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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 […]

Add/Change Categories:
Go to the Dashboard and click on Links/Link Categories and you can add and delete categories as you choose.

Add Link:
Go to the Dashboard and click on Links/Add Link. You only need to fill out the main details:
URl = http://www.domainyourelinkingto.com/whateverpage.html
Link name = what you want it displayed as
Short description = this is optional, […]

There are two main ways of doing this.
1. If you’re really structured and know where your blog is going then you can start off creating categories set up BEFORE you started posting. You can always add more or edit them later. So if you have a list (and a bit of planning is always a […]

Posting blog entries is easy peasy. In the basic WordPress system there are “posts” and “pages”. Both can be found in your dashboard (eg http://domain.com/blog/wpadmin/) if you click on “Write”.

Posts are your blog posts, so if you want to write a new post click on Write/Write Post and your install should come with the rich […]

If you want nice search friendly permalinks that don’t involve numbers and question marks you can tweak this in your WordPress dashboard.
Click on Options/Permalinks, choose your favoured style. I’m going to go with a custom style that’s numeric and name based: ie http://blogmaking.net/blog/123/sample-post/ so I click on the custom option and paste:
/%post_id%/%postname%/
but feel free to […]

Wordpress has five roles in version 2.0. for more info, you can go to: Roles and Capabilities « WordPress Codex, here’s a summary from it:

Administrator - Somebody who has access to all the administration features
Editor - Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
Author - Somebody who can […]

Unless you’re happy with all your posts coming as “admin” (if that’s how you named your initial user in the set up), you might like set yourself up as a user and then use that identity to post.
Click on site admin (or go straight to the /wp-admin/ part of your site) and click on Users […]

In the set up, you assigned/were given a login and a password. Login to your blog and if you’re the only one who uses your computer (or you can trust any others who might too) then it is much more convenient to get your browser to remember your password. I also click on the “remember […]