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Your Wordpress.org Dashboard . . . .
1st: AKISMET - what is that???
A SPAM fighting service which checks the content of the comment anonymously with an online server, to
determine whether it is spam or not.
2nd: What do you need? What is the Akismet Key?
A. You need a valid Akismet Key - if you have a WORDPRESS.COM account you were given one when you
signed up for it - go into your wordpress.com account settings and copy the code from there to the .org
site.
B. To get your “FREE” Akismet Key for personal use - go to: http://akismet.com/personal - register and they
will email you your “FREE” Akismet Key.
For Additional info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Akismet
Presented by: Judy Musgrove, Cover To Cover
Helping you manipulate Wordpress and understand how to get your website/blog up and running - This instruction is geared to the beginner WordPress user.
While there are many things I will not touch on, I will mention that it can be done!
2nd Step:
Settings - there are key area’s here to process -
1. General
2. Reading
3. Discussion
4. Privacy
5. Permalinks
General - this setting allows you to add your:
Site Title - Can be your Business Name or URL
Tag Line - Brief Description or Elevator Speech
Date & Time:
Pacific = UTC –7 (that is a negative sign in front of the 7)
Mountain = UTC –6
Central = UTC –5
Eastern = UTC –4
Reading:
This is where you change your home page from
the blog to a static page - Wordpress default
home page is the Blog page.
You don’t want the Blog page as the Home
page?
1st go to Page
2nd Add a New Page with the title you want
for the Home page - “Welcome” - now SAVE
- do not add any content to the page yet
3rd - Add a New Page (Title - My Blog) for
your Blog / Posts - I will explain below - but
for now, just add the new page - no content
in the page area - save
4th - Go to Settings
5th - Go to Reading
6th - Click on “A Static Page (select below)
and in the drop down box next to Front
Page, select “Welcome” or the page you
designated for the Home page
7th - In the drop down box for the Posts
Page select (My Blog)
Last Save all settings - test it to make sure
that when you type in your URL that your
site opens on the “Welcome” page
Discussion:
There are (7) sections in this area -
Go To: Section 4 ( Before a comment appears ) and
check both boxes in this section -
Before a comment appears . . . .
An administrator must always approve the
comment
Comment author must have a previously
approved comment
I like the control over the comments - Spam is an
issue, but I want to make sure that whatever is post-
ed is done in a good way - I am not against a critique
- I am for it - it can show that you are listening & you
Privacy - I am not sure if this is a default - to have the first item marked - but I have seen it many
times where this setting is turned off - so now I just automatically check this setting to make sure
Default Settings for Permalinks = “Default” - this is where you
see the (? & numbers for your page title)
However, just click on the Day & Name setting - and save! Now,
your page name will have the title of the page in the URL
address bar - Example: http://judysbusinessblog.com/about
Allowing for better SEO - Search Engine Optimization - Google
can now read the address bar!
PAGE ID’S AND POST ID’S Each page and post has their own identifier - so how do you find the numeric identifier for a post or a page?
See page 4 for the info!!! Add Notes Below
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Go to your “POSTS” section - click on “edit post”
Now, Click on “Get Shortlink” the NUMBER after the = sign is the Post ID #
"PAGE - ID" - This is not a column in the Table, but by hovering the mouse over the Page Title, the Page ID is revealed as part
of the URL displayed in the browser status bar (in Firefox the status bar is displayed at the bottom of the screen). A Page's ID
number is the unique number WordPress' database uses to identify individual Pages.
http://judymusgrove.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2&action=edit
Having fun yet???
THEMES Take a moment here, let’s discuss:
What is this Blog / Website about?
What is the subject?
Do you want Custom Headers? Widget Ready Themes? How about themes with sliders? Magazine or Gallery style?
Do you offer Services only or Products & Services
Is this a personal or business site?
Let’s Go Exploring! http://www.themes2wp.com/download-wordpress-
themes/wordpress-themes/
http://www.templatelite.com/
http://www.web2feel.com/
http://www.widgetreadythemes.com/free-themes/
http://www.wpthemes360.com/
http://www.qualitywordpress.com/
http://www.ezwpthemes.com/
http://www.wordpress.org
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We are walking thru the Themes, how to install, how to find, how to upload etc.
Issues: like error messages - what to do - previewing - activating - looking at the
documentation to make sure that the plug-ins needed - we find and install
http://halloweencostumesandmoreonline.com
http://targetmarketingstrategies.com
http://judysbusinessblog.com
http://monicahallspa.com
http://thoseamazingwomen.com
http://rusticravendesigns.com/MyBlog/
http://sunnyshealing.com/healing/
http://www.martiniglassart.com/WhatsUpWithChad/
POSTS AND PAGES . . . . Posts - Single entries to your blog - online journal
- composed of multiple posts - ongoing correspondence
personal viewpoints, tips, articles to share, etc.
All Posts have a title
All Posts have categories
All Posts have tags
To add a new post:
Under the Posts section in the Dashboard expand the section - click on add new
Type a Title for your Post
Start Typing your content - this is a mini text editor and very similar to your word processing software
The menu bar in order from left to right:
Top Bar: Bold, Italics, Strike Through, Bullets with dots, bullets with numbers, Block Quote, Left Justify, Center,
Right Justify, Link, Undo Link, More tag, Spell Checker, Toggle Full Screen Mode, Show/Hide Kitchen Sink
Bottom Bar: Formatting Functions (this expands), Underline, Align Full, Font Colors, Paste as Plain Text, Paste
from Word, Remove Formatting, Insert/ Edit Embed Media, Insert Custom Character, Outdent, Indent, Undo,
Redo, Help
Top Bar
Bottom Bar
Categories: The general topic the post can be classified in -
Tags: Micro-categories - Posts with similar tags are linked together when a user clicks one of
the tags
Example: Category = Dessert, Baking
Tags = Chocolate, Brownies
Adding a New Page is similar to adding a New Post - Enter the Title of the Page and the
contents go into the text area
Menu Bar is the same as Posts -
A Page is something Static - isn’t going to change - examples:
About
Services
Welcome / Home
Contact Us
You can SAVE DRAFT - this is great when you want
to return to it later - the draft does not appear on
your website
Page Attributes:
Order = hierarchy
About = Parent = 0
Judy = 2 under Parent “About”
Bobbie = 1 under Parent “About”
Adding Images to Posts & Pages
Go to the Text Area of the Post or Page -
Place your blinking cursor here or where you want to add the image
Click On Add An Image - Add an image window opens
Add An Image
Click “Select Files”
Locate the image on your computer that you want to use - and click on it - the picture file will load
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Default Title = name of file however, you
can change the name here - great for
Identification and Google
What appears in browser for the picture
Link URL is where the image is on the server / internet - every image, video, text has a URL
Alignment - do you want it Left, Center or Right Justified in the text area
Size - will display different sizes available - you can manually resize - make smaller
VERY IMPORTANT - INSERT INTO POST NEEDS TO BE CLICK ON!
Want to put a border around your image?
Want to put spacing both vertical and horizontal around the image? I will show you how - write your notes
here:
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Adding a Video - the easy way:
Go to YouTube
Find the video you want – or if you have an account - upload the video to your account
Click on the EMBED function
I check the 560 x 340 - just click on it
If I want to select a color then I click on that as well
Now I highlight all of the coding in the embed area
I press CTRL C - for copy
I go back to my text area in Wordpress where I want to insert the video
I click on the HTML Tab
Video Continued:
Place cursor in the body of the HTML box
CTRL V - Paste
Save your Draft
TIP: To Center the Video in the middle of your page box area add the center tags - <center>
</center>
Placing the slash in front of the word center ends that command
Make sure that Center is surrounded by the Less than / Greater Than brackets < >
Click PREVIEW so you can see if your video is displayed in the center of the text area and it is showing
Widgets: Widgets are independent sections of con-
tent that can be placed into any widgetized area pro-
vided by your theme (commonly called sidebars).
To populate your sidebars/widget areas with individu-
al widgets, drag and drop the title bars into the de-
sired area.
By default, only the first widget area is expanded.
To populate additional widget areas, click on their title
bars to expand them.
This is where you can add your
picture or a picture
A slide show
A video
Custom Menu
Calendar
List Categories
Links
A Sample from http://judysbusinessblog.com
TIPS: Create a sitemap of your website – http://xml-sitemaps.com
After it generates your different files of your website - download the sitemap.xml.gz file to your computer
You need to place this file in your public-html directory in your c-panel - you will need to upload this file to the public-
html directory
Create a Google Account - if you do not have one -
Go into Google’s Webmaster Tools Section - https://www.google.com/webmasters
Add your Domain to Google - you will need to add a site - then you will need to add code to verify the site
I use this category for verification - use
whatever is best for you
Download this file to your computer
Upload that file from your computer to the public-
html directory of your domain - go into your c-panel
or use “filezilla”
Now Verify
Adding an image to your sidebar - the EASY Way!!!
Open your posts page
Add a new post
In the text portion of the post - insert the image you want to use
After Image is inserted - click on the HTML tab
Copy the HTML coding
Go to Appearance, Widgets, Add a Text Widget to the side bar
Place cursor in the text area of the widget and CTRL V - paste - use your <center></center> tags
If too large - look at the dimensions and alter as necessary - the width and the height dimensions