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Download WordPress User Guide 13th December 2011
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Table of Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 4 Guide Method ................................................................................................................................................... 4 Using WordPress .................................................................................................................................................. 5 First Concepts ................................................................................................................................................... 5 Great Things About WordPress ........................................................................................................................ 5 Getting Started .................................................................................................................................................. 6 Navigating Around the Administration Panel ................................................................................................... 9 The Tool bar ............................................................................................................................................... 12 Screen Options ............................................................................................................................................ 12 Understanding the difference between pages and posts .................................................................................. 13 Adding and Editing Content ........................................................................................................................... 13 Formatting text using the rich editor ........................................................................................................... 14 Formatting text using the HTML editor ...................................................................................................... 16 Writing a post ............................................................................................................................................. 17 Adding links to your posts .......................................................................................................................... 18 Opening a link in a new window vs. using the current window ................................................................. 20 Adding images to your posts....................................................................................................................... 20 Adding a gallery of images ......................................................................................................................... 27 Adding video clips to your posts ................................................................................................................ 32 Setting posting and page options ................................................................................................................ 33 Post Formats ............................................................................................................................................... 34 Saving & publishing your post or page ....................................................................................................... 35 Creating and managing your categories ...................................................................................................... 37 Writing Pages and Structuring Them .............................................................................................................. 43 Writing Pages.............................................................................................................................................. 43 Publishing Content Created by Other Contributors ........................................................................................ 49 Moderating Comments ................................................................................................................................... 49 Managing Links .............................................................................................................................................. 52 Creating link categories .............................................................................................................................. 53 Creating links .............................................................................................................................................. 54 Administering WordPress ................................................................................................................................... 57 Managing Users .............................................................................................................................................. 57 Adding users ............................................................................................................................................... 58 Remove users .............................................................................................................................................. 58 Edit the details of a user .............................................................................................................................. 59 Manage the content created by a user ......................................................................................................... 61 Managing Options and Settings ...................................................................................................................... 61 Managing the Look & Feel of your website ................................................................................................... 62 Appearance ................................................................................................................................................. 62 Widgets ....................................................................................................................................................... 63 Custom Headers .......................................................................................................................................... 66 Custom Backgrounds .................................................................................................................................. 68 Creating Custom Menus ................................................................................................................................. 75 Defining a Menu ......................................................................................................................................... 75 Adding Items to a Menu ............................................................................................................................. 77 Deleting a menu item .................................................................................................................................. 78 Date: 13/12/11 Filename: Wordpress-3.3_user_guide.docx Created By: David Coveney Version: 3.3 Page 2
