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So you’ve already chosen WordPress or are seriously considering it. Maybe you’ve even already done the famous 5 minute WordPress installation. Maybe you’ve already chosen one of the free themes or enlisted some paid help getting one made just for you? Whatever the case, you should be very pleased with yourself to have gotten this far and I’ll bet you’re super jazzed to have your own website that uses your own domain name.
Trouble is, now what? How to make sense of the Dashboard? What does what? What do all these crazy terms mean? You’re scared to touch anything! Some settings are self explanatory but the only way to get comfortable is to jump in and start looking and reading. If you don’t think its a good idea to change a setting, don’t. But don’t be afraid to at least log in and look at the pages – because just looking does no harm.
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Why would you need to ever screen scrape content from your own website? Why not just use RSS feeds? If you want to use your own RSS feeds from your own content to display it somewhere else on your site you can do that! But what if there isn’t an RSS feed from the section
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for the average client,if I have set up a site that depends on the correct selection of categories before publishing, I have to teach them that they must select the right category when writing a new post….
Paste this in the main index.php page to keep category 1 out of the front page:
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In the past 2 posts I covered the menu and how to set which page will be the home page. And here is how to have a custom home page with dynamic content. A static page is not the best thing for a home page because it’s just kind of dull– a freshly updated and
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