We have posted many tutorials about sticky i.e. featured posts on your WordPress site but we have never discussed how to turn any post sticky. Sticky post is a built-in WordPress feature. All sticky posts gets stick to the top of your home page and you can keep them there, it doesn’t matter how many new posts you publish. In this tutorial we show you how to make any post sticky and then how to turn it back to un-sticky whenever you need.
While writing a new post, page etc, many times you need to link and reference to an old article of your website. In general, most WordPress bloggers follow the long route of linking internal content. First they search for the post, copy its URL and then mention it. The easy way of doing same thing is built-in WordPress feature which works right inside your post edit screen.
Now you know how to install a WordPress blog and how to write your first blog post. Another most important thing to manage any WordPress blog is organizing your blog posts with categories so that you can easily display filter links and make it easy for your visitors to browse your website. Many a time it needs to go deep into a topic and create sub-categories. WordPress categories are the hierarchical taxonomies and hence you can easily create a tree type structure by adding categories and then their child categories and then more subcategories and so on. Here, in this tutorial we will explain you how to add categories and subcategories to your WordPress site.
WordPress 3.9 has introduced an awesome image editing feature. Now you can edit images directly from post edit screen. This new feature update not only allows you to drag and drop images but now you can edit them very easily. It provides you a faster access to image crop, scale, rotation tools and you can use them for editing images directly from edit content screens.
Post revisions are in-build feature visible on post edit screen but very few knows about the real power of post revisions. Using post revisions you can undo changes and revert back to an earlier version of any published post. Some simply calls the feature as Revisions as it is applicable on most post types in WordPress. Have you ever wish that you hadn’t deleted what you wrote before inside your post? With post revisions you can move back in time and undo any change. This tutorial explains how to undo changes using post revisions in WordPress.
Now you have successfully installed WordPress, now what’s next? It’s time to login and make a few changes to give your website a good look and make it ready for your visitors. There are some important things need to setup soon after the installation. For example: switching to a SEO friendly permalink structure, adding your time zone, choosing a date format, filling out the empty sidebars with useful widgets etc. This tutorial covers some basic options you should setup soon after installing WordPress.
Starting a WordPress blog or website is easy at Sangkrit.net as you don’t have to set any manual configuration. You can bring your website online in one click by using the one-click WordPress installer.
Sangkrit.net’s user-friendly interface starts guiding you as soon as you log in to your account. It starts the step-by-step guidance from registering/transferring a domain name to subscribing to a hosting plan and then installing WordPress.
The first thing you need to do is get a website hosting plan, and a domain name. Then log in to your Sangkrit.net account and launch Installatron, a one-click website installer.
Select the Application Browser tab:
Scroll down to the ‘Apps for Content Management’ section and click ‘WordPress‘.
Clicking ‘WordPress‘ opens up its installation page showing you details and features of a WordPress-based website. Here you can take an application demo, check other websites using the same application, etc.
To start the WordPress installation process, click ‘+install this application‘ button.
This asks you to select a domain/subdomain/directory for installing your new WordPress website. If you are already running a website on your main domain then you can either go for a subdomain or use a subdirectory for installation.
Scroll down to the ‘Settings‘ section and type in your new website username, password, and admin email, and then click the ‘Install’ button.
It takes a few seconds and then provides you with your new website address and admin section URL from where you can log in and start managing your WordPress website.
WordPress has the power to hold various types of content. An example of a single content is known as ‘Post’, although you should know that post is nothing but a specific post type present by default in WordPress just like ‘Page’ which is another kind of post type. In general post types provides same interface you get in posts and pages but they can be customized with different fields and use them for different purposes. For Example: ‘Media’ is also a post type but it has completely different features. Internally in database, all post types are stored at the same place i.e. in wp_posts table and they are differentiated by a column called post_type.
By default WordPress displays recent posts on homepage. Blogpage, posts page or frontpage are the pages where multiple posts are shown. WordPress allows you to change the number of posts showing up on blog page, by default it displays 10 posts per page. Here we will be explaining you how to change this number to the number of posts you like showing up on your blog page or home page.
The term ‘Breadcrumbs’ generally confuses both new and old bloggers who are not the web developers, many people know breadcrumbs only by face but don’t know what actually it is and how it works. Breadcrumbs are very good functions, both for your website visitors and also for the SEO and the results displayed on search results page. Even Google has a separate team for breadcrumb.
A common excuse that most new bloggers (who blog on the domain of some other website) give is they don’t know how to install and setup a new blogging website with WordPress. Now no worries at all, there are many good bloggers earning a lot from their websites but don’t know a bit on setting up a new blogging website with WordPress, working with design, features and SEO etc. If you’re one of them then try our new and completely free WordPress installation service.
