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Sloth Makes a Blog
Sloth Makes a Blog is a series of WordPress tutorials starting from no blog to full blog. Watch Zip the WordPress sloth as he creates a WordPress blog from the ground up (or from the tree down?)
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Blog Basics
This is Mr. Sloth's Build-a-Blog Workshop, consisting of posts from the time Zip the Sloth first thinks about making a blog to launching his basic WordPress website. Step-by-step basics such as installing WordPress, writing posts, setting up plugins to take him (and you) from no blog to full blog.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sloth 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.
Sloth Installs WordPress
Finally! Zip the Sloth is instaling WordPress to create his blog. Here's the tutorial on how to install WordPress -- both the lazy way (automatically, and the way I almost always do it now) and manually (which, of course, is more complicated.)
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Search Engine Optimization
Adding Google Analytics to WordPress
Zip has installed an SEO plugin. So he probably wants to be able to find out how many visitors are actually coming to his website and what pages they are viewing. In this post, he'll install Google Analytics using a plugin so he can start viewing analytics data for his new website.
Search Engine Optimization
How to Use Yoast to Configure Your Post for SEO
Zip's added the Yoast SEO plugin to his blog. Let's look at how he can optimize a post (or page) for search engine optimization using the Yoast plugin as well as some things to keep in mind when using this helpful plugin.
Search Engine Optimization
Sloth Installs an SEO Plugin (Why You Should Use an SEO Plugin and How to Configure Yoast SEO)
Zip has completed basic design work on his blog. Next, he's going to move on to Search Engine Optimization. In this post, we briefly look at some of the plugins available to help with SEO, and install and configure the Yoast SEO plugin.
Design and Appearance
15 Places to Find Free Stock Photos or Vector Graphics for Your Website (and When to Attribute Them)
Zip is designing his website and starting to write some posts. But where can he get photos and graphics for his website? Let's look at 15 websites where you might find free stock photos or vector graphics.
Design and Appearance
Hueman Free Theme CSS Tweaks
Zip is using the Hueman free them currently. Here are a few CSS changes he made for styling the author box, links, and tags.
Design and Appearance
Post Formats in WordPress
Zip is using a theme that supports post formats. What are post formats in WordPress and how do you use them?
Design and Appearance
How to Add a Favicon in WordPress
Zip wants his website to show the little icon that appears in the browser tab. Here's how to add a favicon (and site icon) in WordPress.
Design and Appearance
Sloth Adds a Logo (Adding a Logo to Your Header and Where to Get One)
Zip's theme allows him to add a custom logo to his header. If your theme offers the ability to add a custom logo, here's how and where to do it. Also, this post provides some tips for creating a logo and links to some websites that allow you to create logos easily.
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