WordPress How to Guide

Page is most like post. It contain article or information that you want visitor know. However, page is a static post. It doesn’t include in the date archive. Usually people use page to create something like introducing who they are, how to contact them and their photo gallery. Most plugin also use page to create their user interface. Continue reading →

Since WordPress 3.1 we can simply link to other page or other post from the link button in our WordPress editor. The button symbol is like a chain picture. When you are click on it, then a pop up box will be appear contain the input box for URL. Make sure you select something to giving link on it before click the button.

In the link box, you can found “Or link to existing content” sentence. Click on it and you can found your posts list. You can simply click the page that you want to link from the list. You can also use the search feature if you have lot of post in your blog.

It is so easy and really fun. The SEO master often said that giving link to other page is good for SEO. It can make your article connected each other. For visitor, it can be a fun experience when they found an article that giving simple navigation in his article. Now, you know exactly how to link to a page. I hope this article is useful for you. See you soon.

Sometime, we want to make some change to our theme. To changing the user interface sentence or maybe the blog style for example. WordPress give us ability to do that. You can edit all files in your theme folder directly from your WordPress dashboard.

Go to Appearance – editor menu. The default theme that you can edit is the active theme. If you want to edit other theme, you can choose from the drop down menu. Never forget to save change when you have been finish.

For some people, they cannot edit themes from the dashboard screen. It is because of the theme folder permission is not writable. Change the folder permission from your file manager or using your favorite FTP client software. If you want, you can also edit the theme file from file manager.
The location of theme folder is on /wp-content/themes. The entire theme that installed to your blog was put here.

WordPress themes use PHP language, so you have to learn and know about it before edit. I suggest you to backup your theme before make changes.