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How To: Using Categories To Organize Content

When you create your first blog post in WordPress, there is one “category” option (over there on the top right of the administrative screen). We don’t ever want to use that default to categorize a post! Categories are not to be confused with “tags” (a more modern, Web 2.0 concept). Think of categories as major […]

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How To: Setting Up A WordPress Blog

To set up your account, go to WordPress.com. Follow the “create account” links. You’ll need to use a “real” e-mail address Life is easier for me if you use your UWNetID as your login, because it means the blog URL (address) is UWNetID.wordpress.com.

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How To: Changing the Home Page

WordPress makes it easy to set up your blog to look and act like a regular website. Here’s how to change the home from from the “blog” to a static page.