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WordPress
is a fabulous, lightweight programme and, once you get the hang
of it, you will be updating your site while you sleep. It's easy
enough to learn, two or three lessons and you're practically a pro.
A week of playing with your site and you are a pro.
Pages
and Posts
The
hardest thing to grasp is the concept of Pages and Posts
A
Page is static. It's used for important things like 'About Us'
- you never run a website anonymously.
This
page is used
- For
Personal Sites to state who you are, what your experience is,
what you do and why you have this website
- For
Groups and Organisations to state what the group is, what it does
(is it incorporated?) and why you have this website
'Contact'
is self explantory
'Site
Map' Not everyone uses a Site Map but it only makes sense for people
to be able to see everything in your site listed in order. Site
Map is a plugin that is already added to your site
A
Post is what powers your site. Posts are the 'articles' you
write and also what the search engines find. You write (almost)
everything in your site as Posts.
This
can end up a haphazard collection of articles as, for example, on
Monday you write a post about how you're coming to grips with your
WordPress. On Tuesday you write a post about about the cute photo
you took of your dog. On Wednesday you rant about the perfidy of
a local politician. On Thursday you review a film you saw last night.
On Friday you write about a working bee organised for next week.
This
is why we have Categories
To
use the examples above, you would create the Categories
-
Site News (and put your Monday post in that category)
- My
Faithful Fido (for your dog stories)
- Political
Opinion (for the article about that nasty MP)
- Film
Reviews (for reviews)
- Coming
Events (for your working bee)
Make
sure you don't have an uncategorised post. have a look at your categories
on your front page, can you see 'uncategorised'? Go back and edit
that post to uncheck the uncategorised box. If you can't find a
category to suit that post, make another category called 'Random
Thoughts' or whatever takes your fancy
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