Sometimes you’re brimming of inspiration and you don’t care about the trimmings and extras . you just want to get a post that fast or capture a fleeting thought as a draft. Say hello to quickpress. Quickpress is an optional dashboard component that lets you quickly bash out a title, insert media, write a few lines or a few hundred and throw in some tags to spice things up. So
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If you decide that you’d like to have a front page that your readers will see when they first arrive at your wordpress site rather than having them taken directly at your blog you can achieve this with a few quick steps.
First up, make yourself a new page from the Pages> Add New menu. You might call it “home”, ‘welcome” or whatever floats your boat. Put whatever you’d like to
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If you’d like to ask your readers to vote on a question you have or ask them a bunch of stuff that can quickly respond to, take a look at the PollDaddy Poll you can instantly add to your Wordpress.com blog posts.
When you’re writing a post to the editor just click on the PollDaddy button up here and a new window will open up. Now you can have the choice
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In addition to being able to change the design of your blog with themes Wordpress gives you a few more options with customizing how your readers will experience your blog. To find them by heading to the settings menu and selecting the reading option.
First up there’s a way to change the front page of the blog so that the display the particular page where I am little going to straight
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If you have more than one author working on your blog you might find from time to time that you need to change the attribution of “by line” of a post. You can do that with the drop down menu under the Post Author pane selecting the name of whoever you’d like to credit for the post. When the post goes live, that’s the author that will be credited.
If you find that creating a bunch of links that fall into different categories, you might want to categorize them to make them easier to navigate.
Let’s say you have links that you want separated from work related, blogs I love, and my photos and videos categories. Head to links > link categories. To add a category give your descriptive name. finally, you can add an optional description of the category
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If you want more people to blog on your self hosted wordpress blog, you can add a separate account for each of them. And with the role manager plugin, you can manage what each type of user can do.
You need to go to the user menu and select add user. Then you need to enter in the information required – for the username, first name, your email address, a website’s
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Categories and tags make it easier for people to find your content. If you aren’t sure what they are check out our Wordpress Elements video all about them. In short categories are like the sections of a menu, or indeed, newspaper while tags are more like the ingredients of a particular dish.
Let’s say I write a lot about cameras. I might create a camera category, or even make categories for
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