Your WordPress blog has several Settings you can adjust. The Settings menu is located at the bottom left sidebar in your Dashboard and contains a list of the areas you can control — General, Writing, Reading, Discussion, Media, Privacy, Permalinks, and Miscellaneous. This post will provide an overview of each of those items.

If you don’t understand a particular setting, no biggie. Simply leave it the way the WordPress default has it set. As we progress into more advanced topics and learn more, you can always go back and change your settings. (Note: If you do make changes, be sure to click “Save Changes” at the bottom of each specific Settings section.) Continue reading →

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When you log into your new WordPress blog, the first place you’ll be taken is the Dashboard. It has a little house icon next to the title because this is the “home” page of your administration area. This post will be an overview of your blog’s items. We’ll discuss each item in depth in a future series.

The left sidebar contains a list of your blog’s elements. Clicking on any of those will produce a drop-down list with several other items. Let’s go through these quickly: Continue reading →