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: Basic
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.
How to Work with Pages and Posts
As you begin to shape your site’s content and organization, you’ll mostly be working with ‘Pages’, ‘Posts’, ‘Testimonials’, and ‘Events’. All these options appear in the far left-hand column when you’re logged in to your admin area.
How to Log In and Change Settings
Logging In While your site is brand-new, and before your site is visible to the public, you’ll access both the front end (the part that visitors will eventually be able to see ) and the back end (your admin area, where you control your site’s content, appearance, and behavior) through a temporary URL, which will look […]