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WordPress – Create a Calendar Event

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:54:47 +0000

The WordPress may have a calendar installed and activated to provide event information for an organization. In order to submit an event for your calendar, follow these isntructions.

On the menu in the admin section, click on “Calendar”

WordPress – Create Categories Before Making a Post

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:09:36 +0000

When working in WordPress, you may want to create posts to provide information to your site’s visitors. Unlike WordPress pages, posts do not add links in the main menu. However, prior to building any posts, you should take a moment to create categories to identify any newly created posts. For example, I’ve created three categories: Computer Fixes, Internet Suggestions, and WordPress.

To create a category…

Go to your admin section of your WordPress site
Click on “Posts”
on the website menu.
This opens a sub-menu where
you can click on “Categories”
Give the new category a name
It’s not required, but you can also give the new category a slug to call it up through an html link.
If the category is a sub-category of another already created one, you can assign it as such in the drop-down menu.
Although also not required, you can also give the category a description
The click button to create new category.

WordPress – Login

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:23:51 +0000

For those who are starting out with WordPress with the help from MacroDEV, here is a basic set of instructions on how to login to the back-end. Note that specifics on the graphic appearances and menu locations will vary from site to site, but there will be common terminology and method.

Goto your WordPress site.
Click on the “Log in” link
Fill in your username and password…
Decide if you want the computer to remember your password (consider the security of the computer being used) and click “Log In”.
You then will end up in your WordPress administration/dashboard section of the website where you can make updates and add new content.

Firefox!!!

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:32:31 +0000

If you are like hundreds of others (no, thousands… NO, MILLIONS), you browse the internet. The “browser” is the program you use to do your browsing. So, the question is… what browsers are out there?

Common ones (as of 2010)…

AOL
MSN
Internet Explorer
Safari (typically for MAC, but also available for Windows)
Firefox
Opera
Chrome (newest arrival by the all-almighty GOOGLE)

So, which do you use. If you’re MAC, you are in a world of your own – no question, stick with Safari (you don’t have any where near the worries that a PC has with scripts, viruses, and spyware – note, this may change as more people switch to MAC)

OK, this leaves the PC users! (yes, a MAC is a PC, but we’re sticking with the slang!) Which do you use? If you’re AOL, I’m probably not going to change your habits…and AOL does a nice job of protecting to a point. BUT, the greatest browser out there to date is…. FIREFOX, because of one simple feature/add-on.

Firefox has a special add-on called “NoScript“. And before you jump for joy, it can be a pain-in-the-butt to use! However, of all the tools out there designed to protect your computer…there is no better than NoScript!