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WordPress – Delete Category ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about how to Delete Categories in WordPress. Following are the simple steps to delete categories in WordPress. Step (1) − Click on Posts → Categories in WordPress. Step (2) − You can delete Category1 (Category1 was created in the chapter WordPress – Add Category). When the cursor hovers on the Categories, a few options get displayed below the Category name. Click on Delete button as shown in the following screen. When you click on delete, you will get a pop message asking for confirmation to delete the particular category as shown in the following screenshot. You can click on OK button and delete the category permanently. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Optimization ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to Optimize WordPress site. Here are a few simple tips to optimize your WordPress site. Ensure high quality and meaningful content. Have the right names for images. Use short permalinks that contain keywords. Have optimized themes. Sitemap should be in XML format. Connect posts to social networks. Beware of black hat techniques. Delete your trash box. Keep Checking Your Site Statistics Keep checking your plugins. Use CSS and JavaScript effectively. Ensure High Quality and Meaningful Content Any page you create, the most important thing that matters is the content. You must have good content with keywords that can be helpful for users, not for the search engines. Content should be understandable and not complicated or difficult to read. Have the right names for images The names you choose for your images must be unique; consider choosing images keeping the user in mind. Use keywords that might be helpful for the users. Have some specific names for your images and don’t forget to add your alt tags and title tags to your images. For example − If your image is about Chocolate sundae Ice-cream then do not mention the name as DSC12346, instead put it as ‘Chocolate-sundae-High-street-restaurant-new-york.jpg’. This would be much easier to search. Use short permalinks that contain keywords The permalinks you use must be understandable. For example − Use http://www.mywebsite.com/tutorialspoint/telangana/ instead of http://www.mywebsite.com/page-id?5631456325 Have optimized themes Use those themes that are fast and are optimized for WordPress so that when applied to a website, it must not have low speed. Sitemap should be in XML format Google has many tools that can be useful. Tools like Website Optimizer, Webmaster Central, and Google XML sitemaps are very easy to use. Connect posts to social media Social media is a very important aspect today. So have them connected to your blog posts, pages, etc., to have good ranks and popularity. Help promote others posts and pages too and they will do the same in return. Beware of black hat techniques Don’t trick Google as it finds you in no time. Don’t put yourself in trouble and create problems for your site by using black hat techniques. Be sure to use genuine SEO techniques. Delete your trash box Always consider clearing your trash for more speed and to have a good flow with your website. Keep checking your site statistics Size of page matters a lot. The more images, flash, videos or media related posts on your page, the more it would be slower to load. Yslowi> module plugin is recommended to help you get a faster page browsing. Check plugins Having many plugins in WordPress may also be the reason for your page to slow load. So keep a check on your plugins which you’re working on. Consider checking your plugins before you add them. Use CSS and JavaScript effectively Always keep your CSS at the upper side of the page and JavaScript at the bottom. Let CSS load first and then JavaScript. Here is a plugin that will help you get your JavaScript’s at the bottom of the page. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Plugin Setting ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to use plugins in your WordPress site. Plugin allows to easily modify, customize or enhance WordPress blog or post. The WordPress Plugin is a software that can be uploaded to expand the functionality of the site. They add services or features to WordPress blog. Plugins are used to make your work easier. Following are the simple steps to add plugins. Step (1) − On the left side bar, Click on Plugins → Installed Plugins as shown in the screen. Step (2) − The following page appears. In this section, you can view the already installed plugins. Step (3) − Click on → Plugins → Add New menu as shown in the following screen. Step (4) − A list of plugins appears that are used in WordPress. Here you can directly install plugins from the available list or you can upload it by clicking on Upload Plugin. When you click on Upload Plugin you”ll get the following page. Click on Browse, it goes back to the page where you can select plugins from WordPress site. And if you click on Choose File, you can add files from your system. Otherwise, you can directly choose the plugin that you need and click on Install now as seen in the following screenshot. When you click on Install Now, the package starts to download and gets installed. Then, click on Activate plugin to active that plugin to use in WordPress as seen in the following screen. After clicking on Activate Plugin you”ll get a message as Plugin activated and you can also find the installed plugin in the list. Below the plugin activated message, you can view few options such as All, Active, Inactive and Update available. When you click on Active the following page appears. Here you can view all the activated plugins. When we click on Inactive, the plugins which are available but are not activated gets displayed. You can activate this plugin by clicking on Activate. When you click on Update available, you”ll get a list of plugins that must be updated. Click on Update and you get a message as Updated. Click on Bulk Actions and select any of the options. Click on Apply button to update, delete, activate or deactivate each of the plugins by checking the boxes. In Search Installed Plugins you can just type your plugin name in the text box that is already installed and click on the Search Installed Plugins button. When you click on the Search installed Plugin button you get the following page with your respective plugin. Step (5) − Click on Plugins → Editor from the side bar. Step (6) − The following page gets displayed. This page lets you edit your plugins. A few options are explained. Select plugin to edit − Allows you to select a plugin from the dropdown and edit it. Documentation − Allows you to select the tools from the dropdown to edit the plugin. Plugin files − Allows you to select files from the list and edit accordingly. Finally, after editing the plugin files, click on Update file. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Quick Guide ”; Previous Next WordPress – Overview WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which allows the users to build dynamic websites and blogs. WordPress is the most popular blogging system on the web and allows updating, customizing and managing the website from its back-end CMS and components. What is Content Management System (CMS)? The Content Management System (CMS) is a software which stores all the data such as text, photos, music, documents, etc. and is made available on your website. It helps in editing, publishing and modifying the content of the website. WordPress was initially released on 27th May, 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. WordPress was announced as open source in October 2009. Features User Management − It allows managing the user information such as changing the role of the users to (subscriber, contributor, author, editor or administrator), create or delete the user, change the password and user information. The main role of the user manager is Authentication. Media Management − It is the tool for managing the media files and folder, in which you can easily upload, organize and manage the media files on your website. Theme System − It allows modifying the site view and functionality. It includes images, stylesheet, template files and custom pages. Extend with Plugins − Several plugins are available which provides custom functions and features according to the users need. Search Engine Optimization − It provides several search engine optimization (SEO) tools which makes on-site SEO simple. Multilingual − It allows translating the entire content into the language preferred by the user. Importers − It allows importing data in the form of posts. It imports custom files, comments, post pages and tags. Advantages It is an open source platform and available for free. CSS files can be modified according to the design as per users need. There are many plugins and templates available for free. Users can customize the various plugins as per their need. It is very easy to edit the content as it uses WYSIWYG editor (What You See Is What You Get is a user interface that allows the user to directly manipulate the layout of document without having a layout command). Media files can be uploaded easily and quickly. It offers several SEO tools which makes on-site SEO simple. Customization is easy according to the user”s needs. It allows creating different roles for users for website such as admin, author, editor and contributor. Disadvantages Using several plugins can make the website heavy to load and run. PHP knowledge is required to make modifications or changes in the WordPress website. Sometimes software needs to be updated to keep the WordPress up-to-date with the current browsers and mobile devices. Updating WordPress version leads to loss of data, so a backup copy of the website is required. Modifying and formatting the graphic images and tables is difficult. WordPress – Installation System Requirements for WordPress Database − MySQL 5.0 &plus; Web Server − WAMP (Windows) LAMP (Linux) XAMP (Multi-platform) MAMP (Macintosh) Operating System − Cross-platform Browser Support − IE (Internet Explorer 8&plus;), Firefox, Google chrome, Safari, Opera PHP Compatibility − PHP 5.2&plus; Download WordPress When you open the link https://wordpress.org/download/, you will get to see a screen as the following snapshot − Create Store Database WordPress requires MySQL database. So create a new empty database with user/password (for example, user as “root” and password as “root” or else you can set as per your convenience). Then, you can continue with the installation process as discussed further. Set Up Wizard It”s very easy to set up WordPress into your system. The following steps describe how to set up WordPress locally on your system. Step (1) − Extract the downloaded WordPress folder and upload it into your web server or localhost. Step (2) − Open your browser and navigate to your WordPress file path, then you will get the first screen of the WordPress installer as shown in the following screen. In our case, the path is localhost/< Your_wordpress_folder >. Select your language for the WordPress and click on Continue. Step (3) − In this step, you can view the information needed for the database before proceeding with WordPress installation. Click on Let”s go! Step (4) − Here, you have to enter the information about the MySQL database as described in the following screen. Database Name − Enter the database name which you have created in MySQL database for WordPress. Username − Enter the user name of your MySQL database. Password − Enter the password which you had set for MySQL database. Database Host − Write the host name, by default it will be localhost. Table Prefix − It is used to add prefix in the database tables which helps to run multiple sites on the same database. It takes the default value. After filling all information, click on Submit button. Step (5) − WordPress checks the database setting and gives you the confirmation screen as shown in the following snapshot. Click on Run the install Step (6) − Enter administrative information. It contains the following fields − Site Title − Enter the name of the site which you are going to create in WordPress. Username − Enter the username as per your choice while logging in the WordPress. Password twice − Enter password two times to protect your site. Your E-mail − Enter your e-mail address which helps to recover the password or any update. Privacy − It allows the search engine to index this site after checking the checkbox. After filling all the information, click on the Install WordPress button. Step (7) − After installation being successful, you will get a screen of the stating success as seen in the following screen. You can view your username and password detail added in WordPress. Click on Log In button. Step (8) − After clicking on login, you will get a WordPress Admin Panel as depicted in the following screen. Enter the username and

WordPress – Delete Tags ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will learn to Delete tags in WordPress. Following are the steps to delete tags in WordPress. Step (1) − Click on Posts → Tags in WordPress. Step (2) − You can delete tag Food around the world (Food around the world was created in the chapter WordPress – Add Tags), when the cursor hovers on the Tags, then a few options get displayed below the Tags name. Click on Delete in tags section as shown in the following screen. When you click on delete, you will get a pop message asking for confirmation to delete. You can click on OK button and delete the tag permanently. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Add Links ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will learn to Add Links in WordPress pages. Link is a connection from one resource to another. Adding links to your pages or blog posts help you to connect to other pages. Following are the simple steps to Add links in WordPress. Step (1) − Click on Pages → All Pages in WordPress. Step (2) − List of pages created in WordPress will get displayed as shown in the following screen. Select any of the pages to add links inside it. Here, we are going to add links in About Us page. Step (3) − Select any of the sentence or word where you want to add link. Here, we will add link to the word Lorem. Step (4) − When you click on the Insert/Edit link symbol then the following pop window gets displayed. Following are the fields present in the Insert/edit link. URL − Enter URL you want to link. Link text − Insert text you want to enter into the link. Open link in a new window/tab − Open your link page into the new tab or window. Check the box as required. Or link to existing account − Add links to an existing content page by selecting the page from the given list. Click on Or link to existing account and the list of pages and posts gets displayed as shown in the following screen. After selecting the particular page or post from the list, the links get created in the URL field as seen in the preceding screen. Click on Add Link. Step (5) − When you hover on the word Lorem then the link tooltip gets displayed as shown in the following screen. Click on Update button to update the changes in your page or post. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Edit Users ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to Edit Users in WordPress. Following are the simple steps to Edit Users in WordPress. Step (1) − Click on Users → All Users. Step (2) − You will see a list of users. There are two more tabs seen on the toolbar − Administrator − List of administrators will be displayed. Subscriber − List of subscribers will be displayed. When we click on the Change role to box, a dropdown list appears as seen in the preceding screenshot. Subscriber − A person who can only manage his profile. Contributor − A person who can write and supervise own posts, but cannot publish them. Author − A person who can publish and manage his own posts. Editor − A person who can publish and manage posts, including the posts of other users. Administrator − A person who has access to all the administration features within a single website. Click on the check box of the user name to change the role of the user. Then, click on change button and the user”s role will be changed accordingly. Step (3) − Click on Edit option as shown in the following screen to edit the user. Step (4) − The Edit User page is displayed. Here you can edit or modify all the fields as per your need and click on Update User to save the changes. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Background ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about background images, background colors and background opacity. Step (1) − Click on Appearance → Background. Step (2) − The following page appears where the Background Image section shows up. Step (3) − There’s no image selected for background. If you want to do so, then click on Select Image. You get the following page. Here you can upload images using two options. Upload Files Media Library Step (4) − Upload Files − When you click on Upload files the following screen is displayed. Select files from your desktop and then click on Choose Image if satisfied with the image. Step (5) − Media Library − When you click on Media Library the following page appears. Select files from the WordPress media library, which means, if you already have images updated then you can select any of them directly. After selecting an image, on the right side you will get a few options − Edit Image − When you click on this you are taken to another page where you can edit the scale image, dimensions, crop image, and thumbnail settings, etc. As shown in the following image, make the required changes, click on Save and then click on Update. Delete Permanently − If you want your image off the library then click on this button. URL − Enter your image URL into this box. Title − If you want to make any changes in the title of the image you can do it right here. Caption − You can explain briefly about your image in this section. Alt text − Give an alternative text to your image so that it is easily available for the users during search. Description − A little description about your image. Step (6) − Click on Colors → Background Color on the same page. Change your background color accordingly. Background Opacity is not used for all themes. Theme customization is not same for every theme we use. It changes from theme to theme. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Theme Management ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will learn about Theme management. It includes image files, templates, CSS stylesheets, etc. that can help to make your website look great. This chapter discusses how to install, add new, or customize themes in WordPress. Following are the steps for Theme Management. Step (1) − Select Appearance → Themes from the dashboard. Step (2) − The following screen will be displayed. Hover over any theme and click on Theme Details. Step (3) − When you click on Theme Detail the following page appears. It consists of details related to the theme. Details like version, description, tags etc. If you want to add this theme to your page/website then click on Activate, and if you want to just check the theme, then click on Live preview. If you click on activate then you get a pop-up message as − Step (4) − Click on Customize. Step (5) − On the left side of the page, you can customize your theme. Any changes you make or anything new you add is displayed on the right side of the page. We will learn about customizing the appearance of the themes in the next chapter i.e.; WordPress Customize Theme. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Delete Links ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will learn to Delete links from WordPress. You can remove the unwanted links which you don’t need for your website or article. Following are the steps to Delete Links in WordPress Step (1) − Click on Pages → All Pages in WordPress. Step (2) − You can view the list of pages. When the cursor hovers on the About Us page, then a few options gets displayed. Click on the Edit button as shown in the following screen. Step (3) − Select the word which you had already linked i.e. Lorem (Link for word Lorem was created in the chapter WordPress – Add Links), and click on the Remove Link Symbol as seen in the following screen. Step (4) − When you hover on the word Lorem, there will be no tooltip of the existing URL. The following screenshot shows that the link has been deleted. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;