Category: Sloth Makes a Blog
Getting Started: Before You Blog to Installing Wordpress
Why Blog? A Sloth and His Blog
Meet Zip the Sloth. He’s lazy but wants to make a WordPress blog. Let’s help him.
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Do you REALLY want to blog? 20 or More Things to Think About Before (and After) You Start
There are so many things Zip should think about before he starts blogging. But, meh, he’s too tired. Let’s wake him up and give him a bunch of advice in random order. Here’s some things you should think about before — and after– you start blogging and some advice on good habits to get into right from the get-go.
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Sloth is Master of His Own Domain (Name)
Before Zip installs WordPress, he should name his website and register a domain name! Why should he be master of his own domain (name)? Because, among other things, it gives his site the appearance of extra credibility. Here’s some advice for naming a blog and how to register a domain name.
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Sloth Searches for a Good Host…ing Provider
Zip the sloth has chosen a domain name. But before he can get started on his great new website…someday…he will need to find a place to put that website.
Let’s give him some tips on choosing a good web hosting provider, types of hosting, and look at a few of the major ones.
Read MoreSloth Updates His DNS Settings
Zip the Sloth is ready to install WordPress! But his domain name refers to a dodgy splash page. Either before or after he installs WordPress he’ll have to change his domain name servers so they point to his web hosting. He decides to do it now. Here’s how.
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So You've Installed WordPress. What's Next?
WordPress Admin and Dashboard Quick Tour
Before Sloth gets going with installing a plugin or configuring settings, let’s take him on a quick tour of the WordPress admin area and dashboard.
Read MoreSloth’s First Plugin
Zip has finally installed WordPress. While there are a bunch of settings he should change right away, we’re going to, instead, do a tutorial about installing WordPress plugins starting with a simple Coming Soon page.
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WordPress Settings: Things Sloth (and You) Should Update Right After Installing WordPress
Slothverse.com is coming along…very slowly. Zip is getting bored, if a sloth can do that, and wants to get to writing and designing. But, first, there are some important settings he needs to change! Let’s go through the WordPress settings menu.
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Sloth Gets Email (How to Set Up an Email Account in cPanel)
OK, Zip has configured his settings. Ready to write, no? No! If Zip wants his own Gravatar, he’ll need his own email address. Here’s how to set one up in cPanel.
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New Updates on The Sloth's Progress:
The WordPress Media Library: Adding and Working With Images and Media Files in WordPress
Zip's working on writing his first post. But images are so integral to most blog posts, so let's do a brief tutorial on using the WordPress Media Library to upload not only images but files and other media.
