WordPress Website Tutorial & Tips

There are so many themes out there for you to choose from but just making up your mind can consume an inordinate amount of time. The majority of them look really appealing but there are some issues to watch out for when deciding on the best free WordPress blog themes for your particular needs.

There are free WordPress themes (but free doesn’t always mean free) and there are premium WordPress themes (payment required).

I have used both types and definitely have a couple of recommendations that I can pass onto you. [Read more…]

 By default, WordPress offers a few avatars for you to choose from. When you fist start your site, you will see the usual Mystery Man avatar selected as your default.

This is not at all inviting and in fact gives the impression that the author of the content doesn’t want to be recognised. So this post addresses how to replace the WordPress avatar with your WordPress photo.

Change WordPress Avatar

So, you can instead:

• Choose a different avatar from those provided by WordPress.
• Create a custom avatar.
• There is even a WordPress avatar plugin that can help you with this.
• Replace the avatar with your own photo. [Read more…]

Part of your website housekeeping is that of making sure that you have backups just in case  something goes wrong, like a system failure or corrupt files or data loss or any number of other possibilities. It is always best to be safe now rather than sorry later.

A WordPress backup should be done on a regular basis and certainly every time you need to update WordPress to the latest version. (Make sure you do the backup before upgrading the WordPress version.) Once you get into the rhythm of doing your backups you will find it very straightforward. [Read more…]

You will eventually learn your way around the WordPress editor. However, it can save you a lot of time if someone points you in the right direction to start off with. Plus you might otherwise end up missing some nifty tools, in your rush to publish your next post. [Read more…]

By default, the date that a post has been published is usually displayed right under the title of the post as well as in the comments.

At first this might seem to be a really good idea but let’s examine why you might want to re-think this as an option. What happens when search engines display your listing in the search results?

That’s right, the publication date of your post is displayed before the description of your page content. The merits or otherwise of this fact are just a few of the issues to consider before deciding whether or not to display the date on your posts. [Read more…]