You love your little blog. It fills your life with hope – the hope that you will be noticed and that one day you will make a living from it. And so you work on it at all hours of the day and night with that hope burning bright, sustaining you when fatigue sets in, […]
Why a Simple Contact Form on Your Site Reduces Your Stress
Are You Paranoid or Optimistic? Like most people, you are probably a blend between paranoid and optimistic where your blog is concerned. Paranoid of all the baddies out there on the web, working their nasty butts off trying to hack our beautiful blogs or SPAM our email inboxes. And optimistic that the majority of people […]
How to create your first post on your WordPress blog
1. Login to your dashboard and click on Posts/Add New on the left. The area here looks very much like the area for creating Pages. 2. Enter the heading of your post where it says Enter title here. 3. Write your post underneath either directly into the editor or you could do it first in […]
How to Create a Menu for a WordPress Blog
1. Go to your dashboard and click on Appearance/Menus on the left. 2. Click on Create Menu and name it where it says Menu Name. You are going to place the item you want in your navigation bar under here. In the last post you made a few basic pages. You will find these on […]
How to Create Pages in a WordPress Blog
The next step is to set up a few basic pages. These will be pages like About Me and Contact Me which every blog has to have and whatever other pages you want to make. 1. Go to Pages/New Page in the dashboard menu. 2. Write the name of the page in the title field […]
How to Set Up Categories in a WordPress Blog
In order for your blog to look organized and to make it easy for your readers to look around and find what they want, you need to set up some categories. I would suggest 5 or 6 perhaps. Not too many or the reader will get confused. You know your topic, so analyse it and […]
How to Place Widgets in the Sidebar of Your WordPress Blog
Now you need a few things in your sidebar. Let’s go and set them up. Go to Appearance/widgets. On the left you will see some widgets that are already sitting there for you to use. On the right you will see where you are going to put them. With some themes, this area can become […]
5 Great Plugins to Install at the Start of Your WordPress Blog
Login to your dashboard at http://www.blogname.com/wp-admin . Enter your blog name instead in the obvious place. Now go to Plugins in the left menu and click on the Add New choice. I want you to install just a few plugins at this stage to improve the functionality of your site. Later you can install more […]
How to Choose or Install a WordPress Theme
Login to your dashboard at http://www.blogname.com/wp-admin . Enter your blog name instead in the obvious place. You will arrive at the Home page of your Dashboard which has some help for the complete newbies with some links to get you started. The dashboard is a place you are going to spend a lot of your […]
How to Set up a MailChimp Newsletter Campaign
1. Go to your dashboard by clicking on MailChimp and logging in. 2. Click on Campaigns on the left. 3. In the next screen, go to the Create Campaign button in the top right corner. There will be a blue arrow pointing towards it. 4. In the dropdown, you will see a few choices. If […]
