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How am I getting these blog post to more than one site?
Posted by: | CommentsNormally with WordPress you log into your dashboard and click on Posts Add New to add post to the blog part of your site. Remember that with WordPress you can have posts and or pages. These are Posts – you put posts into categories so later on when you set up your navigation people viewing your site can click on a category to follow a topic.
I use a free tool called Blog Desk to post – I can put the same item on different sites and in different categories on those sites. I will be showing you how to use this and other tools on the Small Business Guides site later on.
Here is why you NEED to be able to totally control your web site
Posted by: | CommentsMy new website on Small Business Guides is certainly not ready for public viewing. I am still playing in the “Sandbox” working on the look and feel and learning the Builder theme. However I do have several articles that have come up and will be a part of the new site.
If this were a traditional website – getting these articles up would not even be considered – I would have to contact my webmaster and get them to put these up.
The absolute beauty of WordPress and doing you own site is you can put up articles and information NOW on the new site. No matter what you do with the appearance and function of the new site – the articles will be there, they are available.
I have linked up with some truly amazing people over the past year, one of which is Bob Jenkins aka Bob the Teacher. I will be talking more about what I have learned from Bob later. For now one of the things Bob teaches is TARL – Take Action Revise Later. He even has a great book out there about this concept.
The basic concept of TARL is to get the material and content out there, one can make it look better, or revise it later. If you wait to get content, information or material out there until your site looks great or until the content is perfect it will never get out there, you will not have communicated your information. You can always change it, fix it, make it look better later.
So even though the site is seriously under construction I am doing TARL and starting to put articles on the new site. Remember that one of the ways I write is if you see something that is a different color and underlined it is a link that will take you to the place I am writing about. Just click the links for more detail or to see what I am talking about.
Building a new site with Word Press – Builder – Astro Child theme
Posted by: | CommentsBuilder is new to me. So as you see me doing this site what you are really seeing me learning a new to me theme. There are a number of child themes – I think the Astro theme is pretty kool so that is what I will start with. The neat thing with Word Press is if I get so I do not like the theme I can change it without changing my content – IE my pages and my posts. So here we go with Astro.
The first thing to know is you must have a place to put your site. This is called web hosting. I use and recommend Blue Host – next you have to have a domain name = in this case I am using geezerngeek.com and I have added the new site as an add on to that site.
Here is the Child theme
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