Trying To Figure Out Wordpress? Try These Tips And Tricks

Have you been thinking of starting a blog but feel you are too technologically challenged to do so? Well, have no fear because you have come to the right place. The following article will point out the most important things you should know when working with the most popular content management system - Wordpress.

Make your theme current on your website to draw more traffic. Switch to a new theme that accentuates your colors and logos. Also, you may want to opt for a more professioanl theme if you are planning on showing your site off to a high volume of potential customers each day.

If you are doing a Wordpress blog for professional or search engine optimization purporses, don't let Wordpress actually host your blog. Put your blog on a different host and then just use the Wordpress application there. Blogs at Wordpress' website are sometimes deleted for being too commercial or deemed spammy in content.

Make sure that your content is free of fluff. In this way, your site will be inviting and comfortable for your users. An excellent plugin that can aid you in removing spam from your site on a daily basis is Akismet.

Don't include any special characters in your URLS. They give search engines difficulty when they are spidering your site, so try to eliminate them altogether. Attempt to keep your URLs simple for visitors as well.

Your posts will always show up in chronological order when you have not specified otherwise. If you want to rearrange some posts, you will have to modify the date of your post. To do this, locate the date in the upper right corner of an open post. Select the date and make your changes; then, save the post to make the position change permanent.

Images make your blog look beautiful; however, the images can also help your site rank higher among search engines. One of the easiest ways to do this is to add keywords to your title tag and alternate tags. Both of these tags should contain precise keywords in order to rank your site appropriately.

Do you have a lot of people who comment on your posts? If they do, it is hard to go through all of the comments. Look for a plugin to add page numbers at the end of the comments section. Navigation will be significantly easier, and the site itself will appear far more organized.

Wordpress Security

To enhance your WordPress security measures, remember to use a different user name than 'admin'. This default user name is far to common to not create a major threat to those that use it. With one bulk attack, sites with 'admin' as the user name can be targeted in mass. Then all that is needed is to start spamming random passwords. Change that name!

The article you have just read covered a lot of very valuable information about using Wordpress when creating a blog. Hopefully you learned enough from it that you now feel empowered enough to get out of your comfort zone and tackle Wordpress. Take the knowledge you now have and let your creativity flow.

Anthony Bule is a writer and Wordpress user and owner of the site WP Security Hero.com

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