Category: Wordpress

Build A Worpress Site

This month we will all build a fantastic WordPress.org (not WordPress.com) site from scratch step by step and we will finish the entire site well before the two hours. To do this without actually having web-server we are going to install a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server plus WordPress software on our computers.

What is JetPack?

Jetpack is a WordPress plugin the adds many of the great features in WordPress.com to your WordPress.org site…

Pro Upgrade

WordPress.com is offering a 40% savings on their most popular upgrades with this great new bundle. Get all of these great features to customize your blog in one simple purchase.

Magazine Themes

If you don’t want a website that looks like a blog you have to options you can create a page and make that the homepage or you can use a magazine theme. A magazine theme is a blog but the post on the front page are not layed out in the traditional linier fashion. All…

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What You Need For .Org

To run a WordPress.org website you need, a web-server running Linux and the Apache Web server. Most hosting services offer Linux  running Apache as a choice. It must have the PHP scripting language installed also the MySQL database. This configuration is called LAMP. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

CSS

If you want to customize your WordPress site the most important skill you must learn is CSS (Cascading Style Sheet). CSS is the most important element of a Worpress theme.

What is SEO?

SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” It is the process of getting traffic from the “free,” “organic,” “editorial” or “natural” listings on search engines.

.Com vs .Org

It is not true that you cannot use your own domain name with Wordpess.com. For a fee you can use a domain name you already have or you can purchase a domain from Godaddy true WordPress.com.