Menus are used to provide a way for end users to navigate through your website. You could require users to use the search widget, however, that would not be the easiest way to use your website, in most cases. To access your menus, go to Appearance > Menus. You theme will have one or more…
Widgets are small sections of a website which allows you to add special content, or features, to different parts of your website. Traditionally, these were found in the website’s sidebar, however, you can place a widget anywhere you want. Usually Widgets are stand alone, meaning they don’t interact with one another, however, this is not…
What is a Theme A theme in WordPress helps us define how our website looks. It consists of a CSS style sheet named styles.css. (This file name must be used.) At the top of the stylesheet, there will be a CSS comment. WordPress looks at this comment to learn about the theme. It will look…
Categories allow you to organize your WordPress Posts better. A post should belong to only a single category, all though categories could have hundreds, if not thousands of posts. This is because a post is put into a narrow field about what it is about. This is a category. Think of it like a filing…
Just as eMail spam is a hated thing in our inbox. You will find that you get comment spam on many websites. Spammers will try to submit information into any form they can find, so they can peddle their wares, websites, services, etc on your website. They hope that exposure will either direct traffic to…
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….
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…
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…
