WordPress is a great tool for blogging. It can be easy to use, even for a novice and making changes to your site can be very easy. These WordPress tips will help to make some aspects even easier.
Making Changes:
If there is one aspect of WordPress that is frustrating it the inability to see changes as you make them. If you change the order of your widgets, or perhaps get brave and make changes in your style sheet, it doesn’t become obvious until you go back to your WordPress Page.
Tip:
Once you have entered WordPress’s dashboard, right click on the ‘view site’ button and click to open in a new window or new tab. You will now have a copy of WordPress in edit mode in one tab/window and a copy of WordPress in ‘view site’ mode in another tab/window. Every time you make a change, flip across to the site tab/window and refresh – you will see the changes straight away (if you are using a cache plugin, disable it until you have finished).
Changing Theme:
I hate changing the theme on any site – more so if the WordPress owner has signed up to endless different programs. Many of these programs or social sites require the installation of snippets of code in the header, footer or body. When you change themes these have all got to be found and written into the new themes code.
Tip:
Keep a log in a notepad file. Everytime you add a snippet of code document it in that notepad file. Don’t forget to remove it from the file if you remove it from your WordPress file. If you are logical the placement of these codes, that is, where ever possible you bundle them together, the next time you decide to change themes the snippets of code will be available to copy straight into the new theme. No more hunting for any code – no more missing code.
WordPress is a very user friendly blog platform – remember these tips and you will find that it is even easier to use.
