How to Manually Disable WordPress Plugins

1. Open your WordPress Dashboard in your preferred browser. It is accessed at the '/wp-admin' location of your site. For example, if your WordPress site is at 'mywordpressblogsite.com' the address of the Dashboard is 'http://www.mywordpressblogsite.com/wp-admin.'
2. Enter your administrative user name and password and click 'Log In.'

3. Click 'Plugins' on the left side of the screen.
4. Place a check mark next to the name of each plugin you would like to disable. The list of plugins is displayed in the main portion of the browser window, right of the navigation bar.
5. Click the 'Bulk Actions' drop-down menu below the list of plugins. Select 'Deactivate' from the list of options.
6. Click 'Apply' to the right of the menu. All selected plugins are now disabled.

How to use your own domain name on a WordPress.com blog

1. Log into your WordPress.com account using your user name and password.
2. Hover your cursor over the 'My Blogs' tab at the top, left-hand side of the page. You will see a listing of all your blogs, plus an option to manage a blog or add a new one.

3. Hover your cursor over the the 'Register a New Blog' option under 'My Blogs' and click on it.
4. Look for a dialog box titled 'Blog Address' near the top of the page. Write in the blog address you'd like to use. A prompt will let you know whether the name is available. If it is, you'll see a button asking 'Use it for your blog for $17 a year?' Click on this button to confirm yes. The domain name to the left of your blog name will change from .wordpress.com to yourblogaddress.com. You'll receive another prompt confirming that the domain is for a new blog.
5. Click on the down arrow to the right of the '.com' domain name of you wish to change your blog domain to .net or .org. You will receive the same prompt.
6. Click on the 'I Want a New Blog' button after you've chosen your desired blog name and domain.
7. Go to the second dialog box beneath 'Blog Address,' titled 'Blog Title.' Enter a title for your new blog (which is not the same thing as your blog address; the title will appear at the top of the browser). Select the blog language in the third dialog box. Finally, select privacy preferences in the fourth dialog box. The blog title, language and privacy settings can be changed later. The blog address cannot be changed.
8. Click the orange 'Create Blog' button at the bottom of the page. Fill in the required registration information and click on the 'Register Domain' bottom at the bottom of the page. Select your payment process for a credit card or PayPal. Input the required payment information and click on the 'Purchase and Register Domain' button.

How to Add Breaks in WordPress Posts

1. Click the 'Add New' link in the 'Posts' section of your WordPress dashboard to begin creating a new post. To add page breaks to an existing post, click the 'Posts' menu, then click the name of the post that you want to edit.
2. Click the 'HTML' tab at the top of the text editor to view the HTML code for the blog post.

3. Place the cursor at the beginning of a blank line, after the end of where you would like the first page to end.
4. Type '
' in the text editor. Repeat this step and the previous one in each position where you would like to create a page break.
5. Scroll to the top of the page and click the 'Publish' or 'Update' button in the upper-right corner. WordPress splits the post into multiple pages, adding a page number at the bottom of each one for navigation.

How to Change a WordPress Meta Description

1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard. Open the 'Appearance' heading in the main menu, and select 'Widgets.' This screen shows all the widgets included with WordPress, as well as any additional widgets you have installed.
2. Click and hold the mouse pointer on the 'Meta' widget, and move the mouse to drag the widget to the sidebar area on the right side of the page. Release the mouse button to place the widget within your website's sidebar. When you release the mouse button, the configuration options for the Meta widget appear.

3. Click the 'Title' field. Type the description that you would like your website to display in the sidebar for the Meta widget.
4. Click the 'Save' button.

How to Install a WordPress

1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard with your username and password. Click the 'Down' arrow next to Pages in the left navigation menu, then click 'Add New.'
2. Type your featured post and title in the page interface and click 'Publish' to make it public.

3. Click 'Reading' under 'Settings' in the left menu, then select the radio button 'A static page.' Choose the title of your featured post page from the drop-down list next to 'Front page' and click 'Save Changes.' Your featured post will remain on the home page of your blog.

How to Make a Slideshow in WordPress

1. Sign into your WordPress website administration panel.
2. Open the post or page to which you'd like to add a slideshow.

3. Click 'Add An Image.'
4. Select the images or photographs to include by navigating to their location on your hard drive, desktop, or removable flash drive.
5. Click 'Save All Changes' to go to the Gallery tab.
6. Click 'Insert Slideshow' in the Gallery tab, and click 'Update.'

How to Add Post Thumbnails in WordPress

1. Navigate to the 'Write Post' panel sidebar of the WordPress Dashboard.
2. Click on 'Set Thumbnail' under the 'Post Thumbnail' category.

3. Find the image you would like to use as the thumbnail and select it.
4. Add a title, alternate text, caption, or description if needed.
5. Click 'Use as thumbnail.'
6. Click 'Publish.'

How to Create Automated Posts on a WordPress Blog

1.

Write an entry on your WordPress blog. You can prepare it as if you were about to publish it including categories, links, photos and all the content that you want to publish.
2.

Once you are ready to save the post, look on the right hand side of your screen and you will see the Publish Status menu.
As you can see, there is an option right next to 'Publish Immediately' and it says 'Edit.'

3. Click on 'Edit' to schedule the date and time when your post will go up on the Internet. On the date and time that you decide, your blog with be updated with this posting, just as if you were in front of your computer doing it.
4. Now that you have entered the date and time when you want to publish this post, click Save and your entry will remain as a draft until it goes live.
You can do this with as many posts as you want or need. They will all go live when you scheduled them on WordPress.

How to Design Websites on WordPress

1. Find a web host. There are thousands of them on the Internet that support WordPress. WordPress has its recommended sites; however, you can use any that you are comfortable with.
2. Install WordPress. You must download and install the application onto your computer.

3. Read the documentation on how to create your website. There is a lot to read and understand to create the site that will be perfect for your uses.
4. Upload a WordPress template. Save the template to your wp-content/themes folder. Tens of thousands of templates exist for you to choose from. Take your time and find the right one for you. You can change the template later if you decide you don't like the one you start with.
5. Sign in to your WordPress admin panel. Click 'Appearance' and then 'Themes.' Activate the theme you uploaded.
6. Alter the theme to fit your site's purpose. You can change the images, text and colors. Each theme has different modifications for you to try. If you know HyperText Markup Language, or HTML, then you can alter it further.

How to Use the WordPress Menu With Thesis

1. Log in to your WordPress account.
2. Select 'Thesis' from the menu on the left, then click 'Site Options.'

3. Click the plus ' ' icon next to 'Navigation Menu' to extend the options.
4. Click the option next to the 'WordPress Nav Menu,' then click the 'Save' button. This will change your default menu to the WordPress menu.
5. Click 'Appearance' from the left menu, then click 'Menus' to view the WordPress menu setup.
6. Type a name for your new menu in the 'Menu Name' text box.
7. Select a location, such as 'Main Menu,' from the 'Theme Locations' drop-down menu in the upper left corner.
8. Place a check in the box next to each page from the 'Pages' list that you would like to include in the menu, then click the 'Add to Menu' button. You will see the selected pages appear in the menu list on the right.
9. Click the down-arrow icon next to the page name to edit your menu item, such as changing the name that appears in the menu or removing the item from the menu.
10. Click the 'Save Menu' button in the upper right corner when you finish. You will now see the WordPress menu display on your website.

How to Post a Juke Box in Wordpress

1. Log in to the Wordpress admin panel.
2. Go through the left-hand navigation pane, and locate 'Plugins.' Click on 'Add New' under plugins, so the plugin search page will load.

3. Insert 'audio playlist manager' in the search box, and click the 'Search Plugins' button to the right. Click the 'Install' link for the 'audio playlist manager with autoresume' plugin which will be the first search result. The auto-resume feature makes the player pause for page loads, and start automatically afterward, instead of stopping the player altogether. If auto-resume is not needed, install the second search result - 'Tierra's audio playlist manager.'Click on the 'Activate Plugin' link when prompted.
4. Click 'Tierra Audio Playlists' under 'Settings' in the left-hand navigation menu. If there are any server limitations for uploads, a warning message may appear at the top of the page with instructions to enhance memory capacity as well. If the music files and the plugin options can be managed within the allowed capacity, ignore the warning.
5. Upload music files to the server via the 'Add New Media File' form at the bottom of the page. Alternatively upload files to the 'Uploads' folder via an FTP client, and add the music files to the playlists by specifying each URL within the 'Add New Media File' form.
6. Create playlists using the uploaded audio files. Name the playlists with recognizable, meaningful names, e.g., name of the artist, or the genre of music.
7. Click 'Widgets' under 'Appearance,' in the main navigational menu to the left. Notice the new widget named 'Tierra Audio Playlist Player.' Drag this widget to one of the sidebars to the right.
8. Configure the options for the music player widget, and specify the playlist to use.
9. Load the front end of the Wordpress site in different browsers, and test the playback of the jukebox.

How to Secure a WordPress Blog From a Trojan Infection

1. Upgrade Wordpress every time a new version is available. Click 'Tools' then 'Upgrade.' Click 'Update Automatically' to perform the upgrade. New versions of Wordpress fix security holes and issues, so you will be protected against known exploits and fixed bugs.
2. Ask your Web host to upgrade your server operating system and scripts when updates are available. This minimizes the risk of trojans getting in to your Wordpress installation through backend holes.

3. Create an administrator password that cannot be easily guessed. Using numbers, symbols and various letter cases can prevent your password from being cracked.
4. Use a FTP program or the file manager on your web server to check file and folder permissions. Unless otherwise required by your server or Wordpress, folders should be set with permission '755' and files should have permissions set at '644.'

How to Manage the Sandbox in WordPress

1. Open the .css file from your WordPress site. You can open the .css file in any text editor like Notepad.
2. Open a Web browser, and then open the page you want to work on.

3. Make a change to the .css file, and then refresh your browser to see the changes. For example, if you want to change the background color of your site to gray, type 'body{ background-color: gray;}'.
4. When you are finished making changes, move the style.css style sheet file to your WordPress Theme folder on your website, replacing the old file. Make sure to load graphics and images to relevant folder.

How to Create a Canonical URL for a Homepage in WordPress

1. Log in to your WordPress blog's administrative interface.
2. Click 'Plugins.'

3. Click 'Add New.'
4. Search for 'homepage canonical link' in the plugin search box.
5. Click 'Install' next to 'Homepage Canonical Link' in the search results.
6. Click 'Install Now.'
7. Click 'Activate Plugin.' The canonical link tag now appears in your homepage's header code.

How to Restore a WordPress Blog With WP

1. Log in to your hosting account, then click 'PhpMyAdmin' in the Databases section. The PhpMyAdmin page opens.
2. Click the database that you want to restore the WordPress backup to, then click the 'Import' tab.

3. Click 'Browse' or 'Choose File' next to the 'Text' box, then go to the backup file on your computer.
4. Click the backup file to select it, then click 'Open.'
5. Select 'SQL' from the 'Format' drop-down list, or click the 'SQL' button. Click 'Go.' When the backup process is complete, the Success screen appears.

How to Use Viewport for a WordPress Theme

1. Write a post in WordPress.
2. Create three JPEG or GIF images using any image-editing program. The image sizes should be 940 by 600, 940 by 300 and 270 by 172 pixels.

3. Click 'Add an Image' in your post. Upload the 940 by 600 pixels image.
4. Copy the link from the list that appears when the image uploads, then click 'Save all changes' and close the window by clicking on the 'x' at the top right of the page.
5. Scroll down the page to the Custom Fields tab and type 'lead_image' into the key image field.
6. Paste the image link you copied in Step 3 into the value box and click 'Add Custom Field.'
7. Repeat Steps 3 through 6 with the other two images, typing 'single_image' into the Custom Fields value for the second image and 'archive_image' into the Custom Fields value for the third image.