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Blogging For Dummies, 7th Edition
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Blogging For Dummies, 7th Edition

by Amy Lupold Bair
September 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
416 pages
10h 38m
English
For Dummies
Audiobook available
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Chapter 5

Starting a WordPress Blog

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Examining the different versions of WordPress

Bullet Doing your WordPress install

Bullet Kicking the Dashboard tires

Bullet Writing your first post

Bullet Customizing your blog

Bullet Searching for all things WordPress

If you spend much time looking at blogs or talking to bloggers, you can't miss references to WordPress, one of the best-known and well-liked blogging software options available today. WordPress comes in two flavors — hosted and installable. In this chapter, I provide a snapshot of working both with the installable version that you place on your own web server as well as the WordPress hosted version. You can learn more about selecting a web server in Chapter 3.

This chapter runs through an overview of how to install WordPress on your server, use the administration panel, play with themes and widgets, and find out where to connect with other WordPress ...

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