Change your WordPress Home Page
To set your home page on your WordPress site, login to your website’s admin area and expand the “Settings” menu. Next select “Reading”. On the “Reading Settings” screen, in the “Front page displays” area at the top of the page, click on the “A static page” radio button and select an already existing page in the “Front page” dropdown menu. If you have already created a “Home” page, select this page page to assign it to be the home page for your website.
Show Full Image in WordPress When a Visitor Clicks on an Image
Show the full size image in WordPress when your visitors clicks on on one of your images.
Read MoreWordPress NextGEN Gallery Tutorial
NextGEN Gallery is the most popular (most downloaded) WordPress plugin as of this writing. It’s continually suggested that the plugin become integrated into the core WordPress framework to provide WordPress out of the box gallery functionality because the majority of WordPress users install the NextGEN Gallery plugin anyways.
For purposes of this tutorial we’ll assume you’ve already installed the NextGen Gallery plugin in WordPress. After installing the plugin, you’ll find the NextGEN Gallery configuration area near the bottom of your admin area on the left side pane. The admin menu title will be “Gallery”. Mouse over the Gallery menu header and click on the arrow symbol that appears to right of the Gallery title. This will expand the Gallery menu to reveal the NextGEN Gallery options and settings.
Your first task will be to create a new Gallery where you’ll be able to upload photos and image into from your computer. Click on the “Add Gallery / Images” link in the Gallery menu. Next click on the “Add new gallery” tab. This will bring up a new page that prompts you to enter a new gallery name. Type your new gallery name in and then click on the “Add gallery” button. This will add your new gallery to WordPress as an empty gallery ready for you to upload images to.
To add an image, gallery, or album from NextGen to a WordPress page or post, open the page editor for a particular page and click on the NextGen icon in the editor tool bar. It’s normally located on the top line of the editor toward the right hand side and looks like two small rectangular images overlapping each other.
Once you’ve added the gallery, album, or image to the page, a short embed code will now appear on your page. Preview the page and if you like how the images are showing up, you’re good to go. If not, you can simply highlight and delete the embed code and start over by clicking on the NextGen icon and reinserting the images using different settings.
Read MoreWordPress Website Homepage- How to Change it
Do you want to change your WordPress website or blogs homepage? Is your homepage showing the wrong page or post? Changing and setting your WordPress website’s homepage can be accomplished by
Read MoreAdding Hyperlinks to Your WordPress Website
Internal Page and Post Cross-Linking Best Practices
When a colleague recently asked me about best practices for linking between pages on his WordPress site, I decided to do some research to see if there was a better way to accomplish this than the built in WordPress standard HTML URL linking tool. Adding internal links throughout your website is enhances user experience, marketing, and search engine optimization (SEO). For example, you may mention a number of your company’s featured products and services on your home page for which you’ve created a separate sales or detail page for each one elsewhere within your website. It’s good practice to hyperlink each p/s on your home page to each of their corresponding individual pages, because it gives your site visitors an additional opportunity to delve deeper into your website instead of solely relying on them to use your main site navigation. Internal linking is also recognized and valued by search engine crawlers and will contribute to a more positive ranking for your site.
The first method you could use to link to another page or post within your WordPress website is to
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Organizing Your Pages in WordPress: pageMash
When using WordPress “out of the box” as a CMS for your website, organizing your pages and site navigation can be a bit unwieldy. Fortunately, their is a simple way to accomplish this using a few WordPress plugins, pageMash and Multi-level Navigation. For purposes of this article, we’ll assume you’ve already installed the pageMash plugin, have properly configured the Multi-level Navigation plugin and have it integrated into your website’s template (ITegrity built websites already have this setup and configured).
pageMash works in conjunction with your website’s multi-level dropdown site navigation menu. By changing the settings in pageMash, you can manipulate the order of your page links in your navigation, the placment of your links, beit in the main navigaition or in a dropdown menu under a main link, or whether or not the page link will even appear at all in your navigation. Let’s take a look at how this works.
Read MoreAdd a PDF to WordPress
Do you want to upload your PDF files to your WordPress website for your visitors to view in their web browser? Here’s how you do it.
Read MoreAdd PowerPoint Presentations to WordPress
Do you want to upload your PowerPoint presentations to your website for your visitors to download? Or do you just want them to view your PowerPoint presentations directly on your website without providing access to your original PowerPoint file? Here are a few different methods you can use to upload your presentations to WordPress.
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Add an Image to a WordPress Post or Page
There are a number of steps involved with adding an image or other media file to your WordPress website and many formatting options to choose from. It may seem a little complicated at first, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll be glad all of these options are available to you to help fine tune the appearance of your website.
To insert an image or other type of media into a WordPress post or page within your website, first
Read MoreAdd a Post to your WordPress Website
Adding a new post to your WordPress website is very similar to adding a new page. The main difference between a post and a page is that a page, as the name implies, is simply a webpage on your site. A post is a blog entry, or journal entry, that appears in a specified area of your website. It can be placed on your homepage or in a different section of your website, for example under “Resources” or “News”. Posts can contain information about almost anything. They can be news stories about your business or personal diary entries about your day. You can use posts to add new articles or white papers to your site..or ones you’ve written in the past. You can also add Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and Adobe PDFs to your posts (read about how to add PowerPoints or PDFs to your post or page).
Another difference is
Read MoreAdd a Page to Your WordPress Website
Adding a new page to your WordPress website is very similar to adding a new post. To add a new page, log in to the Admin area of WordPress and click on “Pages” in the left navigation. In the expanded “Pages” area in the navigation, click on
Read MoreMicrosoft Word Formatting in WordPress- How to add a properly formatted Word Document to WordPress
When you copy and paste your Microsoft Word document content into a WordPress post (or page), the hidden proprietary Microsoft text formatting code is retained. This can have unintended consequences when you publish your post. Fortunately WordPress has a built in feature to recognize Microsoft text formatting code and convert it to browser friendly HTML formatting (click here to learn how to remove Microsoft Word formatting in WordPress)
After you’ve logged into the Admin area of your WordPress site and you are ready to write a post, locate the
Read MoreMicrosoft Word Formatting in WordPress- How to remove it when copying your content to WordPress
In Microsoft Word, have you created an article, blog entry, or page content for your website which you’ve attempted to copy and paste into WordPress and have problems with formatting the text? Does the text you just copied from your Microsoft Word document appear different when you try to add it to WordPress?