Not A Blog

WordPress does not have to be a blog at all. You can create a page and then make it the homepage and link to other pages on your site. To do this click “Pages” and “Add New”. Put your text, images and formating on this page. Publish the page. When that’s done go to “Settings”…

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Adding Custom Domain

When you start a WordPress blog you get a domain name that looks something like this fun.wordpress.com. If you want funhouse.com you must by a domain name and port it to your WordPress.com site. Fortunately you can do this without ever leaving WordPress.com.

Full Screen Mode

You can edit your WordPress Site without all of the other panels in the way. Called “Full Screen Mode” it gives you a less incumbered workspace. Click the  and the entire browser will be your workspace.

Editing Perma-links

Perma-links are the last part of the URL. The part that isn’t automatically generated by WordPress. As an example this post is: http://signotes.org/2011/06/24/perma-links/. The permalink is perma-links. When editing the post click “Edit” right under the title field.