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Word Press Sitemap Plug-in

Having a sitemap for your Wordpress blog is just as important as having one for your website in that it ‘maps’ your blog for the search engines making sure everything you want ‘crawled’ is seen. However, the installation is not the same. Placing a sitemap in your blog is accomplished by installing a plug-in, activating [...]

Word Press: Settings

Once you get your domain name, have your hosting set-up and have installed your Word Press theme of choice, you’ll want to configure the Word Press ’settings’ from the Dashboard. Different from plug-ins and widgets, post and pages . . . the settings allow you to set up your overall blog presentation depending on what [...]

Plugins & Widgets: What’s the Difference

Using Word Press makes building a blog or website very simple. However, you will want to make use of plug-ins and widgets to have a more interesting and interactive site. But, how do you know which one to use. . . and when to use it.

Plug-in vs Widget
Plug-in

A plug-in is a script that can be [...]

Akismet – What it is and how to use it

It seems everyone receives a mind-boggling amount of SPAM these days – and having a blog leaves you open to receiving even more. For your email account you set up filters to ’sort’ through the messages you receive. For your blog you install Akismet to help filter unwanted SPAM comments.

Akismet is a Word Press plug-in [...]