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Categories, Pages and Links – Are you using them properly?

If you’ve been following my series on Wordpress.com then you’ll know that we’ve looked at how to start a blog with Wordpress.com. And learned how to customise it by changing to your chosen theme, we’ve also looked at what a widget is and how to add them to your blog to add functionality. Now it’s [...]

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What is a Widget and How Do I Use One?

So What’s a Widget Then… Widgets are the best and easiest way to add features and functionality to your blog without having to know any code or PHP to do it. Here’s a list of the widgets that are available for the test blog – Build a Blog with Wordpress: Akismet – helps block spam from your [...]

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How to Change Your Theme with Wordpress.com

In this post I’m going to show you how to change your blog’s theme with Wordpress.com. Everyone wants to give their blog that personal touch and make it their own, and changing your theme from the default Kubrick theme to another one is the first step. 1. Go down to the Appearance tab on the left [...]

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Anatomy of a Blog – Jargon Buster

I am looking at this from an absolute beginners point of view, who wants to get up to speed as soon as possible and miss out the annoying search for information. So lets get back to basics and break a blog down into it’s component parts. Below is a screenshot of our test blog using the [...]

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How to Create a Blog Using Wordpress.Com

In my last post I talked about how easy it can be to forget the frustration and impatience that you can feel as an absolute beginner blogger, trying to figure out how on earth you do with this blogging thing! So this series of posts is for all the absolute beginner bloggers out there that [...]

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Do You Need Help With Wordpress.Com?

Definition of a Blog: A blog (a contraction of the term “web log“) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to [...]

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A Thrilling Wordpress Theme…

So we’re in 2010 a start of a new year and I’m raring to go! It’s funny how a new year makes me feel like that! Anyway, I thought it was time for a change and a facelift for Build a Blog. It’s not just a cosmetic change that I’m looking for, I wanted some specific [...]

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4 Good Reasons for Spring cleaning your blog

I know it’s been a while and I keep putting it off, but it’s time to spring clean that blog. And that’s exactly what I have done for The Photographer Blog as part of the changes, in fact it’s the first thing I did. And here are 4 very good reasons why it’s a good thing [...]

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Wordpress 2.5 is Here…

Major Update Wordpress 2.5 has just been released for the Wordpress.org blogging platform. And it looks to be a major upgrade to version 2.3.3 with lots of new features. You can read about them here. If you would like to watch a 4 minute screencast showing you more then here’s the link. I really like the sound [...]

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RSS Footer Plugin – An Essential Plugin

I have found some really good plugins recently that save a lot of time and effort on my part, like the Wordpress automatic upgrade plugin that I have just used to upgrade both blogs to version 2.3.3 with just one click! And now I have just come across another extremely useful plugin, the RSS Footer plugin [...]

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