Creating your home.php quite easily on WordPress

If you have been thinking of using WordPress as a CMS aside from a blog, or if you just want a static front page on your blog, it’s not difficult. There are actually at least two easy ways to go about this. Method 1: You could try using plugins for the job. One of them […]

Knowing your WordPress theme

The beautiful thing about WordPress is that you more or less have a structured theme, sort of, so you have an idea that certain files will exist like the index.php, sidebar.php, header.php, footer.php, single.php, style.css, etc. These also correspond to the main parts of your WordPress theme so it’s really not difficult to manage. Changing […]

Start blogging: Overcome your shyness!

Feeling shy? Don’t be! Even if you are not confident with your writing skills, you can start blogging. I have friends who tell me that they know other people who began blogging with almost no knowledge of it, of html and css. Now their acquaintances are blogging comfortably. So what does that mean? You can […]

Checking out blogging services: WordPress.com

If you feel like playing around with a WordPress blog but you don’t have your own server, fear no more. You could actually check out the services on WordPress.com. There are paid accounts for WordPress.com, similarly to LiveJournal. The basic features of the WordPress blog are here. You also have several themes to choose from. […]

To use widgets or to not use them

WordPress users have the option to use widgets. These are nice to use because from the Admin panel, you could play around with the sidebar’s components. Your WordPress blog is a really interesting thing to play with. You have so many options. There are themes that you could choose from online and you could tweak […]

What is a blogroll?

This is an example of a blogroll. On today’s blog entry, the focus would be blogrolls. What is a blogroll? It is a list of blogs. You typically see it on the sidebar, that or on a separate page. Why should you put up a blogroll? There are different reasons people put up blogrolls. One […]