Tag: Wordpress

WordPress.com Upgrades

WordPress.com is 100% free to use but there many premium features that you may consider purchasing. Probably the most nessesary  is a Custom Domains. Without this upgrade your domain will be yoursite.wordpress.com. This is fine for a for a hobbiest or temporary website. If your needing to draw a lot of traffic you need a…

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Create Post and Pages Within WordPress

Creating post in WordPess is very easy. It is comparable to creating a document in “MS Word”. There are several types of media that you may insert into a post like text, contact forms, polls, images, audio, and video. For audio and video you must purchase an upgrade but there is a work-a-round. You can…

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Create A Free Website Or Blog With WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a blog, web hosting service provider owned by Automattic, and powered by the open source WordPress software. It provides free blog hosting for registered users and is financially supported via paid upgrades, “VIP” services and advertising. There are nearly 60 million WordPress.com sites, which receive more than 100 million pageviews per day. Every…

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WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a blog web hosting service provider owned by Automattic, and powered by the open source WordPress software, It provides free blog hosting for registered users and is financially supported via paid upgrades, “VIP” services and advertising. The site opened to beta testers on August 8, 2005 and opened to the public on November…

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BackWPup

BackWPup is a free backup plugin for WordPress. It is very intuitive to use and is very powerful. This free plugin in combination with your free DropBox account completely backs up your site for restore in an emergency.

Installing WordPress On Hostgator

Installing WordPress manually is not hard but there is an easier way. “Quick Install ” in the Hostgator CPanel will have WordPress installed in just minutes.

Easy CSS

To do this tutorial you must have a “WordPress.org” site or “WordPress” running locally on your computer. You must have the “Chrome” web-browser or “Firefox “with the “Firebug” extension installed. Go to w3schools.com for a list of CSS commands.

Instant WordPress

Last month we used Bitnami to install WordPress locally on our computer. Installing Bitnami is reasonable simple but I found a much easier way. You can use “Instant WordPress” which take no effort at all. Double click on the .exe file. I think ask only one question, “where to install”. You choose anywhere on your…

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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.