Adding links to your site

copying the link

You may want to link an image or some text on your site to another page, website, or video. Here’s how to do it. To ensure that you get the full url of the page that you want to link to open up a new browser window Then highlight the web address and copy (right [...]

Glossary

What do those terms and words mean? SEM Google Adwords – these are sponsored links that you see at the top of the search results – READ an article explaining in layman’s terms what adwords are all about check out the Google Adwords Beginners Guide SEM Google Adsense – this is a fast and easy [...]

Updating your WordPress

If you see the message at the top of the admin screen that there is a new version of wordpress available you may want to update your WordPress installation . Take a Backup The next thing to do is to take a backup of your database. All your posts and Pages are held in the [...]

Here’s the kitchen sink

kitchen

Update* since the latest upgrade for wordpress you may also find some items missing from edit mode such as custom fields – if you cant see something that is usually on the screen just look up to the top right of the dashboard to screen options – then click on the drop down arrow and [...]

Writing & Publishing

publish

Writing and Editing Posts Title Fairly Self explanatory. Enter the Title of your post here. It can contain most any character you can think of. Categories Categories are used to organize your posts. You’ll likely want to creat several, descriptive categories for your (and your readers’) covenience. To make a post a member of a [...]

Plugins and Widgets

Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. This article contains a list of plugins by category, and links to other plugin repositories. The core of WordPress is designed to be lean, to maximize flexibility and minimize code bloat. Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to [...]

Sending Bulk email

If you have the plugin installed you are able to send emails from the admin area to your subscriber list – the plugin is good for small subscription groups on shared hosting, if you have larger subscriber lists over 200 you may need a different hosting set up to be able to handle the mailouts. [...]

Creating and Editing Web Gallery

Your Gallery is a collection of all the images on your site. You can organize them in your gallery, and you can also add new images or new galleries. From your main Dashboard page, click on Gallery: Then, click on Add Gallery/Images if you need to create a new gallery or Manage Gallery if you [...]

What is WordPress

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WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination. Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend

Backing up your site

Why you should back up – read this wordpress article The instructions will show you how to use the wp-db backup plugin Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend