The Appearance menu is the core area for changing the look of your site which, lets face it, is the most important thing to know when you are figuring out how to use WordPress. It incorporates four main areas: Themes Widgets Menus Editor Themes This is where you can add themes and change your existing […]
Comments are the life blood of a blog, they can also be damned useful for Internet Marketers too! Google and other search engines rate posts with a number of comments on them in their algorithms which in turn can boost your SERPs (Search Engine Results Page) ranking. Of course spam comments are just evil, and every WordPress […]
People sometimes have difficulty in understanding the difference between a Page and a Post. A WordPress Page is mainly used for static information such as About Me pages, Contact details etc. Why? Because Pages don’t have the flexibility of Posts – you cant add categories or tags to them, and you cant manipulate how they […]
Blogroll. What a weird word. This is what the WordPress Links section used to be called and still is by many people. So what exactly is it? Back in the day when WordPress was ‘just’ a blogging platform, a lot of bloggers wanted a link system so they could share some link love (as marketers […]
Media in WordPress relates to pretty much anything you upload to the site, images and videos are the main ones, but it can include music or sound files, and documents (PDF, Word, Excel, etc.) and even zipped files. Library The WordPress media library is where you can access all your uploaded media, and can see […]
This is the core of your site, the place where all the magic happens, where you convert your visitors to sellers, or not. Writing posts (articles, sales pitches, product reviews, etc) is the life blood of an internet marketing website. The posts section is where you create the posts, review existing posts and drafts and […]
When you are learning how to use WordPress, the first thing you will do is log into your site. You will be faced with the WordPress backend, commonly known as the Dashboard, and it contains all your settings options and services, including post creation, user settings, themes, well everything! Let’s look at the navigation items […]
Widgets are a brilliant feature of WordPress. They allow you to add and remove content and features with just a few clicks. Learning how to use widgets in wordpress is really easy, but lets go over the process and discuss some of the widgets that are built into a standard WordPress installation. Finding Your Widgets In […]
The OptimizePress theme is built for Internet Marketers in mind, and contains a varied number of options to create your sites. Now first off this theme isn’t well suited for Amazon affiliates and the like, it is more for driving sales of products via Squeeze pages, Sales Lettes, Product Launches etc. So if you have […]
Recently I decided that I couldn’t write my own themes for use in Internet Marketing. It simply wasn’t a productive use of my time. So, I began my search for quality, usable themes. Being broke, and trying to follow the Bum Marketing methodology as much as possible I started out by looking at free WordPress themes. […]