Getting started with wordpress

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GETTING STARTED WITH WORDPRESS

PROF DR. MOHAMED AMIN EMBI

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STEP 1

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Go to: http://wordpress.com/

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STEP 2Signup/registration

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To start registration, click ‘Sign up now’ button

Fill out the form to create your WordPress account and you blog

address.

Next, click ‘sign up’

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After you click ‘sign up’, this page will appear. You need to check your e-mail inbox

to active you account.

You will received this email, and you need to

click this link to start activate your account

Fill out your profile form

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Save your profile by clicking the ‘Save Profile’ button.

After you finished activate your

account, now you can login and start using WordPress.

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STEP 3Editing your blog

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On your blog homepage, click

‘About’

Click ‘Edit’ to start editing the

page

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Click ‘preview changes’ before you click the

‘update’

Delete text, and start write up your

homepage about.

Click ‘update’

To return back to your homepage, click this button.

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STEP 4To add links to your blog

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Go to My Blog

Click ‘Dashboard’

Click ‘Add New’

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Insert information and ‘Add Link’

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STEP 5To change your blog appearance

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Click ‘appearance’ at dashboard page

This page will appear and you can choose your favorites themes and appearance

Select a theme and

click ‘Activate’

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STEP 6To comment on a post

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At your blog page, you can see text ‘comment’ here. To start comment the post you need to click this ‘comment’

text.

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This page will appear.

Write your comment here.

Click ‘post comment’ to submit/reply your

comment.

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