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Create a WordPress Website in Ten Easy Steps
Create a WordPress Website in Ten Easy Steps
Create a WordPress Website in Ten Easy Steps
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Create a WordPress Website in Ten Easy Steps, explains everything an entrepreneur must to do to build a web site - without knowing code. It describes how to promote your WordPress site in social media and present your business to the world.

​In this interactive ebook you'll learn the 10 steps to building and launching a WordPress website: Registering a Domain Name, Opening a Hosting Account, Installing a Theme, Adding Plugins & Widgets, Building the Site, Adding Blog Posts, Optimizing for Search, Connecting Social Media, Monetizing the Site, Maintaining the Site.
Plus, it has bonus chapters: Top 10 Ways to Learn WordPress, Five Things to Remember about WordPress, and a Dashboard Tour.

Create a WordPress Website in Ten Easy Steps was written by a blogger in the belief that every businessperson should have an easy-to-read guide to building a Web presence.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherMari Kane
Release dateMay 21, 2015
ISBN9781311551030
Create a WordPress Website in Ten Easy Steps
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Mari Kane

Mari Kane is a Blogger and WordPress Consultant living in Vancouver, BC. When she's not designing WordPress blogsites and helping people with their own, she blogs on her other site, Tasting Room Confidential.com, and web masters for the BC Travel Writers at BCATW.org. Mari likes jazz, cats, wine and hockey, not necessarily in that order. Please follow her on Twitter @blogsitestudio and Like her on Facebook.

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    Create a WordPress Website in Ten Easy Steps - Mari Kane

    Introduction

    Create A WordPress Website In Ten Easy Steps

    Mari Kane

    The tech business is a lot like wine: there are always new releases.

    So when WordPress updates, instructional books must be updated to keep up with the changes.

    This is the 3rd edition of Create a WordPress Website, and it won’t be the last. I’ve reviewed all the major upgrades to WordPress and incorporated them into these chapters so you are not left scratching your head as to why things look different on your dashboard.

    The idea to create this blog series-turned ebook came to me after sitting in a seminar full of musicians who all came to learn how to improve their businesses using Web technologies. The presenters talked about websites, blogs, social media and video, saying, you’ve got to do this and then do that.

    One man finally said, Where can I read about all this in one place? The answer? Nowhere. You just have to pick it up wherever you find the information, he was told.

    I decided that a businessperson should have a concise guide to building a Web presence in one easy read. So I wrote the series, Create a WordPress Website in 10 Steps, for my site, BlogsiteStudio.com. It has everything an entrepreneur must to do to build a Communication Management System (CMS) that will serve their business to the world.

    Now, updated for Version 4.5, Create a WordPress Website in 10 Steps is your guide to making a beautiful, functional website and controlling your Web presence.

    Cheers!

    Mari Kane

    Prologue: 5 Basic WordPress Tips to Remember

    When you first start out using WordPress you learn so much it’s easy to overlook some of the basic things that can help you work faster. Here are some basic WordPress tips to keep at the forefront of your mind:

    1. Autosave holds your unsaved text

    If, for some reason, you log out and navigate away from a post or page before you hit Save or Update, all may not be lost. The next time you come to that page, check at the top to see if WordPress tells you there is an AutoSave version.

    If so, click on it, check the changes, and hit Restore Autosave. Only the changes in the Edit box will be restored. Click update to finalize.

    2. Revisions hold every saved version of your work

    You’ve made some changes to a page or post that you just don’t like and you wish you could go back in time to restore the page you had before. With Revisions, you can go back to previously saved versions and restore them.

    Just click Revisions in the Publish box or below the Excerpt box and click the version you want. Hit Restore Revision and Update and continue working. This does not restore meta tags, however. Only Edit box contents.

    3. Navigating from Dashboard to Front Pages saves time

    Moving from the front page to the Dashboard can save you time in your workflow.

    When you are logged into the Dashboard, note the toolbar on the top and at the left. Click on your site name or on the drop-down list, Visit Site. Use that to go from the Dashboard to your front page anytime.

    To go from front of the site to the back, click on your site name in the top left corner to get a dropdown showing Dashboard, Themes, Customize, Widgets, and Menus. That will take you any of those places quickly.

    On the front page, the Toolbar will also offer Edit Page, and there might also be an Edit link somewhere on the page to take you there.

    4. Keep tabs on your Screen Options

    Screen Options live in a tab in the upper right corner of most pages and it makes visible the options you need on the page. They are crucial for Pages and Posts and should be set immediately after starting to build a new site .

    Check on them before using Posts, Pages, Menus, Widgets. For page lists, Screen Options allow you to set the number of items visible on a page.

    5. Don’t panic if you break your theme

    If you make a change in your theme’s code and are faced with the white screen of death with an error code, don’t freak out. Your data is safely stored in a wp_content folder

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