Hi, guys. Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In today’s tutorial, I am going to explain to you what the plugin Akismet is and how to set it up.
And for those of you that don’t know, Akismet is a plugin that checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. So you pretty much don’t ever have to worry about comment spam or trackback spam after
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Hi, everyone. Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to find your API key. And the API key is what allows you to use services like Akismet and WordPress.com stats. And in order to use Akismet, you
need to find and then type in your API key in order for it to work.
So to first find where you're going to be plugging in your API key,
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Hi. Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use the plugin XML Google Sitemap, and this plugin is a way to tell Google about pages on your site that they may not otherwise have discovered.
So the sitemap is kind of like a building directory that, before installing it, Google does not know what it is when it gets there. So by installing this plugin,
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Hi guys, welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today’s tutorial is about how to install and use the plugin called WordPress Stats. And what this plugin does is it provides statistics about your visitors. And what I really like about it is that it actually focuses on what the most popular statistics that a blogger is going to want to track. So for instance it will show us how many
of our pages have
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Hi and welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to use the popular plugin Google Analytics. Now when you after installing this plug in, and making an account with Google Analytics what will happen is it starts tracking how many people found your site, how people did find your site, what they did on it, and essentially having all this information will help you improve
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Hi guys, welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to insert a calendar tag into a template in order to display a calendar on your blog. And not only will this display a calendar on your blog but it’s also
gonna highlight each day of the week in which you posted a blog. So what’s great about this is all of your followers who are following
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Hi, everyone! Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to find, download, and then upload plugin files to your WordPress account. Now, this may sound like it might be a little bit difficult, but if you follow my directions, it will be very simple for you.
The first thing you want to do is locate the desired plugin that you want to install. Now, you can
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Hi, everyone! Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today’s tutorial is going to be about how to install plugins through searching for them, and for those of you that don’t know, plugins are little programs that interact with your software to provide some sort of expansibility to that specific software. So, basically it’s allowing you to customize your site to the way that you prefer it to look and be. Most of them
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Hi! Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today’s tutorial is about uninstalling plugins, and to uninstall a plugin is a very simple and straightforward action. To go about doing this, you want to first go to you installed plugins link on your navigation menu because you want to be able to locate the plugin that you don’t want anymore or you feel doesn’t serve any purpose
for your blog.
You click the installed plugins link
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