This presentation includes writing and managing pages, creating and managing links, working with link lists (Blog rolls), creating categories and managing users in WordPress
1. Customizing Your Blog 1
Jamshid Hashimi
Trainer, Cresco Solution
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2. Agenda
• Writing and managing pages
• Creating and managing links
• Working with link lists (Blog rolls)
• Creating categories
• Managing users
3. Writing and managing pages
• Pages
• Similar to posts
• Title
• Content
• Timeless information
• About us, Contact us, etc
• Organize and manage any content
4. Writing and managing pages
• Pages Are:
• Less time-dependent than Posts
• Can be organized into pages and subpages
• Non-blog content
5. Writing and managing pages
• Pages are Not:
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Pages are not Posts, not excerpted. No cycle on main page
Not associated with Categories and no Tags
Pages are not files. Stored in database like Posts
Pages are not included in site feed
Pages (or a specific post) can be set as a static front
6. Writing and managing pages
• Creating pages
• Organizing pages
• Create subpage
• Changing URL of a page
8. Creating and managing links
• Set of links
• External links, blogroll or resources
• Categories
10. Creating and managing links
• Name
• The name of the link (in bold) and its description.
• URL
• The URL (location) of the link.
• Categories
• The categories that the link is in.
• Relationship
• The XFN relationship for this link. (XHTML Friends Network)
• Visible
• Whether or not the link is visible to visitors on your site.
• Rating
• A ranking of the Link, which can be used to sort links within Categories.
15. Creating categories
• Each post in WordPress is filed under one or more Categories.
• Category parent
• Add Category
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Category Name
Category Slug
Category Parent
Description
• Edit Category
22. Managing users
• Four roles can be assigned
• Administrator
• Has full and complete ownership of a blog, and can do absolutely everything.
• Editor
• Can view, edit, publish, and delete any posts/pages, moderate comments, manage
categories, manage tags, manage links and upload files/images.
• Author
• Can edit, publish and delete their posts, as well as upload files/images. Authors do not have
access to modify, add, delete, or publish pages.
• Contributor
• Can edit their posts but cannot publish them.
• When a contributor creates a post, it will need to be submitted to an administrator for review.
Once a contributor’s post is approved by an administrator and published, Contributor cannot
edit
• Contributor does not have the ability to upload files/images.