by briney | Sep 15, 2014 | Profile
Hover over your user name at the top right of the screen, and select Edit profile. Change the colors of your work environment if desired. Change the Nickname, if desired, to one that you want displayed with your posts. Then, select the name from the drop menu. Add you...
by briney | Sep 15, 2014 | Pages
Open ‘Pages’, and select ‘Add new’. Title the new page ‘Home.’ Don’t worry about design yet. You will design in your theme framework. Your permalink is created as directed by your option in Settings/Permalinks. Set order number at 0. Future page order numbers will be...
by briney | Sep 15, 2014 | Posts
Select Add new post, and name the title ‘Blog.’ This post will be used to set up your Blog Index page. Notice that the permalink reflects your option selected in Settings/Permalinks. Add a new category called ‘All’ and any other categories that will appropriately...
by briney | Sep 15, 2014 | Menus
Menus help communicate your message to viewers. Open Appearance/Menus to create Menus. Create a menu titled, Main Navigation, and click the ‘Create’ or ‘Save’ Menu button. Because you already created pages and posts described in a previous section above, you can...
by briney | Sep 15, 2014 | Plugins
24 must have Free WordPress Plugins and alternatives for your website. Security: Antispam Bee [for spam] [located in Settings] Wordfence Security, Secure, faster, etc. Scan, Fix, schedule. Turn on Falcon engine in Performance menu. UpdraftPlus – WordPress Backup and...
by briney | Sep 15, 2014 | Themes
Open Appearance/Themes WordPress includes a couple of web themes to choose, but there are many more. Click on ‘Add New’ at the top of the page. Type in a word that is associated with your web site, use filters, and search for themes. There are many free and premium...
by briney | Jan 17, 2014 | Vocabulary
Your ‘domain’ is uniquely identified by its name (domain name) and an Internet protocol (IP) number. In the internet, the Domain Naming System (DNS) dictates that the domain name is composed of the ‘hostname’ and its ‘network’ such...
by briney | Jan 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
