Your WordPress Theme governs the overall look and feel of your website – how it is diplayed to website visitors. Typically the website elements controlled by the Theme are fonts, header image, placement of text, colours (for example of headings and link texts), placement of widgets, and so on. When you set up your domain … More Advanced: Change your Website’s Theme
Key vocabulary used for this post Website: Generally this refers to the pages with content (text, images, social media icons, etc) which you place onto your domain, and which becomes the visible ‘website’ your visitors will see. Domain or Domain Name: The main/primary name of your website, which is part of the address visitors will … More How to Choose your Domain Name
This particular website has been written to help you create a (totally) FREE Website and/or Blog using WordPress.com. A free website through WordPress.com means your domain name will be free, and your website will be hosted for free by WordPress.com, but your website name will always include wordpress.com at the end, like this one: quickeasywebsite.wordpress.com … More Which is Better: a Free or Paid Website?
When you’re on a Site Page or Blog Post and have clicked Edit, hover over the space just above or below any paragraph block, where you would like the image to appear, and click on the little + in a circle (‘Add Block’). Choose Image when the sub-menu pops up, then click on Upload to … More How to Add an Image to a Page or Post
… and How to Add Pages if you Need to. When you first set up your free domain in WordPress (your domain is your website name like this one: quickeasywebsite.wordpress.com), WordPress will automatically add two default pages to your website. The pages will be named ‘Home’ and ‘Contact’, and you’ll be able to access and … More How Many Pages Should Your Website Have?
Before reading this post, make sure you’ve read the post on adding/editing Widgets. Once you’re familiar with WordPress widgets, we can turn our attention to adding a customized Image widget to encourage Facebook Page visits and Likes. Let’s add a customized Facebook Page widget. First choose a suitable image to use for your widget. I’ve … More Advanced: Customize an Image Widget for Facebook Page Likes
Widgets are those boxes or sections which usually appear to the right or bottom of some websites and are repeated, no matter which page or post you’re on. They’re useful for website visitors because they often include helpful information like quick links to blog posts, social media buttons, author profiles and so on. In my … More Advanced: Add or Edit Widgets
There may be times you want to add, within your content, a link to either an internal Page or Post on your website, or to an external website. As you probably know, if visitors click on blue/colour/underlined text which indicates a link, the link will take them to another page, post or website, such as … More Advanced: Add/Edit a Web Link
Once you’ve set up your Blog as a separate website page called “Blog” (see instructions here), you can add Blog Posts to your website. The Blog Posts will display on the Blog Page of your website, with the latest Blog Post on top. Visitors can also click on the title of any Blog Post (when … More Advanced: Add a New Blog Post
If you’ve gone to all the trouble of creating a great website, you need to ensure you and others can share your content via social media. WordPress will automatically include the following sharing buttons at the bottom of every Blog Post: Press This (WordPress) Twitter Facebook However you might want to edit these default settings. … More Advanced: Configure Sharing Buttons
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