Gaining Confidence with Your WordPress Website Kelli Wise Pint Sized Sites

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What we are going to cover •  Logging in •  The Dashboard •  Pages vs Posts •  Creating a Page •  Formatting •  Adding an Image •  Embedding a Video •  Draft or Publish •  Creating a Post

•  Categories vs Tags •  Managing Comments •  Widgets •  Menus •  Plugins •  Maintenance •  Users •  Settings

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What We Won’t Be Covering •  What theme should you use •  What plugins should you use •  What hosting should you use

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Public Facing

Admin Area

Let’s Make a Sandbox to Play In

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Step 1 Create Your Sandbox Site

Step 2 Click on the Link

Poopy.Life/Create

Logging In

YourSite.com/wp-admin

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The Dashboard

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Dashboard Changes Varies with Theme Plugins

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Pages vs. Posts

Static Always Available

Dynamic Lastest Information

Pages

Posts

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Creating a New Page

Click Here - OR

Click Here - OR

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Click Here - OR

Click Here - OR

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WordPress 1

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Plugins Update one at a time.

Themes Update all at once.

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Updates

Appearance This can profoundly change your site’s appearance.

Plugins These add functionality. Can cause conficts. Proceed with caution.

Users These people can make changes to your site.

Settings Be very careful making changes here.

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