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The hardest job is choosing a theme! Fortunately there are sites that have gone to the trouble of compiling lists of many of the available themes out there. Here’s a few that I find particularly useful:
WordPress ThemeViewer: Has some nice sort functions and you can click on “test run” to give you a live working […]

Once you’ve activated the preinstalled WordPress Backup plugin, go to Manage/Backup to access your backup options. You have a choice of saving it to the server, downloading a copy or emailing yourself a copy. I would choose to download a copy or email it because saving it to your server won’t help you if your […]

WordPress comes with a few plugins installed but not activated. You can add more later, but the most important plugin to activate is the WordPress Database Backup as backing up is THE most important thing that you do as servers DO fail and WordPress does stuff up.
Activating a plugin is really simple: go to your […]

WordPress separates the content of your blog from its layout or appearance through the use of templates and css files bundled together and called themes.
The default WordPress theme is currently the Kubrick theme. I will have probably changed this site’s layout since, so here’s a screenshot of blogmaking.net with the default theme:

To manage and change […]

To add an embedded video from a site like YouTube or Google Video, you need to first look for the embed code on the video’s homepage. If someone has embedded a video that you like on their website, usually clicking on it will bring you to the video’s homepage on YouTube/Google Video.
On YouTube, if embeds […]

It is a good idea to create a separate test blog to try out themes and plugins and other modifications that catch your eye without disrupting your real blog. Just go through the instructions for setting up a blog again, only name the wordpress directory “test” (eg http://domain.com/test/) or some random string if you’d like […]

You can make in-text links by selecting some text in the rich text editor and then clicking on the link button (it looks like two joined links of a chain, if you hover over it, it says “Insert/edit link (Alt-a)”) and then filling out the form with the link and a description.

It also gives you […]

There’s two ways that you can add images to your post.
1. The easiest is to link to an image URL hosted on someone else’s site or your PhotoBucket/Flickr account. I’m going to link to a picture off my Flickr account of my puppy when she was a puppy.

If you have the rich text editor switched […]

As mentioned before, a page is not a post is meant as something’s that static. I’m going to create a page to act as a guide to making a WordPress blog with links to relevant posts on this site. This should be a page not a post because I intend it to stay in one […]

WordPress sets up some defaults that you may or may not want to get rid off. The last post on links described how to remove the default links, here are some more…
Scrap the Hello World page
You’ll notice that WordPress sets up a default post for you which you can edit or delete.
Hello world!
Wednesday, October […]