WordPress KnowHow
Like the idea of having your own blog that you can use on any computer around the world?…
Discover here How To Setup Your First Blog
And Customize It How You Want WITHOUT Pulling Your Hair Out!”
This video series reveals how to unlock the true power behind the worlds most popular blogging platform!
If you’re like many students starting to build their blog online, the blogging platform WordPress can be quite intimidating.
So why bother blogging?...
Blogging has several advantages when it comes to creating websites fast
With a WordPress blog you can post articles and other content on a regular basis from any computer in the world without having to remember your FTP details to upload files!
Not only that, but when you do add new content, it’s organized nicely so that search engines like Google can pick it up quicky!
With a WordPress blog you can easily customize and add new fuctional features to it called ‘plugins’ to allow you to advertise your blog online, sell your products online, review products that you come across, build a mailing lists to your blog, and automate repetitive tasks!
…and the best part is that this platform is FREE!
Once you have learnt how to build a blog and are getting really serious about developing your blog into a business then all you need is a domain and webhosting and you’re good to go – and you’ll be able to start your online business!
The Videos I have here are going to show you step-by-step how to setup your first blog and when you have done that I shall teach you how to customize it so that it’s unique to you.
Here’s a quick peek at what’s inside this fantastic video course…
How to install WordPress quickly and easily
How to add images to WordPress
The difference between a Post and a Page
• In this 4:49 video, you will learn the difference between a page and a post.
How to style your content pages with bolding, italics, and underlining
How to insert hyperlinks into your content
How to find free themes for your WordPress site
How to find and install plugins on your WordPress site
How to add a YouTube video to your content page
How to set Permalinks for your site
• In this 4:14 video, discover how to manage post and discussion submissions.
• How to determine whether or not you want people to post comments.
• How to navigate your way through the discussion settings to different options associated with post submission.
How to Use WordPress Menus
• In this 4:38 video, you will learn about how to edit and
customize the menus, or menu, in your WordPress site.
• How to navigate to your WordPress Dashboard, to the menu section.
• Listen to instructions for how to create a menu, customize buttons in the menu, rearrange the order of the buttons in the menu, and more.
How to modify your sidebar widgets
• In this 2:52 video, learn more about changing the
appearance of your website’s side
bar.
• How to navigate to your dashboard to add or mofidy your widget.
• Listen to directions for how to select and remove different categories that appear in your sidebar.
Once you’ve got your first blog setup, you’ll NEVER want to go back to old fashioned HTML!… here’s why...
WordPress blogs are dymanic – standard HTML is not!
If your site consisted of 100+ pages and you want to change a meta tag, the location of your header image, your site title, or anything else, you’d have to manually go through each file and edit it. With WordPress blogs however, because pages are dynamically created from component files i.e. header.php and footer.php, you will only have to edit one file.
This is a massive time saver and very re-assuing knowing that any mistakes or modifications can be taken care of quickly.
WordPress blogs can be easily re-designed – HTML design is limited to your HTML knowledge. That might sound like an obvious statement but let me explain.
With HTML if you want to add a menu in your header so visitors can navigate easily, you’ll have to first do some reseach on Google to find the javascript code and then tinker with it to get it working how you want.
Depending on the complexity of the menu, and the number of pages you have to update this can take a while. With WordPress however, your menu is updated dynmically with every new page you create. Your menu will vary depending on the theme you have installed, but even the default theme has this in-built function.
WordPress is search engine optimized. Standard HTML is not. This is probably common knowledge by now and even if you don’t fully understand WordPress you’ll have to admit that there are a lot of blogs appearing on the first page of Google for almost any search term you enter.
Now there are many features within WordPress that make it so lovable by search engines like Google such as hyperlinked post titles matching your page name, hyperlinked tags, hyperlinked categories, descriptions within the catergories, organized h1, h2, and h3 tags, and so much more. With HTML however, you have to do this manually.
If you have say 10 sites on your page with a sidebar linking to other pages, you’d have to manually hyperlink each of those ten links. Then you’d have to repeat the process for each page. Even if you were copying and pasting, it’s still an inefficient way of working when a platform such as WordPress can do this all dynamically for you.
HTML has no user-friendly way of installing scripts. WordPress however makes script-installing easy with it’s plugin system. It’s simply a case of browsing for what you want, choosing it and activating it and it’s suddenly added into your WordPress admin. No standard HTML site can do this unless there’s some serious modification done. But again, why bother going through the hassle when it can simplified?
I think you’re starting to see the power and advantages WordPress has over standard HTML. And it’s no wonder that they’re getting more and more popular.
no matter what you want to use your blog for, you’ll benefit in some way! Guaranteed!
Enjoy and learn from the Videos and happy Blogging!