WordPress is a CMS that has been created from the ground up by volunteers. Owing to people willing to collaborate worldwide, we now have the documentation, core software, competent support, a series of translations to various languages, get-togethers and other types of events, but, most importantly, we have a perfectly functional blogging system that hosts more than 60 million websites. To keep WordPress running, individuals are willing to sacrifice their spare time, and a growing number of companies now ask their employees to join this project development.

The secret behind WordPress’s success is primarily associated with its manifold community, which, unlike many, does not consist solely of developers. Instead, it is also designers, support volunteers, users, writers, accessibility and experience experts, as well as enthusiasts who make things possible. While strengthening the project, this diversity also implies finding a task for anyone willing to cooperate. So, whatever skills you have, there will be room for you in WordPress community.

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An access to all your WordPress installation control features is provided by Administration Screen. It comes in sections, the main navigation, the toolbar (and header), the footer and the work area.

You can find the main navigation menu on the left side of the screen. It contains a description of each of the administrative functions which can be performed by a user. Also, see the Collapse menu button at the bottom of that section. It lists a set of icons by major function. If an item clicked, the sub-menu expands fully within each major function, such as Posts and it expands partly (fly-out) when you hover.

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Similar to your house that gets messy after a while, WordPress needs some housekeeping every now and then in order to keep working properly. Hence, optimization is essential for your website, otherwise some problems may eventually occur. 

Here are several things that will help your WordPress website run smoothly in case done on a regular basis.

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WordPress is ready to embrace search engines straight out of the box. Your aim is to gather the information that the search engine needs to include your site within its database as well as to help the search engine crawl your site. For this purpose, WordPress` functions and features guide a search engine through the pages, categories and posts.

WordPress provides a number of built in search tools aimed to optimization. It includes the ability to create permalinks, to use .htaccess, pinging and blogrolling. Also, there are different hacks and third party plugins useful for search engine optimization (SEO). Read More…

WordPress is all about sharing information, which is done through blogging. Presently, it is one of the most convenient tools, which allows you to reach out to a large number of people at once. Your WordPress website is the megaphone that amplifies your voice loud enough so that everyone willing to hear – or, read, technically speaking – will grasp the information.  

Blog posts are commonly defined as entries that are displayed in the reversed order on your home page. Typically, posts are incorporated into your website’s RSS feed and include comment fields, which are located underneath the post.

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Any web page is created to achieve some goal. And whatever the purpose may be – to inform, sell or entertain,  there are different ways of how to reach it. The majority website administrators know what is search engine optimization (SEO); they also know how to attract people to the websites. However, they often do not pay attention to a time frame between a person visiting a website and buying something or just registering in the system.

Conversion rate optimization is called to make the interaction between the visitors and website more pleasant and comfortable. It is the process which increases the possibility that they will convert. There are a variety of factors affecting the rates of conversion, from color choice to layout. Let us have a look at the set of those factors which take part in optimizing a WordPress website for conversions.   

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WordPress Widgets are used for adding the features and content to your Sidebars. The example shows default widgets for tag clouds, navigation, post categories, search etc., which are delivered with WordPress. Plugins, however, often introduce widgets of their own.

The initial purpose of widgets is to provide the user with a user-friendly and simple way to control the design and structure of the WordPress Theme. Nowadays, this feature is common among properly “widgetized” WordPress Themes. This allows the users to include widgets in the footer, header or otherwhere in the WordPress design and structure.

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Comment moderation is a WordPress feature, which is specifically designed to let you manage comments on your website. With this feature, none of the comments will appear on your page without receiving your express approval.

While moderation is traditionally associated with addressing Comment Spam, it can also be applied more generally. Check the Fighting Comment Spam section if you wish to learn more about comment spam.

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