Adding Subcategories To WordPress
Adding subcategories to A WordPress blog is quite easy, or as it is referred to in the dashboard: You might have a category, and under that have children categories. A child category is created by adding a category to a parent category. That is an easy way to keep your WordPress blog organized and easy to navigate.
Scheduled Backup Of Your WordPress Blog
The most important thing you should do to protect your WordPress blog is to have a backup schedule. Whether it is automated or you have the discipline to do it manually, backing up your WordPress blog should be done on a regular basis.
Install WordPress With Simple Scripts
Installing WordPress can be a very daunting task for those with limited knowledge. Especially if you try to read the official guide. Uploading the files in the proper location and then setting up a database and getting the correct information in the configuration file. So much for the famous 5 minute install huh? If you have picked the correct hosting account then you might be lucky enough to be able to install WordPress with a few clicks of your mouse.
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.
Clean Up WordPress Database
WordPress has gone through many updates over the past year or so and if you have gone through the updates along with using and updating multiple plugins, you may find your WordPress blog or site to be running pretty sluggish. You could even experience database errors after an upgrade, especially with version 2.7. What I am going to attempt to explain in this WordPress guide is not for the total newbie and some technical knowledge will be needed if you want to attempt to do this.
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.
Working With Images In A WordPress Post
Adding images to a WordPress blog post is pretty easy to do, but all too often I see images that are too large or not formatted correctly. WordPress has a set of tools to use for uploading and working with images within the post content. Here is a short video showing some of the advanced tools for working with Images in a WordPress Post.
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.
