Most of our customers come to us because they want to manage their own content but let someone professional deal with the technical stuff. Many of them ask us how complicated the WordPress interface will be for them to use. Answer: It’s pretty easy – but it depends on your basic computer skills, and your […]
Category Archives: How-to Articles
Here’s where you’ll find info on using your admin area to build your site and add content. You can also use the ‘Search’ box to your right to look for topics of interest.
Keywords and key phrases — how do I use ’em?
Here at mightylittlewebsites.com, we get lots of questions about search engine optimization (SEO) and competing for keywords in search results. We can’t think of a better, more reputable resource than the folks at Yoast – a trusted authority on real-world SEO for regular folks. Go check out their blog and get some advanced tips and […]
How can I import table data into a page or post?
Some of our customers have asked how to add table data (from Excel or Numbers, or some other spreadsheet program) to pages or posts. WordPress’ native content editor does a lot of cool things, but working with table data directly isn’t currently one of them, so importing a table from Excel is a nifty little […]
How to Style your Site with CSS
You picked out a theme you like, but now you want to add a few stylish touches to really make it your own. Want a different font for headlines? More space between paragraphs? Less space between paragraphs? Want a different colored masthead bar? CSS is the way you’ll get all this done.
How to show a widget ONLY on your home page.
One cool little plugin which some of you may enjoy gives you control of when a widget displays on your site. It’s more fine control than many users want, but if for instance you want an events listing on your home page only, it’s right up your alley. It’s called Widget Logic, and it adds […]
How to Work with Widgets
‘Widgets’ are the WordPress for little specialized packets of code that grab a certain type of content – testimonials, maybe, or a tag cloud, or a list of recent posts – from your site’s database, massage that content in some way, and then present it on-screen inside a supplemental content area built into your site’s […]
How to Work with Menus
Each visual theme has specific places in the layout where navigation menus can appear. We switched on your site with a sample menu set in the primary placeholder for your selected template.