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21 Days to a WordPress Blog: Day 17: Plugin Best Practices

Whether you need a simple site for your business, want to start a blog or just want to try building a WordPress website, you’ll learn all the basics in these … Read more More

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21 Days to a WordPress Blog: Day 17: Plugin Best Practices

Plugins are very important in any WordPress website, but you should know a few rules before you jump in. Read more More

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21 Days to a WordPress Blog: Day 16: Installing Your First Plugins

Whether you need a simple site for your business, want to start a blog or just want to try building a WordPress website, you’ll learn all the basics in these … Read more More

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21 Days to a WordPress Blog: Day 15: Plugins & Addons

It’s easy build up your WordPress site with functionality you need by installing third-party plugins that satisfy a need WordPress can’t. Read more More

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21 Days to a WordPress Blog: Day 15: Plugins & Addons

It’s easy build up your WordPress site with functionality you need by installing third-party plugins that satisfy a need WordPress can’t. Read more More

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21 Days to a WordPress Blog: Day 14: Widgets & Sidebars

In WordPress, widgets are items that are placed into a sidebar, footer or header of your site. They can be static or dynamic, big or small, and full of text, links, videos and/or images. Read more More

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21 Days to a WordPress Blog: Day 13: Navigation & Menus

WordPress makes it so easy to create custom navigation menus for your website or blog. Here we’ll show you how to use them. Read more More

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21 Days to a WordPress Blog: Day 12: Creating Pages

WordPress pages are very similar in nature to posts. The big difference is taxonomy—you can’t tag or categorize pages. Read more More

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21 Days to a WordPress Blog: Day 11: Comments & Discussions

The more comments you can get on your posts, the better. It promotes discussion and return visitors, and Google uses comments as a way to determine a website’s authority. Read more More

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21 Days to a WordPress Blog: Day 10: Writing Your First Post

This is when things start to get really fun: Now you can start creating content for your website. Here you’ll see helpful notes and a legend to navigate your way around the Add New Posts page. Read more More

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