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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 […]

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 […]

Word Press 2.05 was released earlier this month. It’s rare though that you would be doing an update so early in the whole blogmaking process so I’ll wait until a little later (themes and plugins have been installed) to try an update so it’s a more typical situation.

I’ve had to take a bit of a break from blogging because of real world deadlines. In the meantime, check out the comics at xkcd, I swear they hold the meaning of life… Anyway, here’s a couple of my favs on the internet and blogging or blagging as he’d call it.