A quick tutorial on wordpress basics.

1. Wordpress 101

2. Who am I?
Born in New York and raised in Connecticut.
An award winning young adult and romance
author, member of RWA, President of the RWA
Scriptscene chapter, who runs The Pen &
Muse Book Reviews blog, is a Hootsuite
Ambassador & Business owner.
@denisealicea
@thepenmuse
www.thepenmuse.net
www.denisealicea.com
www.facebook.com/ThePenMuse
www.facebook.com/AuthorDeniseAlicea

3. What is Wordpress ?
Wordpress is a blog platform that can be used
with a free version on websites such as
wordpress.com. There is also wordpress
provided through hosting websites such as
Godaddy, Bluehost, and Host Gator. What makes
it unique is the ability to use it for not only
blogging, but websites.

4. Free vs. Paid Wordpress
• Free
• Easy to setup.
• Basic themes
• Setup and go
• Some help via support
forums, etc.
• May show ads
• Limited to design unless you
pay a premium.
• No backups/storage unless
you pay
• Free to add on to a
host.
• Free themes or you can
buy your own theme
• Host will provide
support and help
• Free to customize as
much as you want.
• Plugin add ons are
available.

5. Wordpress.com Rates

6. Buying from a host tip
So when I buy from a host such as Godaddy, I like to search
for coupon codes if I haven’t gotten one already. How do I
find them? Google is my best friend! I search several places
such as fatwallet.com and coupon cabin (great for shopping
online too). There are tons more out there and in most
cases, the host may be having a sale. So be sure to look
around! Also when buying a domain, make sure to grab
.com and the .net. You want people coming to your site only
if they are looking for you.

7. The Wordpress Dashboard

8. Plugins
• Plugins
Plugins are add ons for
wordpress and only come
with self hosted wordpress.
Add on’s can be a twitter
message scroller, how many
people are following you on
social media, buttons from
various sites like goodreads,
and shelfari and so much
more! So where can you find
plugins? Everywhere.

9. Writing a post or a page

10. Post/page layout

11. What are categories and tags?

12. Adding and managing your media

13. Working with Link Lists
Adding/Managing Link Lists:
Wordpress comes with a link list feature. You’ll see it on the dashboard, on the
left called links.

14. Menus
• When you get into the menu section you’ll have the
ability to restructure how everything comes together
on your navigation bar.

15. The Menu Layout

16. Keep in Touch!
@denisealicea
@thepenmuse
www.thepenmuse.net
www.denisealicea.com
www.facebook.com/ThePenMuse
www.facebook.com/AuthorDeniseAlicea
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