User's Manual

Page | 2 WordPress User Manual for Beginners
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to WordPress ............................................................... 3
1.2 What’s Great about WordPress ................................................................................ 3
1.3 Getting Started .......................................................................................................... 3
2. the Dashboard ................................................................................. 4
2.2 First thing to do – IMPORTANT ........................................................................... 4
3. Structuring your Website .........................................................................5
3.1 Understanding the difference between Pages and Posts .............................................5
3.2 Writing Pages and Getting Some Structure ..............................................................6
3.2.1 Creating subordinate Pages ....................................................................................7
3.3 Creating and managing your categories. .................................................................. 7
3.4 Writing a post ....................................................................................................... 8
3.5 Managing Links ....................................................................................................... 9
3.5.1 Creating link categories......................................................................................... 9
3.5.2 Creating links....................................................................................................... 9
3.5.3 Target....................................................................................................................9
3.5.4. Link relationship (XFN) .....................................................................................10
3.5.3 Advanced .............................................................................................................10
3.6 How it looks. .........................................................................................................10
4. Adding and Editing ..…...................................................................11
4.1 Formatting text using the HTML editor .................................................................11
4.2 Formatting text using the rich editor ......................................................................11
4.3 Adding images to your posts ...................................................................................12
4.3.1 Adding a gallery of images ...................................................................................13
4.5 Adding video clips to your posts – Other approaches...............................................14
4.6 Setting posting and page options ............................................................................14
4.7 Saving & publishing your post or page ...................................................................15
4.8 Moderating ..........................................................................................................16
4.9 Publishing Content Created by other authors .......................................................16
5. Administration of WordPress ………………………………………..17
5.1 Manage Section ......................................................................................................17
5.2 Managing Users .....................................................................................................17
5.2.1 Remove Users .....................................................................................................18
5.2.2 Editing a user’s details ..........................................................................................18
5.2.3 Manage content created by a user ........................................................................18
5.3 Managing Options and Settings ...........................................................................19
5.4 Managing Presentation ..........................................................................................20
Recommended Links ……..…………………………………………20