WordPress User Guide

How to instantly improve WordPress SEO using Permalinks

March 12, 2009 Wordpress

This short tutorial will show you how to clean up your WordPress URL’s from the default structure e.g. http://example.com/?p=123 to a more search engine friendly structure. This is a good thing, and Google will reward you for it. An introduction to Permalinks Permalinks are links to pages, or posts in a blog that point to [...]

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How to protect WordPress from comment spam

March 10, 2009 Wordpress

According to real statistics (no, not the made up statistics I usually talk about) Akismet has blocked 9,971,434,465 spam comments to date. Akis-what? Akismet, a nifty little plugin that ships with WordPress is “a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry [...]

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How to login to WordPress and customize your user settings

March 9, 2009 Wordpress

On your left you’ll see the beautifully styled, easy-to-manage WordPress login page. This is where it all starts for WP users. You’ll find the page at http://example.com/wp-login.php (obviously your blog’s name goes where the example.com bit is). The first time you login to WordPress your user name will be admin and your password will be [...]

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Welcome to the WP2.7 User Guide

March 3, 2009 Wordpress

A few people out there may be wondering why I’m creating a whole new user guide for WordPress when there’s already a very extensive one available on the WordPress.org website. Why bother? WordPress is massive. The more people it attracts, the bigger and better it will get. So my aim is to help new WordPress [...]

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The WordPress 2.7 User Guide

March 2, 2009 Wordpress

To celebrate finally writing my 100th post I’ve decided to spend some time going back to basics and posting some beginner articles for new WordPress users. And with the release of WP 2.7 there are a lot of outdated tutorials out there on the Interwebs. I know that some of my current readers are advanced [...]

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