WordPress Tutorials

Easy Way to Install WordPress on BlueHost Web Hosting’s Server

Before you Install WordPress you need to have a web hosting account.  There is a way to have a WordPress.com website where you can get a site without having your own hosting account, but it does not have all of the functionality of the full software. When you are looking for a web hosting company you can be bombarded by many choices or can be swayed by the sites with a lot of advertising like Go-Daddy.

Whatever you do, don’t choose Go Daddy for web hosting. It really doesn’t matter who you get to register your domain name since you are really just leasing the right to use the name for as long as you pay the yearly fee. You can always point your domain name from wherever you registered it, to your web-hosting account using two numbers called DNS, that you get from your web hosting account and plug into to your domain account on your domain registrar. But where you have your web hosted does matter. A lot.

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Importing and configuring WordPress Plugins

After you have searched for plugins and found some of interest go ahead and  install them. Sometimes you won’t know if one suits your needs until you try it. Just be sure to deactivate and delete a plugin if you have no use for it as plugin conflicts or too many plugins can wreak havoc with your WordPress site’s performance. You can install a theme  from the automatic uploader within WordPress under the Plugin, Add New  tab on your dashboard or you can do it through  FTP.

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Newbies Guide to Customizing WordPress Themes

August 19, 2010

These are the slides from my presentation at The Atlanta WordPress Users Meetup Group on August 19th. The format and content of the presentation goes like this:

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Using Programmer’s Notepad to Edit WordPress Files

August 13, 2010

Although there is a built in theme editor in WordPress, I tend tuse Programmer’s notepad to make all but the quickest of edits to my WordPress files. Programmer’s Notepad is a free editor which is easy to use. It has the ability to use search, line counting, and word wrapping. To use Programmer’s Notepad, download [...]

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Uploading WordPress Themes and Plugins through FTP with Filezilla

August 13, 2010

When I first started working with WordPress, the versions I was using did not come with a built in mechanism to upload new themes and plugins. It does have that capacity now. Before the only option was to upload Plugins and Themes by FTP.  As a technical newbie, although I knew what FTP was I [...]

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Customizing WordPress Themes with Firebug

August 11, 2010

Firebug is a free open source Firefox add-on that is an essential tool  for anyone wanting to customize a WordPress theme.  It allows you to find the exact place in the code that has to be changed for a particular issue. With firebug, you can identify the precise location of whatever you intend to change [...]

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Ten Essential WordPress Plugins For Every WordPress Website.

August 11, 2010

Plugins are little apps that extend the functionality of WordPress. The core of WordPress is designed to be lean, to maximize flexibility and minimize code bloat. Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs. Since WordPress is an open source program, there are lots of [...]

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Inserting and Editing an Image in WordPress 2.9 and above

August 10, 2010

Here is a great video that walks you through the process of inserting and editing a video into your posts or pages using upload/insert or going through the media library. In WordPRess version 2.9 and above there are built in editing features. I like the ability to scale an image to the exact size I [...]

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