HOW TO USE
WORDPRESS
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Begin with the
END in MIND!
Steven Covey
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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WORDPRESS is a web
software that allows one
All screen shots are sourced from Microsoft, Wordpress and Google.
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to easily create beautiful
website or blog.
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This tutorial assumes that
Wordpress is not yet
installed
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Open your browser..
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Type : www.wordpress.com
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Then press return
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This then appears
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Then click this
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Now this appears
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Type your chosen Blog
address
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If this appears
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Then the blog address
already exist
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So type another blog
address
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If this appears
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You can
proceed to
create your blog
site
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Please write
down your Blog
Address
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And click this to create
your blog
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This appears next
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Choose this
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This will appear
for a short time
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Then his appears
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Type in your Email address
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then the Username
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Then the Password
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When finished
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Click this
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This appears
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We skip the options
for now so scroll
down
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Till you reach this portion
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Then click this
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This would appear next
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These are the
available THEMES ,
scroll down and
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Choose one by
clicking it
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Themes can be
change any time
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For now Big Brother
is chosen
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Click this
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And this appears
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We will initially use
Wordpress for free
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So click this
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And this appears
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This is the My Site panel
You can scroll down
to see the rest
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My Site panel allows
user to
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Immediately set-up
and activate the site…
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Do Administrative
control on the site…
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Post a Blog….
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Change the Look and
Feel of the site…
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Lastly change the
Configuration of the site…
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These are the
important functions
of the My Site panel
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Now let us Customize
the blog site
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Let us start here
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Click this
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For a short time
this appears
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Then this appears
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This shows how the
Blog would appear
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While this would control
how it would look
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Lets start
improving how it
looks
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Again see this
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In this theme
Custom Design
is not activated
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Because of this we
cannot use this
design feature
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So moving
on , click
this
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This now appears
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With this,
you can
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Edit the Site
Title
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Add a Tag
Line
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And add a
Logo
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For now, Site
Title will not be
change
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but a Tagline
will be added,
so
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Type the
TAGLINE and
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It will now appear here
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Adding LOGO
will be skipped
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Then click this
to minimized
the panel
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Continuing
with the site
set up, click
this
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This now appears
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Choose one of
the four Palette,
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After Choosing
this Palette…
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This would now display
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Click this if
satisfied with
the choice
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The chosen
Palette will set to
the background
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And Color and
Background panel
will minimized
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See this
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Now we include a
Header Image
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Click this to do that
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This panel appears
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Then click this
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This now appears
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Then click this
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This now appears
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The sample Header
Image will come from
Picture Folder
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Click Picture Folder
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this now appears
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double click this
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the picture files appears
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choose a picture
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Click the picture
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Then Click this
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This appears while picture
is uploaded
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After uploading, the picture
now appears
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Next, click this
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The pictures appears next
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This is the Header Image
area
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It can be resize
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Or move
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When satisfied with
the image click this
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This now is the Header Image
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Header Image can be
change any time
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Continuing click this to
minimize Header Image panel
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Now we will add Widgets
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Widget are bite size code that can be embedded
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In a website to display text, pictures etc
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Click this
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This appears next
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To add a Widget click this
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A list of Widgets will
appear
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Scroll down to see list
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And choose the Widgets to
activate
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Archives and Blogs
I Follow are chosen
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This happens when
Archive is added
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Archive widget now
appears
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Lets put a Title to
the Widget
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What you type here
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Will show here
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Now for Blogs I Follow
widget
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Click this
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This now appears
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Again type a title
for the Widget
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When this was
typed here
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This was displayed
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We set maximum of 10
blogs to be displayed,
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Then display the
blogs in a list
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Click Sidebar when
finished adding Widget
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This appears next
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Click this to
continue basic set-up
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This again appears
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Now click this
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This appears now
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See this
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We will leave this as it is
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And return to this
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Finally click this to save
and publish the site
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This again displays
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Now its time to
start our first blog
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Click this to
start blogging
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But first we verify the email
address
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Open your browser..
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Click this for Gmail..
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This appears..
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Type the email address
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Then the Password
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Then click Sign in
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This now displays
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Click this
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Follow the instructions for
account verification
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This will show once
account has been verified
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Now we can start our
first blog
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Click this again
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This appears next
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A post or blog is
created at this screen
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Type the blog Title here
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Type the content of the
blog here
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See this example of Title
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See this example of
Message
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To preview click this
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This is the preview of
the first blog
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To exit the preview click
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This displays again
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To post this message click
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To go to our blog site click
this
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This screen again displays
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Then click this
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And this displays
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See, it looks exactly like the
preview
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We have just installed
and used Wordpress!
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To exit Wordpress,
click this
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This will appear
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Then click this
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We now create a About
page
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About page is use to
introduce yourself to
your readers
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So make an interesting
About page
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click this to login to
your site
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This again appears
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Type in the E-mail
address
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And the Password
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And click Log-In
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And this again appears
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Next click this
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this appears next
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Then click this
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And the Dashboard
appears
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Slide the mouse to Pages
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And this displays
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Click All Pages
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See this
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This panel allows to
edit an existing page
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Go to ABOUT page
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And this will appear
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Then click Edit
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This now appears
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The About page can
now be edited
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You do not need to
change the title
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Just put a strong About
information here
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Here is an example
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When finished with the
edit ,click this
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This will display
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This means the page
was updated
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And you can view the
page immediately
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This is how the About
page look now
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This can be verified by
accessing the blog
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After verifying , click
this
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This again appears
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From here, click this to
post a Blog
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Or click this to make
another Page
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To exit from Wordpress,
click
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This appears next
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Then click to exit.
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The Blog site is now
fully set-upped.
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The world now awaits
your Blog.
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HAPPY BLOGGING!
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Begin with the
END in MIND!
Steven Covey
7 Habits of Highly Effective People