WordPress Guide
Make Sitemap Page For WordPress
Creating a sitemap page for your WordPress blog or WordPress site is good way to add navigation for your visitors. Supplying your visitors with an easy to navigate sitemap page can not only help your visitors find more information but also keep them on your WordPress site longer. This is not a a WordPress guide to create a Google sitemap but a visible sitemap for human visitors.
Changed WordPress Address Now Can’t Login
So you were messing around with your WordPress blog and changed the WordPress Address (url) and now you can’t login and the blog is all messed up. That setting in the WordPress general settings menu shouldn’t be changed if you don’t know what it means. It is to specify the location of the WordPress files on your domain. You can’t specify a different domain name either! You can use it to move the files to a different directory but there are additional steps needed to do it the right way. This WordPress guide will show you how to fix the problem.
Is WordPress Better Than A Static HTML Site
I get a lot of questions from people who don’t quite understand the basic difference between a typical HTML website and one run with WordPress. Then there are those that are so new to content management that they don’t know what they really want except to have some type of web presence. In an attempt not to beat the dead horse “is WordPress better than a static HTML site” argument, I will attempt to explain the pros and the few cons of using WordPress as a content management system to run your website.
Keep A WordPress Post On The Top Of Others
There may be times when you want one particular WordPress post to appear on the very top even after other posts are made. That option was once done with various plugins but now it is a built-in feature in WordPress version 2.7. This short WordPress guide will show you just how easy it is to do.
Backup WordPress Database
Backing up your WordPress database is something most of us fail to do on a regular basis. I have yet to need a database backup to restore a catastrophic lose but have used them to move a WordPress blog to a new server and I always backup the database before an upgrade. There are two methods to backup your database one is manually in the hosting account control panel the other is with a plugin. I like the manual method and will cover it in this guide.
WordPress Widgets Version 2.7
WordPress 2.7 has some major changes in the WordPress dashboard most notable is the placement of the menus on the left side instead of the top navigation menu of the past. Navigating the dashboard is a little different, but if you have spent any amount of time with previous versions then it shouldn’t take long to figure it out. WordPress sidebar widgets had had a major change with version 2.5. In version 2.7 there really isn’t much of a change other than how to get to them.
How To Shorten WordPress Custom Permalinks
Using a custom WordPress permalink structure is something most WordPress bloggers know about, and incorporate on their WordPress blogs. Using the category and postname in the WordPress permalink structure adds a little more SEO for the Google bots to soak up and helps your posts get to the top of the Google search results. But it can make the permalink or URL of the posts very long if you use the recommended postname in the permalink structure.
Why WordPress Categories Are Not Showing
So you setup a nice new WordPress blog and you have big plans for all the different things you want to blog about. So you go into the WordPress dashboard and start adding categories, you may even add subcategories into parent categories. After all your work you check upt the front side of the blog but… where are all the categories?
Utilizing The Flexibility Of WordPress Links Categories
Learning more about the ability and flexibility of WordPress can really help to improve the functionality of your WordPress site. The Links and Link Categories panels or sub menus can be used beyond the intended purpose of just adding links to the sidebar. In fact with the addition of a simple WordPress plugin the WordPress links sidebar widget can not only be split into separate categories but each link category can be placed anywhere on any sidebar.
Add Sidebar To WordPress Default Theme Pages
If you are still using the WordPress default theme or a customized version it may not show the sidebar on the pages. If you are using the static front page option you may want to add the WordPress sidebar on pages. If this is the case you can add the sidebar to the default WordPress theme pages very easily
