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WordPress – Add Category ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about how to Add Categories in WordPress. Category is used to indicate sections of your site and group related posts. It sorts the group content into different sections. It is a very convenient way to organize the posts. To access the Category section, follows the mentioned steps − Step (1) − Click on Posts → Categories option in WordPress. Step (2) − The Categories page is displayed as shown in the following screenshot. Following are the details of the fields on Categories. Name − Enter the unique name of categories. Slug − A word chosen to describe your post. It is specified in the tags URL. Parent − By selecting the parent category from dropdown, you can set the particular category as sub-category or can keep it as None. Description − Add brief description of your category. It is optional. Step (3) − After filling all the information about Categories, click on Add New Category button. Step (4) − After clicking on Add New Category, the new created category will get displayed on the right side of the page as shown in the following screen. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Arrange Categories ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about how to Arrange Categories in WordPress. You can”t arrange categories directly in WordPress. Hence, you will need to install Category Order plugin to arrange the created categories in a particular way. Step (1) − Click on Posts → Category Order in WordPress. The Category Order menu displays after adding the Category Order plugin. You can study how to install plugins in the chapter Install Plugins. Step (2) − In the following screen, you can see that the create categories section are not in order. Step (3) − Now, you can rearrange your categories by just dragging the categories as per your choice. Click on Order categories button to save the ordered categories. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Publish Posts ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to Publish Posts in WordPress. Publish is used to make the post available to all the users wherein every user can view that particular post. Publishing a new post in WordPress is an easy process. Following are the steps to Publish Posts in WordPress. Step (1) − Click on Posts → Add New in WordPress. Step (2) − You will get the editor page of the Post as shown in the following screenshot. You can use the WordPress WYSIWYG editor to add the actual content of your post. Step (3) − Click on Publish button to publish your respective post. After clicking on publish, your posts get published for the user to view it. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Preview Posts ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to Preview Posts in WordPress. Preview Post is to view the post before it is published to the user. It is safer to preview your post and verify how your post looks on the website. You can edit or change the post as per your need after previewing. Following are the simple steps to Preview Posts in WordPress. Step (1) − Click on Posts → All Posts in wordPress. Step (2) − You can view Post1 (Post1 was created in the chapter WordPress – Add Posts). When the cursor hovers on the Post, then a few options get displayed below the Post name. Click on the View option as shown in the following screenshot. Or else you can view your post directly while editing or adding post by clicking on the Preview button as shown in the following screen. Step (3) − You can view your post, when you click on View or Preview. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Delete Posts ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to Delete Posts in WordPress. Following are the steps to Delete Posts in WordPress. Step (1) − Click on Posts → All Post in WordPress. Step (2) − You can delete Post1 (Post1 was created in the chapter WordPress – Add Posts). When the cursor hovers on the Post, then a few options get displayed below Post1. Click on Trash option to delete the post. Step (3) − You can view your post lists to confirm if the above post is deleted. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Publish Pages ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to Publish Pages in WordPress. The command, “Publish” is used to make the pages available to all users wherein each user can view that particular page. Publishing a new page in WordPress is an easy process. Following are the steps to Publish Pages in WordPress. Step (1) − Click on Pages → Add New in WordPress. Step (2) − You will get the editor as shown in the following screenshot. You can use the WordPress WYSIWYG editor to add the actual content of your page. Step (3) − Click on Publish button as shown in the following screen. After clicking on publish, your posts get published for the user to view it. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Media Library ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will learn about Media Library in WordPress. Media Library consists of the images, audios, videos and files that you can upload and add to the content when writing a Post or Page. Here you can view, add, edit or delete any media related objects if not needed. Following are the steps to understand about Media Library. Step (1) − Click on Media → Library in WordPress. Step (2) − You can view media files like images, audios, videos. Click on Add Media button. Step (3) − The Upload New Media page gets displayed. You can learn how to Add Media in the next chapter. Step (4) − You can view a bar as shown in the following screenshot. The various tabs that appear have the following functions − List View − Displays the images and videos in list form. Grid View − Displays all images in the grid format as shown in the following screen. Filter the images and videos − Filters the images and videos. Search Box − Helps to search a particular image by inserting the name into the box. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Writing Setting ”; Previous Next The writing settings controls the writing experience and provides options for customizing WordPress site. These settings control the features in the adding and editing posts, Pages, and Post Types, as well as the optional functions like Remote Publishing, Post via e-mail, and Update Services. Following are the steps to access the writing settings − Step (1) − To change writing settings, go to Settings → Writing option. Step (2) − The Writing Setting page is displayed as shown in the following screen. Following are the details of the fields on the page. Formatting − This field defines two sub options for better user experience. The first option Convert emoticons like 🙂 and 😛 to graphics on display will turn text-based emoticons into graphic-based emoticons. The second option WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically corrects the invalid XHTML placed within the posts or pages. Default Post Category − It is a category to be applied to a post and you can leave it as Uncategorized. Default Post Format − It is used by themes to select post format to be applied to a post or create different styles for different types of posts. Post via e-mail − This option uses e-mail address to create posts and publishes posts on your blog through e-mail. To use this, you”ll need to set up a secret e-mail account with a POP3 access, and any mail received at this address will be posted. Mail Server − It allows reading the e-mails that you send to WordPress and stores them for retrieval. For this, you need to have POP3 compatible mail server and it will have URI address such as mail.example.com, which you should enter here. Login Name − To create posts, WordPress will need its own e-mail account. The Login Name will use this e-mail address and should be kept as a secret as spammers will post links redirecting to their own websites. Password − Set password for the above e-mail address. Default Mail Category − It allows selecting custom category for all the posts that are published via Post by e-mail feature. Update Services − When you publish a new post, WordPress will automatically notify the site update services in the box. See the Update Services on the codex for the long list of possible services. Step (3) − After filling all the above information, click on Save Changes button to save your information. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress Tutorial PDF Version Quick Guide Resources Job Search Discussion WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which allows the users to build dynamic websites and blog. 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. This tutorial will teach you the basics of WordPress using which you can create websites with ease. The tutorial is divided into various sections for convenience. Each of these sections contain related topics with screenshots explaining the WordPress admin screens. If you are looking for some website builders then you can check BEST WEBSITE BUILDER. Audience This tutorial has been prepared for those who have a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS and has an urge to develop websites. After completing this tutorial, you will find yourself at a moderate level of expertise in developing sites or blogs using WordPress. Prerequisites Before you start with this tutorial, we are assuming that you are already aware about the basics of HTML and CSS. If you are not aware of these concepts, then we suggest you go through our short tutorial on HTML and CSS. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Overview ”; Previous Next 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. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;