Getting Started with Wordpress – Part 1 – Introduction

Welcome back! If you enjoy the content here you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Wordpress is an open source software package which is used as the backbone for millions of websites. Advantages of using Wordpress include:

incredible flexibility to the theme colours, layout options and functions via user contributed themes and [...]

Giving karenmarree.biz an overhaul

The layout & content hasn’t been touched for a year! Quite a few ideas to make happen.
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Getting Started with Wordpress – Part 6 – Further customisation with Wordpress plugins

Wordpress plugins add functions to your website. As with themes there are many thousands of plugins available for free, and many more available commercially. The best way to get started is to browse the Wordpress Plugin directory here or do a Google search. It is important to check that the plugin is compatible with [...]

Getting Started with Wordpress – Part 5 – Customising the look of your website

One of the great aspects of Wordpress is that it is very easy to customise the look of your website by applying a different design layout or theme to it. There are literally hundreds of thousands of Wordpress themes available for free, and also many more available commercially [...] Continue Reading…
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Getting Started with Wordpress – Part 4 – Setting Up Wordpress

After Wordpress is installed, there are a few settings which can be changed to make your website work the way you want. Below is a checklist with links to explanations and how-to’s. You will need to be logged into the Wordpress dashboard at http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/
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Categories & Tags in Wordpress

Wordpress allows you to set up your own category & tag structure for your website. This means you can build up collections of posts and classify them together. For example, if you post a lot of recipes or travel stories you can build up these collections. If you have [...] Continue Reading…
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Definitions

Wordpress User Roles
Administrator – Somebody who has access to all the administration features
Editor – Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
Author – Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts
Contributor – Somebody who can write and manage their [...] Continue Reading…
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Getting Started with Wordpress – Part 7 – Adding and editting content on your Wordpress website

Wordpress is commonly made up of Posts and Pages – these are simple to understand if you remember that Pages are most likely information which does not change very often, such as Contact Information or “About Us” types of information and that Posts are everything else.
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