About WordPress: What is WordPress and why should you use it?

WordPress is a web-application which is mainly designed to be used as a Blog. However even if you’re not into blogging you can use WordPress to easily build your website.

WordPress.com

– The blog is hosted by WordPress and you don’t have to pay for the hosting. This is not recommended since due to security issues it’s almost not customizable at all (except domains) meaning it doesn’t let you post HTML codes which are needed for a lot of things.

WordPress.org

– The blog is hosted on your own server/hosting hence your website or blog will be highly customizable since it lets you post any HTML code you want and it will be much easier to personalize it. That’s highly recommended!

There are a lot of reasons why I would recommend you to use WordPress. It’s really easy to use and it is highly search engines friendly. Since a lot of people use it, a lot of people build Plugins for it, design Themes/Templates for it and so on. Which increases it’s capabilities, performance and customizability by far. Of course there are a lot of more reasons on why you should be using it but you will find them out on your own.

WordPressFAQ.org doesn’t go out to the professional Web-Developers but it goes out to every day users like me just wanting to build a website. I myself don’t know much about codes and stuff but there are people knowing less and those are the people I’d like to help here.

I hope you will enjoy my website.

Kind regards,

- Cédric -

Please note that on this website I will not show THE WAY to achieve a certain effect but I will show you ONE WAY out of many. The way I describe may not always be the best but it works.

WordPress FAQ: Tutorials, Tips and Tricks

General tips

A few general tips you should really take into account when building your website…

Hosting and FTP applications

What is a hosting? Which hosting is the best? What is an FTP client? Why do I need it? And how does it work?

Using HostExcellence Hosting

How to install WordPress

What are the minimum requirements to install WordPress? How do I install or update WordPress?

How to use WordPress

How do I add posts? Categories? Stickies? How do I publish a post with time delay? How can I add more pages? How do I change the order the pages display in the navigation bar? And more…

Plugins

What are plugins? How do they work? Where can I find plugins for WordPress? Must have plugins. What they are good for and how they work.

Widgets

What is a Widget and how can I decide which widget I want to show up and where?

Themes

I would like to change the look of my blog. How can I do that?

Backup and retrieve a website

How can I make a backup of my WordPress website? How can I retrieve my website?

Customizing themes

How can I personalize a theme? How can I change the title or the heading? The picture displaying at the top? The name of “Home” in the navigation? The color of the links? The “No posts found” message? The color of the links? And more…

Forms

How can I provide a form in WordPress that visitors can complete and return via e-mail?

Statcounter and Google Analytics

Is there a way of tracking visitors activity? How can I know how many visitors my website has? Where they come from and which pages they’re looking at? What about Statcounter and Google Analytics?

YouTube videos

Can someone please tell me how to post a YouTube video to my WordPress blog? Can I post a YouTube video to one of my pages also? What about posting multiple videos displaying in the same area?

Google

How can I get my website to show up on google and other search engines? What about Meta-Tags and domain forwarding?

Photos FAQ

Available soon

Multiple websites

How can I have multiple websites? What’s the best way to manage multiple websites?

Favicons

Many websites have little images before the http, like apple has the apple logo. How do you put one of these icons into your own website?

Files and Downloads

I would like to add a .pdf (or any other file or folder) for visitors to download if they would like. How can I do this?

Music and audio

How can I add music to my WordPress created website? What about Flash players? How can I have it to go on playing no matter what page the visitors are looking at?

The best music player

Popup windows

How can I add pop up windows to WordPress?

Forum

How can I add a Forum, Message Board or Discussion Board like vBulletin or PhpBB to WordPress?

Calendar

I’m creating a website in WordPress and I need to add a calendar to it. How can I do that?

Domains

What is a domain? How does a domain of the type of yourdomain.com work? How do I register them? Do I get personal e-mails me@mydomain.com too?

Footer

How can I edit the Footer? How can I add some text, an image or some HTML code to my Blog’s Footer?

iFrames

What’s an iFrame and what is it good for? Can we have one iFrame on a page but a different page loads in depending on the link that was clicked by the visitor? What I am trying to do is have a list of newspapers and upon clicking on a name that paper’s page would load in the frame then another and so on.

Multilingual sites

I would like to have a website in multiple languages. How can I do that?

Business solutions

Selling stuff using WordPress. Is that possible? Any suggestions on how to do that?

Movies and Flash content

How can I add a movie to one of my posts?

Google Docs

I would like to embed something like an excel document to my website which I could edit when I get new data. And be able to share a Word document with a friend and have us editing it both.

Anchors

What is an Anchor? How can I add Anchors to WordPress?

Guestbook

How can I add a Guestbook to my WordPress created site?

Website for a group

Available soon

Highslide JS

How to use Highslide JS with WordPress. Highslide JS is a better LightBox. Which can be used for example to achieve the well known image-zoom effect and a lot of other things.

Tooltips

Is it possible to create the mouseover/rollover/hover effect… When the mouse is hovering over a photo or a link text pops up indicating that its a link and when the mouse is pulled off the photo or link the text goes away?

Rollover buttons and images

How can I add a Rollover image or Rollover button to my WordPress?

Tell a friend

How can I add a Tell a friend widget to my WordPress created website so that people can easily send the link to one of my pages to their friends and bookmark it?

Redirect

How can I make a redirect in WordPress?

iPhone

I have an iPhone. How can I edit my Blog from the iPhone?

Facebook and StumbleUpon

I’m a Facebook user. How can I get my visitors to add me as a friend? How can I create a fan page for my website to start a community?

This website is hosted by HostExcellence

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I’m currently using the Unlimited Business Plan since I have a lot of websites which I store on one hosting account. To me it’s really worth it. I barely ever run into problems and if I did their support was most helpful. Since I know how HostExcellence works I could give you better support if you run into problems with my FAQs.

Here you will find some basic instructions and FAQs I wrote on using HostExcellence…