Month: February 2024

WordPress Permalinks WordPress Permalinks are the permanent URLs that point to specific pages and posts on a WordPress website. They are what users and search engines use to navigate and access content on your site. The default permalinks structure in WordPress includes numeric identifiers which might be not most user friendly or SEO friendly. Example: Default permalinks might looks like this: “https://yoursite.com/?=123”. This structure doesn’t convey much information about the content of pages or posts. WordPress offers the flexibitlity to customize permalinks to make them more readable, descriptive, and optimized for search engines. This customization can be done through the permalinks settings in the WordPress dashboard Here are some common permalinks structures you can choose from: Plain:This structure includes the default query parameters, such as `https://yoursite.com/?p=123`.It’s not very user-friendly or SEO-friendly. Day and name:This structure includes the publicationdate and post name, like `https://yoursite.com/2024/02/29/sample-post/`. It provides some context but can result in lengthy URLs. Month and name:Similar to the day and name structure, but only includes the month and post name, like `https://yoursite.com/2024/02/sample-post/`. Numeric: This structure uses only the post ID, like `https://yoursite.com/archives/123`. Post name: This structure includes only the post name, making the URL concise and descriptive, such as `https://yoursite.com/sample-post/`. Custom structure: You can create your own custom permalinkstructure using placeholders for different elements like year, month, day, post name, category, and more. Choosing the right permalink structure depends on your website content and SEO strategy. In general, shorter,descriptive URLs are preferred as they are easier for usersto remember and share, and they tend to perform better in search engine rankings. Once you’ve chosen a permalink structure, WordPress automatically generates the appropriate URLs for yourpages and posts based on that structure. It also handles redirects from old permalinks to new onesto ensure that visitors and search engines canstill access your content seamlessly, even if and the URL structure changes. Sharing is Caring!

In this blog, you will be able to understand the WordPress media settings. In this settings section, you can change the size of images and upload them by keeping the pixel quality of the images you want. Thumbnail Size: We can change the appearance of the image we putting a thumbnail. Does he crop or not? You can check or uncheck it. Medium size: it has a max width and height of 300 which can be changed as you like. Large Size: it has a max width and height of 1024 which can be changed as you like. After that click on the check option is given that files that are uploaded should be kept on a month and year basis folder, after doing this you have to click on the save changes button. Sharing is Carring!

In this Blog, we will study about discussion settings in WordPress. WordPress discussion setting can be defined as the interaction between the blogger and the visitors. These setting are done by the admin to to have a control over the posts/ pages that come in through users. Following are the steps to access the Discussion Setting: Step (1): Click on Setting -> Discussion option in WordPress. Step (2): The Discussion Setting page is displayed as shown in the following image. Following fields are seen in Discussion Settings. Default Article Setting: These settings are default to the new pages you create or new posts. This Contains three more setting they are: Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article: When you publish articles then it sends a notification (sends pings and trackback) to other blogs. Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks): Accepts pings from other blogs. Allow people to post comments on new article: You can Allow or Disallow other people to comment on your article using this setting., You can change the setting as per your will for individual articles. Other Comment Settings: This setting has the following options: Comment author must fil out name and email: When you check this box, it is mandatory for visitors to fill their name and email address. Users must be registered and logged in to comment: If you check this box, only those registered visitors can leave comments, if not checked anyone can leave any number of comments. Automatically close comments on articles older than days: This option allows you to accept comments only for a particular time period as per your wish. Enable threaded (nested) comments: When you check this option, visitors can reply or have a discussion and get responses. Break comments into pages with top level comments per page and the page displayed by default: If your pages are getting a lot of comments then you can split them into different pages checking this box. Comments Should be displayed with the comments at the top of each page: You can arrange the comments in the form of ascending or descending order. Email  me whenever: This Setting contains two options namely: Anyone posts a comments: When you check into this box, the author gets an email for every single comments that is posted. A comment is held for moderation: This is used in case you do not wait your comment to be updated before it’s moderated by the admin. Before a comment appears: This setting allows how your posts are controlled. There are 2 more settings as followed: Comment must be manually approved: If you check this box then only the approved comments by the admin can be displayed on the posts or pages. Comment author must have a previously approved comment: This can be checked when you want to approve a comment of an author whose has commented and his email address matches the email address of the previous posted comment. Otherwise the comment is held for moderation. Comment Moderation: Contain Only a specific number of links that are allowed into a comments. Comment Backlist: You can input your own spam words which you do not want your visitors to enter into the comments, URL, email etc.; later it would filter the comments. Avatars: Avatars is a small image that displays at the tip right hand corner of the dashboard screen beside your name. It is like your profile picture. Here you have a few more options where you can set your avatar for WordPress Site. Avatar Display: It displays your avatar vesides your name when it is checked. Maximum rating: You have a four other options of avatars you can use. They are G, PG, Rand X. This is  the age section where you select according to which type of audience you want to display your posts. Default Avatar: In this option there are few more types of avatars with images; you can keep these avatar according to your visitors email address. Step (3): Click on Save Changes button to save the changes.

In this blog we will study about Reading Settings in WordPress. Reading settings is used to set the content related to the front page. You can set the number of post to be displayed on the main page. Following are the steps to access the reading settings: Step (1): Click on Setting->Reading option in WordPress. Step (2): The reading settings page is displayed as shown in the following image. Front Page Displays: This Sections is used to display the front page in any of the following format: Your latest posts: It displays latest posts on the front page. A static page: It displays the static pages on the front page. Front Page: You can select the actual page you want to display on first page from the drop down. posts Page: You can select the page from the drop down menu which contains posts. Blog Pages Show at most: The number of posts to be displayed per page or site. By default it is set as 10. Syndication feeds show the most recent: The user can view the  number of posts when they download one of the site feeds. By default it is set as 10. For each article in a feed, show: This section is used to display the post by selecting any of the following formats: Full Text: It displays the complete post. It is set as default.Summary: It displays the summary of the post. Search Engine Visibility: After clicking on the checkbox Discourge search engines for indexing this site, your site will be ignore by the search engine. Step (3): After filling all the information click on save changes button to save your Reading Setting information.

The writing settings control the writing experience and provides options for customizing Worpdress site. These settings control the features in the adding and editing pages, posts as well as the optional functions like Remote publishing, post via email and update service Following are the steps to create the writing settings: Step (1): To change writing settings go to settings-> Writing options. Step (2): The writing setting page is displayed as shown in the following screen. Following are the details of the fields on the page. Formatting: This field defines two sub options for better user experience The first option convert emoticons like:- and :-p to graphics on display will turn text-based emoticons into graphics based emoticons. The second option Worpdress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically corrects the valid XHTML placed within the posts or pages. Default Post Category: it is category to be applied to a post and you can leave it as uncategorized. Default Post Format: It is used by themes to select post format to be applied to post or create different styles for different types of posts. Post Via Email: This option uses email address to create posts and publishes posts on your blog through email. To use this you’ll need to set up a secret email account with a POP3 access and any mail received at this address will be posted. Mail Server: It allows reading the emails that you send to WordPress and stores theme for retrieval, For this you need to have POP3 compatible mail server and it will have URI address such as mail.example.com, which you should enter here. Login Name: To create posts WordPress will need its own email account. The Login Name will use this email address and should be kept as a secret as spammers will post links redirecting to their own websites. Password: Set password for the above email address. Default Mail Category: It allows selecting custom category for all posts that are published via post by email feature. Update Services: When you publish a new posts WordPress will automatically notify the site update services in the box. See the update services on the codex for the long list of possible service. Step (3): After filling all the above information, click on Save Changes button to save your information.

In this blog, we will study about General Setting in wordpress. WordPress general setting is used to set the basic configurations setting for your site. In the setting administration screen, it is default setting screen. Following are the steps to acces the general setting: Step(1): Click on setting->General option in wordpress Step(2): The General Setting page is displayed as shown in the following screenshot. Following are the details of the fields on general setting page. Site Title: It Displays the name of the site in the template header. Tagline: Displays a short sentence about your site. WordPress Address(URL): It is the URL of wordpress directory where your all core application files are present. Site Address (URL): Enter the site URL which you want your site to display on the browser. E-Mail Address: Enter you email address which helps to recover your password or any update. Membership: Anyone can register an account on your site after you check this checkbox. New User Default Role: The role is set for the newly registered user or members. Time Zone: Sets the time zone based on the particular city. Date Format: Sets the date format as you need to display on the site. Time Format: Sets the time format as you need to display on the site. Week Stars On: Select the week day which you prefer to start for wordpress calendar by default it is set as Monday. Site Language: Sets the language for the wordpress dashboard. Step (3): After filling all the information about general setting, click on save changes button it saves all your general setting information. Sharing is Caring!

The Wordpres Dashboard is a first screen which will be seen when your log into the administration area of your blog which will display the overview of the website. it is a collection of gadgets that provide information and provide an overview of what’s happening with your blog. You can customize your needs by using some quick links such as writing quick draft, replying to latest comments, etc. Dashboard can be categorized as shown in the following snapshot. Each of these categories are discussed in the following sections: Dashboard Menu The WordPress Dashboard provides navigation menu that contains some menu options such as posts, media library, pages, comments, appearance options, plugins, users, tools and setting on the left side. Screen Options The dashboard contains different types of widgets which can be shown or hidden on some screens. It contains boxex to show or hide screen options and also allows us to customize sections on the admin screen. Welcome It includes the customize your site button which allows customizing your wordpress theme. The center column provides some of the useful links such as creating a blog post, creating pages and view the front end of your website. Last column contains links to widgets, menu, setting related to comments and also a link to the first steps with wordpress page in the wordperss codex. Quick Drafts The Quick Drafts is a mini post editor which allows writing, saving and publishing a post from admin dashboard. It includes the title for the draft, some notes about the draft and save it as a draft. WordPress News The WordPress News widget displays the latest news such as latest software version, updates alerts news regarding the software etc. from the official wordpress blog. Activity The Activity widget includes latest comments on your blog, recent posts and recently published posts. It allows you to approve, disapprove, reply, edit, or delete a comment. It also allows you to move a comment to spam. At a Glance This section gives an overview of your blog’s posts, number of published posts and pages, and number of comments. When you click on these links, you will be taken to the respective screen. It displays the current version of running wordpress along with the currently running theme on the site. Sharing is Caring 

System requirments for installing wordpress Database: MySQL  Web server: WAMP (windows), LAMP (Linux), XAMP(Multi platforms), MAMP(Macintosh) Operating System: Cross platform Browser Support: Internet Explore updated, Firefox, Google chrome, Safari, Opera PHP Compatibility: PHP 5.2 Download WordPress When you open the link download WordPress then  you will get to see a screen as the following image: Download the wordpress zip file from the official site of wordpress org Create Store Database WordPress requires MySQL database. So, create a new empty database with user password example( user as “root” and password “root” or else you can set as per your convenience) Then, you can continue with installation process as discussed further. Set Up Wizard It’s very eays to seyt up WordPress into your system. The following steps describe how to set up WordPress locally on your system. Step (1): Extract the download WordPress folder and upload it into your web server or localhost. Step (2): Open your browser and navigate to your wordpress file path, then you will get the first screen of the wordpress installer as shown in the following screen. In our case the is localhost/<your_wordpress-foloder> Step (3): In this step, you can view the information needed for the database before proceeding with wordpress installation. click on let’s go! Step (4): Here , you have to enter the information about the MySQL database as describe in the following screen. Database Name: Enter the database name which you have created in MySQL database for wordpress. Username: Enter the user name of your MySQL database. Password: Enter the password which you had set for MySQL database. Database Host: Write the host name, by default it will be localhost. Table Prefix: It is used to add prefix in the database tables which helps to run multiple sites on the same database. it takes the default value. After filling all information click on Submit button. Step (5): WordPress check the database setting and gives you confirmation screen as shown in the following image Click on Run the install Step (6): Enter administrative information It contains the following fields: Site Title: Enter the name of the site which you are going to create in wordpress. Username: Enter the username as per your choice while logging in the wordpresss. Password Twice: Enter password two times to protect your site. Your Email: Enter your email address which helps to recover the password update. Privacy: it allows the search engine to index this site after checking the checkbox. After filling all the information click on the Install WordPress button. Step(7): After installation being successful, you will get a screen of the stating success as seen in the following screen. You can view your username and password detail added in wordpress Click on Log In button. Step(8): After clicking on login you will get a wordpress admin panel as depicted in the following image. Enter the username and password which you had mentioned during installation as shown in step 6 and click on the log in button.