WordPress Tutorials

How to install the latest version of WordPress

Learn how to install WordPress manually. Goes over uploading the files, setting up the database, and installing.

How to install a WordPress theme

Learn how to install a WordPress theme from start to finish.

What exactly is a widget-ready WordPress theme?

Learn all about what widget-ready WordPress themes are, and how to use widgets to customize the look of your WordPress blog.

How to install a WordPress plugin

Learn what WordPress plugins are, what they can do to improve your WordPress blog functionality, and how to install one.

Is it time to move to a self-hosted WordPress?

Learn how to move away from Blogger and host your own WordPress blog on a domain name, while keeping your old blog posts URLs in tact with redirects.

OneClick Installer for WordPress

Learn how to use OneClick installer to quickly install WordPress themes and plugins without uploading via FTP.

How to set up pretty permalinks in WordPress

Learn how to use pretty permalinks and SEO-friendly URLs with WordPress with this tutorial.

Displaying Adsense and other ads with WordPress

Learn several methods of including advertisements within your WordPress site, including use of plugins and manual insertion of code.

Using Akismet to fight comment and trackback spam

Learn how to use Akismet to fight comment and trackback spam on WordPress blogs

Contact form plugins for WordPress

This guide will go over a couple quality contact form plugins to use on your WordPress site, cforms II and WP-ContactForm Akismet Edition.

Optimizing WordPress for Search Engines

Learn how to optimize your WordPress blog for the search engines with plugins such as All in One SEO Pack and Google Sitemaps.

Social Bookmarking with WordPress

This guide will teach you how to add social bookmarking icons to your WordPress blogs using plugins such as Sociable and ShareThis.

Put your dormant domains to use with WordPress

This guide will teach you how to maximize the revenue potential of your unused domain names by developing automated WordPress sites.

The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress Loop

This guide will teach you everything you need to know about the Loop, including the basic flow, template tags used within the loop, and what to do after.

The Importance of Backing Up Your WordPress Site

This guide will teach you how to backup your WordPress site through manual methods, or with the use of plugins.

How to make WordPress themes writable

If you cannot already, learn how to make your WordPress themes writable by altering template file permissions via an FTP client or in cPanel.

The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Conditional Tags

Learn all about WordPress conditional tags with this in-depth guide. Features the concepts along with real examples to help you understand.

See How Easy It Is To Widgetize WordPress Themes

This guide goes over step by step on how to widgetize your WordPress themes. Includes several code examples and explanations on making a theme widget-ready.

5 Quick Ways to Fix Up Your WordPress Theme

This guide goes over 5 quick things to do to fix up your WordPress theme. Goes over header and footer hooks, pingback URLs, feed recognition, and more.

How to Add WordPress Tag Support To Your Theme

Learn how to add tag support to your WordPress theme, if you do not have it already. Has example code and screenshots to easily follow along.

Upgrading WordPress Is Easier Than You Think

In this guide you will go over how to properly upgrade WordPress by overwriting core files and upgrading the database - if necessary.

You Don’t Need a Blog On Your Front Page

You will learn how to have a static homepage on your WordPress site as well as keeping a blog on a separate page - if you want one.

How To Make a WordPress Privacy Policy

Learn how to generate an Adsense-compliant privacy policy page in just a few clicks with a WordPress plugin.

Easily Add Videos to Your WordPress Blogs

Learn how to easily add videos, including YouTube videos, to your WordPress posts and pages with 2 easy to use plugins: FLV Embed and Vipers Quicktags

Make a Sitemap Page For Your WordPress Blog

Learn how to make a static sitemap for your WordPress site with the use of free WordPress plugins.

Add Gravatar Support to Your WordPress Comments

In this guide you will learn how exactly to add Gravatar support to your WordPress 2.5 themes: where to put them, how to measure them, and how to style them.

Is your uploader broken in WordPress 2.5?

If your uploader is broken in WordPress 2.5, read this article. It goes over how to fix these issues through the use of plugins and an .htaccess hack.

How To Get Rid of the WordPress Visual Editor

Learn how to get rid of the default WordPress visual editor by manually disabling it, or using plugins such as FCKeditor or TinyMCE advanced.

Display Inline Ads With Custom Fields and WordPress

Learn how to dynamically display inline ads in specific WordPress blog posts, of varying sizes. All using custom fields.

Use FeedBurner to Manage Your WordPress Feeds

This guide goes over how to sign up to FeedBurner, redirect your WordPress feed URLs to it, and offers recommended FeedBurner services.

Reset Your WordPress Password via phpMyAdmin

If you have forgotten your WordPress password and have no other means of resetting it, learn how to reset your WordPress password via phpMyAdmin.

Dipslaying Code In WordPress Posts

Learn how to display code in your WordPress posts through the use of the WP CodeShield or SyntaxHighlighter Plus plugins.

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