As humans, it’s in our nature to communicate visually. Images process quickly and people are drawn to them. You have to remember that as humans, we connect emotionally to images more than video, audio or text. People make decisions and take action quicker when prompted by images, rather than by reading a lot of text….
The WordPress post edit screen has two editors, Visual and Text. Visual Editor The visual editor is similar to your favorite word processing software like Microsoft Word or Pages. It is a visual editor in a WYSIWYG format. WYSIWYG stands for “what you see is what you get” which means that what you see on…
You want to make your site as reader friendly as possible. Categories and tags are tools within your WordPress Dashboard to allow both visitors and search engines to understand what your site is about. Categories and Tags You will find categories and tags under the Posts menu on the Dashboard. You can create and edit…
We will travel down the WordPress Dashboard a bit to our next stop: Settings. In this post, we will review all items in this menu but Akismet. Remember: after you make any changes to these pages, click the blue Save Changes button. General Settings On the General Settings page, first edit your Site Title and…
After you log in, your first stop is the Dashboard of your site. As you walk through each of the steps, begin to make notes about the stories you want to tell. Are you going to share fun stories about your family life? Do you have insights from God’s Word you need to tell? Have…
Welcome to my #Write31Day series for October 2015. Many sites, including mine, describe how to start a blog. You need to register your domain name, choose a hosting service, and install WordPress. But then what? We will answer that question as we walk step-by-step through the process which leads to a successful launch for your…
Kathy decided to move 13Prayers from blogspot to a self-hosted WordPress site. I chose the Daily Dish child theme from StudioPress and created a custom header from some of her artwork. To accommodate the online Art Journaling through Grief course she offers, I added a member plugin. Kathy has become a dear friend and it…
Choosing Genesis Framework a Logical Choice When I decided in August 2014 to develop websites as a business, I knew I needed to find a niche of themes to use. Because two of my favorite bloggers were and still are Darren Rowse and Brian Gardner, choosing the Genesis Framework for WordPress and the StudioPress theme…
I Recommend WordPress: If you have decided to start a blog or become intentional about your blogging endeavors, I recommend investing in a self-hosted WordPress site. Your initial entry into the WordPress world can be a bit confusing because there are two different sides to the blogging and website world – hosted and self-hosted. Even…