One thing that WordPress administrators will often need to do, especially when setting up a WordPress website, is find and install plugins. Like themes, you have to install plugins, and activate them. In fact, WordPress will come with a couple of plugins. However, they are not active, and you would need to activate the plugin….
Assuming a standard, default, installation of WordPress, there are two ways to create content for your website. Posts Content Posts are best know types of content for WordPress. Posts are designed to be displayed in chronological order. While this was originally designed for the traditional blog, it also works well for news sites, and anything…
In looking at, and using, jQuery Mobile, I noticed how much simpler it is for designers, than jQuery UI. jQuery UI requires that you write some code for almost every task, while, jQuery Mobile looks at how the system is being used, and what classes have been assigned to some elements. With that idea in…
Themes are WordPress’s version of a DreamWeaver Template, in a way. They provide a manner to display content on the website, by using a combination of PHP and CSS. The PHP controls the displaying of different elements of the WordPress site, while the CSS controls the Look and Feel. Literally thousands of themes exists for…
There are several reasons why you might want to add users to your WordPress website. For example, you may want to limit comments to only those who are registered with your site. You may want to let other people write and/or edit articles for you, or even administer a website for you, so you don’t…
There are a variety of roles, that allow the user to do different things. By default, each higher level can do everything the previous level can do, plus the listed information. Subscriber Are allowed to read content, even if is set to private. Can leave comments if “User must be signed in” setting is enabled….
WordPress is an easy to install web application. A web application requires that the software be run from a web server. This is because it requires PHP and MySQL to generate the web pages. NOTE: You CANNOT launch your website from your local disk by clicking on the files. There are two main ways to…
WordPress will need to be configured, if you want it to look different from every other WordPress website out there. Luckily there are lots of ways to customize WordPress, like themes, widgets, and more. Two simple ways will be in customizing WordPress through the admin menus. When you initially install WordPress, you will need to…
