Basic WordPress Mindmap
Here’s a Mind Map of what’s covered in the Basic WordPress tutorials from installation to tweaking stuff, there’s quite a bit to do
Category: Basic Wordpress
Installing WordPress
How to install a brand spanking new WordPress blog via your Control Panel in your hosting Admin area. You’re just a click (or two) away.
WordPress: Clean It Up!
A new WordPress blog comes with default ‘junk’ in it, which includes a fake post, comment and some links. Let’s tidy it up!
Customize Your WordPress Dashboard
Your dashboard in WordPress is your work space. If you find there are sections you have no interest in then delete them or move them around: tidy dashboard = tidy mind = tidy blog!
Your First Page…
When is a post not a post? When it’s a page! So what’s the difference and how do you create one in WordPress?
Tweaking Your WordPress Blog
Your new WordPress blog is reasonably search engine friendly out of the box but let’s make Google lurv it! Plus get it tidied up while we’re at it.
Installing My Recommended (Free) Plugins
Plugins, and using good ones, are what will make your WordPress blog stand out from the crowd – not just in your visitor’s eyes but in Google’s too!
Adding Widgets To Sidebars
Widgets are useful bells and whistles you can add to your blogs sidebar(s) – Calendars, RSS Feeds, Subscription forms anything you want really. Oh yes ads too!
Add A Contact Form To Your Blog
You definitely need a ‘Contact’ page on your blog not only because it makes sense but also because Google will know if you have one (or not) and Google likes the fact that you are ‘contactable‘.
Adding Categories
Categories help keep your posts organized and give your visitors another way of searching your content. This is a good thing!
