Quick Tips

No I am not talking about the movie although I highly recommend watching it in 3D. And if you ask me, it’s so far the best movie of the year 2010… but I digress. The avatar I am referring to is a small image of roughly 60 x 60 pixels you associate with your email address. That online avatar, also sometimes called  gravatar icon, is displayed... Read more

Comments from readers are the lifeblood of your blog. Don’t get me wrong, quality content and traffic to your blog are of prime importance. However if your blog posts do not engage visitors then you are certainly speaking to the wrong audience: the topic you are writing about is not relevant to them. Comments lend to your blog its social media... Read more

The visual text editor is certainly one of the areas you will be using more often in your WordPress blog admin panel. That’s where you create  pages and posts to publish in your blog. It’s a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor that  contains all the tools you need to edit and format text, add images, videos and sound clips to... Read more

When you are writing a new article from your blog admin panel, that new post will not visible to the public (blog visitors) until you actually publish it. That way you can  save your post as a draft until you are done  making the edits. The current status of your post is always shown in the “Publish” panel docked by default on the right-hand... Read more

When you setup a new blog,  an “uncategorized” category is automatically created by WordPress. That category is set as the default for your all blog posts. In a WordPress blog every post you write must be associated with at least one category.  It helps organize your blog articles by grouping them by theme or topic. So the first thing... Read more

Creating a new post in your self-hosted WordPress blog is pretty easy. • First you need to log into your wordpress blog admin panel • Once inside the admin panel,  you can easily spot the “Posts” panel on the left sidebar • If the panel is closed just, place the mouse over the “Posts” tab • Then click the arrow appearing... Read more

Because your blog admin panel is password protected you need to log in first in order to get access to your blog content management area.The login form page address is generally something like your blog web address followed by “/wp-login.php”. For instance this blog web address is http://www.blogdesigncenter.com. Therefore the login page... Read more

This is the first post in the new category “Quick Tips” where I will be providing tips and tricks on how to make the most of your wordpress blog admin panel.  As a blog administrator or editor, the admin panel is the password protected area of your blog where you can manage everything that will be appearing on the front-end of your blog... Read more