Solara Sites WordPress Tutorials

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How To Install Wordpress Manually On A Subdirectory

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How To Install Wordpress Manually On A Subdirectory

There are lots of ways to install WordPress using a one click installer, check out our article.  http://www.solarasites.com/how-to-install-and-use-wordpress/ One click installers are fantastic they take the hassle out of creating a database and installing WordPress, but if you’re like me, ...

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Creating A Menu From Categories & Pages In Wordpress

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Creating A Menu From Categories & Pages In Wordpress

Today we’re going to be creating a menu from our categories and pages. At this point you may need to take a step back and think about what type of Pages or categories you would like to add to your navigation bar. Here is a quick example, let’s say you have a website about dogs you...

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How To Add A Static Front Page To Your WordPress Blog

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How To Add A Static Front Page To Your WordPress Blog

In this short post we’re going to be adding a static front page, remember earlier I had mentioned that we would have to come back to this part of the settings. The reason we want to add a front page is because we are creating a website and by default WordPress is a blogging platform....

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How To Add A Header & Background To WP

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How To Add A Header & Background To WP

In today’s post we’re going to take a look at adding a website header and background, you can create a header yourself if you like or you can have one made, I like to create mine but only because I like a challenge and it’s a way of learning something new, but if you would...

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How To Backup Your Wordpress Database

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How To Backup Your Wordpress Database

Creating a backup of your wp database is one of the most important things and yet know one tells you this at the start. I found this out the hard way after my website was hacked. There are so many ways to backup your website, you can do it manually, or through cronjob, or our chosen way via a...

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How To Create A WordPress Child Theme

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How To Create A WordPress Child Theme

I had my coffee so let’s get stuck in. The first thing I want to do is explain what a child theme is and why you would need to use one. I will be direct quoting WordPress for this with a direct link and then we will get to the creating part. “A WordPress child theme is a theme that...

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How To Use Permalinks In Wordpress

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How To Use Permalinks In Wordpress

Today were going to learn how to use permalinks, this is to give your page the best possible chance of getting ranked in the search engine results page/S.E.R.P.’S and being remembered by your readers. We will also take a look at the >General settings tab Click >Settings then...

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How To Install And Use Wordpress

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How To Install And Use Wordpress

There are so many ways to install wordpress. If you like it can be done manually by creating a database, adding a user for that database, downloading wordpress then installing via FTP and then running the http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/install.php from your browser. If all of this seems like too...

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Need A Equestrian Themed Website For Your Business?

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Need A Equestrian Themed Website For Your Business?

Hi Everyone, are any of you Equestrian Enthusiasts out there looking for an Equestrian Website for Your Equine Business?  Well if you are you should definitely check out our Equestrian Themed Website. This Site is Dynamic, and totally responsive and looks well on all devices, such as mobile ...

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Will Adding A Blog to Your Website Help Your Business?

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Will Adding A Blog to Your Website Help Your Business?

In my opinion adding a Blog to Your website will help your business and I am going to explain why.  Many businesses in this current economic climate are wondering how to engage their customers.  Everything is shifting from the High Street to the World Wide Web, but in this new Online High S...

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How To Add A Favicon To Your Website.

Welcome To Solara Sites Video Training “How to Add a Favicon to Your Website”.  In this short video tutorial you will learn how to create a Favicon Image, the optimum size that image should be, and what file format that you need to save your Favicon Image as.  You will also learn h...

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How To Embed A YouTube Video On Your Website.

Welcome to Solara Sites WordPress Tutorial.  In this short video you will learn how to embed a YouTube Video in your WordPress website.

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How To Make A Website Step 5

Welcome to Step 5 of Solara Sites Video Course “How to Make a Website in 5 Simple Steps”.  In this WordPress Tutorial you will learn how  to customize the colours of your site, including the menu and the background colours.  You will be adding a Contact form to your contact page so y...

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How To Make A Website Step 4

Welcome to Step 4 of Solara Sites Video Course “How to Make a Website in 5 Simple Steps”.  In this tutorial you will be learning how to customize the widget areas at the bottom of your website, how to create your first blog post, adding a URL to the Call to Action button at the top ...

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How To Make A Website Step 3

Welcome to Step 3 of Solara Sites Video Course “How to Make a Website in 5 Simple Steps”.  In this WordPress Tutorial you will be learning how to customize the look of your website.  You will be adding your own custom logo, and editing the call to action at the top of your site.  Yo...

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How To Make A Website Step 2

Welcome to Step 2 of Solara Sites Video Course “How to Make a Website in 5 Simple Steps”.  In this wordpress tutorial you will learn how to create a database using simple scripts, how to install WordPress on your website, and you will finish this section by choosing your first ...

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How To Make A Website Step 1

Welcome to Step 1 of Solara Sites Video Course “How to Make a Website in 5 Simple Steps”.  In this first tutorial you will learn how to buy your first domain; the importance of using a top level domain extension such as .com, .net or .org.  You will also learn how to set up your f...