Archive for June, 2008

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 ...

I am looking for Plugins to review

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 ...

Changing Your Password and Updating Your Profile

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

In order to change your password, you must log into WordPress. Once you are logged in you will see an entire header section to the page: For now, look to the right side. You will see a link in the top right corner (in my picture it is in ...

WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 is available

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 ...

Logging Into WordPress

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 ...

Installing WordPress to Your Server

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 ...

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 ...