Using WordPress Tutorial Series

One of the many reasons to use WordPress for your website is because it makes it easy to update your site and publish fresh new content.

This page contains articles from my Using WordPress tutorial series. This series covers topics for beginners showing visual examples of how to use WordPress to manage and update the content on your website.

How to Keep Your WordPress Blog Secure

January 25, 2011
WordPress Security

Last week one of my readers asked a very good question: “Is there anything in particular you recommend to secure a WordPress website? In talking to a tech at my hosting provider, he recommended adding security plugin. Is that something you recommend? Should I worry about security?” WordPress security can be a deep and technical [...]

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Online WordPress Training – How To Create WordPress Websites

October 8, 2010
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I‘m excited to announce our second Creating and Customizing Your WordPress Website online training course, starting Thursday October 28. The first one was held in May of this year, and was a huge success. Here are just a few quotes from our students: “Don and the Expand2Web team are, in my opinion, the most credible [...]

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Creating Roles & Capabilities for Your WordPress Site

October 5, 2010

If you need help learning how to delegate business tasks, WordPress makes it easy for you to assign roles to your team or employees so you can delegate your own content management. There are 5 roles that you can assign and each one has a certain level of capabilities. Here’s a quick rundown of the [...]

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Back Up Your WordPress Website or Blog: What Are You Missing?

September 6, 2010
WordPress Backups

You are backing up your self-hosted WordPress blog, aren’t you? Well, if not, you’re not alone. Most people I’ve surveyed are not backing up their WordPress site. That’s because up until recently, there haven’t been many good solutions for it. But it is super important to have these backups. And you can’t rely on your [...]

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WordPress 3.0 – Custom Navigation Menus Video

August 6, 2010

One of the coolest new features in WordPress 3.0 is the custom navigation menus built into the WordPress core. Here’s a video that shows you how to use them to customize your navigation. The new Menus section under Appearance allows you to create custom menus, and do all kinds of neat customization: Omit pages from [...]

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Verify Your WordPress Website in Google Webmaster Tools

February 3, 2010
Google Webmaster Tools = Swiss Army Knife for your WordPress Website!

Google Webmaster Tools is one of the most powerful free toolkits at your disposal for making sure Google can crawl your website properly. In order to use Google Webmaster tools for your website, you need to verify it with Google to prove that you own the website. There are two ways to do this: Uploading [...]

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How to Add an Image to Your WordPress Sidebar

January 21, 2010

Here is something I get asked a lot – how can I add an image to my WordPress sidebar? This video shows you how: In the video, I’ll show you how to upload the widget using the WordPress Media Library, grab the URL for the uploaded image, and then use a WordPress Text Widget to [...]

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What I Learned Upgrading to WordPress 2.9

December 22, 2009

WordPress 2.9 was released a couple of days ago. I read about all the cool new features and said to myself – “hey, I need that version!” so I used my favorite WordPress Automatic Upgrade plug-in to upgrade my primary blog to WP 2.9. I got almost all the way to the end of the [...]

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Backing Up Your WordPress Database with the WP-DB-Backup Plugin

October 8, 2009

One of the most essential functions in keeping a smoothly-running website is to make sure you always have a current backup. In a perfect world, disaster recovery would never be necessary, but in reality, server crashes do sometimes happen. Particularly for small businesses, it’s vital to make sure that you always have a way to restore [...]

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The Tag Cloud widget – your obsessions made text

October 6, 2009
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The Tag Cloud widget gives your readers an at a glance view of your most commonly used (and less used) tags. A tag cloud is really a way to show your users what tags (or topics) you write most about and display the tags in a manner that is more visual than pure textual. Here [...]

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