Okay, everything is up and running and should be humming. This video will give you a quick tour of the WordPress back office. You will be living in the back office so you should familiarize yourself with it.
Before you conduct your first post, I recommend customizing your WordPress permalink structure. Permalinks are basically the layout of how a URL of a WordPress post appears. WordPress’ default permalink structure includes a bunch of random numbers in your url. This won’t do jack squat for your search engine optimization.
Instead, you should look into customizing your permalink structure with the category field and post name. (more…)
Now that you’ve got your WordPress blog looking good, isn’t it time to go up under the hood and tweak it a little bit so we can get more power out of it?
Introducing WordPress plugins. These are little script add ons that take your WordPress blog to the next level. Everything from e-commerce plugins to photo gallery plugins exists. If there’s something you wish you could do with your WordPress blog, there’s probably a plugin that does it. (more…)
Congratulations! Your WordPress blog is up and running. But wait… it looks ugly as heck doesn’t it?!!! So what can we do to drastically improve the look and feel of our blog so that it appears professional?
Well we can update our theme. Fundamentally, the WordPress Theme system is a way to “skin” your weblog. Yet, it is more than just a “skin.” Skinning your site implies that only the design is changed. WordPress Themes can provide much more control over the look and presentation of the material on your website. (more…)
Everything is now in place. All that’s left to do is to stick the key in the ignition and turn it on. This is the exciting moment that everyone anticipates. It’s like one of those television shows where they build the motorcycle from scratch and they stand there in anticipation as they turn the ignition switch for the very first time.
Your WordPress blog will be in it’s basic format, but that’s okay because if you have made it this far, you can say that you have accomplished a great feat that you probably didn’t think you could accomplish before getting to this step. As you look back, I am sure your understanding and knowledge factor has increased as well. (more…)
We are almost finished. Our next step is to create a MySQL database and then connect it to your WordPress files. I know that probably sounds challenging. You are probably saying to yourself, “Create a database? I don’t know the first thing about creating a database. That sounds difficult.”
Let me ask you three questions: (more…)
Now that you have downloaded and installed FileZilla to your computer, we are now ready to use FileZilla to upload our WordPress files to our free hosting account.
In this video, you will learn where to get your ftp login details and how to use them with your FileZilla ftp client. (more…)
In the last three video sessions you learned how to get a free domain, you learned how to get free hosting, and you learned how to update your domain name system. In this video, I will show you where to go get the #1 blogging software in the world.
WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. It is an excellent open-source and free blogging software that has taken over all its competitors. (more…)
