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WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is modern software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope that by…

Permalinks are the permanent URLs of your posts, pages, categories, and other archive pages on your website. These URLs are permanent and should never be changed — hence the name permalink. Permalinks help to create a URL structure that is easy for both humans and search engines to understand and share. Permalink Types There are…

Administration Can my posts have URL instead of /index.php?p=76? See: How long is the release cycle of WordPress? A major release of WordPress happens every 6 months or so. Suggest and vote on ideas for future releases at the WordPress Extend Ideas site. Also refer WordPress Versions for the chronologically listed versions of WordPress along…

Working with Images Adding images in WordPress is very easy. All of your images will be stored and can be managed in the Media Library, but you can take several different paths to get there. The most common path is adding an image directly to a post or page. This automatically saves the image in…

Content visibility is about controlling who can see your blog content. WordPress allows you to control the visibility of your posts and Pages on an individual basis. By default, all posts and Pages are visible. There are several ways to set the visibility for your blog content. You can set it on a per post/Page…

The Posts Screen provides the facility to manage all the Posts in a blog. Via this Screen, Posts can be edited, deleted, and viewed. Filtering, and searching, also makes it easy to quickly find Posts matching certain criteria. A powerful bulk edit feature allows Posts to be edited in bulk (en masse) allowing fields such…

Although WordPress is very easy to install, you can use one of the one-click auto-installers typically available from hosting companies. The most popular auto-installers, APS, Fantastico, Installatron, and Softaculous are described here. APS (Plesk) If you’re using the Plesk control panel, you have two options: one-click quick install or custom install which allows you to…

You are living in the age of technology, and you would have encountered terms like blogging, blog, and bloggers. People often need clarification about these terms. This document will discuss the concepts associated with blogging and explain the role of content and comments in the quality of blogging. What is blogging? Blogging deals with the regular…

What is an excerpt Excerpt is an optional text associated to a Post. Most of the time, it is used as the Post summary. Not finding the Excerpt editing box? Check your Post’s Screen Options. Regarding the Theme you are using on your site, Excerpts can be displayed on different pages (search results, archives, etc.).…

Sticky Posts is a feature that places a post at the top of the front page of posts, keeping it there until new sticky posts are published. Note: Sticky Post is only available for the built-in post type post and not for custom post types. How to stick a post Select the post you want to stick…