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Have no idea Where To Start With Wordpress? These Pointer Can Help! Have you heard about WordPress? This popular blogging tool is used by thousands of bloggers around the world. If you would like to start your own blog, WordPress can offer you all of the features that you need to get going right away. Keep reading for more information about this program. If you plan to start a Wordpress blog, make sure that you offer readers more than just content. Even if you say many useful things, it may be quite difficult to engage readers with text. It would be a great idea to implement videos and pictures since this is a great attention grabber. Check out add-ons to find simple tools which will make your site or blog better. For example, you could add a calendar to your side menu bar in order to share events which would be interesting to your readers. You can also find many great add-ons which provide control for advertising, turning your site into a revenue maker. If you don't like your theme, change it! There are thousands of free themes available online which allow you to quickly and easily change the look of your site without having to know much about HTML coding. Be sure to choose themes from reputable sites to ensure they don't affect the security of your software. Make the most of your titles and your descriptions. Any time you share posts on social media sites a description and title may be required. These are important in terms of good search engine optimization, so don't just toss out titles and descriptions in a random fashion. Give it some thought and optimize with good keywords. It's easy to incorporate videos on your blog with WordPress. It may take more effort, but it's worth it. Video blogs are perfect for Internet users who are visual. Videos can sometimes express more than written words, which can make them very powerful. Don't use "admin" as a username. When you are showing as "admin", your site has a higher chance of being targeted by bots. Then, your entire site is at risk. Look at your users page and delete any usernames that are "admin" or "administrator". Select a different user name. Make a schedule when you wish to start posting. If you know when you have to post, you'll be more motivated to get it done. You can actually make all of your posts for a week in one day. You can then schedule it so WordPress will upload some of these posts at a later date.

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Have no idea Where To Start With Wordpress? These PointerCan Help!

Have you heard about WordPress? This popular blogging tool is used by thousands of bloggersaround the world. If you would like to start your own blog, WordPress can offer you all of thefeatures that you need to get going right away. Keep reading for more information about thisprogram.

If you plan to start a Wordpress blog, make sure that you offer readers more than just content. Evenif you say many useful things, it may be quite difficult to engage readers with text. It would be agreat idea to implement videos and pictures since this is a great attention grabber.

Check out add-ons to find simple tools which will make your site or blog better. For example, youcould add a calendar to your side menu bar in order to share events which would be interesting toyour readers. You can also find many great add-ons which provide control for advertising, turningyour site into a revenue maker.

If you don't like your theme, change it! There are thousands of free themes available online whichallow you to quickly and easily change the look of your site without having to know much aboutHTML coding. Be sure to choose themes from reputable sites to ensure they don't affect the securityof your software.

Make the most of your titles and your descriptions. Any time you share posts on social media sites adescription and title may be required. These are important in terms of good search engineoptimization, so don't just toss out titles and descriptions in a random fashion. Give it some thoughtand optimize with good keywords.

It's easy to incorporate videos on your blog with WordPress. It may take more effort, but it's worthit. Video blogs are perfect for Internet users who are visual. Videos can sometimes express morethan written words, which can make them very powerful.

Don't use "admin" as a username. When you are showing as "admin", your site has a higher chanceof being targeted by bots. Then, your entire site is at risk. Look at your users page and delete anyusernames that are "admin" or "administrator". Select a different user name.

Make a schedule when you wish to start posting. If you know when you have to post, you'll be moremotivated to get it done. You can actually make all of your posts for a week in one day. You can thenschedule it so WordPress will upload some of these posts at a later date.

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Keep close track of visitors to your blog. Thisis the only way you will be able to improve itto please your reader more. Free WordPressbloggers can use Jetpack stats to do this. Bothfree and paid bloggers can use GoogleAnalytics. Be sure to make good use of bothservices if you can because they offer slightlydifferent advantages.

If you are new to WordPress, explore thedashboard of your WordPress installationasap. It may feel daunting the first time you

see that dashboard, but with just a little time you'll get it down. Don't be afraid to type in a few testposts and pages to see how things work.

If you need to work on your site, be sure to turn on a maintenance mode so that visitors aren'tsurprised with the current state of your website. There are lots of maintenance mode plugins outthere. And best of all, they are typically free. It's a quick button push to toggle maintenance mode onand off.

Get to know your Wordpress WYSIWYG editor. When you write a web site new post, you'll see asmall bar that goes across the text input area. This is your WYSIWYG editor - meaning whatever youpush will happen to whatever text you have highlighted. If you choose bold in the editor, the text youhave chosen will become bold. It's similar to using Microsoft Word.

Tired of WordPress clutter? Look at the page and turn off a few of the boxes. Justhttp://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/ go to SCREEN OPTIONS in the upper portion of the window.Click that link to get a menu which helps you control which boxes appear.

If your WordPress site is running rather slowly, consider adding in a caching plugin. These pluginsspeed up page loads by caching pages that are rarely changed. This means that your site canincrease in speed by 20% to 30% just with the plugin installed. There are a few different options, butW3 Total Cache is very popular.

Don't use the drop-down header menu. Try using hotkeys. Press Ctrl and single number from one tosix for several options. This can save time if you frequently use headers.

Give various blog authoring tools a try. Is the WordPress dashboard unappealing to you? You maywant to consider Windows Live Writer. In fact, there are quite a few tools out there that can helpyou post in a more efficient manner. Give some of them a whirl, and discover the one that is mostsuitable for your needs.

Be sure to use a robust spam plug-in to filter out spam and bad content. People with ill-intentionsare always looking for ways to spam a blog for link building purposes. This kind of spam will create abad impression on your blog because your legitimate readers will think that your blog has securityissues.

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Want to create a new link in your post? There is no need to click the link icon any longer. Use ctrl-shift-A instead to start the link creation process using the keyboard and not the mouse. When youcreate many links within your content, this can shave time off the creation process.

When you are designing your Wordpress site, it is a good idea to take out any display of the word"Wordpress" in the footer area or in the header of your code. A lot of bad web bots troll the web forWordpress blogs and find security holes. If you remove the word "Wordpress" from your site, youhave another layer of defense against these bots.

As you can see, using WordPress is easy and very beneficial to you as a blogger. There is so muchyou can do with your blogs that you never thought possible before. Now that you know more aboutusing the popular blogging website, put your knowledge to use and start blogging.