You have your own WordPress blog set up on your domain. That’s great! You’ve taken the first step towards creating an awesome blog. Your next step is to make yourself familiar with the WordPress dashboard, and that’s what this page will help you achieve. Each time you log in to your blog’s back-end using your

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Menus and widgets are very important elements of your WordPress blog because they help visitors find their way around your site easily. And in the case of widgets, they can also extend your blog’s functionality by allowing you to add some extra features that are cool and dynamic. Although working with menus and widgets can

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After installing WordPress, you’ll discover that it comes with some pre-installed themes and plugins. You’ll also discover that some of the default settings aren’t just what you would prefer. Fortunately, you can make yourself happy by effecting the changes you need. I mean, you can delete any themes or plugins you don’t like, and you

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In previous pages, we covered the basic steps you should follow to get your blog ready for the most important task that blogging entails — content creation. Here we’ll be discussing how to publish posts and pages on your WordPress blog. But before we get into the fine details, you need to understand the differences

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Sometimes, you may need to install a WordPress plugin that is not in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. A typical example is when you want to install a premium theme that you have purchased and downloaded from a third party source. Below are the guidelines for installing WordPress plugins by the upload method. First, download the

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I stated on the previous page that themes affect how a blog looks rather than how it works. Here, we’ll be discussing the tools that affect how your blog works — plugins. Before now, the only way to create an online presence was to set up a “static” website with no real dynamic functionality. But

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