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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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