Linkspam can kill you

You all know what linkspam is. Originally it appeared in internet guestbooks, where spammers would repeatedly fill a guestbook with links to their own site and no relevant comment. If an actual comment was given it was often just “cool page”, “nice website”, or keywords of the spammed link. (That’s just one of the reasons [...]

Static Page versus Blog Page

Q : Is a static page better than a blog page? A : Depends on the blog! Some blogs use a static page as the opening to their site, a welcome page to express the overall contents and direction. A summary of what’s inside. The feel of the place. Others will use blog posts to [...]

Links in WordPress

Your Links are called Links in the dashboard.Go and have a look. However, when you open that Link link, you find that the links are in a category called Blogroll (blame the American dialect). Let’s change that. Open up the dropdown box and you find Link Categories Create a category for your links so that [...]

Parent and Child Categories

To create Categories, go to your dashboard Posts – Categories When you open the categories link you can see where to add a new category – and if you want to make a ‘child’ category. Let’s have a look at a working WordPress with a screenshot of the categories page on Granny’s website Look at [...]

Categories and Tags

Categories are your Filing Cabinets. Tags are labels for a category. Allocating a category, or multiple relevant categories, to a post is just like having a filing cabinet in your office with different sections for different types of paperwork. It’s a way to help visitors find what they’re looking for fast – and online, everyone’s [...]

Widgets

Widgets can do all sorts of things but most importantly they’re the thingamy-bobs that show the navigation on your site. Drag the widgets across to the place you want to drop them and they will show up on every page on your site. All themes in WordPress have different setups for the widgets but they [...]

Pages, Posts and Categories

WordPress is a fabulous, lightweight programme and, once you get the hang of it, you will be updating your site while you sleep. It’s easy enough to learn, two or three lessons and you’re practically a pro. A week of playing with your site and you are a pro. Pages and Posts The hardest thing [...]