August 11th, 2009 — How To, Wordpress
Categories are like sections of a newspaper. Tags are like the ingredients of a food dish.
How to add a category to your wordpress blog
To add a category look at the right side of your monitor where you post your updates. Click on "Add New Category" as shown in the picture above. You will then see a rectangle directly below the "Add New Category" words. Enter the name you want to add. Then click the "Add" button. Your new category will be availble!
Add a "Parent Category"
You may want to have a main category with sub-categories within it. You can see in the picture below that I added the sub-category (How To) under the "Wordpress" main category. I will be adding more sub-categories here in the future. The idea is to provide KEYWORDS to describe what is in the post.
How to add a "Tag" to your blog post
Tags are more precise in regard to a particular post. Above the general "Categories" section on the right, look at the "Post Tags" section.
Tags are important to your blog. They help people find your posts. What could be more important than that?
Type the words you want to be keywords and to help people find your post in the future. I added "add, category, tags" to this post. Put a comma after each word. Then click the "Add" button.
You can put a "tag cloud" on your blog to help people find specifics about your post and products. Your post may show up in the main Wordpress page with the help of your tags..
Greg Cryns
Expert Wordpress design and promotions
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August 10th, 2009 — Wordpress
Yesterday my son and partner, Toby Cryns, set up this awesome posting panel for me. I was amazed by its size and capabilities to make my life easier doing the blog.
Here is a picture of the posting panel:
What do you think?
Greg Cryns
Wordpress design and website promotion.
August 9th, 2009 — How To, Wordpress
How to add an image to your Wordpress blog 1. click on the "add image" icon on the top bar, left side
2. click on "select files" to find an image on your computer page will say "Add media files from your computer" click "browse" to find the picture on your computer then click "upload"
3. select a title for your image (optional)
4. add a caption to your image (optional)
5. add a description to your image (optional)
6. link the image to the URL you choose (optional)
7. select the page alignment for your image (or none)
8. set the size for your image
9. click "insert your post" – you should see the image on your blog now
10. click (on the right side") "Save Draft" "Preview" or "Publish"
I hope this helps you!
Greg Cryns
Expert Wordpress design and website promotion
August 9th, 2009 — How To, Wordpress
When creating your blog post, you often want to make some text in bold, change the font color and other font issues You need to open the advanced text editing toolbar (left click on the red box in picture below )
This opens the toolbar (inside red box). You can see various buttons for separate tasks.
To set the font size to a HEADING first highlight the text ("How to set atext Heading" for example) and click the arrow in the box in red.Then select the heading you want. There is also a "Paragraph" option to format your paragraphs.
Making your text BOLD on Wordpress
1. Highlight the text you want to make bold.
2. click the button (B) shown in the picture below. That’s it!
I hope this helps you improve the look of your blog posts.
Greg Cryns
August 9th, 2009 — How To, Wordpress
| When putting together your blog post, you often want to make some text in bold, change the font color and other font issues You need to open the advanced text editing toolbar (left click on the red box in picture below
This opens the toolbar (inside red box). You can see various buttons for separate tasks.
To set the font size to a HEADING first highlight the text ("How to set atext Heading" for example) and click the arrow in the box in red.Then select the heading you want. There is also a "Paragraph" option to format your paragraphs.
Making your text BOLD on Wordpress
1. Highlight the text you want to make bold. 2. click the button (B) shown in the picture below. That’s it!
I hope this helps you improve the look of your blog posts.
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August 7th, 2009 — social media
Chris Brogan made a very deliciously sarcastic post Get More Twitter Followers TODAY . This post is a flat out attack on the idea that getting more Twitter followers will help you become more than you are.
If Twitter is part of your social media strategy, I am sure you notice how many “Social Network experts” exist. Millions (so it seems). Brogan returned the following day with another funny piece 10-no-4 Days to Become a Social Media Expert
My experience on Twitter backs up Brogan’s. To me it’s a matter of trying to do stuff on the web without working hard for results. Also, it shows how “the big lie” can become the status quo for most of us.
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