Launch a WordPress.com Blog In A Day For Dummies

Introduction 1 What You Can Do In A Day 1 Foolish Assumptions 1 Icons Used in This Book 2 Chapter 1: Getting Started with WordPress 3 Creating a WordPress Account 4 Navigating WordPress 10 Using the WordPress Dashboard 12 Right Now 14 Recent Comments 16 Your Stuff 17 What's Hot 17 QuickPress 17 Recent Drafts 18 Stats 18 Setting Important Options before You Blog 19 Setting your General options 20 Adjusting your Date and Time settings 21 Setting your public profile: Tell us a little aboutyourself 23 Setting your personal preferences 29 Chapter 2: Writing and Managing Your Blog 33 Ready? Set? Blog! 34 Inserting media files into your post 36 Refining your post options 39 Publishing your post 42 Organizing Your Blog by Subject 44 Creating categories and subcategories 45 Filing posts in categories and subcategories 46 Creating and Categorizing Your Blogroll 47 Creating link categories 48 Adding new links to your blogroll 48 Managing and Inviting Users 52 Managing authors and users 52 Inviting friends to WordPress.com 54 Managing Comments and Comment Spam 55 Setting discussion options for your blog 55 Viewing comments 61 Creating a Static Page 63 Setting Up Your Front Page 64 Publishing a Public or Private Blog 66 Publicizing through Social Media 67 The Like Button 69 Interaction Through SMS (Text Messaging) 69 Chapter 3: Enhancing Your Blog with Themes, Widgets, andUpgrades 71 Changing Your Blog's Look 72 Enhancing Your Theme with Features 73 Adding navigation menus 74 Changing the background color and image 76 Creating an iPad-friendly display 78 Changing the header image 80 Using Typekit fonts 82 Widget Wonder: Adding Handy Tools to Your Sidebar 82 Selecting and activating widgets 82 Using Text widgets 84 Upgrading Your WordPress Account (For a Fee) 89 Naming Your Domain 91 Chapter 4: Where to Go from Here 92 Taking Your First Steps 92 Visiting dummies.com 9