WordPress Plugins
Although there maybe some plugins installed in WordPress.com this video is only about plugins you install on a WordPress.org site. You cannot install plugin on WordPress.com.
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What Is WordPress
WordPress is a CMS (content management system) based on PHP and MySQL. Put simply WordPress is a website creation tool that is hosted on a webserver and is accessed trough a web-browser. WordPress is the easiest and most popular CMS in the world today.
Want To Learn More
In this short course we have touched on the basics of how WordPress works. This by no means is everything that WordPress has to offer. We have not even gotten in to plugins because plugins aren’t supported on wordpress.com. If you host your own WordPress site you can use plugins that will give your site unlimited functionality. Read more…
Sharing Buttons
These days on of the best ways to get people coming to your site is using “social Media” like Facebook and Twitter. One of the best ways to coax readers to share your post on these social site is to use “Sharing Buttons”. To turn on the buttons go to “Settings” and then “Sharing”. Under “Share Buttons” drag the buttons in the box on the right side into “Enabled Services”. Read more…
Arranging Your Workspace
In WordPress it is easy to customize your Dashboard or work area simply by dragging the tools to different locations in the space. You can also collapse by clicking “Click to toggle” on the bar above each tool. The tool or remove it completely by clicking “Screen Options” at the top of the Dashboard.
Using Exserpts
When creating a post or a page it is best to use mostly relevant keywords in the first 139 characters of a post. The is what is shown by Google on the search results page. You want to make sure the post is summarized effectively in this first 139 characters. Read more…
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