November 18, 2008
We've looked at how to install WordPress and how to make it pretty; today I want to look at making WP do more. Plugins are additions to the basic WordPress functionality, which allow you make it do just about anything you can imagine, from adding polls to your posts to controlling banner ads. Find them in the official WordPress plugin directory. Like themes, they're extremely easy to add to... Read more
November 18, 2008
Last week, we looked at installing WordPress's blogging software. If you're playing along, you should have a WordPress install that looks something like the screenshot on the left. As well as starting writing, one of the first things you'll probably want to do is to change the look of your blog. This is done with something WP calls "themes". A theme is a collection of files which modify the... Read more
November 18, 2008
because there are no dummies or complete idiots around here. 
I've assumed some basic knowledge of t'internet and web hosting here, including how zip files and FTP work. If anything needs more clarification, leave me a comment. Why WordPress? There are lots of blog management systems, and not all of them take effort to install like WordPress does. If you use BlogSpot, for example,... Read more