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How to Customize Permalinks on WordPress

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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How to Invite Friends to WordPress

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How to Invite Friends to WordPress

Hi, guys, and welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today’s tutorial is about how you invite your friends to your blog. And what’s great about this is when you invite new friends to your blog, you're not only generating more traffic on your blog, but you're building your blog’s popularity. So it’s really a great feature to have, but depending on the version of WordPress, you have the options to go
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How to Use Text Widgets

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How to Use Text Widgets

Hi, guys. Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com.  Today’s tutorial is about using text widgets. And text widgets are different from the rest of the widgets you may know of, and the reason being is it gives you the option to actually display an image on your sidebar or widget area, insert any text that you want. So a lot of people use it to insert a short biography of themselves with a picture. Some
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How to Add a Page on WordPress

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How to Add a Page on WordPress

Hi.  Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com.  Today’s tutorial is about how to add a page, and the first thing that you want to do when adding a page is to come down to your page link on your navigation menu. And here, you can view all the pages you currently have, and you can add a new one. So I’m going to go ahead and add a new page – and here I am
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How to Add a Widget on WordPress

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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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