Archive for June, 2009
Adding and Removing Sidebar Navigation
June 6th, 2009 | 
Author: I received an e-mail last night from a client with 2 WP blog sites. She hasn’t started working on the second one yet, so she was really confused when she took a look at it and couldn’t figure out how to log in. I thought she meant that she had forgotten her log-in codes, so I sent them to her.
I think I might have been wrong, I took a look at her blog and I think I know what she meant. She didn’t have a link to her admin area on her site because the link to it (Meta)wasn’t in the sidebar of her second blog. Without it, she had to manually input the address in her browser.
Not all WP themes are designed with everything you might want in the sidebars, so you have to add or remove the widgets you need. Everyone with a blog will at some point want to know how to do this, so take some time and watch this video.
This tutorial shows you how to remove and add widget items to your sidebar. Take a look and then experiment yourself- you’ll be amazed at what you can add to improve the function of your site. There are hundreds of widgets for you to download at wordpress.org.
Tip – You can move the widgets up or down in the current widget list by single clicking on a widget and dragging it. Sometimes this works well, sometimes your widget disappears! Just relax, click Save Changes, and start over.
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Anti-SPAM Plug-in – Askimet
Once your blog is online, you will get lots of spam comments. To help deal with this, you need to activate the SPAM fighter, Askimet, a plugin installed by default in WordPress. I suggest you read the FAQ section http://akismet.com/faq/ to find out more.
In order to activate this plugin, you need a “WordPress API key”, a password/code to start using the plugin.The Askimet key is free, but you’ll need to sign up for a free account at WordPress.com to get it. Sign up for an account now.
NOTE: They will send you your API code in the welcome email from WordPress.com, scroll down, it’s near the bottom.
Once you have your Askimet key, take a look at this video to follow along and find out how easy it is to activate Askimet.
How to Password Protect your WP Blog Post
Watch this video and find out how.
How to Edit your first WordPress Post
I’ve created a little video to walk you through the steps. This video is slow moving at times because of the video creation software, but eventually it moves along.