Editing Website Content
Tips and help for editing your website content in WordPress.
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Including Pictures in a Post
There are 4 key steps for including a picture in a post: Save the photo in the right size and format for the web (max 400px wide, 72dpi, 50-100KB). Upload the photo using the File Upload area of the Write/Edit Post page. Send to Editor window. Position your photo correctly in the Editor window and…
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More about Writing
There are a few other things which are handy to know when writing items. Copy and Paste If you have already composed the article in another format, a Word document perhaps, it is possible to copy and paste into the Write Post input box. Copy from the source document, then click in the input box and use…
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Writing an Item
Some simple instructions for writing a new item in WordPress. Log in to the admin function, located at http://domain/directory/wp-admin. You can probably just use the login link at the bottom of the WordPress home page. You’ll have to enter your username and password. Then you’ll be taken to the WordPress Dashboard. Select Write from the…
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the_content v the_excerpt
Which function is the simplest and most versatile when you want to include extracts rather than entire posts on pages?
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Extracts or Whole Posts?
I want to explore whether to show whole posts or selected extracts of posts. This applies to what I shall call a Group page – any page which shows a set of posts rather than a single post (Category pages or Archive pages or the Blog index page).
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Now We’re Rolling
Having dug into the documentation and solved some mysteries regarding the header of the Default theme and the version of code used in the Connections theme, I’ve made a lot of progress with that list of early first steps.
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A Learning Leap
I’ve dug more deeply into the WordPress code and documentation and I’ve learned the importance of knowing which version you are reading about v which version you are using
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Special Layout for one Category
I want to set up a template specifically for the Growing a Website category, which shows items in date order (oldest first) rather than reverse date order (newest first). First, I need to create a category template with the name category-n.php (where n is the numeric id of the particular category, found by looking at the…
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Early next steps
A few things I want to test and do on this website: Edit the templates – single, archive, category, post(?) to make the layout more like I want. In particular, I want to remove references to comments and “posted by” and just show which category something is in (and also, perhaps, date and time). Done, for…
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Updateable Home Page
What I want is an updateable home page and a set of subsidiary pages, including a subsidiary blog (with the typical blog front page). It seems that this combination is not formally supported within WordPress. So, there are a few options I can choose from: Use the WordPress blog home page as my home page and modify…