WordPress Training: Speed up WordPress with Gears for Internet Explorer

Gear is a little addition to your regular web browser that speeds along the way you use web applications like wordpress, making them more like the application from your desktop like word, excel, iphoto, or keynote. It does that by copying essential files over from the web to your computer so that everytime you have to do something new, your computer does not need to pull 100% of the information
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WordPress Training: Setting your discussion settings

Part of the blogging experience to the interactive dynamic discussion that take place after you publish your post. You can make a number of changes as to how WordPress will handle on manage discussion on your blog. To do that had over to the settings menu and choose the discussion option. First up you got your default article settings. You can decide whether wordpress will automatically try to allowed blogs that
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WordPress Training: Publishing your post at a later date

Sometimes you might want to write a post and have it all set up to post in, say, a week or a month’s time, rather than right away. The good news is that you can do that without having to come back and publish it manually, later on. So, from the main writing view, once you’re ready, just click here on edit next to the part of the publish panel says
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WordPress Training: Previewing and activating themes

When you’re checking out themes in the Appearance, Themes menu, click on either the title or the thumbnail image of any theme and you’ll be given a full screen preview of the content for that theme. This will show you not only how the theme looks, but actually how your live blog would look, wrapped in this design. If you like what you see, just click on Activate Theme and
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WordPress Training: Import your WordPress blog into Facebook

If you’d like to let your friends know about your latest blog posts via Facebook, you can add them to your Notes stream. Head to application Settings in Facebook, and then head to the notes option and click on that. Once that’s open, you should see this page, and over on the right here, you can see “import a blog”. Once you’ve clicked on that, it’s just a matter of entering
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WordPress Training: Getting Started With Google Analytics

Who, What, When, Where, Why and How questions we ask pretty much every day. And as you blog grows in size - maybe even becoming part of your business- it makes sense as this question about if to Google analytics is a simple way of keeping track of who visits your site, what they do when they get there, when they show up, where they’re visiting from, how they interact
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WordPress Training: Getting a post out quickly with QuickPress

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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WordPress Training: Displaying a list of links in your sidebar

Some themes will be able to display a list of your links by default but if you aren’t seeing them and you have a widget enabled theme this is easily remedied. How do you know if you have a widget enabled theme? Head to the appearance menu and select widgets. If your theme doesn’t support widget till I tell you in which case you are at lack of otherwise you’ll see
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WordPress Training: Creating a static front page for your blog

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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