Your website can have multiple users. You and your wife. You and your business partner. You and your classmate. You and everyone even! Two, three, forty – it doesn’t matter how many people you want to give permission to participate in creating your site, you can add them here. Authors and Users: This link will [...]
WordPress dashboard: Plugins
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Plugins extend what your site can do for you. What do you want to do? Create forms for your guests to fill out? There’s a plugin for that. Add links on your site so your guests can share your posts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more? There’s a plugin for that. List and manage your [...]
WordPress dashboard: Appearance
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Themes: Themes create the look and feel of your site. Colors, arrangements, fonts – these are all created by installing different themes. Your site comes with two default themes, but there are literally thousands of FREE themes to choose from. The Appearance>Themes tab shows you the themes which are installed on your site at any [...]
WordPress dashboard: Pages
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Pages are different than posts. Pages have static content – content that doesn’t change much. This would include pages like “About Us, Contact Us, Directions.” Edit> Allows you to edit existing pages. Add New> Allow you to add new pages. Are you seeing now how this works?
WordPress dashboard: Comments
You can allow your guests to leave comments on your posts/pages (or NOT). You can also allow them to post those comments immediately, or you can set the comments to need approval before they’re posted. If you choose to moderate comments, you will be emailed each time a comment is made. Then, you can approve/disapprove/edit [...]