Introduction to WordPress

Based off of the best statistics, I’ve found, there are over 187 million blogs. People obviously love reading and writing blogs. There is little doubt then, that a business that doesn’t speak to its customers through blogging, is definitely alienating its customers. In this day in age, it is very easy...

Creating a WordPress.com Blog

So, you want to start a website? There really, is no better place to bring that dream to fruition than at wordpress.com. In this article, I’ll take you through the entire process of setting up a website, that will be hosted with WordPress. To help you understand the process I have placed links to...

Installing WordPress on a Domain Host Go Daddy

This is how you would manually install a WordPress blog system on Go Daddy. The process of installing manually on most all other hosting companies, like Go Daddy, is nearly identical. Here are the directions from Go Daddy’s website. Installing WordPress using Hosting Connection is the easiest way...

Easy WordPress Install on Go Daddy

Here I show you the easy way to install WordPress on a GoDaddy hosted...

The WordPress Global Dashboard and What you can do with it

Once you log into your account, you’ll be presented with a page titled Dashboard. The first thing on the page is an announcement from WordPress. Under that, in the section called Your Stuff, you’ll find links to your most recent posts. What’s Hot, displays links to the hottest posts, blogs and the...

Posting Articles, Images, Video, etc. in WordPress

So, now your ready to start posting articles in WordPress. There are two approaches to writing articles on the web. One, is to just write about whatever you want randomly and hope someone finds your content of interest. The other is to start out with a plan. I’ll cover search engine optimization of...

WordPress Media, Links, Pages, Comments, and Ratings Explained

Finishing Up the Sidebar: Media, Links, Comments and Ratings I’m assuming, you are logged into your WordPress.com account right now. At the top of your page, drift your mouse over the link titled My Dashboards. When you do, a drop down window will show all the blogs you currently have set up at...

The Appearance Tools: How to Change your Entire Site with a Click

Now for the reason most people use WordPress. You can change your entire site design with a few clicks. That’s right. The most daunting task a web designer faces, is handled in a few clicks. I’m assuming you are logged into your account at wordpress.com and you have clicked on one of your blog names...