How to Add a New Post in WordPress

Hi! Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today, I’m going to be demonstrating to you how to add a new post to your blog. As you can see, we are here on the dashboard which is pretty much where you always want to be when you are navigating to different areas of your blog. I’m going to come over here to the left hand side corner where the navigation menu is. I’m going
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How to Add a Widget on WordPress

Hi. Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today’s tutorial is about adding widgets to your blog. And widgets are actually really cool because it’s an application that enables the user to perform a specific function or to access a service. So when you want to add a widget to your blog, what you're going to do is scroll down to Appearance on your navigation menu.   And once you’ve opened up
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How to Set Your Media Options On WordPress

Hi, everyone. Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today’s tutorial, I’m going to walk you through the Media Settings portion of WordPress. And the Media Settings is where you set options for how you want your image files to be resized, how you want embedded files to appear, and how you store uploads.   So when you want to go to your Media Settings page, you are going to click open the
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How to Set Your Writing Options on WordPress

Hi, guys, and welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today, I’m going to be walking you through the writing settings section of WordPress. So to get to your writing settings, you want to come down to the navigation menu where it says “Settings.” And you're going to open up your submenu and scroll down to where it says, “Writing.”   And this is going to bring us to your Writing Settings page.
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How to Post Trackbacks on WordPress

Hi. Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today’s tutorial is about trackbacks. Now trackbacks are comments left on your blog by other blogs, not by actual viewers. Now when you write posts, what happens is in that post, you can give a link to a post made by another blog, which of course, would be a different blog than yours.   What then happens is you publish that post. And
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How to Find a Category ID Numbers on WordPress

Hi, everyone. Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today’s tutorial is about how you find your category ID number. Now each category has a unique ID number, and there are several things you may need it for on WordPress. A few examples may be when you need to add certain tags, like the query posts tag, you need your category ID number. You also may want your category
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How to Embed Videos With Codes on WordPress

Hi, everyone. Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today’s tutorial is about how you find your category ID number. Now each category has a unique ID number, and there are several things you may need it for on WordPress. A few examples may be when you need to add certain tags, like the query posts tag, you need your category ID number. You also may want your category
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How to Manage Users in WordPress

Hi, everyone. Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today, I’m going to be explaining to you how to manage your authors and users on your blog. So I’m going to show you what the page looks like and explain to you the different options you have. And I’m also going to talk a little bit about the rules that users can have on your blog. So it gives
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How to Edit Categories in WordPress

Hi, and welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In this tutorial, I’m going to be showing you how to edit a category. Now you may have briefly seen this in our adding a category video, but I’m going to touch on it a little bit more now. And what you want to do first is go to the Categories option on your posts submenu, and it’ll bring you, of course, to the Categories
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