How to Install and Use Subscribe to Comments on WordPress

Hi, everyone! Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install and use the plugin subscribe to comments. Now, the point of this plugin is to basically have a live discussion on your blog, so what happens after you’ve installed the plugin is your readers can actually subscribe to individual comment threads on your blog. Then other  users can keep commenting back and forth. It
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How to set up a Contact Us Page on WordPress

Hi, everyone! Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a contact form for your blog. By doing this, you need to install one of the contact form plugins. The one that I’m going to use today is a very popular one called Contact Form 7. So, if you want to get this plugin, you can come to BuildMySiteForFree.com, and what you want to do
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How to Use Quick Press on WordPress

Hi, everyone! Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use QuickPress. Now, QuickPress, which is right here on my dashboard and I am circling it here with my cursor, is a quick and easy way for you to write, save and publish posts right here from your dashboard. There’s no need to go to an add new post or an edit post page. You
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How to Schedule a Post on WordPress

Hi everyone, welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In today’s tutorial, I’m just going to show you how to schedule a post. And what’s so great about being able to schedule a post is there are sometimes we are not available or have the time to create and publish posts every single day. We might be on vacation , we might have family emergencies, we might just need to take a week off
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How to Customize Permalinks on WordPress

Hi, guys.  Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com.  Today’s tutorial is about customizing your permalinks.  Now for those of you who have seen our video on permalink settings, you will know that each post you create has a different permalink.  And you will also know that WordPress automatically creates this permalink for you whenever you publish a post, but you don’t need to have WordPress always automatically do this for you.  You can actually
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How to Create an About Us Page on WordPress

Hi, everyone.  Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com.  In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to set up an About Us page.  And the reason people do this is to give their readers – their viewers – a little biography about themselves.  It could be an About Me page or an About Us page if you're working with other authors or you're working at a company, and it’s to show your readers
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How to Assign a Static Page as Your Front Page

Hi, guys.  Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com.  Today’s tutorial is about assigning a static page as a front page.  Now a static page, as most of you may know, is a separate page that appears on your blog.  So a lot of people use it to create an About Me page or a page just dedicated to something in particular that they may be interested in. And you could have as many static pages
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How to Use Open ID on WordPress

Hi. Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today’s tutorial is about OpenID. And for those of you that don’t know, OpenID is a third-party identification system that lets people that use the Internet create an online identity for themselves, and they can use this anywhere OpenID is used and supported. So what it basically does is it allows you to authenticate two websites without having to make a new password,
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How to Use RSS Widgets on WordPress

Hi.  Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com.  Today’s tutorial is about how to use the RSS widget.  Now the RSS widget displays content from another blog in your sidebar or widget area, and what it usually is, is posts or updates from another website or blog.  So if you did see our video on changing the WordPress development blog on our Dashboard, you would have seen that we change the RSS feed to being
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