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Customizing the Post Sidebar

Hover over the Appearance tab and click on Widgets You should see this page You can add widgets to the Blog Sidebar section by clicking and dragging a widget from the Available Widgets section into the Blog Sidebar box. You can also remove widgets from the Blog Sidebar section by clicking on the carot and…

Adding Posts to Your WordPress Blog

Step 9 – wooohoooo – you’re 1 small step away from giant leaps in your ability to completely launch a WordPress blog! T-Minus 1 step left in site launch! Buckle your seat belts and get ready – are you sick of the rocket references yet 😉 In this step, we’re going to show you how to create…

How To Set Up a Blog Homepage

It goes without saying, the homepage is pretty much always our favorite part of any website that we build.  It’s the face of your website.  It’s the main page. It’s the front door. It’s your billboard in the endless ether that is the internet. Whenever we start a new web project, we start with the homepage….

How to Set Up a Blog Gallery Page

In this step, we’re going to help you create a beautiful gallery page for any images that you desire to share with your audience.  This is a way for you to showcase your personality, your originality, individuality and sentimentality in a way that is entirely lacking in banality.  Or, it is just a page to showcase…

How to Set Up a Blog Contact Page

You’re only steps away from having a beautiful new WordPress blog!  It’s time to add the all important Contact page.  Modern society is built on communication and we need to give people a way to communicate with you.  This page is going to be super critical when large corporations come to you with their stacks of…

How to Set Up a Blog About Page

It’s About time we built the About page!  You see what we just did there?!  It’s about time we… get this website done!  We don’t know about you but we always take a look at a person’s, or a company’s, about page.  We want to know who is behind the digital curtain of a website.  And…

How to Set Up a Blog Terms Page

You may recall, or you may not by now, that we added a little plugin that automatically generates the Terms of Service for your website.  It uses the information that you provided and plugs it into Automattic’s Terms of Service (Automattic is made up of the people behind WordPress).  Well, now it’s time to put that plugin…

How to Set Up a Blog Privacy Policy Page

Let’s use that handy dandy Auto Terms of Service and Privacy Policy plugin one more time.  This time let’s create the Privacy Policy page.  The Privacy Policy basically outlines how you collect and use site visitor data, so that if you ever get int0 a legal skirmish you can be like, “hey did you read…

Make Final Touches and Launch Blog

You’ve landed on the moon, and now you need to plant your flag to assert your WordPress dominance and test the spaceship (website) we built to make sure it is ready for its launch back to Earth!  This final step for man/woman-kind is all about completing your blog and adding the finishing touches.  If you’ve checked out…

Manually Add a WordPress theme to your Site

Get FTP user credentials- from your host site Get an FTP client – filezilla Extract the Salient.zip files and upload those extracted theme files via FTP into the wp-content/themes directory Go to Appearance->themes and then activate the theme when you find it in the list