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How To Manage Your WordPress Website

This page is an index of How To articles that will help you manage your OM4 website on WordPress.

Because OM4 sites run on WordPress, there are also many excellent WordPress books, and there are some WordPress online training courses.

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Section Articles Description
Starting Out Edit a few Words on your Home Page
Publish Your First Blog Post
Add an Image
Add Users
Optimize for Search Engines
Updating your website.
Web Pages Web Pages
Reordering Web Pages
Video
Audio
Embedding Content
Simple Contact Forms and Self Managed Enquiry Forms
Charts and Gadgets from Google Docs
Links
Visual Editor vs HTML Editor
Polls
Featured Articles
iPhone (WordPress.tv)
Advanced: More Page Options
Embedding Flash
Embedding PDF files with Issuu
Update your web pages and blog posts using your dashboard and editor.
Blog Posts Managing, Organising and Editing Your Posts
What Should I Blog About?
Types of Blog Posts
Sticky/featured Posts
Business Blogger’s Checklist
Titles and Permalinks
Categories and Tags
Choosing Post Categories
Organising Post Categories
Displaying Posts
Publish a Post In the Future
Post Excerpts
Comments
Comment Spam
Tips specific for blog posts.
Social Media Twitter
Facebook
Delicious, StumbleUpon and Digg
Share This
Integrate your site with Social Media.
Analytics and Monitoring How to Use and Interpret Google Analytics Monitoring how your site is working.
HTML Tips Introduction to HTML (for Bloggers and others)
Using Copyright, Trademark and other Special Characters
Using shortcodes in OM4 websites
40 Shortcodes available via the Template Tag Shortcodes plugin
Some more advanced tips so you can do more with your website.
Using Images Finding Images
Floating Images
Image Galleries
Resize, Crop and Rotate Images
Image Rotators
Shutter Reloaded Effect
Ideas for Galleries and Rotators
Clickable Images (Links)
Choosing Images
Featured Images on Blog Posts
Include images in your website.
Preparing Images Preparing Images: Checklist

Prepare images before uploading to your website.
Sidebars What Is A Widget Video
Summary of Available Sidebar Widgets
Changing the Contents of Your Sidebar using Widgets
Changing the Layout and Appearance of Your Sidebar
Using Text Widgets to Place Text, Images, Forms and Links in Your Sidebar
Feature content, offers, subscriptions and more. Sidebar widgets put your website to work.
eCommerce eCommerce: Shopping Carts and Payments
WordPress and CRM
Offering Premium Member Subscriptions using the Own Page plugin
Generate leads and accept bookings and payments.
Google Maps Adding A Google Map with Markers To Your Website
Creating a Custom Google Map For Your Website
Integrate with Google Maps.
Site Search Setting Up and Monitoring Site Search Track what visitors are searching for on your site.
Testimonials, Quotes and Calendars Client Testimonials
Quotations
Event Calendars
Google Apps Calendars
Collect and display testimonials and event information to visitors.
Domains Domain Resources
Domains Names and Domain Registrars
After Your Domain is Mapped
Learn how to identify good domain names, register them and use them to create websites.
Email What is Google Apps
Google Apps Resources
Get your business email working

Keywords
Keyword Research
Guide to Understanding and Using your Keyword Plan
Understand keywords and put your knowledge to work.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Introduction to Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization
On Page SEO – Optimising your Posts and Pages for Search Engines
Off Page SEO – Optimization with OM4 and WordPress
What is Google Pagerank and How Do I Interpret It?
Technical SEO Features of an OM4 Website
Getting a WordPress Website Included in Google News
Help your site make it easy for search engines.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) / Pay Per Click (PPC) Setting Up a Google AdWords (Pay Per Click) Campaign for your Website
How To Calculate Your Profit from Pay Per Click Advertising
Run Pay Per Click ad campaigns.
Local Search Registering with Google Places – Local Search
Improving Rankings for Local Search
Register and rank for localised searches.
Introduction to Online Marketing The 5 New Tools of Online Marketing
Glossary of Online Marketing Terms
17 Web Tools Everyone Ought to Know About
Using DropBox to Share Folders over the Internet
Get some background on how to market your business online
Email Marketing Introduction to Email Marketing & Campaign Monitor
Campaign Monitor Custom Fields.
Campaign Monitor Tips and Tricks
Setup and run email marketing campaigns.
Affiliate Marketing Affiliate Marketing Overview
Amazon Associate Links
Use affiliate marketing to earn additional income.
Website Setup Setting up an OM4 Website
Configuring Menus
Changing Your Footer Text
Mapping Domains
Redirecting Your Old Pages to Your New Pages
Choosing Fonts
Language Translation
Configuring Google Analytics
For Designers and Copywriters/Marketers setting up their own websites using the OM4 platform.
Design Finding Fonts for your Web Graphics
Changing the Header Image of your OM4 Web Site
Designing for an OM4 Website
Introduction to CSS and Firebug
Using CSS to Tweak Your Site Design
Web Graphics Tools for Mac and Windows
Change the way your website looks.
Hosting How OM4 Hosting Works
How Upgrades and Patches are applied
How your OM4 website is hosted.
Really Useful Articles Landing Pages (from CopyBlogger)
Link Building by Audette Media (found courtesy Aaron Wall)
Small Business Website Checklist
RSS in Plain English (in 3.5 minutes), by Commoncraft
Useful articles from the web