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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Create a post excerpt & using the “more” tag

Posted by Trevor Beck on August 4, 2009

When all your posts appear on one page, having long posts can mean a lot of scrolling. You can manually insert a “more” tag into your post so your reader sees a short piece and clicks on the title to see the full story.


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Publish your post at a later date

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Sometimes you create posts that are time sensitive and you want them to appear on your site on a specific date. Discover how easy this can be!


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Rearrange the post editor to suit your style

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There are a lot of fields on the post editor page that you may never use. This tutorial will show you how you can rearrange items so your more commonly used items are handy.


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Use Quick Edit and Bulk Edit to make changes

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Quick Edit and Bulk Edit are two features that will make it easier for you to quickly make changes to single posts or a whole bunch at once.


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Adding a Widget to the sidebar

Posted by Trevor Beck on July 23, 2009

Widgets are an easy way to add different types of content to the side columns of your site. Although there are basic widgets available to you, be sure to check out the Widgets and Plugin categories to find other pieces of information you can add to your site.


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Create an image gallery

Posted by Trevor Beck on

If you have photos posted in Flickr or Google, you can easily link to those sites. However, the other alternative is to upload your images to your site and then create a gallery of the photos.

Keep in mind that you site has a limited amount of space and every photo you upload goes against that amount. Be sure to resize your photos using a simple online tool like Picnik.


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Display tags in your sidebar with a widget

Posted by Trevor Beck on July 16, 2009

Assigning tags to your posts is an excellent practice and just another way for visitors to find information. However, to ensure users have access to those tags, you’ll need to make them available on your site by enabling the Tag widget.


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Adding categories and tags to your posts

Posted by Trevor Beck on

Creating content for a site is easy, but finding it can be a difficult task for visitors. WordPress provides two ways of organizing your information – categories and tags. Categories are general areas where you can group similar types of information. Tags are like keywords – you can assign a number of tags to a post, making it easier for users to find information (be sure to make use of the Tag widget).


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Display news and posts from other sites

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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a way web sites make their content available away from their site (watch this video for an explanation of RSS). Using RSS feeds, you can post news and information from other sites into your sidebar automatically!


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Display recent comments in your sidebar

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One of the great features of WordPress is the ability for visitors to leave comments about what you write and often visitors want to see what others have said. The Comments widget automatically posts recent comments in your sidebar.


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