Category: WordPress

You may wish to have others collaborate on your WordPress site. You can grant access to the site by creating a user profile for each collaborator. The steps are as follows: 3. Click “Add New User.” 4. Fill out their profile information: 5. Select the appropriate Role from the dropdown menu. WordPress user roles include:…

Default Plugins The CreateFSU template has pre-loaded plugins that help to make your site more secure. Some plugins are required to be installed and active at all times, where others are optional, but recommended. The optional plugins are installed, but not activated or configured on installation. Read on to learn more about the plugins that…

Pages, Posts, and Media The three main types of content on WordPress: posts, pages, and media. Media is any image, video, or audio file you want to store on your site. Posts and pages may seem similar at first, but they do have a few key differences. Pages are meant to be static pieces of…

SPAM! Everyone hates it in their email. If you’re new to WordPress and blogging platforms, spam exists in the form of comment spam – people (or vermin) leave comments promoting their services or schemes, on a post or page. So how do you deal with comment spam when it can come in even more often…

What makes WordPress a powerful platform is that not only can you create a dynamic website, but you can also allow dynamic discussions about the content with your visitors. Comments, the bread and butter of the discussion, can add to the overhead of your website management. You have to keep up with responses to your…

WordPress is a platform intended to allow you to share your thoughts and ideas freely and easily with the world. However, there are options to publish to a more limited audience. The first way is to limit who can find your website. That is done by keeping search engines, like Google, from seeing (known as…

WordPress has a lot of functionality built-in, but occasionally you might find a specific need that isn’t a part of the default software. To accomplish this, WordPress has a plugin architecture where developers can create plugins that add additional functionality to your site. From simple photo galleries to site statistics, to automatic Twitter and Facebook…

When it comes to WordPress, customizing the look of your site is simple and straightforward. When you install WordPress, the default (or pre-set) theme is called Twenty Twenty-Three (as of WordPress version 6.2). It is a very customizable theme. You can find general information about Twenty Twenty-Three here. In addition to Twenty Twenty-Three, you’ll have other themes…

If you are using your WordPress, you can also get an export of your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. The WordPress export is great for grabbing the content of your WordPress site so that you can import it into another WordPress host, such as WordPress.com or WordPress.org. Note: Exports do not include plug-ins,…