Everytime you install WordPress there are a few things that you should do right away before you do anything else. This video will cover these things starting from the top of the dashboard navigation and working our way down. In the Posts section, remove the “Hello, World” post. It’s really easy to forget it’s there and without question, some visitor is going to find it and be confused. Just get rid of it. Now move to the Links section and click on All Links. Click the box to select all links and then, under bulk actions, choose to delete the links and then apply. After all, it doesn’t make sense to have links on your site that have nothing to do with you. Next move to the pages section and delete the sample page that comes automatically with WordPress. The final section this video covers is plugins. WordPress comes with two plugins pre-installed. Akismet is an excellent spam prevention program that helps minimize spam comments on your site. Unfortunately, Akismet has a monthly charge associated with it and there are some free options that are pretty much just as effective. Therefore, you can safely remove Akismet. You can always add it back later if you choose to. Hello Dolly is the very first plugin ever created for WordPress and is only included for the sake of nostalgia. It’s only function is to add a line from the song Hello Dolly to your dashboard. In other words, it has absolutely no value. You should definitely delete it. There are also beginning steps that you …
As simple as it may sound, if you’re new to WordPress, and you forget to bookmark your login screen, it can be pretty easy to forget where you log in. One of the easiest ways to log in is to open the email you received when you first installed WordPress and click the link which will take you to the login screen. The other option is to enter the address directly. The format is your domain/wp-admin. So if your domain is robotgears.net, you would type in www.robotgears.net/wp-admin. If you installed WordPress in a sub-directory, you’ll need to include that. For instance, if you installed it in a folder entitled blog, you would type in www.robotgears.net/blog/wp-admin. Once you’re on the login screen, make sure you save as a favorite! Thanks for watching this WordPress how to video! Whether you are just getting started with WordPress or you’re an experienced user, please consider joining the community at Learn How To WordPress…because sometimes we all need a helping hand.
Welcome to Project WordPress and thank you for taking the time to watch this video. We’ve asked you to watch it because we believe it will help you to have a better experience while using Project WordPress. First things first, yes…we have a lot of videos, but don’t let that overwhelm you. Most are quite short and, if you just watch the videos in Start Here and The Essentials you will learn everything you need to setup and run a WordPress website or blog. Going Deeper and Extra Stuff are primarily for people that are really serious about their WordPress site and either want to make money from it, or at least drive a substantial amount of traffic to it. So start with Start Here and The Essentials and then dip into the other areas as needed. Your first time through we recommend that you ignore the search area and use the apples to go through each section. This is the best way to learn all of the essentials of WordPress and this website. Later, when you need to refresh your memory about something you learned, you can use the convenient search box to find the tutorial you are looking for, or you can use the lists under the apples to find the topic you are looking for. When you’re on a tutorial page like this one, you can either view the video inline, watch it in full screen, or click the title to be taken to that videos page which will provide you with a larger inline player, as well as a transcript of the video and a list of resources mentioned in the video. As you go …
Create SEO Friendly Slugs In WordPress Super Fast (see full tutorial here: teachyourselfwebsites.com There’s a lot of moving parts to SEO and especially when it comes to optimizing WordPress for SEO. We’ve filmed numerous videos on the topic already, but there always seems to be more to cover. One of those things is optimizing your URLs which is something that is vitally important, yet many of the existing one-size-fits-all type SEO plugins for WordPress miss.
