version of WordPress limits you to the free templates within the WordPress library but that’s hardly a [...]
Here’s a three-part tutorial that will show you: How to acquire a domain name for your WordPress blog (www.yourname.com) How to set up a WordPress Hosting acount on GoDaddy How to associate your domain name with your hosting account and your WordPress blog TUTORIAL #1: Setting Up Your Domain Name In the first tutorial [...]
Social Media & Hooking it Up Social Media plugins Hook into LinkedIn Hootsuite Introduction Hooking into Facebook Hooking into Twitter Hooking into email (Feedburner) QUESTIONS & SPECIFIC ISSUES
TEMPLATES & SOCRATES PREVIEW Compare Socrates & other templates Review Template Monster Using Widgets Create a header Installing new templates
DASHBOARD OVERVIEW & HOW TO USE WORDPRESS Permalink settings (Overview Video) AKISMET How to create a post (Video) How to post a page How to create a link (Video) How to add a picture (Video) How to add a video How to use categories (Video) Plugins (Overview video) Installing new templates A Word About How [...]
Topics Covered in Class 1 including Homework Assignment BACKGROUND – INTRO Video Intro Subscribe to RSS Feed by submitting email address in box to the left <—- Compare a Blog vs a Website o Blog can easily be changed o Has a dashboard o No FTP – explain o Allows comments and posts o Contains an RSS feed for “broadcasting” your content [...]
There are probably a million plugins for WordPress but none more important than Akismet. Akismet comes free and preinstalled on every single WordPress blog. The only small catch is you have to activate it. No big deal, really, but you just have take the extra few minutes to activate it in order for it to [...]
If you’re choosing to install WordPress on a hosting account, congratulations. If you’re serious about your business you’ve made the right choice. Many hosting companies now include WordPress pre-installed on your hosting account. In fact, many offer 3, 4 or more WordPress installs per account! Hosting companies that include free WordPress installs as part of [...]
Inserting images into your WordPress posts and pages is the difference between a boring website and and engaging one. Yes, you’ll need to also have relevant, useful, interesting or entertaining content, but even the most brilliant writing can be helped along with a graphic or image — especially on the Internet where people are notorious [...]
