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1. Keep in mind that people who need to know how to perform a task usually need answers quick Telnet Telnet is a communications protocol used to establish a connection to another computer Telnet runs on top of TCP IP and is http codex wordpress org Glossary 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 16 of 19 typically used in conjuction with terminal emulation software to login to remote computers Telnet is inherently insecure and has largely been replaced by SSH a External links Telnet at Wikipedia Text editor A text editor is a program which edits files in plain text format as compared to binary format Using a non text based word processing program e g using Microsoft Word to edit PHP scripts can cause major problems in your code This is because non text based word processing programs insert extra formatting into text files and can corrupt the files when they need to be interpreted by the interpreter An editor like Notepad does not insert any extra formatting Edit WordPress Files with a text only editor Some examples of file formats which need to be edited as plain text HTML documents a PHP scripts Perl scripts Rich Text Format documents JavaScript scripts Some examples of text editor programs BBEdit Classic Mac OS Mac OS X Boxer Text Editor Windows a Coda Mac OS X Shareware Crimson Editor Windows Freeware EditPad cross platfo
2. punctuation marks a External links ASCII at Wikipedia with character set table Atom A format for syndicating content on news like sites viewable by Atom aware programs called news readers or aggregators See also news reader RSS RDF External links Atom standard at Wikipedia Avatar An avatar is a graphic image or picture that represents a user a See also gravatar a Related articles Using Gravatars External links Avatar computing at Wikipedia Back to the Top Binaries Binaries refer to compiled computer programs or executables Many open source projects which can be re compiled from source code offer pre compiled binaries for the most popular platforms and operating systems Blog A blog or weblog is an online journal diary or serial published by a person or group of people Blogs are typically used by individuals or peer groups but are occasionally used by companies or organizations as well In the corporate arena the only adopters of the blog format so far have tended to be design firms web media companies and other bleeding edge tech firms Blogs often contain public as well as private content Depending on the functionality of the CMS software that is used some authors may restrict access through the use of accounts or passwords to content that is too personal to be published publicly Blogging 41 Hacking 42 Hosting provider 43 htaccess 44 HTML 45 IP
3. TTN INTERNET MEDIA VVORDPRESS Content Management User Manual WordPress is a state of the art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics web standards and usability WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes Since then it has grown to be the largest blogging tool in the world used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day What You Can Use WordPress For WordPress started as just a blogging system but has evolved to be used as a full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins widgets and themes WordPress is limited only by your imagination And tech chops If you are new to WordPress and you re worried about where to start you ve come to the right place Here is a very simple step by step plan for getting started with WordPress Please remember if you need help along the way plenty of options for assistance are listed in this article Welcome to the exciting world of WordPress Table of Contents Page Administration Panel Walk Through 2 Pages vs Posts 10 Writing Posts 16 Using Images 20 Podcasting with WordPress 26 Resetting Your Password 30 Glossary 34 Revised 3 11 2010 Administration Panels WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Administration_ Panels lof 8 I Search the Codex Home Showcase Extend About Docs Bl
4. There are also photo galleries that can show many images without adding each one 3 4 1 Styling All Images 3 4 2 Styling Some Images 3 4 3 Styling One or Two Codex Resources Community portal Current events separately to a page Images Inline Recent changes 4 Resources Random page And if you choose to let the images speak for you consider creating a PhotoBlog or Hel Gallery id Styling Images in WordPress Current versions of WordPress now have image alignment built in WordPress adds CSS classes to align the image to the right left and center of a paragraph so the text will wrap around the image In order to take advantage of these new CSS classes for image alignment and the text wrapping around the image the WordPress Theme must include the following in the style css found in the WordPress Theme directory img alignright float right margin 0 0 lem 1em img alignleft float left margin 0 lem lem 0 img aligncenter display block margin left auto margin right auto a img alignright float right margin 0 lem lem a img alignleft float left margin 0 lem lem 0 a img aligncenter display block margin left auto margin right auto When adding the image in your WordPress blog select the image alignment as right left or center in the Image Media Panel The image will be embedded into your blog post with the selected style for alignment such as lt img src http example com image
5. an open source Unix like environment which is based on the BSD source tree and the Mach microkernel adapted and further developed by Apple Computer with involvement from independent developers and a proprietary GUI named Aqua developed by Apple Related articles UNIX Shell Skills Meta Meta has several meanings but generally means information about In WordPress meta usually refers to administrative type information As described in Meta Tags in WordPress meta is the HTML tag used to describe and define a web page to the outside world search engines In the article Post Meta Data meta refers to information associated with each post such as the author s name and the date posted Meta Rules define the general protocol to follow in using the Codex Also many WordPress based sites offer a Meta section usually found in the sidebar with links to login or register at that site Finally Meta isa MediaWiki namespace that refers to administrative functions within Codex External links Wikipedia s Article on Meta Moblogging Moblogging is the act of posting to one s blog via a mobile device e g mobile phone smartphone or Blackberry It is pronounced as mobs logging or mob logging or sometimes as m b logging in reference to smart mobs Related articles Moblog Clients Post to your blog using email mod_rewrite mod_rewrite is an extension module of the Apache web server software which allows for rewriting of URLs on
6. may be replaced with most any text to change the name of the Page Template This Template Name will appear in the Theme Editor as the link to edit this file 3 of 6 3 11 2010 2 54 PM Pages WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Pages 4 of 6 The file may be named a most anything with a php extension see reserved Theme filenames for filenames you should not use these are special file names WordPress reserves for specific purposes What follows the above five lines of code is up to you The rest of the code you write will control how Pages that use the Snarfer Page Template will display See Template Tags for a description of the various WordPress Template functions you can use for this purpose You may find it more convenient to copy some other Template perhaps page php or index php to snarfer php and then add the above five lines of code to the beginning of the file That way you will only have to a ter the HTML and PHP code instead of creating it all from scratch Examples are shown below Once you have created the Page Template and placed it in your Theme s directory it will be available as a choice when you create or edit a Page Note when creating or editing a Page the Page Template option does not appear unless there is at least one template defined in the above manner Examples of Pages and Templates The following is a list of instructional examples Feel free to make additions Archives with Content A Page
7. Out The Log Out link is found at the top right corner in the Administration Panels It is simply a link that will log you out from your WordPress blog When you log in to your blog WordPress stores a so called cookie in your web browser This cookie allows WordPress to remember who you are if you leave your blog s site for a while but come back to it later WordPress will see the cookie and not require you to log in again However the cookie cannot tell WordPress who is using the WordPress in other words WordPress has no way of looking back at you through your monitor to determine if you are really you If you have a WordPress cookie set in your web browser anyone using your computer can access the Administration Panels of your blog If you don t want this to happen perhaps you are using a public computer or a computer which other people use you can click this Log Out link and WordPress will delete the cookie from your web browser You can of course log in at some later time Favorites Menu The Favorites Menu in the header is provided to give quick access to the most used WordPress functions Those options include New Post Drafts New Page Upload and Comments Screen Options Screen Options displayed as a hanging tab under the header allow the user to decide what fields or modules are presented in the work area for a given function Each SubPanel may have a different set of Screen Options Click on the Screen O
8. Resources More glossaries with collection of blogging terms acronyms and abbreviations Giant Blogging Terms Glossary Blogging Terms at Wikipedia Blog Glossary at Samizdata net Categories Deprecated Functions WordPress Help Troubleshooting Getting Started Advanced Topics Report a Site Bug Privacy GPL Browse Happy WordPress Updates RSS 19 of 19 3 11 2010 2 57 PM
9. Time or a timestamp is a method of tracking time by determining the approximate number of seconds from a particular event That event is called an Epoch Since this time format is only off by a few seconds each century it is usually considered good enough for most applications Unix time is currently a ten digit number and looks like this like 1229362315 WordPress often uses a Unix timestamp internally to track time The human readable times and dates you see are converted from Unix Time or from a MySQL DATETIME field a External Links Unix Time at Wikipedia MySQL DATETIME Back to the Top Web server A web server is a computer containing software for and connected to infrastructure for hosting or serving web sites written in HTML The most common web server software on the internet is Apache which is frequently used in conjunction with PHP Perl and other scripting languages It is possible to create one s own web server hosted on any speed of internet connection but many people choose to purchase packages from hosting providers who have the capacity and facilities to provide adequate bandwidth uptime hardware and maintenance for frequently visited web sites a Related articles Hosting WordPress Back to the Top XFN The XHTML Friends Network A decentralised project to have inter blog links that represent relationships between bloggers XFN links resemble lt a href http www photomatt net rel friend met
10. Wikipedia ISAPI ISAPI Internet Server Application Programming Interface is a set of programming standards designed to allow programmers to quickly and easily develop efficient Web based applications Developed by Process Software and Microsoft Corporation ISAPI is intended to replace CGI programs External links ISAPI at Wikipedia Back to the Top JavaScript Developed by Netscape and Sun JavaScript is a client side programming or scripting language It s used to create interactive and dymanic effects on a web page as well as handle and manipulate form data JavaScript is a separate language from Java All modern browsers support JavaScript with the exception of most text based browsers e g w3m Some excellent JavaScript references and tutorials can be found at JavaScript Kit 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 9 of 19 a See also HTML XHTML Back to the Top Linux Linux is an open source computer operating system created by Linus Torvalds similar in style to Unix It is popular in web server and other high performance computing environments and has recently begun to gain popularity in workstation environments as well a External links Linux at Shortopedia Back to the Top Mac OS X Mac OS X is an operating system specifically for modern Macintosh computers The operating system was first commercially released in 2001 It consists of two main parts Darwin
11. and it will add it to an iTunes based feed Podcasting also includes a player allowing visitors to your site to view the file on the web Features a Adds a dedicated Podcasting feed with full iTunes support Includes the ability to have multiple podcasting feeds based on file format or other factors Fully integrates with ant existing enclosures already stored in WordPress Offers a migration tool for users of podPress Post Podcasts with PodPress Warning PodPress doesn t work with WordPress 2 7 The PodPress plugin is designed to make Podcasting with WordPress as easy as possible Features Full featured and automatic feed generation RSS2 iTunes and ATOM Auto Generation of enclosure tag Preview of what your Podcast will look like on iTunes Podcast Download stats Support for Premium Content Pay Only Makes adding a Podcast to a Post very simple View MP3 Files ID3 tags while you are Posting Control where the player will display within your post Support for various formats including Video Podcasting Supports unlimited number of media files Automatic Media player for MP3 MP4 MOV FLV ASF WMV AVI and more Includes inline and Popup Window support Preview image for videos More Info a While you re Posting you will be presented with fields for your media file and everything is made easy 1 In the admin screens you re able to define your standard podcast settings as well as your iTunes specifi
12. and movies to your posts SubPanels Media is the images video recordings and files you upload and use in your blog Media is typically Library Add New uploaded and inserted into the content when writing a Post or Page Note that the Uploading settings in the Settings Miscellaneous SubPanel describes the location and structure of the upload directory Media Library The Media Library SubPanel allows you edit delete or view Media previously uploaded to your blog Multiple Media objects can be selected for deletion Search and filtering ability is also provided to allow you to find the desired Media Upload New Media The Media Add New SubPanel allows you to upload new media to later use with posts and pages A Flash Uploader is provided and the ability to use a Browser Uploader is supplied if the Flash Uploader does not work Back to the Top Links Putting the Inter in the Internet SubPanels Even if you have a beautifully designed content rich blog your site might be a dead end if it never Edit Add New references all the other blogs humor sites search engines sports teams or chicken cacciatore recipies you love so much Since you visit those sites all the time then use the WordPress Add New Link ability to Link Categories allow your reading public to also enjoy those sites WordPress Links can be organized by category have internal references about your relationship to their destinations can be automatically associat
13. cPanel External links cPanel website CSS CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is a W3C open standards programming language for specifying how a web page is presented It allows web site designers to create formatting and layout for a web site independently of its content Related articles CSS Blog Design and Layout a External links CSS at W3C Open standards at Wikipedia W3C org Back to the Top Database A database in computing terms is software used to manage information in an organized fashion WordPress uses the MySQL relational database management system for storing and retrieving the content of your blog such as posts comments and so on Related articles Database Description Backing Up Your Database Deprecated Deprecated functions or template tags are no longer supported and will soon be obsolete Related articles Developer A developer or dev is a computer programmer who is active in creating modifying and updating a software product Related articles Hacking WordPress Plugin API DIV A DIV element in HTML marks a section of text DIVs are used extensively in WordPress to apply CSS stylings to particular blog elements Related articles CSS Blog Design and Layout DOM DOM Document Object Model is a standard platform independent interface that allows programmers to dynamically access HTML and XML to control the content and structure of documents DOM connects programming scrip
14. group of php functions that can extend the functionality present in a standard WordPress weblog These functions may all be defined in one php file or maybe spread among more than one file Usually a plugin is a php file that can be uploaded to the wp content plugins directory on your webserver where you have installed WordPress Once you have uploaded the plugin file you should be able to turn it on or Enable it from the Plugins page in the administration interface of 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 12 of 19 your weblog The WordPress source code contains hooks that can be used by plugins a See also hack hacking a Related articles Plugins Port Within the context of the WordPress community a port is a bit of code that has been rewritten to be compatible with WordPress For example if someone wrote a plugin for MoveableType WordPress users may want to find a port of that plugin for WordPress Port can also be used as a verb to rewrite a piece of software for a different platform language External links Porting at Wikipedia Post Slug A word or two describing an entry for use in permalinks replaces the Yposttitle field therein especially useful if titles tend to be long or they change frequently Post Status The status of a post as set in the Administration Panel Write Post SubPanel is either Published viewable by everyone Draft incomplete pos
15. logging into phpMyAdmin and click databases eo Server localhost a A list of databases will appear Click your WordPress database Hoi si Databases Ploare select a Databases database Database tamba org uk T oJ Image 2 http codex wordpress org Resetting Your Password 3 11 2010 2 56 PM Resetting Your Password WordPress Codex 3 of 4 i i o se All the tables in your database will appear If not click Structure _ S 2 Look for wp_users y 2 Click on the icon for browse or structure py ve DJ The next screen lists the fields within the wp_users table tes muesmvannaie s oes Image 4 On user_login click browse and find the ID number associated with your login Remember it Go back to the wp_users table a On the user pass field click browse and find the ID number associated with your login Click edit Next to the ID number is a long list of numbers and letters i K Select and delete these and type in your new password Image 6 Type in the password you want to use Just type it in normally but remember it is case sensitive In this example the new password will be rabbitseatcarrots Once you have done that click the dropdown menu indicated and select MD5 from the menu Check that your password is actually correct and that MDS is in the box co Image 7 Click the Go button to the bottom right Tes
16. not be confused with the time oriented objects called Posts nor should a WordPress Page be confused with the word page referring to any web page or HTML document on the Web Because Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology and as such are not displayed with the rest of your Posts but are displayed individually Edit Pages The Pages Edit SubPanel provides the necessary tools to edit delete and view existing Pages On this SubPanel you can select the Page to edit or delete Multiple Pages can be selected for deletion and for editing As with Posts a powerful bulk edit tool allows certain fields to be edited for a whole group of Pages A handy in line edit tool called Quick Edit allows you to update many fields for an individual Page Various search and filtering options allow you to find the Pages you want to edit or delete Add New Page The Add New Page SubPanel allows you to create new Pages Also see the Pages article for an in depth discussion Back to the Top Comments Reader Feedback Comments are a feature of blogs which allow readers to respond to Posts Typically readers simply provide their own thoughts regarding the content of the post but users may also provide links to other resources generate discussion or simply compliment the author for a well written post Comments can be controlled and regulated through the use of filters for language and content and often times can be queued for approval be
17. of this entry is displayed Your visitor can then click on that link to see the full version of your post The Template Tag the_content should be used to display the teaser Related articles Customizing the Read More Excerpt Back to the Top Feed A feed is a function of special software that allows Feedreaders to access a site automatically looking for new content and then posting the information about new content and updates to another site This provides a way for users to keep up with the latest and hottest information posted on different blogging sites Some Feeds include RSS alternately defined as Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication Atom or RDF files Dave Shea author of the web design weblog Mezzoblue has written a comprehensive summary of feeds Feeds generally are based on XML technology FTP FTP or File Transfer Protocol is rather predictably a client server protocol for transferring files It is one way to download files and the most common way to upload files to a server An FTP client is a program which can download files from or upload files to an FTP server You may need to use an FTP client to upload your WordPress files to your web server particularly if you use a hosting provider Related articles FTP Clients Uploading WordPress to a remote host Using FileZilla Back to the Top Gallery As defined by Andy Skelton Gallery introduced with WordPress 2 5 is specifically an exp
18. schedule a post for publication on a future time or date click Edit in the Publish area next to the words Publish immediately Change the settings to the desired time and date You must also hit the Publish button when you have completed the post to publish at the desired time and date Publish box Visibility This determines how your post appears to the world Public posts will be visible by all website visitors once published Password Protected posts are published to all but visitors must know the password to view the post content Private posts are visible only to you and to other editors or admins within your site Permalink After you save your post the Permalink below the title shows the potential URL for the post as long as you have permalinks enabled To enable permalinks go to Settings gt Permalinks The URL is generated from your title In previous versions of WordPress this was referred to as the page slug The commas quotes apostrophes and other non HTML favorable characters are changed and a dash is put between each word If your title is My Site Here s Lookin at You Kid it will be cleaned up to be my site heres lookin at you kid as the title You can manually change this maybe shortening it to my site lookin at you kid Save Allows you to save your post as a draft pending review rather than immediately publishing it To return to your drafts later visit Posts Edit in the menu bar then select you
19. settings for your site your site s title and location who may register an account at your blog and how dates and times are calculated and displayed Writing Using the Settings Writing SubPanel you can control the interface with which you write new posts These settings control the size of the post box in the Write Post SubPanel the default Category the default Link Category the default image sizes and the optional Post via e mail feature Reading The settings in the Settings Reading SubPanel are few in number but still important You can decide if you want posts or a static Page displayed as your blog s front main page You can also adjust how many posts are displayed on that main page In addition you can adjust syndication feed features to determine how the information from your site is sent to a reader s web browser or other applications Discussion The Settings Discussion SubPanel allows you to control settings concerning incoming and outgoing comments pingbacks and trackbacks You can also control from this SubPanel the circumstances under which your blog sends you e mail notifying you about the goings on at your site and you can decide if your blog should show Avatars and their ratings Media The Settings Media SubPanel allows you to determine where images documents and other media files will be linked to when inserted into the body of a post and to specify the maximum dimensions in pixels to use when inserti
20. the fly Rewrite rules use regular expressions to parse the requested URL from the client and translate it into a different URL before interpretation WordPress uses mod_rewrite for its permalink structure which is optional functionality Related articles Using Permalinks MySQL MySQL is a popular open source SQL Structured Query Language database implementation available for many platforms including Windows Unix Linux and Mac OS X WordPress requires a MySQL database to store all blog information including posts comments metadata and other information 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 10 of 19 Related articles Database Description External links MySQL AB Back to the Top News reader A news aggregator or news feed reader is a computer program which tracks syndicated information feeds via RSS RDF or Atom Most news aggregators allow one to subscribe to a feed and automatically keep track of the articles one has read similar to an email client tracking read emails Many blogs make their content available in feed form for the convenience of readers using news aggregators WordPress can generate feeds in RSS and or Atom formats External links News aggregator at Wikipedia Back to the Top Open Source Open source is simply programming code that can be read viewed modified and distributed by anyone who desires WordPress is distribut
21. the rantings of a blog owner and contributors Posts in most cases are the reason a blog exists without Posts there is no blog Edit Posts Via the Posts Edit SubPanel you can select the Post or Posts you wish to edit delete or view Multiple Posts can be selected for deletion and for editing A powerful bulk edit feature allows you to change certains fields en masse for a group of Posts A handy in line edit tool called Quick Edit allows you to update many fields for an individual Post Various search and filtering options allow you to find the Posts you want to edit or delete Add New Post The most important part of WordPress the Posts Add New SubPanel is where you write new Posts While you are writing those Posts you can also create new Categories new Tags and new Custom Fields In addition any Media pictures video recordings files can be uploaded and inserted into the Posts Tags Tags are the keywords you might assign to each post Not to be confused with Categories Tags have no hierarchy meaning there s no relationship from one Tag to another But like Categories Tags provide another means to aid your readers in accessing information on your blog When using the WordPress Default Theme sometimes called Kubrick this is one of the two themes delivered with WordPress Tags are displayed under each Post those Tags are assigned Someone viewing your blog can click on one of those Tag links and an arch
22. 2 of 6 below your post title when you start typing in the body of your post not just the title However if you have a different permalink option selected or if you don t have permalinks enabled at all you must do the following to edit your page URL Write a page by going to Page gt Add New Click the Publish button to publish your page Go to Pages gt Edit Click Edit under the name of your page Or e GIN See the permalink under the title and click the Edit link to change it Thus if you don t have the right permalink option enabled you have to publish your pages before you can set the URLs Listing Your Pages on Your Site WordPress is able to automatically generate a list of Pages on your site for example within the sidebar using a Template Tag called vp list pages See the wp_list_pages page for information on how to do the following Sort the list of Pages to fully customize the order in which the Pages are listed you might find the Page Order section on the Page gt Add New administration panel exclude or hide a Page from the list Control which Pages are displayed i e all Pages or just certain SubPages and Control how deep into your Page hierarchy the list goes Naturally you can also link to Pages manually with an HTML link For example if you want your Copyright Page listed in your footer that link might read as below If you do not have Permalinks set up lt a title Copy
23. Happy WordPress Updates RSS 3 11 2010 2 54 PM Writing Posts WordPress Codex lof5 http codex wordpress org Writing_Posts I Search the Codex Home Showcase Extend About Docs Blog Codex VVriting Posts Languages English e A e Rom n e Imne e Add your language Posts are the entries that display in reverse chronological order on your home page In contrast to pages posts usually have comments fields beneath them and are included in your site s RSS feed To write a post Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel Dashboard Click the Posts tab Click the Add New Sub Tab Start filling in the blanks As needed select a category add tags and make other selections from the sections below the post Each of these sections ah KU Ne is explained below 6 When you are ready click Publish Descriptions of Post Fields Contents hide 1 Descriptions of Post Fields 2 Best Practices For Posting 3 Visual Versus HTML Editor 4 More Information and Resources WordPress Admin Writing 6 Post Advanced Panel Top of Page Title The title of your post You can use any words or phrases Avoid using the same title twice as that will cause problems You can use commas apostrophes quotes hypens dashes and other typical symbols in the post like My Site Here s Lookin at You Kid WordPress will clean it up for the link to the post called the post slug Post Editing Area Th
24. K and 60K Smaller images should be closer to 30K and lower The resolution of the image dictates its clarity The higher the resolution though the larger the file size so you have to make a compromise between quality and file size Luckily the various file types most commonly used on the Internet have compression features When you save the file as one of these types it condenses or compresses the data information in the image file Internet browsers can decompress this information to display the image on the screen Some graphic software programs allow you to set the compression rate to control the quality of the image and file size at the time you save it Depending upon your use of the images on your site you 3 11 2010 2 55 PM Using Images WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Using_Images 4 of 6 may have to experiment with this to get the right ratio that keeps the resolution quality good while maintaining a small file size Websites use four common file types The end of a filename called the extension tells what type it is One type ico is to make a favicon file but this is usually only done when a website is first set up The other three types are used for general images m jpg JPEG is good for photographs Saving a photo as jpg removes detail from the photo Good photo editors let you control how much detail is removed the compression Different photos need different compression doing this carefull
25. Template that shows the Page s content at the top and then displays a list of archive months and categories below it This is designed to work with WordPress s Default theme aka Kubrick but will probably work with many other themes with a little modification Save this to arc cont php lt php Template Name Archives with Content 2 lt php get header 25 lt div id content class widecolumn gt lt php if have_posts while have_posts the_post gt lt div class post gt lt h2 id post lt php the_ID gt gt lt php the_title gt lt h2 gt lt div class entrytext gt lt php the_content lt p class serif gt Read the rest of this page amp raquo lt p gt gt lt div gt lt div gt lt php endwhile endif gt lt php edit_post_link Edit this entry lt p gt lt p gt gt lt div gt lt div id main gt lt php include TEMPLATEPATH searchform php gt lt h2 gt Archives by Month lt h2 gt lt ul gt lt php wp_get_archives type monthly gt lt ul gt lt h2 gt Archives by Subject lt h2 gt lt ul gt lt php wp_list_cats gt lt ul gt lt div gt lt php get_footer gt A Page of Posts A Page Template that displays posts from a specific category depending on what Page is being displayed This is designed to work with the WordPress Default theme aka Kubrick but may work with other th
26. WordPress Pages A web page can be static or dynamic Static pages such as a regular HTML page that you might create with Dreamweaver are those which have been created once and do not have to be regenerated every time a person visits it In contrast dynamic pages such as those you create with WordPress do need to be regenerated every time they are viewed code for what to generate has been specified by the author but not the actual page itself These use extensive PHP code which is evaluated each time the page is visited and the content is thus generated on the fly upon each new visit Almost everything in WordPress is generated dynamically including Pages Everything you and others write in WordPress Posts Pages Comments Blogrolls Categories etc is stored in your MySQL database When your site is accessed that database information is then used by your WordPress Templates from your current Theme to generate the web page being requested Thus WordPress information is dynamic including the information contained in your Pages An example of a static page might be an HTML document without any PHP code you ve written as an addition to your dynamically generated WordPress pages perhaps an About Me page The problem with purely static pages is that they are difficult to maintain Changes you make to your WordPress settings Themes and Templates will not be propagated to pages coded only in HTML The Page feature of WordPress was devel
27. address 46 ISAPI 47 JavaScript 48 Linux 49 Mac OS X 50 Meta 51 Moblogging 52 mod_rewrite 53 MySQL 54 News reader 55 Open Source 56 Page 57 Perl 58 Permalink 59 Permissions 60 PHP 61 phpMyAdmin 62 Ping 63 Pingback 64 Plugin 65 Port 66 Post Slug 67 Post Status 68 Query string 69 Query Variable 70 QuickTag 71 RDF 72 Relative Path 73 Relative URI 74 Recordset 75 RSS 76 Robots txt 77 Shell 78 Sidebar 79 Slug 80 Smileys 81 Spam 82 SSH 83 SSL 84 Subversion 85 Syndication 86 Tag 87 Tagline 88 Task Based Documentation 89 Telnet 90 Text editor 91 Theme 92 Trackback 93 Unicode 94 Unix 95 Unix Time 96 Web server 97 XFN http codex wordpress org Glossary 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 3 of 19 Blogging is the act of writing in one s blog To blog something is to write about something 98 XHTML in one s blog This sometimes involves linking to something the author finds interesting on a 99 XML the internet 100 XML RPC 101 More Resources See also blogosphere blogroll Blogosphere The blogosphere is the subset of internet web sites which are or relate to blogs See also blog blogroll Blogroll A blogroll is a list of links to various blogs or news sites Often a blogroll is rolled by a service which tracks updates using feeds to each site in the list and provides the list in a form which aggregates u
28. arder once it is public Take a moment to read what you ve written before hitting the Publish button When you are ready share it with the world Write about what you like You ve heard this a thousand times before and it sounds too cliched but it is true If you force yourself to write something that you don t really enjoy it will show Perhaps you might not have a specific theme for writing when you just start but that s ok You ll become more focused later Just enjoy the experience and write what you like Write frequently Write as frequently as you can may be even more than twice a day but don t let quantity get in the way of quality Your viewers come for content don t give them useless stuff Don t use too much slang Not all the readers will be from your part of the world so make sure people can understand easily Don t hide your emotions Tempting as it might be don t hide your real emotions After all that is what a blog is about If you want you can stay anonymous and voice your feelings on whatever you are passionate about You might have strong views on various subjects but let your readers know your passion What is passion worth if you can t even share it You ll actually love the discussions it can lead to The discussions will broaden your own thinking and you might end up making some really good friends Consider your readers Perhaps this sounds weird but consider who needs to know about your blog before
29. c settings and can even see a preview of what your podcast will look in the iTunes music store If you want to control where the player and links will show up in your comment use the display_podcast tag 2 By adding the mp3 location after your Post it will show the player in the post and will add the enclosure tags to your RSS2 feed 3 a You can set the iTunes specific settings and get an instant preview of what it will look like in iTunes 4 You can view your MP3 file s ID3 tag information and even copy the contents of the ID3 tags into your Post 5 The end result is a nice flash player for MP3 plugin support for most video formats Additionally you will have download links for each media file 6 Here s what it looks like when you play a video inline 7 Post Podcasts with Quicktag Button Podz Podcasting Quicktag Button instructions add a podcasting quicktag button to your Write Post admin panel To use the podcasting quicktag button follow the directions in the article by opening your quicktags js file from your http codex wordpress org Podcasting 3 11 2010 2 55 PM Podcasting WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Podcasting wp admin folder in a text editor and adding the supplied code Save and upload your quicktags js to your site and test it out In your Write Post panel have the link ready for your podcast click the podcasting quicktag button and paste in your link Done Post Podcasts wit
30. cted click Ok and enter a password Then click OK Note Editor and Admin users can see password protected or private posts in the edit view without knowing the password Post Author A list of all blog authors you can select from to attribute as the post author This section only shows if you have multiple users with authoring rights in your blog To view your list of users see Users tab on the far right For more information see Users and Authors WordPress Admin Writing 9 Post Advanced Panel Bottom of Page Note You can set basic options for writing such as the size of the post box how smiley tags are converted and other details by going to Settings gt Writing See Writing Options SubPanel Best Practices For Posting You can say or show the world anything you like on your WordPress site Here are some tips you need to know to help you write your posts in WordPress Practice Accessibility To be compliant with web standards for accessibility be sure to include ALT and TITLE descriptions on links and images to help your users such as lt a title WordPress Codex href http codex wordpress org gt WordPress Codex lt a gt Use Paragraphs No one likes to read writing that never pauses for a line break To break your writing up into paragraphs use double spaces between your paragraphs WordPress will automatically detect these and insert lt p gt HTML paragraph tags into your writing Using Headings If you are writi
31. d maybe you really want to isolate your image from the rest of the text so you increase the margin around the image J img 1 margin 20px padding 10px border double black 1px Styling Some Images You can add to your style sheet a specific style for certain images If you have already styled all of your images you must make sure you specify every style declaration or attribute specified in the image tag style in order to override that attribute If you do not change the margin then it will remain the same in the new style This is called the CSS Parent Child Relationship Let s say you would like to have some images in your posts filed in the category of Nature have a nice green background The rest of the images should look the same just the ones you add in your Nature category You simply add a class to your style sheet and each image within that category gZ To make it easy to remember we ll call our class nature We want to have a very dark green thick border and a medium green background around the image to highlight it img nature margin 20px padding 20px border solid 003300 4px background 006600 On each of the images within that category you simply add the class for nature lt img src leaf gif alt Red leaf class nature gt If you need more styles for different images you can create more of them as needed Styling One or Two Images Inline There are times when you just want one or two imag
32. d using a service such as Gravatar com a blog owner to can configure their blog so that a user s gravatar is displayed along with their comments a See also avatar Related articles Using Gravatars a External links Gravatar at Wikipedia Back to the Top Hack A hack is a bit of code written to customize or extend the functionality of a software product Older versions of WordPress used a hack based extension system but versions 1 2 and above of WordPress use a plugin API with hooks for extensions See also hacking plugin a Related articles Changelog Hacking WordPress Plugin API External links Open source at Wikipedia Hacking Hacking is the process of writing code for or contributing code to a piece of software There is some controversy surrounding the meaning of this term It began as a benign term meaning to exercise proficiency or to alter or improve but the popular media have since construed it to mean to break into a computer system usually with malicious intent Many in the computer industry have recently begun trying to take back the word from its popular mutation and many have adopted the term cracking to replace the malicious interpretation Because of the desire to reclaim the word you will often find the term used in conjunction with open source projects intended in its benign form For more information about the history of the term please see Wikipedia s article on Hacker m See also
33. deos audio or miscellaneous media e g PDF files This method will complete both steps as outlined above In the From Computer area of the screen you need to upload the desired image file NOTE Before hitting the Upload from Computer button it is recommended that you select the Browser Uploader instead of using the default Flash Uploader After selecting the Browser Uploader hit the Browse button and choose the desired image file on your computer Then hit the Upload button Your image file is now on your web server Make sure you give the image an appropriate title as well as a relevant description if desired Choose the desired alignment and size and hit the insert into post button Your image is now inserted into the post at the location where your cursor was last active Every time you upload an image to your web server it is added to the Gallery of images that are available for that blog If you want to insert the same image into another post go to the Gallery hit the Show link and then follow the same instructions to insert that image into another location or post You can also manually upload an image onto your webserver with an ftp program The details for this method are not included here Image Size and Quality The size and quality of an image for use on a web page is determined by a variety of things Physical Size The physical size of an image is based upon two things The size of the image o
34. e blank box where you enter your writing links links to images and any information you want to display on your site You can use either the Visual or the HTML view to compose your posts For more on the HTML view see the section below Visual Versus HTML View Preview button Allows you to view the post before officially publishing it Publish box Contains buttons that control the state of your post The main states are Published Pending Review and Draft A Published status means the post has been published on your blog for all to see Pending Review means the draft is waiting for review by an editor prior to publication Draft means the post has not been published and remains a draft for you If you select a specific publish status and click the update post or Publish button that status is applied to the post For example to save a post in the Forums Hosting Download Codex tools Log in create account Home Page WordPress Lessons Getting Started Working with WordPress Design and Layout Advanced Topics Troubleshooting Developer Docs About WordPress Codex Resources Community portal Current events Recent changes Random page Help 3 11 2010 2 48 PM Writing Posts WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Writing_Posts Pending Review status select Pending Review from the Publish Status drop down box and click Save As Pending You will see all posts organized by status by going to Posts gt Edit To
35. each Theme you have uploaded to your site Note See Using Themes for information on finding downloading and uploading Themes Widgets Widgets are gadgets or gizmos that allow you to add various pieces of information to your Theme s sidebar content Widgets http codex wordpress org Administration_ Panels 3 11 2010 2 53 PM Administration Panels WordPress Codex 5 of 8 for example can be used to add Categories Archives Blogroll Recent Posts and Recent Comments to your sidebar The WordPress Default 1 6 and WordPress Classic 1 5 Themes delivered with WordPress are both widget compatible From the Appearance Widgets SubPanel you can add delete and configure the Widgets use in one or more of your Theme s sidebar Edit Themes Use the Theme Editor to edit the various files that comprise your Themes The Appearance Editor SubPanel allows you to designate which theme you want to edit then displays the files in that theme Each file Template and CSS in the theme can be editted in the large text box For more information about the code used for Themes see Theme Development Templates Stepping Into Templates Template Hierarchy and the page on Template Tags Install Themes The Appearance Add New Themes SubPanel allows you to add new themes Customize Header The Header Image and Color feature allows you to manage the look and feel of a Theme s header This option will only be present if the Theme author ha
36. ed under an open source GNU General Public License GPL Related articles GPL License a External links Open Source Initiative Open Source at Wikipedia Source Code at Wikipedia Back to the Top Page A Page is often used to present static information about yourself or your site A good example of a Page is information you would place on an About Page A Page should not be confused with the time oriented objects called posts Pages are typically timeless in nature and live outside your blog The word page has long been used to describe any HTML document on the web In WordPress however Page refers to a very specific feature first introduced in WordPress version 1 5 Related articles Pages Write Page SubPanel Perl Perl is an acronym for Practical Extraction and Report Language but it s most commonly spelled as a proper name It s a very popular and powerful scripting language used for web applications although its use is being largely replaced by PHP in the mainstream One of its strengths lies in its speedy and effective use of regular expressions Its unofficial motto is There s More Than One Way To Do It or TMTOWTDI owing to the extreme flexibility of the syntax WordPress does not use Perl and it is therefore not required Permalink A permalink is a URL at which a resource or article will be permanently stored Many pages driven by Content Management Systems contain excerpts of content which is fr
37. ed with images and can even be rated on a scale from zero to nine Edit Links The Links Edit SubPanel allows you to select the Links to edit or delete Multiple Links can be selected for deletion Various search and filtering options allow you to find the Links you want to edit or delete Add New Link As you might expect from its name the Links Add New SubPanel handles the creation of new links Link Categories Links like Posts can be categorized and categorizing Links aids your audience in navigation of your Links But Link Categories unlike post Categories have no hierarchy parent child relationship In creating categories recognize that each Category name must be unique The Links Link Categories SubPanel allows you to add edit and delete Link Categories as well as organize your Link Categories hierarchically Multiple Link Categories can be selected for deletion A search option allows you to find the Link Categories you want to edit or delete Also remember Link Categories can be added when adding or editings Links Back to the Top 3 11 2010 2 53 PM Administration Panels K VVordPress Codex 4of8 SubPanels Pages Your Static Content Edit A Page is another tool to add content to a WordPress site and is often used to present static information Add New about the site Pages are typically timeless in nature A good example of a Page is the information contained in About or Contact Pages A Page should
38. emes with a little modification Save this to pageofposts php 3 11 2010 2 54 PM Pages WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Pages lt php Template Name PageOfPosts get_header gt lt div id content class narrowcolumn gt lt php page id 21 will get category ID 12 posts page 16 will get category 32 posts page 28 will get category 17 posts if is page 21 cat array 12 elseif is_page 16 cat array 32 elseif is_page 28 cat array 17 else cat 5 showposts 1 1 shows all posts do_not_show_stickies 1 to show stickies args array category__in gt cat shouposts gt showposts caller get posts gt do not shom stickies 3 my_query new WP_Query args 2 lt php if my_query gt have_posts gt lt php while my_query gt have_posts my_query gt the_post gt lt php necessary to show the tags global up query up query sin the loop true 2 lt div lt php post class 25 id post lt php the ID gt gt lt h2 gt lt a href lt php the permalink 25 rel bookmark title Permanent Link to lt php the title attribute gt gt lt php the title gt lt a gt lt h2 gt lt small gt lt php the time F jS Y gt lt by lt php the author 25 gt lt small gt lt div class entry gt lt php the_content Read the rest of this ent
39. equently rotated making linking to bits of information within them a game of chance Permalinks allow users to bookmark full articles at a URL they know will never change and will always present the same content 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 11 of 19 Permalinks are optional in WordPress but are highly recommended as they greatly increase the cleanliness of URL WordPress uses the Apache module mod_rewrite to implement its permalink system Related articles Using Permalinks External links URL at Wikipedia Permissions Permissions are security settings restricting or allowing users to perform certain functions In the case of files on Unix or Linux systems there are three types of permissions read write and execute In the case of MySQL databases there are many more SELECT INSERT UPDATE DELETE etc although MySQL refers to them as privileges a Related articles Changing File Permissions PHP PHP is a recursive acronym for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor It is a popular server side scripting language designed specifically for integration with HTML and is used often in conjunction with MySQL in Content Management Systems and other web applications It is available on many platforms including Windows Unix Linux and Mac OS X and is open source software WordPress is written using PHP and requires it for operation Related articles Hacking WordPress Ext
40. ernal links PHP Website PHP for Designers by WordPress lead developer Matthew Mullenweg PHP at OnLAMP phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is a popular powerful web based interface for administering MySQL databases It is open source written in PHP and is among the better tools available for working with MySQL databases Related articles phpMyAdmin External links phpMyAdmin web site Ping Within the WordPress interface ping is sometimes used to refer to Pingbacks and Trackbacks In general computer terms ping is a common utility used in a TCP IP environment to determine if a given IP Address exists or is reachable Typically Ping is used to diagnose a network connection problem Many times you will be asked Can you ping that address That means does the Ping utility return a success message trying to reach the problem IP Address External links Ping at Wikipedia Pingback Pingback lets you notify the author of an article if you link to his article article on a blog of course If the links you include in an article you write on a blog lead to a blog which is pingback enabled then the author of that blog gets a notification in the form of a pingback that you linked to his article If you re feeling really geeky you may want to check out the Pingback technical specification or Otto s How Pingbacks Work explanation See also trackback Related articles to Blogging Pingbacks Plugin A Plugin is a
41. es on your site to look different from the rest This technique is called inline styles It applies the CSS styles directly to the image itself For example say you want to have an image isolated against a black background to call attention to it J lt img src leaf gif alt Red leaf style padding 2 px background black border none gt This is not a technique to use on every image It is to be used on occasional images that need a little something special Resources Wrapping Text Around Images WordPress Design and Layout Photoblogs and Galleries a Image File Formats on the Web This article is marked as in need of editing You can help Codex by editing it Categories Design and Layout WordPress Lessons Copyedit 3 11 2010 2 55 PM Using Images WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Using_Images 6 of 6 3 11 2010 2 55 PM Podcasting WordPress Codex 1 of 4 http codex wordpress org Podcasting Search the Codex Home Showcase Extend About Docs Blog Codex Podcasting What Is Podcasting Contents Podcasting is distributing audio or video content via RSS 2 0 or Atom Podcast clients hide such as iTunes Juice or CastPodder linux allow listeners to subscribe to your 1 What Is Podcasting RSS Atom feed and automatically download your content to their portable audio 2 Using WordPress For Podcasting players as it becomes available 3 Dedicated Podcasts 4 Archive org i
42. final size The advanced graphics programs allow you to set it by exact dimensions or a percentage of reduction or enlargement After resizing the image the image may be smaller but it may also be slightly out of focus You can sharpen the focus of the small image by using the sharpen feature in your software When you have fine tuned your small sized image or new thumbnail export the image as a jpg gif or png Styling Images Images can have borders frames captions and be styled in many different ways There are basically two ways to style an image on your site You can style it from within the style sheet or inline on a specific image Styling All Images Styling your images from within the style css of your WordPress Theme can cover the styling for every image on your site or specific images To style every image on your site to look a particular way look for or add the CSS selector for the image tag Then add your styles to the tag For instance let s say that you want a black border around all of your images and you Z want space between the border and the image as well as the appropriate spacing around the image and the text img margin 5px padding 10px border solid black 1px 3 11 2010 2 55 PM Using Images K VVordPress Codex http codex vvordpress orgjUsing Images 5 of 6 Maybe you want something a little more dramatic You can change the border thickness and set it to a double line An
43. fore they are visible on the web site This is useful in dealing with comment spam In the Comments SubPanel you can edit and delete as well as mark comments as spam Comments that are awaiting moderation can be marked as approved or previously approved comments can be unapproved Multiple comments can be selected and approved marked as spam unapproved or deleted A section at the top of the Comments SubPanel displays the number of comments awaiting moderation and the number of approved comments A search box allows you to find specific comments Back to the Top Appearance Change the Look of your Blog SubPanels From the Presentation Administration Panel you can control how the content of your blog is displayed Themes WordPress allows you to easily style your site by either installing and activating new Themes or changing Widgets existing Themes Editor Add New Manage Themes Themes Header Image A Theme is the overall design of a site and encompasses color graphics and text A Theme is sometimes anaiGolor called the skin WordPress site owners have available a long list of Themes to choose from in deciding what to present to their sites viewers In fact with the use of the Theme Switcher Reloaded Plugin visitors can select their own Theme From the Appearance Themes SubPanel you can choose which Theme will be presented to user visiting your site you have already downloaded will be used for your site You can also view screenshots of
44. g Forums Hosting Download Codex tools Log in create account Contents hide 1 Absolute Path 2 Absolute URI 3 Apache 4 Array 5 ASCII 6 Atom 7 Avatar 8 Binaries 9 Blog 10 Blogging 11 Blogosphere 12 Blogroll 13 Bookmarklet 14 Boolean 15 Category 16 Capabilities 17 CGI 18 Character Entity 19 Character Set 20 chmod 21 Class 22 Collation 23 Comments 24 Content 25 Content Management System 26 cPanel 27 CSS 28 Database 29 Deprecated 30 Developer a 31 DIV 32 DOM 33 Draft 34 Excerpt 35 Feed 36 FTP 37 Gallery 38 GMT 39 Gravatar 40 Hack Home Page WordPress Lessons Getting Started Working with WordPress Design and Layout Advanced Topics Troubleshooting Developer Docs About WordPress Codex Resources Community portal Current events Recent changes Random page Help 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex 2 of 19 The Template Tag wp_list_categories uses a one dimensional array for the exclude parameter An example of two dimensional array 7 by 3 elements in size would be 10520054 53 10213 405 15 21014 5132 23134512 50150049948855275 1952 External links Array Programming at Wikipedia Array at freedictionary com ASCII ASCII is short for American Standard Code for Information Interchange Pronounced as ask ee it is a standard set of codes used to represent numbers letters symbols and
45. gramming to process the form data once the client submits it Character Entity A character entity is a method used to display special characters normally reserved for use in HTML For example the less than lt and greater than gt are used as part the HTML tag structure so both symbols are reserved for that use But if you need to display those symbols on your site you can use character entities For example use amp lt for the less than lt symbol 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 4 of 19 use amp gt for the greater than gt symbol Related articles Fun Character Entities Character Set A character set is a collection of symbols letters numbers punctuation and special characters when used together represent meaningful words in a language Computers use an encoding scheme so members of a character set are stored with a numeric value e g O A 1 B 2 C 3 D In addition a collation determines the order i e alphabetic to use when sorting the character set By default WordPress uses the Unicode UTF 8 utf8 character set for the WordPress MySQL database tables created during the installation process Beginning with Version 2 2 the database character set and collation is defined in the wp config php file Also note the character set used for syndication feeds is set in the Administration gt Settings gt Reading panel See also collati
46. gt Photo Matt lt a gt XHTML XHTML or Extensible HyperText Markup Language is the successor to HTML as the W3C standard language with which all web pages are created It is often used in conjunction with CSS and JavaScript WordPress strives to conform to the XHTML 1 0 Transitional standard a External links XHTML 1 0 Specification Second Edition XHTML 1 1 Specification XML XML or Extensible Markup Language is written in Standard Generalized Markup Language SGML and essentially allows you to define your own markup language XML is extremely useful in describing sharing and transmitting data across the Internet Typically used in conjunction with HTML XML defines data and HTML displays that data a External links Extensible Markup Language XML Resources at W3C org XML 4 0 FAQ Overview of SGML Resources at W3C org XML RPC XML RPC is Extensible Markup Language Remote Procedure Call A Remote Procedure Call RPC allows you to call or request another application and expect that application to honor the request answer the call So XML RPC allows a user or 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary developer to send a request formatted in XML to an external application Related articles XML RPC Support a External links Dave Winer s XML RPC for Newbies XML RPC Home Page Apache XML RPC XML RPC for PHP Homepage XML RPC at Wikipedia Back to the Top More
47. h Blubrry Powerpress Adding a podcast with PowerPress is as simple as it gets Once the plugin is installed and configured go ahead and create a new blog post A new widget titled Podcast Episode will appear Simply enter the complete URL e g http example com path to media mp3 into the Media URL field and you re all set Optionally you may click the Verify button to confirm the URL is valid If verification is successful the media file size and duration time in hours minutes seconds will be set for you automatically Podcast Episode default Media URL Verify File Size Auto detect file size C Specify in bytes Duration Auto detect duration mp3 s only Specify HH MM SS Not specified Media Embed PowerPress includes options to add media embed codes as pictured above from sites such as YouTube Blip tv UStream tv Viddler etc as well as specific iTunes Summary Subtitle Keywords and Explicit values These optional settings can be enabled in PowerPress Settings gt Basic tab under the option labeled Podcast Entry Box Learn more about PowerPress Categories Getting Started Advanced Topics Feeds Report a Site Bug Privacy GPL Browse Happy WordPress Updates RSS 4of4 3 11 2010 2 55 PM Resetting Your Password WordPress Codex 1 of 4 http codex wordpress org Resetting Your Password I Search the Codex Home Showcase Extend About Docs Blog Codex Reset
48. h of the sub menu choices Clicking that arrow again collapses the sub menu Recent changes The large area in the middle of the screen is the work area It is here the specific information relating to a the particular pandam page navigation choice such as adding a new post is presented and collected Help Finally in the footer at the bottom of each Administration Panel in dark shading are links to WordPress Documentation and Feedback In addition the version of WordPress you have installed is shown Just below the menu tab section if your version is NOT the latest version you will see the message A new version of WordPress is available Please update now Click on the provided link to navigate to the Upgrade SubPanel Each Panel referred to as SubPanel that is accessed via the main navigation menu is presented in the boxes below The links in those boxes will lead you to sections of this article describing those SubPanels From those sections you can navigate to articles detailing more information about each SubPanel Also WordPress Screenshots shows examples of all the SubPanels Dashboard Posts Media Links Pages Comments a Edit Library a Edit a Edit Add New Add New Add New Add New Post Tags Link Categories Categories Appearance Plugins Users Tools Settings Dashboard Information Centrali a Tools Gontents The DAABO tells you about recent Setivity both diSY ar site and irtH WetdPress pol itor Edi
49. hack Related articles Hacking WordPress Plugins Hosting provider A hosting provider is a company or organization which provides usually for a fee infrastructure for making information accessible via the web This involves the use of a web server including web server software such as Apache and may involve one or more related technologies such as FTP PHP MySQL and operating system software such as Linux or Unix a Related articles Hosting WordPress htaccess A htaccess file is a granular configuration file for the Apache web server software used to set or alter the server s configuration settings for the directory in which it is present and or its child directories 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 8 of 19 WordPress uses an htaccess file in conjunction with the mod_rewrite Apache module to produce permalinks Note that htaccess is a hidden file in Unix Linux as dictated by the preceding period meaning it may not be visible using the default settings of some FTP clients See also chmod Related articles htaccess for subdirectories Using Permalinks UNIX Shell Skills Changing File Permissions HTML HTML or Hypertext Markup Language is the W3C standard language with which all web pages are built It is the predecessor to XHTML but HTML is often still used to describe either one It is often used in conjunction with CSS and or JavaScript W
50. he RSS 2 0 Atom links are located on the bottom of the page by default To make life easier for iTunes users consider also linking to your podcast feed with the itpc protocol rather than http e g itpc domain org path feed atom Forums Hosting Download Codex tools Log in create account Home Page WordPress Lessons Getting Started Working with WordPress Design and Layout Advanced Topics Troubleshooting Developer Docs About WordPress Codex Resources Community portal Current events Recent changes Random page Help 3 11 2010 2 55 PM Podcasting WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Podcasting iTunes users will then be able to subscribe to your feed with a single click Notes 1 As of WordPress 1 5 this only works for posts but not for static pages 2 Make sure the linked file is accessible when you publish your post Otherwise WordPress won t be able to collect the information it needs from the linked files 3 If you change a linked file republish the post so WordPress can update its file size information about the file 4 Occasionally you may have to put xml at the end of the RSS Atom url for it to properly work 5 To get Wordpress to recognize m4a and m4b files as podcasts you need to make sure that your web server is configured to serve them with the right content type Do this by adding the following directives to your Apache configuration file or htaccess file AddType aud
51. i Templates interrelationships and not from Tags or Categories Zea Archives viithiGonterit Pages are not files They are stored in your database just like Posts are a 7 2 APag of Posts Although you can put Template Tags and PHP code into a Page Template you aw BANordpress asaleMS cannot put these into the content of a Page and expect them to run Note You can 8 1 Using a Page as the Front Page achieve this by using a PHP evaluating Plugin such as Exec PHP a Q Including a Page 10 The Dynamic Nature of WordPress Creating Pages Pages To create a new Page log in to your WordPress installation with sufficient admin privileges to create new articles Select the Administration gt Pages gt Add New option to begin writing a new Page Changing the URL or Slug of Your Pages With 2 5 changing the page URL became less intuitive If you have Permalinks enabled and you have selected the Day and Name option Click the Settings tab and then click the Permalinks subtab then the permalink automatically shows up Forums Hosting D Download Codex tools Log in create account Home Page WordPress Lessons Getting Started Working with WordPress Design and Layout Advanced Topics Troubleshooting Developer Docs About WordPress Codex Resources Community portal Current events Recent changes Random page Help 3 11 2010 2 54 PM Pages WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Pages
52. icular Page NOTE In order to access the Page Template selector there must be at least one custom Page Template available in the active theme see Creating your own Page Templates below to learn how to create one If a custom page exists but you still are not able to see Page Template selector try to re activate your current theme Default Theme Page Templates The Default theme contains three Page Templates for your use page php Default Page Template displays Page content archives php ignores Page content and instead displays a list of Archives by Month and Archives by Subject by Category m links php ignores Page content and instead displays your links using wp_list_bookmarks What Template is used to Display a Particular Page WordPress will look for several template files in your active Theme The first one it finds will be used to display any given Page WordPress will look for files in the following order 1 The Page s selected Page Template 2 page php 3 index php Creating Your Own Page Templates The files defining each Page Template are found in your Themes directory To create a new Custom Page Template for a Page you must create a file Let s call our first Page Template for our Page snarfer php At the top of the snarfer php file put the following lt php Template Name Snarfer y gt The above code defines this snarfer php file as the Snarfer Template Naturally Snarfer
53. il the use of the More Quicktag mark If you use an Explicit Excerpt this will be used no matter what For more information see Excerpt Send Trackbacks A way to notify legacy blog systems that you ve linked to them If you link other WordPress blogs they ll be notified automatically using pingbacks No other action is necessary For those blogs that don t recognize pingbacks you can send a trackback to the blog by entering the website address es in this box separating each one by a space See Trackbacks and Pingbacks for more information Custom Fields Custom_Fields offer a way to add information to your site In conjunction with extra code in your template files or plugins Custom Fields can modify the way a post is displayed These are primarily used by plugins but you can manually edit that information in this section Discussion Options to enable interactivity and notification of your posts This section hosts two check boxes Allow Comments on this post and Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this post If Allowing Comments is unchecked no one can post 2 of 5 3 11 2010 2 48 PM Writing Posts WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Writing_Posts comments to this particular post If Allowing Pings is unchecked no one can post pingbacks or trackbacks to this particular post Password Protect This Post To password protect a post click Edit next to Visibility in the Publish area to the top right then click Password Prote
54. io x m4a m4a AddType audio x m4b m4b Dedicated Podcasts To create a dedicated podcast feed 1 Create a category in the Admin gt Manage gt Categories panel for your audio files and call it something like podcasts 2 Assign every post containing an audio link to your podcasts category 3 If your blog is at example com your podcast feed will automatically be available at http example com wordpress feed rss2 amp category_name podcasts Add this to your htaccess file to make a nice rewrite rule that points visitors directly to your podcasts assumes you ve categorised your podcasts as podcasts as in the example above podcast rewrite RewriteRule podcasts yourWPsubdirectoryhere index php category_name podcasts QSA L RewriteRule podcasts feed atom rss2 yourWPsubdirectoryhere index php feed 1 amp category_name podcasts QSA L Now you can give your podcasts feed as http example com podcasts feed rss2 for RSS2 format or http example com podcasts feed atom for Atom format If you don t know the difference between the two give out the first as RSS2 is generally a bit better supported Archive org issues Archive org can be used to host podcast audio files but archive org uses re directs on the file paths it publishes this confuses WordPress and consequently the Podcast publication fails missing enclosure tag error To avoid this error if you are hosting your audio files on archive o
55. is filed under one or more Categories Categories allow the classification of your Posts into groups and subgroups thereby aiding viewers in the navigation and use of your site Each Category may be assigned to a Category Parent so that you may set up a hierarchy within the category structure Using 3 11 2010 2 53 PM Administration Panels K VVordPress Codex http codex vvordpress orgj Administration Panels 3 of 8 automobiles as an example a hierarchy might be Car gt Ford gt Mustang In creating categories recognize that each category name must be unique regardles of hierarchy When using the WordPress Default Theme sometimes called Kubrick this is one of the two themes delivered with WordPress Categories are shown in two different places on your blog First the Categories are listed as links in the Category section of your sidebar and second all the Categories to which a given post belongs are displayed under that post When someone viewing your blog clicks on one of those Category links a archive page with all the Posts belonging to that Category will be displayed The Posts Categories SubPanel allows you to add edit and delete Categories as well as organize your categories hierarchically Multiple Categories can be selected for deletion A search option allows you to find the Categories you want to edit or delete Also remember Categories can be added in the Posts Add New SubPanel Back to the Top Media Add pictures
56. iting_Posts 5 of 5 Assigns datetime attribute with offset from GMT UTC a link lt a href http example com gt lt a gt HTML tag to create a hyperlink ins lt ins gt lt ins gt HTML tag to label text considered inserted into a post Most browsers display as underlined text Assigns datetime attribute with offset from GMT UTC ul lt ul gt lt ul gt HTML tag will insert an unordered list or wrap the selected text in same An unordered list will typically be a bulleted list of items ol lt ol gt lt ol gt HTML tag will insert a numbered list or wrap the selected text in same Each item in an ordered list are typically numbered li lt li gt lt li gt HTML tag will insert or make the selected text a list item Used in conjunction with the ul or ol tag code lt code gt lt code gt HTML tag for preformatted styling of text Generally sets text in a monospaced font such as Courier more lt more gt WordPress tag that breaks a post into teaser and content sections Type a few paragraphs insert this tag then compose the rest of your post On your blog s home page you ll see only those first paragraphs with a hyperlink more which when followed displays the rest of the post s content a page lt nextpage gt WordPress tag similar to the more tag except it can be used any number of times in a post and each insert will break and paginate the post at that location Hyperlinks to
57. ive page with all the Posts belonging to that Tag will be displayed The Posts Tags SubPanel allows you to add change or delete Tags Multiple Tags can http codex wordpress org Administration_ Panels a 2 4 Categories 3 Media Add pictures and movies to your posts 3 1 Media Library 3 2 Upload New Media 4 Links Putting the Inter in the Internet 4 1 Edit Links 4 2 Add New Link 4 3 Link Categories 5 Pages Your Static Content 5 1 Edit Pages 5 2 Add New Page 6 Comments Reader Feedback 7 Appearance Change the Look of your Blog 7 1 Manage Themes 7 2 Widgets 7 3 Edit Themes 7 4 Install Themes 7 5 Customize Header 8 Plugins Add Functionality to your Blog 8 1 Manage Plugins 8 2 Install Plugins 8 3 Edit Plugins 9 Users Your Blogging Family 9 1 Authors amp Users 9 2 Add New User 9 3 Your Profile 10 Tools Managing your Blog 10 1 Tools Turbo and Press This 10 2 Import 10 3 Export 10 4 Upgrade 11 Settings Configuration Settings LI 1 General a 11 2 Writing CI 3 Reading 11 4 Discussion 11 5 Media I 6 Privacy u 7 Permalinks jat n 8 Miscellaneous 12 Log Out 13 Favorites Menu 14 Screen Options 15 Help be selected for deletion A search option allows you to find the Tags you want to edit or delete Also remember Tags can be added in the Posts Add New SubPanel Categories Every Post in WordPress
58. mages on your page Not what the images are of but the general look of how they flow and interact with the rest of the content on your page Wrapping Text Around Images helps you to begin to understand how images interact with the text around them changing the margins padding and borders around the images within the content It will also help you understand how to create captions under your images The next thing to consider is the size of the images There are two ways of actually sizing an image It is either the size that it is or a thumbnail link which when clicked takes the user to a new page with an enlarged image of the graphic Inserting Images into Posts Inserting an image into a post still seems to confuse a lot of people In versions of Wordpress later than 2 5 inserting images has become very easy Please see this page http codex wordpress org Using_Image_and_File_Attachments 3 11 2010 2 55 PM Using Images K VVordPress Codex http codex vvordpress orgjUsing Images 3 of 6 There are 2 steps involved to inserting an image into a post First the image file must be uploaded onto your web server before it can be inserted into a post The second step is to actually insert the image into the post in the appropriate location The simplest way to do this is to use the Add Media function on the post screen beside the Visual and HTML tabs Choose the appropriate button depending on whether you are adding photos vi
59. n the screen and the file size Generally the file size is treated as a different issue File Size This is the size of the file on your hard drive or server Resolution Resolution refers to the number of pixels in an image Resolution is sometimes identified by the width and height of the image as well as the total number of pixels in the image File Type There are basically X image types popularly found on the Internet jpeg gif png and for favicons the icons next to the address ico The physical size of the image is information we need to know in order to determine how much space will the image occupy on a web page If your WordPress Theme features a fixed width content area of 600 pixels and the image you want to use is 800 the image will push the sidebar and layout of your web page around messing up your design Images within that 600 pixel width need to be restricted to that maximum width in order to protect the layout of your page It s up to you to determine what size they should be from there matching the image to your overall layout and styles File size dictates the time it takes to load your page the larger the file size often increased because of a high image resolution quality the longer it will take to load People often don t have the patience to wait through long web page loads so keeping your file sizes low speeds up your web page access times Typically large high quality images should be kept between 100
60. nd videos They make the pages colorful and viewers get to see a little of your part of the world They feel connected Keep writing Don t stop blogging If you don t have anything to write about chances are you are still holding back Let loose Perhaps surf more blogs and maybe you ll get an idea You can write about your friends complain about your boss or simply rant about what s gone wrong Yet if nothing else works just write a review on the latest movie book or product Easy actually Save your posts Save your posts before you press the publish button Anything can happen with your computer or with an internet connection You don t need to lose your post Visual Versus HTML Editor When writing your post you have the option of using the visual or HTML mode of the editor The visual mode lets you see your post as is while the HTML mode shows you the code and replaces the WYSIWYG editor buttons with quicktags These quicktags are explained as follows b lt strong gt lt strong gt HTML tag for strong emphasis of text i e bold a i lt em gt lt em gt HTML tag for emphasis of text i e italicize b quote lt blockquote gt lt blockquote gt HTML tag to distinguish quoted or cited text del lt del gt lt del gt HTML tag to label text considered deleted from a post Most browsers display as striked threugh text 3 11 2010 2 48 PM Writing Posts WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Wr
61. ng an image into the body of a post Privacy The Settings Privacy SubPanel controls your blog visibility to search engines such as Google and Technorati You can decide if you would like your blog to be visible to everyone including search engines like Google Sphere Technorati and archivers If you don t want your blog available to the search engines you can block search engines but allow normal visitors to see your site Permalinks For a nice introduction to Permalinks check out the Pretty Permalinks section of Introduction to Blogging But briefly and to quote the Settings Permalinks SubPanel itself By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them however WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives This can improve the aesthetics usability and forward compatibility of your links This Settings Permalinks SubPanel controls how that custom URI structure is defined For a more in depth description of the way this structure is specified see the Using Permalinks article Miscellaneous WordPress has so many features that some of them defy categorization Features like file uploads link tracking and support for custom hacks can be controlled from the Settings Miscellaneous SubPanel Back to the Top 3 11 2010 2 53 PM Administration Panels WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Administration_Panels 8 of 8 Log
62. ng long posts break up the sections by using headings small titles to highlight a change of subject In HTML headings are set by the use of h1 h2 h3 h4 and so on By default most WordPress Themes use the first second and sometimes third heading levels within the site You can use h4 to set your own headings Simply type in lt h4 gt Subtitle of Section lt h4 gt with double lines before and after and WordPress will make that title a headline in your post To style the heading add it to your style css style sheet file For more information on styling headings check out Designing Headings Use HTML You don t have to use HTML when writing your posts WordPress will automatically add it to your site but if you do want control over different elements like boxes headings and other additional containers or elements use HTML Spell Check and Proof There are spell check Plugins available but even those can t check for everything Some serious writers will write their posts in a text editor with spell check check all the spelling and proof it thoroughly before copying and pasting into WordPress Think before you post Ranting on blogs is commonplace today but take a moment and think about what you are writing Remember once it is out 3 of 5 3 11 2010 2 48 PM Writing Posts WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Writing_Posts 4 of 5 there it can be seen by many and crawled by search engines and taking things back is h
63. og Related articles Theme Development Using Themes Trackback Trackback helps you to notify another author that you wrote something related to what he had written on his blog even if you don t have an explicit link to his article This improves the chances of the other author sitting up and noticing that you gave him credit for something or that you improved upon something he wrote or something similar With pingback and trackback blogs are interconnected Think of them as the equivalents of acknowledgements and references at the end of an academic paper or a chapter in a textbook See also Pingback Related articles to Blogging Trackbacks Back to the Top Unicode A widely supported and preferred character encoding system For a computer to display letters or any text characters it needs to enumerate them create an index of characters it knows how to display These indexes are known as character sets This is invaluable for users hosting WordPress in a non English language The most widely used collections of these character sets are the iso 8859 with iso 8859 1 and iso 8859 15 which contains the euro sign and some characters used in Dutch French Czech and Slovak being the most common they are also known as Latini and Latin9 These character sets use 8 bits a single byte for each character allowing for 255 different characters 256 counting null However when considering that Latin based languages aren
64. og Forums Hosting Download Co dex Codex tools Log in create account Administration Panels Home Page WordPress Lessons Languages English e AX e AdC fHi K Add your language Getting Started Working with WordPress The Administration Panel provides access to the control features of your WordPress installation Each Administration Panel is Design and Layout presented in sections the header the main navigation the work area and the footer The top portion of all Panels the i 7 ee an N Advanced Topics header is featured in dark shading The header shows the name of your blog and a visit site link to your blog s main page a favorites menu and links to your profile shown as your user name Turbo and Log Out Just below the top shaded area are Troubleshooting two hanging tabs Screen Options and contextual Help that can be clicked to expand them Developer Docs About WordPress On the left side of the screen is the main navigation menu detailing each of the administrative functions you can perform Two expand collapse arrows just below Dashbord and Comments allow the navigation menu to collapse to a set of icons or expand Codex Resources fly out to show an icon and description for each major administrative function Within each major function such as Posts a Community portal pull down arrow is presented upon hovering mouse hovers over the title area A click of that arrow expands the menu to Current events display eac
65. on Related articles Editing wp config php Converting Database Character Sets External links Character set at Wikipedia Unicode at Wikipedia UTF 8 at Wikipedia Character sets and collation at MySQL chmod chmod is a Unix Linux shell command used to change permissions on files Its name is a contraction of change mode Related articles Changing File Permissions UNIX Shell Skills htaccess for subdirectories Class Classes are groupings of CSS styles which can be applied to any HTML element For classes in PHP see the Class Computing article at Wikipedia and PHP Manual Classes and Objects Related articles CSS Blog Design and Layout Collation Collation refers to the order used to sort the letters numbers and symbols of a given character set For example because WordPress by default uses the UTF 8 utf8 character set and when the WordPress MySQL database tables are created during the installation process MySQL assigns utf8_general_ci collation to those table Beginning with Version 2 2 the collation and character set used by WordPress is defined in the wp config php file See also Character set Related articles Editing wp config php Converting Database Character Sets External links Collation at Wikipedia Character set at Wikipedia UTF 8 at Wikipedia Character sets and collation at MySQL Comments Comments are a feature of blogs which allow readers to respond to posts Typically readers simply p
66. oped in part to alleviate this problem By using Pages users no longer have to update their static pages every time they change the style of their site Instead if written properly their dynamic Pages will update themselves along with the rest of your blog Despite the dynamic nature of Pages many people refer to them as being static In the context of web publishing static and dynamic mean what has been described above More generally however static can mean characterized by a lack of change It is easy to see how this definition influenced the word s use in describing types of web pages It is also easy to see why people think of Pages as being static Posts come and go but Pages are here to stay since Pages are typically used to display information about your site which is constant e g information about yourself description of your site In other words a Page contains static information but is generated dynamically Thus either static or dynamic may be validly used to describe the nature of the WordPress Page feature However in order to avoid confusion and because Pages themselves are dynamic while it is only their contents which are in some way static this document does not refer to Pages as being static Related content Making Your Blog Appear in a Non Root Folder How to Use Sort Order for Page Navigation Categories Getting Started Design and Layout Templates Report a Site Bug Privacy GPL Browse
67. opyright Legal Information Reprint Permissions Company Information and Accessibility Statement By the way it s a good idea to always have an about page and a contact page see this advice from Lorelle In general Pages are very similar to Posts in that they both have Titles and Content and can use your site s Presentation Templates to maintain a consistent look throughout your site Pages though have several key distinctions that make them quite different from Posts Pages in a Nutshell Contents What Pages Are hide 1 Pages in a Nutshell Pages are for content that is less time dependent than Posts 2 Creating Pages Pages can be organized into pages and SubPages 3 Changing the URL or Slug of Your Pages can use different Page Templates which can include Template Files Template Pages Tags and other PHP code 4 Listing Your Pages on Your Site 5 Organizing Your Pages What Pages are Not 6 Page Templates 6 1 Default Theme Page Templates Pages are not Posts nor are they excerpted from larger works of fiction They do 6 2 What Template is used to not cycle through your blog s main page Note You can include Posts in Pages by Display a Particular Page using the Inline Posts Plugin 6 3 Creating Your Own Page Pages cannot be associated with Categories and cannot be assigned Tags The Templates organizational structure for Pages comes only from their hierarchical 27 Examples of Pages and
68. ordPress strives to conform to the XHTML standard a External links HTML 4 01 Specification W3C org Back to the Top IP address An IP address is a unique number e g 78 84 29 148 assigned to a computer or other internet capable information appliance such as a network printer to enable it to communicate with other devices using the Internet Protocol It is a computer s identity on the internet and every computer connected to the internet is assigned at least one although the methods of assigning these addresses and the permanence and duration of their assignment differ according to the use of the computer and the circumstances of its internet use Every web server is assigned an IP address as well but often times hosting providers will assign multiple IP addresses to one computer in the event that multiple web sites reside on the same physical server This is the case with most inexpensive managed or group hosting packages Domain names were created to provide an easier means of accessing internet resources than IP addresses which are cumbersome to type and difficult to remember Every domain name has at least one corresponding IP address but only a small number of IP addresses have a domain name associated with them since only computers that are web servers require domain names The Domain Name System DNS is what maps Domain names to IP addresses External links Domain names at Wikipedia Domain Name System DNS at
69. osition of images attached to a post In that same vein an upload is attached to a post when you upload it while editing a post In the uploader there is a Gallery tab that shows all the uploads attached to the post you are editing When you have more than one attachment in a post you should see at the bottom of the Gallery tab a button marked Insert gallery into post That button inserts a shortcode gallery into the post WordPress replaces that shortcode with an exposition of all images attached to that post Non image file types are excluded from the gallery Note If you don t see the Insert galley into post button it may be because you have not attached two images to the post The pretty URLs for attachments are made only after you have published the post and should be composed as the post 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 7 of 19 permalink plus the attachment slug Related articles Gallery Shortcode Shortcode API GMT GMT or Greenwich Mean Time is the time zone from which all other time zones are measured Local times around the globe are calculated according to their offset from the time in Greenwich England External links Greenwich Mean Time at Wikipedia Time zone at Wikipedia Gravatar A gravatar is a globally recognized avatar a graphic image or picture that represents a user Typically a user s gravatar is associated with their email address an
70. own menu The drop down menu contains a list of all the Pages already created for your site To turn your current Page into a SubPage or Child of the Parent Page select the appropriate Page from the drop down menu If you specify a Parent other than Main Page no parent from the list the Page you are now editing will be made a Child of that selected Page When your Pages are listed the Child Page will be nested under the Parent Page The Permalinks of your Pages will also reflect this Page hierarchy In the above example the Permalink for the Cameroon Page would be http example com africa cameroon Page Templates Individual Pages can be set to use a specific custom Page Template a PHP template file e g snarfer php you create within your Theme see Creating your own Page Templates below on how to create a custom template This new Page Template will then override the default page php Page Template included with your Theme See What Template is used to Display a Particular Page below to find out exactly which Template will be used but read the following first so you understand the answer WordPress can be configured to use different Page Templates for different Pages Toward the bottom of the Write gt Page administration panel or on the sidebar depending on which version of WordPress you are using is a drop down labeled Page Template From there you can select which Template will be used when displaying this part
71. pdate Your Password section and type in a new password in the two boxes provided 3 Click the UPDATE PROFILE button Your new password takes effect immediately Through the automatic emailer If you know your username and the email account in your profile you can use the lost password feature of Wordpress Go to your Wordpress Login page something like http yoursite com wordpress wp login php Forums Hosting Download Codex tools Log in create account Home Page WordPress Lessons Getting Started Working with WordPress Design and Layout Advanced Topics Troubleshooting Developer Docs About WordPress Codex Resources Community portal Current events Recent changes Random page Help 3 11 2010 2 56 PM Resetting Your Password WordPress Codex 2 of 4 Click on lost password You will be taken to a page to put in some details Enter your user name and the email address on file for that account Wait happily as your new password is emailed to you a Once you get your new password login and change it to something you can remember on your profile page Note for 1 2 1 Users There is a bug in 1 2 1 where the email you get includes an incorrectly encoded password Your email will look similar to this Mime Version 1 0 Content Type text plain charset UTF 8 Content Transfer Encoding BASE64 TGInaW46ITERPYW5 1DQpQYXNzd29yZDogZTIxMTQ2DQpodHRw0i8vZGlhbmV2LmNvbS9ibG9nL3dvcmRwcmVzcy93cC1sb2dpbi5
72. pdate information a See also blog blogosphere feed news reader External links News aggregator at Wikipedia Bookmarklet A bookmarklet or favelet is a faux bookmark containing scripting code usually written in JavaScript that allows the user to perform a function Examples The WordPress Press This bookmarklet allows a user to quickly blog whichever web site he she is currently viewing The delicious com bookmarklets allow a user to quickly post a link to his her delicious com bookmarks list Tantek s favelets Boolean A variable or expression which evaluates to either true or false External links PHP Boolean data type Back to the Top Category Each post in WordPress is filed under a category Thoughtful categorization allows posts to be grouped with others of similar content and aids in the navigation of a site Please note the post category should not be confused with the Link Categories used to classify and manage Links Capabilities Term related to User authentication and access control It is an adoption of permissions in RBAC There are about thirty capabilities in WordPress See Roles and Capabilities for a Description of the concept and a List of Capabilites CGI CGI Common Gateway Interface is a specification for server side communication scripts designed to transfer information between a Web server and a web client browser Typically HTML pages that collect data via forms use CGI pro
73. port your content or to upgrade your WordPress software to a new release Import Export Tools Turbo and Press This Upgrade The Turbo ability introduced with Version 2 6 adds new features to your web browser and speeds up WordPress for the local computer user The More information link describe the Google Gears product The Press This function allows quick posting and publishing through the use of a special web browser favourite You can create a shortcut to allow use of Press This from the new post screen You then activate the function when browsing by selecting the favorite from your web browser favorites list The Tools Tools SubPanel allows the Turbo and Press This functions to be activated Import WordPress supports the importing data from a number external sources In many cases posts comments pages categories tags and users can be imported The Tools Import SubPanel list the software packages that WordPress can import and details what types of data from each of those platforms qualifies for import Also see Importing Content for a more extensive list of import possibilites Export WordPress Export will create an XML file for you to save to your computer The format which is called a WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR file will contain your posts comments custom fields categories and tags The Tools Export SubPanel guides you through the easy process of exporting your blog Take note that the Exporting is a u
74. ptions tab to expand the options available for a particular SubPanel check or uncheck the desired options then click the Screen Options hanging tab to collapse the Screen Options Help Contextual Help displayed as a hanging tab under the header displays one or more Help items that are related to the SubPanel that is displayed in the work area Click on the Help tab to expand the Help available for a particular SubPanel then click the Help hanging tab to collapse the Help display Back to the Top Categories Administration Panels Getting Started Report a Site Bug Privacy GPL Browse Happy WordPress Updates RSS 3 11 2010 2 53 PM Pages WordPress Codex 1 of 6 http codex wordpress org Pages I Search the Codex Home Showcase Extend About Docs Blog Codex Pages Languages English e BAB e lun e FX fijf e Pycckn e Add your language In WordPress you can write either posts or pages When you re writing a regular blog entry you write a post Posts automatically appear in reverse chronological order on your blog s home page Pages on the other hand are for content such as About Me Contact Me etc Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless information that is always applicable You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content Other examples of common pages include C
75. r electronic junk mail and employ bots or computer programs to quickly and easily send email or comments to millions of addresses and IPs all over the world Spammers can be difficult to track down as they often hijack peoples email and IP addresses When this happens it may appear a friend sent you the spam but in fact the spammer s bot grabbed your friend s email address and used it to hide the true source of the spam WordPress developers and community members are constantly working on more and better ways to combat these annoying spammers as they clog the internet with their garbage You can help by offering your talents ideas suggestions or just by being vigilant and installing any of the currently available spam combating tools External links SPAM at Wikipedia SSH 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex 15 of 19 SSH stands for Secure Shell It is a communication protocol for connecting to remote computers over TCP IP Various authentication methods can be used which make SSH more secure than Telnet SSL SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and is the predecessor to Transport Layer Security These are cryptographic protocols for secure communications across an unsecured network like the Internet a External links SSL at Wikipedia Subversion Subversion is an open source version control software tool used by the WordPress Developers to maintain and track the changes and updates to the various WordPre
76. r post from the list Publish Publishes your post on the site You can edit the time when the post is published by clicking the Edit link above the Publish button and specifying the time you want the post to be published By default at the time the post is first auto saved that will be the date and time of the post within the database Post Tags Refers to micro categories for your blog similar to including index entries for a page Posts with similar tags are linked together when a user clicks one of the tags Tags have to be enabled with the right code in your theme for them to appear in your post Add new tags to the post by typing the tag into the box and clicking Add Categories The general topic the post can be classified in Generally bloggers have 7 10 categories for their content Readers can browse specific categories to see all posts in the category To add a new category click the Add New Category link in this section You can manage your categories by going to Posts gt Categories Excerpt A summary or brief teaser of your posts featured on the front page of your site as well as on the category archives and search non single post pages Note that the Excerpt does not usually appear by default It only appears in your post if you have changed the index php template file to display the Excerpt instead of the full Content of a post If so WordPress will automatically use the first 55 words of your post as the Excerpt or up unt
77. rectory or drive letter Directories and subdirectories listed in a path are usually separated by a slash Example Users Matt www blog images icecream jpg To find the absolute path of a page copy the text below into a new text file save the file as path php Then open it in a Web browser for example http www example com images path php lt php p getcwd echo p 2 See also Relative Path External links Path computing at Wikipedia Absolute URI A full URI http www example com blog images icecream jpg ftp ftp example com users h harriet www Apache Apache is short for Apache HTTP Server Project a robust commercial grade featureful and freely available open source HTTP Web Server software produced by the Apache Software Foundation It is the most commonly used web server on the internet and is available on many platforms including Windows Unix Linux and Mac OS X Apache serves as a great foundation for publishing WordPress powered sites Array An array is one of the basic data structures used in computer programming An array contains a list or vector of items such as numeric or string values Arrays allow programmers to randomly access data Data can be stored in either one dimensional or multi dimensional arrays A one dimension array seven 7 elements would be 105200545310213405 Extend http codex wordpress org Glossary Search the Codex About Docs Blo
78. rg you need to add a Custom Field called enclosure and paste the full url for the mp3 file in the Value field External Links Wikipedia on Podcasting iPodder on Podcasting a PodPress Podcasting Plugin Designed to make Podcasting super easy in Word Press Includes iTunes support and a built in Flash MP3 Player Podcasting for WordPress A WordPress podcasting plugin focused on making the podcasting experience as simple and bloat free as possible Podcasting Blubrry PowerPress Podcast Plugin Blubrry PowerPress brings the essential features for podcasting to WordPress Developed by podcasters for podcasters PowerPress offers full iTunes support the Update iTunes Listing feature 5 customizable web audio video media players and more PowerPress is designed as an upgrade to PodPress 2 of 4 3 11 2010 2 55 PM Podcasting WordPress Codex 3 of 4 a Podcast Feedcheck Too Used for verifying tag contents and tweaking RSS and iTunes tag output C t magazin German Magazine features on podcasting and how to use WordPress for podcast Issue 14 2005 ChrisJDavis Podcasting with WordPress a Tom Raftery I T Detailed instructions on overcoming the archive org audio file publishing issue WordPress QuickTag Button for Podcasting Adds Link for podcasting Post Podcasts with PodCasting Podcasting brings complete podcasting support to WordPress Podcasting will take a file from somewhere on the web either your site or another site
79. right information href wordpress page_id 14 gt Copyright 1996 2010 lt a gt If you do have Permalinks set up lt a title Copyright information href wordpress copyright gt Copyright 1996 2010 lt a gt Note Your htaccess file must be writeable for Page Permalinks to work otherwise you must update your htaccess file every time you create a Page Organizing Your Pages Just as you can have Subcategories within your Categories you can also have SubPages within your Pages creating a hierarchy of pages For example suppose you are creating a WordPress site for a travel agent and would like to create an individual Page for each continent and country to which the agency can make travel arrangements You would begin by creating a Page called Africa on which you could describe general information about travel to Africa Then you would create a series of Pages which would be SubPages to Africa and might include Lesotho Cameroon Togo and Swaziland Another individual Page is made for South America and would feature SubPages of Brazil Argentina and Chile Your site would then list Africa Cameroon Lesotho Swaziland Togo South America Argentina Brazil 3 11 2010 2 54 PM Pages WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Pages Chile To begin the process go to Administration gt Pages gt Add New panel in the upper right corner of the panel and click the Page Parent drop d
80. rm EditPlus Windows Editra cross platform Open Source Free a emacs Unices Windows Mac OS X Open Source Free gedit Unices JEdit cross platform Kate Unices Kwrite Unices Notepad Windows Open Source Free pico Unices PSPad Windows Free Smultron Mac OS X Open Source Free SubEthaEdit Mac OS X TextEdit comes with Mac OS X TextMate Mac OS X TextPad Windows TextWrangler Mac OS X Free UltraEdit 32 vim Unices Windows Mac OS X Open Source Free Notepad2 Windows Freeware WebTide Editor Windows Linux Mac OS X Freeware Java Some examples of non plain text formats that require special software for editing Microsoft Word documents Microsoft Excel spreadsheets Images such as JPEG PNG or GIF Some examples of software which can edit text but which are NOT regarded as basic text editors and NOT recommended for use on WordPress files 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 17 of 19 Microsoft Word m Microsoft Works Microsoft Excel Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Dreamweaver Theme A theme is a collection of files that work together to produce a graphical interface with an underlying unifying design for a weblog A theme modifies the way the weblog is displayed without modifying the underlying software Essentially the WordPress theme system is a way to skin your webl
81. rovide their own thoughts regarding the content of the post but users may also provide links to other resources generate discussion or simply compliment the author for a well written post You can control and regulate comments by filters for language and content Comments can be queued for approval before they are visible on the web site This is useful in dealing with comment spam a See also blog Related articles Comment related plugins Dealing with comment spam Settings Discussion SubPanel External links Hyperlink at Wikipedia Content Content consists of text images or other information shared in posts This is separate from the structural design of a web site which provides a framework into which the content is inserted and the presentation of a site which involves graphic design A Content Management System changes and updates content rather than the structural or graphic design of a web site 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex 5 of 19 Content Management System A Content Management System or CMS is software for facilitating the maintenance of content but not design on a web site A blogging tool is an example of a Content Management System See also blog cPanel cPanel is a popular web based administration tool that many hosting providers provide to allow users to configure their own accounts using an easy to use interface Related articles Using cPanel Adding New Themes in
82. ry gt lt div gt lt p class postmetadata gt lt php the tags Tags lt br gt gt Posted in lt php the_category gt lt php edit post link Edit gt lt php comments_popup_link No Comments 1 Comment Comments gt lt p gt lt div gt lt php endwhile gt lt php else D lt h2 class center gt Not Found lt h2 gt lt p class center gt Sorry but you are looking for something that isn t here lt p gt lt php get_search_form gt lt php endif gt lt div gt lt php get_sidebar gt lt php get_footer gt WordPress as a CMS You can use WordPress for basic content management If you do you ll probably create a large number of pages for your content Using a Page as the Front Page 5 of 6 3 11 2010 2 54 PM Pages WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Pages 6 of 6 A Page can easily be set to be your site s Front Page Visit the Administration gt Settings gt Reading panel and under Front page displays you can choose to set any published Page or Posts Page as the Front Page The default setting shows your blog with the latest blog posts Including a Page You might also want to include Pages in various places on your site That way you can have an easy way to edit elements of your website There is a Plugin called Improved Include Page that makes doing this easy The Dynamic Nature of
83. s Lessons How WordPress Processes Post Content Category Getting Started Report a Site Bug Privacy GPL Browse Happy WordPress Updates RSS 3 11 2010 2 48 PM Using Images WordPress Codex 1 of 6 http codex wordpress org Using_Images I Search the Codex Home Showcase Extend About Docs Blog Forums Hosting Download Codex Codex tools Login create account Using Images Home Page WordPress Lessons A picture says more than a thousand words Contents Getting Started WordPress makes it easy for you to add images to your WordPress site You can eae upload them directly from within WordPress by using the built in file uploading utility hide isbn Pres in the post screen Or you could use any FTP Client software to upload many images to Sms Design and Layout i 2 Images Resources for WordPress your WordPress site Advanced Topics 3 Using Images in Posts Troubleshooting The Quicktag buttons feature an image link making it easy to link to images from 3 1 Inserting Images into Posts ar ae pis z i i ii Developer Docs within your post as you write it If you used the inline upload feature your picture will 3 2 Image Size and Quality P a 3 3 Resizing Images About WordPress be in the wp content uploads folder unless you ve specified another folder on the Miscellaneous admin panel 3 4 Styling Images WordPress can now within the posting page resize images and create thumbnails
84. s also known as a type of feed or aggregator An RSS feed can contain a summary of content or the full text and makes it easier for people to keep up to date with sites they like in an automated manner much like e mail The content of the feed can be read by using software called an RSS or Feed reader Feed readers display hyperlinks and include other metadata information about information that helps you decide whether they want to read more follow a link or move on The original intent of RSS is to make information come to you via the feed reader instead of you going out to look for it via the Web Programs called news aggregators permit users to view many feeds at once providing push content constantly See Category Feeds for Codex resources about bringing RSS feeds into WordPress See also RDF Site Summary Robots txt Web Robots are programs which traverse the Web automatically They are also called Web Wanderers Web Crawlers and Spiders Search Engines are the main Web Robots Some Web Robots look for a file named robots txt on your web server to see what and where they should look for content and files on your web server Some Web Robots ignore this file Related articles Search Engine Optimization for WordPress a External links Google information about robots txt The Web Robots Page Back to the Top Shell A shell is a program which interacts directly with an operating system such as MS DOS Unix Lin
85. s can produce output in RDF format that describes the locations of posts Like RSS RDF is used for content syndication Relative Path A relative path is the location of a file in relation to the current working directory and does not begin with a slash This is different from an absolute path which gives an exact location m See also Absolute Path External links Path_Computing at Wikipedia 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 13 of 19 Relative URI A relative URI sometimes called a relative link is a partial URI that is interpreted resolved relative to a base URI On the World Wide Web relative URIs come in two forms A relative URI with an absolute path is interpreted relative to the domain root images icecream jpg http domain example images icecream jpg A relative URI with a relative path is interpreted relative to the URL of the current document E g on the web page http domain example icecream chocolate html strawberry html http domain example icecream strawberry html Wikipedia URI Resolution Recordset Recordset refers to the group of records or result returned from a database query See also MySQL wpdb database class RSS Really Simple Syndication a format for syndicating many types of content including blog entries torrent files video clips on news like sites specifically frequently updated content on a Web site and i
86. s configured to header to allow this capability For instance the WordPress Default Theme sometimes called Kubrick this is one of the two themes delivered with WordPress allows you to set the font color the lower color lower part of the header the upper color the whole header color The Appearance Header Image and Color SubPanel describes the details of this feature Back to the Top Plugins Add Functionality to your Blog SubPanels Plugins allow you to add new features to your WordPress blog that don t come standard with the default Installed installation There are a rich variety of Available Plugins for WordPress and with the following SubPanels Add New Editor plugin installation and management is a snap Manage Plugins The Plugins Installed SubPanel allows you to view the plugins you ve downloaded and choose which plugins you want activated on your site For information on downloading and installing plugins see Managing Plugins Install Plugins The Plugins Add New SubPanel allows you to add new plugins For information on downloading and installing plugins see Managing Plugins Edit Plugins Using the Plugins Editor SubPanel you can modify the source code of all your plugins Back to the Top Users Your Blogging Family SubPanels Every blog probably has at least two users admin the account initially set up by WordPress and the Authors amp Users user account you as the author owner of the blog use to
87. s leaf jpg alt leaf graphic title leaf graphic class alignright size medium wp image 3109 height 25 width 30 gt For more information on styling images in WordPress see Wrapping Text Around Images Images Resources for WordPress 3 11 2010 2 55 PM Using Images K VVordPress Codex http Icodex vvordpress orgjUsing Images 2 of 6 Example of images in i background sidebar blockquote and post There are a variety of WordPress Plugins which add image functionality utilities and galleries to your website Some run from within WordPress while others stand alongside You can also add images to your WordPress site through the use of template tags Plugins and in the style sheet of your Theme For example you can add images to your Categories Comments with Gravatars Graphics Symbols Header Headings a Smilies Im a referal from hac them would have posted somethi Nice pixel art D Gravatar used in Comments Sidebar Footer m Lists Menus Between posts Between lists Graphics in Feeds rss_ FEED__ Links and Blogrolls Next and Previous Links Template Tags Many feature image parameters Using Images in Posts Images can be used in a variety of methods in your WordPress posts and Pages They can be a major subject or a referenced detail that enhances the information or story The first thing you should consider is the look of the i
88. seful method to backup your WordPress data Upgrade Upgrade will allow you to automatically upgrade your WordPress software and Plugins to new versions if available The Tools Upgrade SubPanel give you a easy method to upgrade Note not all hosts will allow the Upgrade process to work successfully and will require you to manually upgrade by following the Upgrading WordPress instructions Back to the Top Settings Configuration Settings SubPanels You might think All these other things I ve been doing so far at the Administration Panels have involved General Settings Are these Settings any different The answer would be Yes All the settings you ve Writing encountered in the other Administration Panels have dealt with very specific parts of your site or have Reading 3 11 2010 2 53 PM Administration Panels WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Administration_Panels 7 of 8 been of limited scope only applying to one Category for example In the Settings Administration Panel Discussion are all of the settings that define your blog as a whole settings which determine how your site behaves Media how you interact with your site and how the rest of the world interacts with your site Privacy Permalinks The following SubPanels control these settings Miscellaneous General The Settings General SubPanel is the default SubPanel in the Settings Administration Panel and controls some of the most basic configuration
89. ss versions Related articles Using Subversion External links Subversion access at wordpress org Subversion book at red bean com Syndication See RSS Really Simple Syndication Back to the Top Tag A tag is a keyword which describes all or part of a Post Think of it like a Category but smaller in scope A post may have several tags many of which relate to it only peripherally Like Categories Tags are usually linked to a page which shows all posts having the same tag Unlike Categories Tags can be created on the fly by simply typing them into the tag field Tags can also be displayed in clouds which show large numbers of Tags in various sizes colors etc This allows for a sort of total perspective on the blog allowing people to see the sort of things your blog is about most Many people confuse Tags and Categories but the difference is easy Categories generally don t change often while your Tags usually change with every Post Tagline A tagline is a catchy phrase that describes the character or the attributes of the blog in a brief concise manner Think of it as the slogan or catchline for a weblog Task Based Documentation Task based or task oriented documentation is writing that takes you through a process task step by step it is succinct lacks jargon is easily understood and structured entirely around performing specific tasks To order to get to Z you need to 1 Step x 2 Step y 3 Step z
90. ssues How It Works 5 External Links 5 1 Post Podcasts with PodCasting Create audio or video that you want to share usually MP3 or MP4 52 PostPodcasts with Podprass Upload the file to a server 5 3 Post Podcasts with Quicktag Link to the file in a post in your weblog Button Wordpress automatically Includes a link to the file in your RSS Atom feed a 5 4 Post Podcasts with Blubrry an KB U Ne Listeners subscribe with podcast client application to your RSS Atom feed and Powerpress download new files automatically WordPress creates all the necessary links for you Using WordPress For Podcasting Podcasting is seamlessly supported as of Wordpress 1 5 Just link to an audio file in one of your posts and WordPress will automatically add the necessary enclosure tag to your RSS2 feed to make it useable as a podcast Important Use a complete absolute URI when linking to the audio file Otherwise WordPress will not make an enclosure for it Wrong lt a href my podcast mp3 gt My podcast lt a gt Right lt a href http example com my podcast mp3 gt My podcast lt a gt That s it just link to an audio file and WordPress takes care of everything for you Well there is one more step You need to make your RSS2 feed available Be sure to put a link somewhere on your page http example com wordpress feed rss2 Or if you re using Atom http example com wordpress feed atom As of WordPress 1 5 t
91. t the new password on the login screen If it doesn t work check that you ve followed these instructions exactly Other Tutorials using phpMyAdmin a phpMyAdmin at tamba2 Reset a WordPress password from phpMyAdmin Change Password using phpMyAdmin Password Admin Reset video Through FTP There is also an easy way to reset your password via FTP if you re using the admin user 1 Login to your site via FTP and download your active theme s functions php file 2 Edit the file and add this code to it right at the beginning after the first lt php wp_set_password password 1 Put in your own new password for the main admin user The 1 is the user ID number in the wp_users table 3 Upload the modified file back to your site http codex wordpress org Resetting Your Password 3 11 2010 2 56 PM Resetting Your Password WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Resetting Your Password 4 After you then are able to login make sure to go back and remove that code It will reset your password on every page load until you do Report a Site Bug Privacy GPL Browse Happy WordPress Updates RSS 4 of 4 3 11 2010 2 56 PM Glossary WordPress Codex 1 of 19 Home Showcase Codex Glossary Languages English e AZ E Add your language Absolute Path An absolute path or full path is a unique location of a file or directory name within a computer or filesystem and usually starts with the root di
92. t the only ones in the world think Japanese or Hebrew 255 characters aren t nearly enough There is a wide index of characters known as Unicode Unicode has so many characters that sometimes more than 16 bits 2 bytes are required to represent them Furthermore the first 127 characters of Unicode are the same as the first 127 of the most widely used character set iso 8859 1 For this purpose UTF the Unicode Translation Format was created UTF uses different numbers of bits for characters and allows for the entire range of Unicode to be used What you should probably know is a UTF 8 is an 8 bit minimum type of UTF There are also UTF 16 and UTF 32 If your document is in a Latin based encoding you probably don t need to change anything about it for it to be UTF A single UTF document can be in various languages with no need to switch encodings halfway through a External links Joel Spolsky on Unicode Unix Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system developed at AT amp T s Bell Laboratories starting back in 1969 Initially designed with the objective of creating an OS written in a high level language rather than assembly a majority of web servers currently 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 18 of 19 run on different flavors of this high performance OS or on Linux developed as a Unix like operating system See also UNIX Shell Skills Mac OS X Unix Time Unix
93. t viewable by anyone with proper user level or Private viewable only to WordPress users at Administrator level Back to the Top Query string A sequence of codes in a Uniform Resource Identifier URI that a web page uses to determine what dynamic data to display The query string in a URI comes after an initial question mark and may contain several parameters separated by ampersands WordPress uses query strings to indicate criteria to search for specific posts or sets of posts in the database The use of query strings is generally believed to impede the indexing of dynamic pages by search engines For this reason it is often desirable to use a method such as mod_rewrite to reduce exposure of query strings to search engines and other site visitors Query Variable A Variable passed through the query string For example in the query string category_name tech amp feed atom there are two query variables category_name with a value of tech and feed with a value of atom QuickTag A Quicktag is a shortcut or one click button that inserts HTML code into your posts The lt em gt emphasis and lt em gt stop emphasis HTML tags are example of Quicktags Some Quicktags such as lt contactform gt insert HTML comment code that is used by plugins to replace text or perform certain actions Back to the Top RDF Resource Description Framework A language used to describe the locations of resources on the web WordPres
94. the paginated sections of the post are then generated in combination with the wp_link_pages or link pages template tag lookup Opens a JavaScript dialogue box that prompts for a word to search for through the online dictionary at answers com You can use this to check spelling on individual words Close Tags Closes any open HTML tags left open but pay attention to the closing tags WordPress is not a mind reader so make sure the tags enclose what you want and in the proper way Workflow Note With Quicktag buttons that insert HTML tags you can for example click i to insert the opening lt em gt tag type the text to be enclosed and click i or Close Tags to insert the closing tag However you can eliminate the need for this close step by changing your workflow a bit type your text select the portion to be emphasized that is italicized then click i and your highlighted text will be wrapped in the opening and closing tags The Quicktag buttons also have the accesskey JavaScript attribute set so you may be able to use a keyboard equivalent e g Alt b for bold to press the button depending on your browser On Windows IE and Firefox prior to 2 0b2 use Alt to activate accesskeys while Firefox 2 0b2 uses Alt Shift On Mac OS X Firefox uses Ctrl More Information and Resources a Understanding the Write Post SubPanel About Weblogs What is Blogging all about First Steps With WordPress WordPres
95. ting Your Passvvord Languages English e A Aza e Add your language To Change Your Passvvord Contents To change your password in WordPress v2 7 or later hide 1 To Change Your Password 1 In the Admin Panel go to USERS 2 Click on your username in the list to edit 1 1 Changing your password in older versions 3 In the Edit User screen scroll down to the New Password section and type in a new 2 Through th automatic emailer password in the two boxes provided The strength box will show how good strong z SNot for 2 Ugars your password is 4 Click the UPDATE USER button 3 Through MySQL Command Line 4 Through phpMyAdmin 4 1 Other Tutorials using Your new password takes effect immediately phpMyAdmin 5 Through FTP Changing your password in older versions To change your password in WordPress v1 2 1 In the Admin Panel go to PROFILE 2 Scroll down to the bottom and type in the new password in the two boxes provided 3 Click the UPDATE PROFILE button Your new password takes effect immediately To change your password in WordPress v1 5 1 In the Admin Panel go to USERS 2 From the Your Profile tab scroll to the bottom and type in the new password in the two boxes provided 3 Click the UPDATE PROFILE button Your new password takes effect immediately To change your password in WordPress v2 0 1 In the Admin Panel go to USERS or Profile 2 From the Your Profile tab scroll down to the U
96. tor Add New Export Readin com nbinlity at large R 1 Dashboard Information Central Add New Your Upgrade Discussion s 2 Posts Make some content The DadM OAU SubPanel provides you a number of NMKY fo start writing Posts or E E po Pag s UESAStidSHKF links on the number of posts pages Categories and Tags A u ney KANE Recenf frhkl nts box shows the number of Comments awaiting moderation and a list a of the recent comments Configurable boxes of Incoming Links and RSS feeds from Miscellaneous the WordPress Development Blog the Plugins blog and Planet WordPress are also 3 11 2010 2 53 PM Administration Panels K VVordPress Codex 2 of 8 displayed Back to the Top Posts Make some content SubPanels Well you ve done it You ve successfully installed the best Edit personal publishing tool on the internet You re ready to start Add New sharing your thoughts and ideas with the world Post Tags Categories Now what Simple You login to your admin panel and in the navigation menu on the left click on Posts and then Add New WordPress displays the Add New Post SubPanel This panel allows you to populate your site with actual information You ll be spending most of your administration time here so you should spend a bit of time familiarizing yourself with it Posts are the principal element or content of a blog The Posts are the writings compositions discussions discourses musings and yes
97. ts to web pages a External links DOM at Wikipedia DOM at W3C org Draft http codex wordpress org Glossary 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 6 of 19 The draft post status is for WordPress posts which are saved but as yet unpublished A draft post can only be edited through the Administration Panel Write Post SubPanel by users of equal or greater User Level than the post s author Back to the Top Excerpt An excerpt is a condensed description of your blog post and refers to the summary entered in the Excerpt field of the Administration gt Posts gt Add New SubPanel The excerpt is used to describe your post in RSS feeds and is typically used in displaying search results The excerpt is sometimes used in displaying the Archives and Category views of your posts Use the Template Tag the_excerpt to display the contents of this field Note that if you do not enter information into the Excerpt field when writing a post and you use the_excerpt in your theme template files WordPress will automatically display the first 55 words of the post s content An excerpt should not be confused with the teaser which refers to words before the lt more gt in a post s content When typing a long post you can insert the lt more gt Quicktag after a few sentences to act as a cut off point When the post is displayed the teaser followed by a hyperlink such as Read the rest
98. ux Mac OS X or others but it is most commonly associated with Unices It is often referred to as a console or command line because it is controlled using typed commands rather than mouse or graphical interface input 3 11 2010 2 57 PM Glossary WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Glossary 14 of 19 Most often when interacting with a remote computer as one would when configuring WordPress an additional faux shell is involved called SSH Some popular shell programs are Bash Bourne Again Shell Tcsh an expanded C Shell m Zsh Sidebar The sidebar sometimes called the menu is a narrow vertical column often jam packed with lots of information about a website Found on most WordPress sites the sidebar is usually placed on the right or left hand side of the web page though in some cases a site will feature two sidebars one on each side of the main content where your posts are found A sidebar is also referred to as a Theme Template file and is typically called sidebar php Related articles Customizing Your Sidebar Stepping Into Templates Template Hierarchy Slug A slug is a few words that describe a post or a page Slugs are usually a URL friendly version of the post title which has been automatically generated by WordPress but a slug can be anything you like Slugs are meant to be used with permalinks as they help describe what the content at the URL is Example post permalink http
99. waHA The fix for this is to upgrade your site to 1 2 2 Through MySQL Command Line 1 Get an MD5 hash of your password Visit md5 Hash Generator or Create a key with Python or On Unix echo n lt password gt md5sum 2 mysql u root p log in to MySQL 3 enter your mysql password 4 use name of database select WordPress database 5 show tables you re looking for a table name with users at the end 6 SELECT ID user login user pass FROM name of table you found this gives you an idea of what s going on inside 7 UPDATE name of table you found SET user_pass MD5 string you made WHERE ID id of account you are reseting password for actually changes the password 8 SELECT ID user login user pass FROM name of table you found confirm that it was changed 9 type Control D to exit mysql client Note if you have a recent version of MySQL version 5 x you can have MySQL compute the MD5 hash for you 1 Skip step 1 above 2 Do the following for step 7 instead UPDATE name of table you found SET user pass MD5 new password WHERE ID id of account you are reseting password for actually changes the password Through phpMyAdmin This article is for those who have phpMyAdmin access to their database Note use phpMyAdmin at your own risk If you doubt your ability to use it seek further advice WordPress is not responsible for loss of data Begin by
100. wordpress org development 2006 06 wordpress 203 The slug for that post is wordpress 203 Smileys Smileys also called Smilies or Emoticons are stylized representations of a human face usually displayed as yellow buttons with two dots for the eyes and a half mouth Smileys are often used in WordPress Plugins By default WordPress automatically converts text smileys to graphic images When you type in your post you see when you preview or publish your post Related article Using Smilies Spam Once upon a time SPAM was an animal by product that came in a can and was fodder for many Monty Python sketches but since the world wide adoption of the internet as an integral part of daily life Spam has become synonymous with what is wrong with the internet Spam in general terms is an email or other forms of unsolicited advertising Spam is very easy to spread throughout the internet and works on the principle that if you send out thousands or hundreds of thousands of unsolicited advertisements scams or other questionable methods of making money that you only need a very small percentage of people to be fooled and you will make lots of money Common spam these days comes from online gambling sites and those trying to sell drugs for male enhancement Lately web logs or blogs as we call them have been targeted by spammers to try to increase their site ratings in the search engines Spammers use various methods to distribute thei
101. write posts But maybe you want more Add New Your Profile perhaps you want several authors for your blog If you want a person to be able to post to your blog that person must have access to a user account typically every person will have her or his own user account Via the Users option in the main navigation menu you can set up all of the user accounts you need as well as change user information or delete users An important administrative feature here is the Roles feature Depending on their Role different users have different http codex wordpress org Administration_ Panels 3 11 2010 2 53 PM Administration Panels WordPress Codex http codex wordpress org Administration_Panels 6 of 8 Capabilities Briefly a user can be assigned the following Roles Administrator Editor Author Contributor or Subscriber You can also specify your and others personal information such as name e mail etc from these User Administration Panels Authors amp Users You can manage the accounts of all your site s users at the Users Authors and Users SubPanel Add New User You can create new users with the Users Add New SubPanel Your Profile The Users Your Profile SubPanel allows to change any information related to your user account Back to the Top Tools Managing your Blog Subbanele WordPress Tools provide you the ability to speed up WordPress for your local machine import content Tools from other sources ex
102. y and viewing the result can give you a usable photo with a small file size gif can be poor for photographs It s better for line art like logos with solid areas of the same color png is for both photographs and line art It compresses photos without losing detail but usually makes larger photo files than JPEGs Some older browsers don t completely support png though If you aren t sure which file type is best for a particular image try saving the image in more than one type and comparing the file sizes Using the right type can make a big difference There s more information in Sitepoint s GIF JPG PNG What s the Difference article Resizing Images Not all graphic software packages allow you to resize images though most should Check your graphics software table of contents or index for resize size transform reduce or enlarge all synonyms for the for the same thing If they don t have the feature you may have to find different software The process of resizing images is fairly simple There are usually two methods 1 You can resize an image through the use of tools provided which allow you to manually shift the edges of an image to deform or resize the image The best way is to grab a corner not the edge to resize the image The corner handle will usually resize the image maintaining the overall height width ratio Check your manual for specific instructions 2 The other method involves simply specifying the image s
103. you tell them about your new blogging hobby Will you be able to write freely if you tell them How much should you let your readers know about you Is it ok if your boss or girlfriend reads your posts If you don t want them to read take anonymity measures accordingly Make use of comments Comments let people share their ideas Sometimes they might not be good but you can ask such people to shut up Most of the times they will and if they don t you can delete their comments Blogging like real life can be both fun and not so fun at times Be prepared Also give your people a place to contact you in private if they want to write to you Worry about blog design later Blog design matters but only to an extent Don t give up on blogging just because the design isn t coming up as you ll like it it to be Sooner or later you ll get around the design problems with ease But continue writing Content is what attracts your readers not just the look of your blog Don t play too safe Talk about the real you Readers aren t impressed by how big your house is which cool club you belong to or what the weather is in your hometown Don t be a bore and put a long post on how you fixed the leaking tap in minutes Readers don t care about braggers they care about the real you how you feel what gets you excited why you are the person you are But if achievements are all that you can talk about you will bore your readers Use pictures a

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