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 upcoming concerts? Yup. Create a [...]

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 given time. There are also [...]

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 the comment from here.

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?

Who doesn’t love a little link love now and again? Sharing the links of other sites which may be of interest to your readers is a great way to keep them interested in coming back to your site. It’s also a good way to get other site owners to take a look at your site and do the same. You [...]

This is an overview of the Media tab on your WordPress dashboard. Library> This is the collection of all of the pictures, videos, songs, documents and other files you have used or will use on a page or post. Add New> You can upload pictures, videos, songs, documents and other files while you’re writing a post or page, but you [...]