Make Your Blog Come to Life
When you set up your WordPress blog, you select a Theme to control the look and feel of the site. WordPress themes create a sidebar (or two) on the right and/or left side of your screen. You can add further styling, information, and functionality to your site using Widgets.
WordPress Widgets are designed to provide a simple way to arrange the various elements of your sidebar content without having to change any code. The Widgets Panel explains how to use the various Widgets that come delivered with WordPress, and the Widgets page at Automattic explains how to ‘widgetize’ themes and plugins.
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Making your Blog Beautiful was Never So Easy
When you start writing articles on your WordPress blog, you’ll probably want to change it’s appearance. The look and feel of a WordPress blog are controlled by Themes. A WordPress theme is a collection of files that include PHP Pages, images, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and other files. These files create the pages that display the contents of your blog and apply styling and other functionality to the content.
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Publishing Articles in Your WordPress Installation
Now that you have your WordPress Blog installed and configured, you are ready to start writing and publishing articles. WordPress has a web-based interface that allows you to write, edit, and publish articles to your blog.
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What to do After You have Installed WordPress
After you install the WordPress software on your web server, there are some configuration steps that you need to take to set your blog up. This tutorial will walk you through some of the basic configuration steps that you should perform from the WordPress Dashboard.
The Dashboard is the web based Administration Console that allows you to control and configure settings for your WordPress blog.
You are going to need to configure the following things on your blog:
- Clean Up the Installation file from your server
- Create the Categories for to group your articles
- Create the Static Pages for your site
- Configure the basic Settings that control certain aspects of how your blog works
Let’s get started!
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