Blogging

How to use Categories and Tags in WordPress

Submitted by brian on Fri, 07/02/2010 - 11:38

The use of categories and tags in WordPress (or any blogging system for that matter) can make it much easier for your audience to find content, in which they are interested, on your website. Furthermore, various search engine optimization plugins will use these categories and tags to populate the keywords for your blog post and thereby improve your ranking on the search engines for those keywords.

Some Google Analytics tutorials

Submitted by brian on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 15:23

This first video provides a brief overview of how to use the Google Analytics interface. If you are new to Google Analytics or you'd like to pick up a few tips on how to use some of the different features, this video is a good place to start.

How to add images in a WordPress post or page

Submitted by brian on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 14:48

A picture is worth a thousand words - and will greatly spice up your blog... Audio and videos even more so. The following videos show you how to add these various media.

Obviously YouTube (and the likes) is a great source for video. Archive.org is another great source for opensource audio and video. For images, I would generally use Flickr and also SXC.hu - be careful to check usage rights when using images from these sites.

To post an entry or create a page in WordPress - what's the difference?

Submitted by brian on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 11:56

You can add new content to your WordPress blog in two different ways: by creating or writing a new page; or by creating or writing a new post. So what's the difference and does it matter?

The one piece of HTML that everyone should know

Submitted by brian on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 12:56

When adding a comment to a blog or forum or indeed adding your website address to your signature in a forum that you have joined, you will often need to create a link using HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), the language used to create web pages.

The following example should help in most cases:

To create a link in HTML, type the following in your comment or signature:


<a href="http://www.mysite.com/">My Site Title</a>

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