How to Change WordPress Permalinks for Split Posts

1. Sign in to WordPress. Choose the 'All Posts' link from the 'Posts' pane on the left side of the WordPress Dashboard.
2. Scroll through posts until you locate the one whose permalink you want to edit. Select the 'Edit' button below the post's name.

3. Click the 'Edit' button next to the permalink. Input any title you desired for the post, keeping in mind that you don't need to specify 'Page 1' or 'Page 2' -- WordPress does this automatically for your readers. Select 'Update' to update the entry to reflect the new permalink.

How to Embed YouTube in Thesis WordPress

1. Go to YouTube.com and find the video you want to embed on your Thesis WordPress blog. Copy the URL in your browser's address bar.
2. Log in to you blog's admin area.

3. Click 'Add New Post.'
4. Click on the 'Add Video' icon. This icon will look like a film strip.
5. Click the 'Type' drop-down menu and select 'Flash.'
6. Paste the YouTube URL for the video in the URL field, and then click the 'Insert' button. Finish the rest of your blog post as normal. When you post the blog entry, the YouTube video will be embedded.

How to Make a New WordPress Blog

1. Go online to the WordPress sign-up page (www.wordpress.com/signup).
2. Type the URL you want to assign to your blog in the first text field.

3. Type the username you want to be associated with your blog in the second text field.
4. Type a password you want assigned to your username in the second and third text fields.
5. Type your email address in the last text field and click 'Sign Up.'
6. Go to your email inbox and open the email sent to you by WordPress. Click the link in the email body to activate your WordPress blog. Your new WordPress blog is now active.

How to Set Thumbnails in WordPress

Set a Featured Image
1. Log into WordPress and click 'Posts' in the left menu. Hover over the post that you would like to have a thumbnail, and click the 'Edit' link that appears. Look for a 'Set Featured Image' link in the lower-right corner. If it does not exist, your theme is not yet compatible with thumbnails and needs editing.
2. Click the 'Set Featured Image' link on the post editing screen's lower-right corner. Follow the prompts to upload an image, but do not click the 'Insert' button. Instead, click 'Set as Featured Image' next to the button.

3. Click the 'X' at the top-right corner of the media uploader to make it disappear. Check that your image appears in the 'Featured Image' box. Click the blue 'Update' button to save the post with the thumbnail.
Add Theme Support for Thumbnails
4. Open the functions.php file of your current WordPress theme in the plain text or code editor of your choosing. This file is found here:/yoursite/wp-content/themes/name-of-theme/Add this code anywhere between the
tags of the file, preferably at the very bottom or very top:if (function_exists('add_theme_support')) {add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');}
5. Start a new line and add in the following code:set_post_thumbnails_size(50, 50, true);Between the parentheses are three parameters for this function: width, height and cropping mode. Set the width to whatever you want, and set the height to 9999 if you want variable height. WordPress takes thumbnails and sizes them to the width first and the height second, and with variable height it leaves the height alone. Include the 'true' parameter to tell WordPress to hard-crop the thumbnail to exact dimensions. WordPress crops from the center of images.
6. Add various thumbnail sizes by including the following function on the next line:add_image_size('size-name', 300, 200);Here, the 'size-name' is whatever you want to call that image size when you use it in theme templates, so give it a name that makes sense and is easy to remember. The next two parameters are height and width, just like in the set_post_thumbnails_size() function.
Add Thumbnails to Template Files
7. Open up your template files in your theme's folder. Wherever you want thumbnails to appear, add this code:
Use
instead to use a different thumbnail size set in the functions.php file.
8. Wrap the thumbnail function in conditional tags to keep WordPress from trying to load thumbnails when posts do not have them. Your code should look like this:



9. Use an Else statement to show a fallback image for posts without thumbnails. Fallbacks are useful for site designs that would look awkward without some type of image in the thumbnail spot. Here is an example:



/your-fallback.png' />

How to Convert Wordpress to a Doc

1. Log in to your Wordpress account. Select 'Tools' and click 'Export.'
2. Change the filter values to download the Wordpress files you want and click 'Download Export File.'

3. Open Word on your computer. Select 'Open' from the File menu and choose the 'Wordpress.xml' file. Click 'Open.'
4. Select 'Save As' from the File menu. Choose 'doc' from the list of file types and click 'Save.'

How to Teach Yourself WordPress Visually

1. Sign up for a blog at WordPress.com. When signing up for a free WordPress blog, you have to choose a domain name which will look like http://yournewdomainname.wordpress.com. Access your WordPress blog by adding /wp-admin.php to your website domain name.
2. Choose a user name and a password and enter an e-mail address. WordPress will use the e-mail address entered to send (the website administrator) important e-mails. After choosing a username and password, WordPress will send you a confirmation e-mail to verify your account. Click on the link in the e-mail to verify your account and you are on your way to becoming WordPress proficient.

3. Sign in to your new WordPress account with your new username and password. After signing in, you will be taken to your account 'dashboard.' The dashboard is referred to as the 'back-end' of the blog, or the part of the blog that only you as the administrator will see. The 'front-end' of the blog is what the rest of the world will see. Along the left side of the window, you'll find a long list of buttons including Posts, Media, Links, Pages Comments, Ratings, Polls, Appearance, Users, Tools, and Settings. The easiest and quickest method of teaching yourself WordPress visually is to click through each button on this list.
4. Adjust the general settings of your blog. Click on the 'Settings' button and then on the 'General' button. These settings are basic to your blog and include your time zone, desired date and time format, and other settings. When you are finished making general setting changes, click on 'Save' and then continue to work your way down the 'Settings' list -- including 'Writing,' 'Reading,' 'Discussion,' etc. -- until you have made all of the changes you'd like under the 'Settings' button.
5. Decide what you are going to cover. You can do a photoblog, a food blog, write about technology or the stock market. You can vent your frustrations about the real estate market or your local congressman. Develop a writing or blogging plan. Most bloggers and writers write about their passions. List all of your passions and decide what to focus upon.
6. Choose your blog's 'theme'---not the overall point of the blog, but what the blog looks like. The point of the blog and the theme should go together. It wouldn't make visual sense to write about serious topics and have a theme that features pink polka dots and purple banners. There are hundreds of themes to choose from. A theme can be chosen under Appearance > Themes. You can preview each theme before assigning a new theme. Themes can be changed at any time.
7. Add 'widgets' to your Wordpress blog. You add widgets under Appearance > Widgets. Widgets add features and functionality to your blog that would not be available otherwise. There are literally thousands of widgets to choose from. Again, add widgets that make sense to your blog. These may include a text widget, a calendar widget, multiple back-end widgets that help with social media exposure and widgets that help track traffic.
8. Write your first post. Write the post in a word processing program first and copy and paste it into Wordpress later after you edit and proofread through the post. When it is ready to reveal to the world, click on 'Post > Add New.' Add a title to the post and paste the body text into the body field. Format the text how you would like, click on 'Save Draft,' and click on 'Publish.' Click on 'View Post' to look at your new post. Review it and make any changes you'd like in the body field, click on 'Update,' and click on 'View Post' to see the result of the changes you made. Changes to the body of the post can be made with the 'Visual Editor' or the 'HTML Editor.' The Visual Editor will add HTML tags to the text for you. Using the HTML Editor, you can add any supported HTML tags yourself.
9. Add photo and video files to your posts. Click on the 'Add Image' or 'Add Video' button and follow the prompts to upload and customize the image or video file and its display characteristics. If adding a video file to your blog, it is better to upload the video file to YouTube and add the video link.
10. Add links to your social media accounts so each time you add a post, your social media accounts are automatically notified of the update. All of your friends and contacts will automatically be updated with your new status. Also, add the 'Blog Subscription Widget' to your blog. This will allow your readers to sign up to receive post notifications by e-mail every time you add a new post.

How to FTP a Static Page in WordPress

1. Download and install an FTP client, such as FileZilla or Kompozer. When the download completes, run the setup file to install the client to your computer.
2. Launch the FTP client from its desktop shortcut and provide the information about your website, including FTP account, FTP username and FTP password. You will get this information from the web hosting company with which you signed up for hosting your website. These details are typically found in the 'Welcome' email from your hosting company.

3. Click 'Connect' or 'Quickconnect' to access your blog's files on your web host's server.
4. Use the directory listing under 'Local site' to navigate to the static webpage file that is to be uploaded to your website. Right-click this file and select 'Upload.' You will be prompted when the webpage uploads successfully. The uploaded file will also appear under 'Remote site' section, which shows all the files that are currently uploaded to your website.
5. Shift the uploaded webpage file to a new directory. Since you're looking to add the file as a new page on your Wordpress blog, you will have to create a new directory for it. To create the new directory, right-click anywhere in the 'Remote site' section of your FTP client and select 'Create directory.' Enter the navigation link for the new page. For instance, if the title of the new static page is 'Downloads,' type '/public_html/New folder/Downloads' as the address link for the new page. Drag the webpage file from the main folder under 'Remote site' to the 'Downloads' folder that you just created. If we assume that the address of your blog is 'www.example.com,' then the static webpage that you added to this blog will be accessible at 'www.example.com/downloads.'
6. Add a link to the new static 'Downloads' page on your Wordpress blog's homepage. To add this link, you need to open your website homepage files in a web designing software, such as Adobe Dreamweaver and add the link at an appropriate place on your homepage.