【WordPress一日通】WordPress-inOneDayTutorial

Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day Free Tutorial By Sarah McHarry Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial Page 1 ©2008 Sarah McHarry Table of Contents 1. Message From Sarah McHarry 3 2. Versions Of WordPress 4 3. Getting Started 5 4. WordPress Themes 7 5. Writing & Publishing Your Blog 10 Pages 10 Posts 11 About 13 Categories 14 Links 15 Comments & Spam 16 6. Adding Pictures To Your Blog 19 7. More Options With Posts 25 Tags 25 Timestamps 25 Post Slug 26 8. More Options With Pages 28 Page Order 28 Page Parent 28 Page Slug 28 9. Widgets 29 10. Users 31 11. Pingback & Trackback 33 12. RSS 34 13. Languages 35 14. Upgrading Your WordPress.com Blog 36 Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial Page 2 ©2008 Sarah McHarry Distribution This ebook is provided free of charge and you are welcome to freely give it away to others provided that you do not sell it or alter it in any way. Note to Users Throughout this tutorial ebook you will notice some ‘hot links’. This is text that is printed in blue. When you hover your mouse around this blue text you’ll see that the mouse cursor changes shape. This means that you’ve hit a hot link, and if you click on it while connected to the Internet you can visit the underlying site. If you get a message asking you to confirm, just click on ‘Allow’ and your browser will take you straight to the site. Hot links have been included to enhance your experience of this tutorial, so, even if you’ve printed it out and are reading it on paper, it might be useful to have the pdf version sitting on your computer so that you can click straight through to a hot link while using the tutorial. Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial 1. Message From Sarah McHarry Dear Fellow Blogger, This ebook is a comprehensive, hands-on guide on how to create a free WordPress.com blog. It is aimed at anyone, wherever they are and whoever they are, that wants to be one of the WordPress community but is starting out as a complete beginner. You do not need any money to begin building a free WordPress blog. What you do need is a clear and firm idea of what you want your blog to be about and you also need the motivation to keep it going. You don’t need to know anything about HTML, PHP, CSS, MySQL or FTP to start a WordPress blog. You don’t need to be a techie. WordPress is WYSIWYG: if you can use a word processor you can use WordPress. WordPress is a very comprehensive blogging platform and there’s a lot to learn. Many of the guides to blogging are written by geeks and steeped in jargon but that’s not what’s happening in this ebook! Building a free wordpress.com blog is, however, merely the first step. Think of this tutorial as the entry level of WordPress blogging. Serious bloggers, especially those who want to use a blog for business purposes, should really aspire to having a blog on their own domain. This is called a ‘self-hosted’ blog because you need to host it on a third-party web hosting account. When you’re ready to upgrade your WordPress blog to a self-hosted version on your own domain, I can help you with that, too. Please turn to the end of this ebook (or follow the blue hotlinks while online) for details of my ‘WordPress In 1 Day’ tutorial which is the natural progression for all serious WordPress bloggers. To your success! http://www.wordpressinoneday.com/ Page 3 ©2008 Sarah McHarry Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial Page 4 ©2008 Sarah McHarry 2. Versions Of WordPress We will start off by using the free version of WordPress at wordpress.com. This means that WordPress hosts your blog on its own computers. This is the ‘lite’ version of WordPress: fine for entry-level users and the platform of choice for many individual bloggers and non- commerical users. There is another level of WordPress at wordpress.org which you will need to use if you are a small (or big) business or if you want a blog for any sort of commerical purpose or if you simply want to build a fully-functioning blog that makes use of all the more advanced bells and whistles that wordpress.org provides for you. Under this option, you build a blog under your own domain and pay for your own hosting. This isn’t free, but it actually doesn’t cost a lot. If you want to go down this route, then please check out my ‘WordPress In 1 Day’ video tutorial which will teach you how to build a self-hosted WordPress blog. But, even if you do want to build a self-hosted blog and go for the more advanced option, you should start with this ebook to learn the basics as many of the steps to building a blog are the same. You should particularly start with this ebook if you are a newbie because the video tutorial will be getting into more advanced territory and you’ll find it easier if you’ve done the beginner’s bit first. OK, ready to go? Let’s rock and roll! Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial 3. Getting Started In this ebook I’m going to walk you through the steps you need to take to set up a free WordPress.com blog. Why WordPress? Well, because it’s the most powerful and flexible blogging platform that there is and it’s where the professionals hang out. OK, you may be an amateur, but you don’t want to look like a complete dummy, do you? Aim high and you’ll get a better blog. First thing to do is go to http://wordpress.com and click on ‘Sign Up Now!’ You’ll then see a screen that will prompt you to fill in:  Username  Password  Confirm  Email Address  Legal flotsam  Gimme a blog! This is mostly self-explanatory so go ahead and fill it in. If someone else has already got the username you want you’ll get an error message so you’ll have to choose another username. Then click on ‘Next’. Then you’ll be asked to fill in:  Blog Domain  Blog Title  Language  Privacy Your blog domain is important. By default, WordPress will enter your username in here, but you can change this now if you want. This is the domain address you will quote whenever Page 5 ©2008 Sarah McHarry Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial Page 6 ©2008 Sarah McHarry you want to tell anyone where to find your blog. So, if your username is ‘susiesoap’ but your blog is about your hobby of keeping fancy rats you might want to change your blog domain to ‘fancyrats’. That way it will be much more apparent to visitors who have no idea who Susie Soap is just what your blog is about. You can’t change this once it’s set up and, again, you’ll get an error message if someone else has already chosen that blog domain. Click the ‘Sign Up’ button and you’ve got a blog! WordPress will send an email to the address you entered on the first screen. This email is important and you may need the information in it at a later date, so please make sure to save this email and/or print it out so that you can find it later. There are now three ways to get into your blog and start blogging: 1. You can click on ‘write a post’ from the screen you just landed on 2. You can log in to http://wordpress.com again but this time enter your username and password under ‘Already hip?’ and you’ll be taken to your blog’s dashboard (which is where you start blogging). 3. You can go to http://{username}.wordpress.com/wp-admin and enter your username and password on the log-in screen. For example, my username is sarahmcharry and I can log in to update my blog at http://saramcharry.wordpress.com/wp-admin. It will be easier for you to get going if you bookmark your log-in screen right at the start. Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial 4. WordPress Themes Your website dashboard is where you start and you’ll find a link to this in the top menu bar of your blog: Click on ‘My Dashboard’ and you’ll see a screen like this: WordPress automatically creates the default blog design for you. If you click on the blue ‘Visit Site’ button at the top of the screen you’ll see your blog, which will probably look just like mine: Page 7 ©2008 Sarah McHarry Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial This is the famous ‘Kubrick’ theme and you’ll see it all over the blogosphere because it is so popular. There are many schools of thought about blog design and it is worth taking just a moment to explain what’s what. In the olden days (like in the 1990s) when blogging started, purists believed (as purists do) that the content of the blog was much more important than the blog design. Your message was worth much more than fancy graphics and stuff that decorated your blog and, basically, the plainer the better. Nothing should detract your visitor’s attention from your words of wisdom. And that’s still what a lot of people think. If you’re a purist, you can just stick with Kubrick and you’ll be in fine company. You can, if you must, change the background color and font of Kubrick’s header (Click on ‘Presentation’, then Options, Custom Image Header etc). But if you’re like me, you’ll probably want to have a fancier design. WordPress blog designs are called ‘themes’ and WordPress gives you a fantastic choice of themes to choose from. Now, just in case you’re thinking ‘Hey, isn’t this a bit early to be thinking about themes? Most tutorials would make you learn a bit more about WordPress first and get you on to themes much later’, well, I don’t see it that way. I want to take you through the process of building a blog in the order that you are most likely to want to do it. Most people, when they start off with a new blog, are too excited to take in too much detail right away: what they really want to know is ‘what is it going to look like?’ Only when they’ve made that decision can they concentrate on all the finer detail that will actually go into making up the blog. So, if you feel like that (and I expect you do), go ahead and choose a theme. But, if you’re happy with Kubrick for now, well, fine. You can always come back here and choose a theme later if you are happy to defer that gratification… To select a theme, go to your dashboard and click on the ‘Design’ tab. You’ll see the available themes in the lower part of your screen. Scroll around the page and you’ll see more themes if you click on the ‘next’ tabs at the bottom of the page. Page 8 ©2008 Sarah McHarry Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial If you click on a screenshot you’ll see a preview of what your blog would look like if you chose that theme. So go ahead, have a browse and find a theme that you like. When you’ve found a theme, click on ‘Activate…’ in the top right-hand corner and now click on ‘Visit Site’. Yeehaw – you’ve got yourself a theme! And if you don’t like it, just do it again (and again) until you’ve got what you like. Magic, ain’t it? Now, before you get carried away with the wonder of your theme, just bear in mind that not all themes support all blog features. You may find later that your chosen theme will not show something that you particularly want, so do keep in mind that you may want to change your theme to another one if this happens. But let’s not get too bogged down too soon. Now let’s start really building your blog! Page 9 ©2008 Sarah McHarry Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial 5. Writing & Publishing Your Blog There are certain features which are common to most blogs:  Pages  Posts  About  Categories  Blogroll  Comments Here I’ll deal with each of these features in order. Pages As I discussed earlier, pages are the static part of your blog and I advised you to plan these out so that you could, say, write one page a day until you’ve got them in place. One of the advantages of doing your work gradually like this is that it makes the blog look more ‘natural’, that is, something that you, the author, are lovingly creating over time and which holds out the promise of more to come. So, now go to your dashboard and click on the ‘Write’ tab, then click on ‘Page’. You’ll see boxes for ‘Title’ and ‘Page’. These are self-explanatory. Your page title should be a straightforward, brief summary of specifically what this page is about. If you want surfers to find your blog page it is much better to put in a title like ‘Cleaning Out My Rat’s Cage’ rather than ‘What I Did Today’. ‘Page Content’ is just that: whatever you want to say on this page. Select the ‘Visual’ tab and you can type the content straight in. Or, if there’s a lot of material, it might be easier to type it into NotePad on your computer first then copy and paste the text into your Page Content box. A page can be as long or as short as you like, but typically 200 – 300 words is just right. Page 10 ©2008 Sarah McHarry Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial Page 11 ©2008 Sarah McHarry You can see from the toolbar right above the text box that you’ve got some text formatting buttons you can use to do bold, italic, bullets, justification etc. This is pretty much like Microsoft Word© (or other word processors) so you can play around with the formatting until you’ve got it looking like you want. Your text can also embed links to other pages if you want, either on your own blog, or elsewhere on the Internet. Adding links is an important part of conveying your message and we’ll come to this later. And you can insert one or more images on a page. I’ll deal with uploading images in a later section because this is a topic all by itself. Just for now, just concentrate on getting your text up and you can come back and add your images and/or links later. You’ll notice that you have two buttons to the right of the text box: ‘Save’ and ‘Publish’. ‘Save’ lets you save what you’ve done so far but stay on the page to carry on writing. This is a good idea if you’ve got a lot to do and you don’t want to risk your computer going down. ‘Save’ saves your page as a draft which you can pick up to work on later. No-one gets to see your draft work until you hit ‘Publish’. ‘Publish’ makes your page live on your blog for the world to see. If you’ve published a page but you want to change it later, or add an image, you can edit it. We’ll come onto editing later. When you’ve published your page you’ll see its title somewhere on a sidebar or tab on your blog under ‘Pages’. And each page you create will be added to that list as your blog grows. Posts Post are the more transient part of your blog, usually the regular, maybe daily, chunks of text which contain your current news, views, tips, etc. which you choose to post to keep your blog looking up-to-date and alive. Each new post appears at the top of your screen, above the previous posts and visitors can scroll down to see older posts. When there are more posts than can fit on a page, the posts are archived so that they can be retrieved if someone wants to find them. Posts are actually the real point of blogging. Posts differentiate a blog from a website: posts are alive and ever-changing and provide an ongoing narrative of your life and work, on whatever your blog topic is. You can post as often as you like and your posts become the body of your blog – together with all the other components of your blog, your posts become your distinctive contribution to the blogosphere. When you first start your blog you’ll notice that WordPress has helpfully provided a ‘Hello World’ first post. When you view your site this is the first thing that will display. What you’ll want to do is edit this post so that it becomes an individual first message from you. I like my first post to be a ‘welcome to my blog’ type of post, so let’s go and edit that post. Go to ‘My Dashboard’, click on ‘Manage’, ‘Posts’. Click on ‘Hello world’ and you’ll get a screen just like the one you saw before: Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial You can now overwrite the Title and Post text and make this into your own welcome message. When you’ve done, click ‘Save’ and you’ve got your first post! And, incidentally, you just learned how to edit a post. To create a new post, click on ‘Write’, Write Post’ from the Dashboard and you’ll see a screen much like the one before. It looks and works in much the same way as writing a page, so go ahead and type in your new post. Again, choose ‘Save’ or ‘Publish’, as above. If you’ve followed me so far you’ll now have two posts up on your blog. About Many blog themes have an ‘About’ page. This is where you introduce yourself to your audience and tell them something about you, your background, your CV, what makes you special etc. And this is where you can have a picture or logo if you want. You don’t have to have an ‘About’ page if you prefer to remain anonymous, and you can use a nickname or pen name if you’d prefer not to identify yourself. Blog themes vary in the way they treat ‘About’ so you’ll need to do a bit of digging. This is where we’ll start exploring some of the many features behind the scenes of the WordPress platform. First of all, click on ‘Users’, ‘Your Profile’ and you’ll see something like this: Page 12 ©2008 Sarah McHarry Get Your FREE Butterfly Reports Account Now - http://ButterflyReports.com/axz/affiliate.php?id=11877 WordPress In 1 Day WordPress Tutorial ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This is your WordPress profile, some of which is private between you and WordPress (First name, Last name) and o