10 tips to make wordpress your friend
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How to Make WordPress Your Friend
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I used to be an ADHD coachBefore, during, and now: I build websitesI traveled 16 days with the Carson and
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Tip 1: Take notes
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Tip 2: If you can use WORD and you are not afraid of the internet,
you can use WordPress
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WORD
WordPress
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Use HEADINGS not just colored text and bold
This is the “kitchen Sink” icon. Use it to show two line WYSIWYG editor
Copy and Paste Issues
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Content pasted directly into content editor
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Copy and Paste Issues
Here’s what it looks like published
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Copy and Paste Issues
Here’s what the code looks like. All that yellow is code
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Copy and Paste Issues
Indent / Outdent / Blockquote
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Indent / Outdent / Blockquote
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Indent / Outdent / Blockquote
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Indent / Outdent / Blockquote
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The little used: Eraser ToolAnd HELP!
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Help: Keyboard Shortcuts
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Tip 3: Backup and Update
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Tip 4: The images won’t go where I want
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No Alignment
Tip 4: The images won’t go where I want
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Left
Tip 4: The images won’t go where I want
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Right
Tip 4: The images won’t go where I want
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Center
Tip 5: Weird Spacing
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It looks like this
but you want it to look like this
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Remove the highlighted parts shown in the Text View
Tip 5: Weird Spacing
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See? Gone!
Tip 5: Weird Spacing
See? Gone!
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Tip 5a: Use Shift + Enter to avoid the extra line breaks all together!
Tip 5: Weird Spacing
Tip 6: Plugins
Just because you install a plugin does not make it do anything!
Screen Options
Tip 7: How to find what you can’t
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Tip 8: Oh, Rats! I lost what I was working on
Using Revisions Finding them in the side
bar
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Tip 8: Oh, Rats! I lost what I was working on
Finding them at the bottom of the page
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Tip 8: Oh, Rats! I lost what I was working on
Choose to which to revert
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Tip 9: When you’re lost and confused
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Tip 9: When you’re lost and confused
Ask the CODEX (codex.wordpress.org)
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How to add a picture to a post
Search the codex.wordpress.org
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Results Page
Search the codex.wordpress.org
Tip 10: Practice, Practice, Practice
Make a new page .. Save as draft Add content and imagesSee what works
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Go ahead: Push the buttons. You won’t break it!
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