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How to Make WordPress Your Friend Kerch McConlogue WeFixBrokenWebsites.com WordCamp, Lancaster 2015 #wclanc

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How to Make WordPress Your Friend

Kerch McConlogueWeFixBrokenWebsi tes.comWordCamp, Lancaster 2015 #wclanc

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Kerch McConlogue

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Tip 1: Take notes

@kerchmccThese are my notes!

Tip 2: If you can use WORD and you are not afraid of the internet,

you can use WordPress

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WORD

WordPress

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Use HEADINGS not just colored text and bold

This is the “kitchen Sink” icon. Use it to show two line WYSIWYG editor

Tip 3: Backup and Update

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Tip 4: When you’re lost and confused

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How to add a picture to a post

codex.wordpress.org

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codex.wordpress.org

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Tip 5: The images won’t go where I want

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Tip 5: The images won’t go where I want

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Tip 5: The images won’t go where I want

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Tip 5: The images won’t go where I want

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Tip 5: Weird Spacings

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It looks like this

but you want it to look like this

Tip 5: Weird Spacings

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Remove the highlighted parts shown in the Text View

Tip 5: Weird Spacings

See?

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Screen Options

Tip 6: How to find what you can’t

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Tip 7: Oh, Rats! I lost what I was working onUsing RevisionsFinding them in the side bar

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Tip 7: Oh, Rats! I lost what I was working onFinding them at the bottom of the page

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Tip 7: Oh, Rats! I lost what I was working onChoose to which to revert

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Advice: PracticeMake a new page .. Save as draft and add content and imagesSee what works

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Go ahead: Push the buttons. You won’t break it!

About Kerch @kerchmcc

Phone: (443) 255-3401

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