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WordPress in 20 Steps

Why I Wrote This Book
WordPress has a large and active online community, several and famous websites around
the world are using this open source CMS, the idea behind this book is to teach you
WordPress practically in very short time

Audience
This book has been prepared for those who have a basic knowledge of computers and has
an urge to develop websites
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WordPress in 20 Steps

Table of Contents
Step 1
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WordPress Installation Locally
Step 3
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Free and Paid Domain Name Hosting
Step 5
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WordPress General Settings
Step 7
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WordPress Reading
Step 9
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WordPress Permalink Settings
Step 11
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WordPress Categories and Tags
Step 13
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WordPress User Profile
Step 15
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WordPress Themes
Step 17
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WordPress WooCommerce Plugins
Step 19
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WordPress Membership Plugins

WordPress in 20 Steps

Step 1: WordPress Quick Overview

WordPress

What is Content Management System (CMS)
WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which allows the users
to build dynamic websites and blogs
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The Content Management System (CMS) is a software which stores all the data such as
text, photos, music, documents, etc
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It helps in editing,
publishing and modifying the content of the website
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WordPress was
announced as open source in October 2009
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WordPress is a powerful system and it can easily be customized for your needs
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A WordPress site can work well for anyone, like:

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Small businesses & large corporations
Restaurants, caterers, and designers
Consultants, freelancers & coaches
Schools, nonprofits and churches
Bands, artists and creative professionals
Many more…

Features
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User Management: It allows managing the user information such as changing the
role of the users to (subscriber, contributor, author, editor or administrator), create
or delete the user, change the password and user information
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Media Management: It is the tool for managing the media files and folder, in which
you can easily upload, organize and manage the media files on your website
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It includes
images, stylesheet, template files and custom pages
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Search Engine Optimization: It provides several search engine optimization (SEO)
tools which makes on-site SEO simple
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Importers: It allows importing data in the form of posts
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Advantages
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It is an open source platform and available for free
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There are many plugins and templates available for free
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It is very easy to edit the content as it uses WYSIWYG editor (What You See Is What
You Get is a user interface that allows the user to directly manipulate the layout of
document without having a layout command)
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It offers several SEO tools which makes on-site SEO simple
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It allows creating different roles for users for website such as admin, author, editor
and contributor
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PHP knowledge is required to make modifications or changes in the WordPress
website
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Updating WordPress version leads to loss of
data, so it a backup copy of the website is required
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WordPress in 20 Steps

Step 2: WordPress Installation Locally

System Requirements for WordPress
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Database: MySQL 5
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15+

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Web Server:
o WAMP (Windows)
o LAMP (Linux)
o XAMP (Multi-platform)

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Operating System: Cross-platform

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Browser Support: IE (Internet Explorer 8+), Firefox, Google chrome, Safari, Opera

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PHP Compatibility: PHP 5
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4+

Download WordPress
Go to this link https://wordpress
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Download and Install Xampp
Go to this link https://www
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org/download
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Step 1: Extract the downloaded WordPress folder to (c:\xampp\htdocs)
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In our case, the path
is localhost/< WordPress folder >
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Step 3: In this step, you can view the information needed for the database before
proceeding with WordPress installation
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WordPress in 20 Steps

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Database Name: Enter the database name which you have created in MySQL
database for WordPress
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Password: Enter the password which you had set for MySQL database
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Table Prefix: It is used to add prefix in the database tables which helps to run
multiple sites on the same database
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After filling all information, click on Submit button
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WordPress in 20 Steps

Click on Run the install
Step 6: Enter administrative information
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Username: Enter the username as per your choice while logging in the WordPress
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Your E-mail: Enter your e-mail address which helps to recover the password or any
update
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After filling all the information, click on the Install WordPress button
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You can view your username and password detail added in WordPress
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Step 8: After clicking on login, you will get a WordPress Admin Panel as depicted in the
following screen
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Step 3: WordPress Installation cPanel

WordPress in 20 Steps

You can use any webhosting that supports WordPress here will use (www
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com) so after registration:
Step 1: Login and Open Softaculous: Click on Softaculous Apps Installer

Step 2: Start the WordPress Install
WordPress might be located in the Top Scripts section when you first open Softaculous:

WordPress in 20 Steps

If WordPress isn’t in the Top Scripts for some reason, then you can use the Softaculous search to find it:

Click on WordPress
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Now click Install
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If you’re using SSL, then you would use HTTPS
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If you need more information on SSL Certificates than
visit our tutorial on what is an SSL Certificate?
Select an option for Choose Protocol
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WordPress in 20 Steps

And then select your domain under Choose Domain
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If you want WordPress installed in the root directory for your domain, then under In Directory remove wp
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And finally enter a database name
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This setting is generally left unchanged, and
refers to the table prefix for each WordPress table in the WordPress database
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Step 5: Site Settings
Both the Site Name and the Site Description should be filled in with information relevant to your new
blog/site
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Step 6: Admin Account

WordPress in 20 Steps

It is strongly recommended that the Admin Username be changed to something other than admin
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This email will receive notifications
from your WordPress installation
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Step 5: WordPress Dashboard

WordPress in 20 Steps

Dashboard Menu
The WordPress Dashboard provides navigation menu that contains some menu options such
as posts, media library, pages, comments, appearance options, plugins, users, tools and
settings on the left side
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It contains check boxes to show or hide screen options and also allows us to
customize sections on the admin screen
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The center column provides some of the useful links such as creating a blog post, creating a
page and view the front end of your website
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Quick Draft
The Quick Draft is a mini post editor which allows writing, saving and publishing a post from
admin dashboard
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WordPress News
The WordPress News widget displays the latest news such as latest software version,
updates, alerts, news regarding the software etc
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Activity
The Activity widget includes latest comments on your blog, recent posts and recently
published posts
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It
also allows you to move a comment to spam
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When you click on these links, you will be taken to the respective
screen
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Step 6: WordPress General Settings

WordPress in 20 Steps

General Settings in WordPress
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In the setting administration screen, it is a default setting
screen
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Step 2: The General Setting page is displayed as shown in the following snapshot
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Site Title: It displays the name of the site in the template header
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WordPress Address (URL): It is the URL of WordPress directory where your all core
application files are present
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E-mail Address: Enter your e-mail address which helps to recover your password or
any update
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New User Default Role: The default role is set for the newly registered user or
members
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Date Format: Sets the date format as you need to display on the site
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Week Starts On: Select the week day which you prefer to start for WordPress
calendar
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Site Language: Sets the language for the WordPress dashboard
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It saves all your general setting information
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These settings control the features in the adding and editing posts, Pages,
and Post Types, as well as the optional functions like Remote Publishing, Post via e-mail, and
Update Services
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Step 2: The Writing Setting page is displayed as shown in the following screen
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Formatting: This field defines two sub options for better user experience
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o The second option WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML
automatically corrects the invalid XHTML placed within the posts or pages
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Default Post Format: It is used by themes to select post format to be applied to a
post or create different styles for different types of posts
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To use this, you'll need to set up a secret e-mail account
with a POP3 access, and any mail received at this address will be posted
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For this, you need to have POP3 compatible mail server and it will
have URI address such as mail
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com, which you should enter here
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The Login
Name will use this e-mail address and should be kept as a secret as spammers will
post links redirecting to their own websites
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Default Mail Category: It allows selecting custom category for all the posts that are
published via Post by e-mail feature
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See the Update Services on the codex for the
long list of possible services
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Step 8: WordPress Reading

WordPress

The Reading Settings in WordPress
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You can set the number of post to be displayed on the main page
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WordPress in 20 Steps

Following are the details of the fields on reading settings
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o A static page: It displays the static pages on the front page
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Posts Page: You can select the page from the drop down which
contains posts
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By default, it is set as 10
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By default, it is set as 10
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It is set as default
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Search Engine Visibility: After clicking on the checkbox, Discourage search engines
from indexing this site, your site will be ignored by the search engine
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Step 9: WordPress Discussion
WordPress

The Discussion settings in WordPress
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These settings are done by the admin to
have a control over the posts/pages that come in through users
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Following fields are seen in Discussion settings
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This contains three more settings
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Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks):
Accepts pings from other blogs
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You can change the settings as per your will for individual articles
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o

Users must be registered and logged in to comment: If you check this
box, only those registered visitors can leave comments, if not checked anyone
can leave any number of comments
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Enable threaded (nested) comments: When you check this option, visitors
can reply or have a discussion and get responses
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Comments should be displayed with the comments at the top of each
page: You can arrange the comments in the form of ascending or descending
order
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o

A comment is held for moderation: This is used in case you do not want
your comment to be updated before it's moderated by the admin
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There are two more settings as followed:

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Comment must be manually approved: If you check this box then only the
approved comments by the admin can be displayed on the posts or pages
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Otherwise the comment is held for moderation
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Comment Blacklist: You can input your own spam words which you do not want
your visitors to enter into the comments, URL, e-mail etc
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Avatars: Avatar is a small image that displays at the top-right-hand corner of the
dashboard screen beside your name
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Here you have a
few more options where you can set your avatar for WordPress site
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Maximum rating: You have a four other options of avatars you can use
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This is the age section where you select according to which
type of audience you want to display your posts
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Step 3: Click on Save Changes button to save the changes

Step 10: WordPress Permalink Settings
WordPress

The Permalink settings in WordPress
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It’s what other websites will use to link to your content
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They have question marks and lots of
numbers that are completely meaningless to the average user
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site
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Step 11: WordPress Posts and Pages

Difference between Pages and Posts

• Creating Posts
• Creating Pages
• Creating Child Pages
Pages vs
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Posts
A WordPress post is what makes up the ‘blog’ aspect of your site
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Usually listed in reverse chronological order—the newest posts show up at the top
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Located on the homepage as your primary content, or on a “blog” page
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For most sites you’ll continually add new posts, creating a dynamic, constantly
updating stream of content
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Not listed by date
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They cannot be tagged, categorized or archived by date
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Creating Posts

To create a post on your site, go to Posts > Add New in the left menu
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Step 12: WordPress Categories and Tags

Categories
You can assign a post to multiple categories, but you must assign a post to at least one
category
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You can assign categories to the right of your entry
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You can also create a new category by clicking on
+ Add New Category at the bottom
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If you have a lot of categories, you can also click on the Most Used
tab to see your most frequently used categories
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You can assign as many tags as you
want, though generally you don’t want to assign too many
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Unlike categories, tags are completely optional
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You can also choose from the most used tags
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Tags are not case sensitive, so Technology is the same as
technology
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Tags
Here’s a look at tags and categories for different sites to give you an idea how they might work:

Step 13: WordPress Media

Most administrators leave their media settings at the default settings, but you may find that
you want your image categories – thumbnail, medium, large – to be different than the
default settings
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By default
they will upload to the wp-content/uploads folder
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Click Edit to access the Profile edit screen
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Username – Note that the username cannot be changed
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This determines how WordPress will display this
user’s name
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This can help you quickly and easily create author pages for your blog team
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One of the worst
things about blogs is the ability to let readers comment
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Giving your readers a forum to voice their opinion can refine your work, help you discover new
perspectives and even give you a much-needed pat on the back
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Comments Settings

You can approve, delete and manage your comments under Comments in the left menu
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You can quickly
change themes and change the entire look of your site, while still maintaining the underlying
WordPress software that powers your site
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This is the Manage Theme page where you
have the current theme you’re using at the top and below that you have all your available
themes
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Step 17: WordPress Plugins

Plugins
WordPress Plugins are pieces of software that extend the core capabilities of WordPress
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To add new plugins Go to Plugins > Add New and you’ve got several options
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You can find a plugin
and install it from here
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Premium Plugins
While there are free plugins, there are also premium plugins
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You’re not paying just for the plugin, but for the
professional, quality support that comes with it
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It is designed for small to large-sized
online merchants using WordPress
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To install just follow the instructions in step 17

Features:
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Built on WordPress
Open development
More than 400 official extensions
REST API
Countless themes
Unrestricted customization
Embed products, checkout and more on any page
Unlimited products and many more…

Step 19: WordPress SEO Plugins

Search Engine Optimization
You want people to find your site, so you need to make sure it can be found
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SEO is the process of making the
tweaks and adjustments to your site that search engines like so they’ll rank your site higher
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Suggested SEO Tool:
Yoast : https://wordpress
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Here will suggest the best 3 Membership plugins for WordPress
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wpbeginner
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Paid Memberships Pro: http://www
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com
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wpbeginner
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4
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Control Access to Your Content
Collect Membership Payments
Create Multiple Membership Products or Levels
Support Discount Coupons
Automate Important Tasks



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