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 [...]
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 [...]

