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Static Site Plus a WordPress Blog or Just a WordPress Site?

In this session we discuss how to choose a site format between a Static site plus a WordPress Blog or just a WordPress site. We also talk about what the advantages and disadvantages are with each to help you consider which would work well for you. Video Transcript Jeff, I’m going to unmute your microphone [...]

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Can You Use Posts for Both a Blog and Announcements Without Showing them All on the Blog?

In this session, we discuss how you can use posts for both your blog and announcements but without showing them all on the blog. You can do that by using one of our plugins, BYOB Thesis Exclude Category From Posts.

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How to Exclude Posts from the Blog Page using Categories and Tags

In this session, we begin with a short demonstration on how to use existing WordPress functionality to add categories to the WordPress Menu and to the sidebar using a widget. Then we discuss the ability to exclude posts by category in which case you can use our BYOB Thesis Exclude Categories From Posts plugin. You [...]

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How to Exclude a Category of Posts from the Posts Page Using the BYOB Thesis Exclude Category from Posts Plugin

In this session, we demonstrate how to exclude a category of posts from the Posts Page using the BYOB Thesis Exclude Category From Post Plugin.

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How to Configure WordPress and Thesis as a Blog

This series shows how to configure your site so that it can work both as a static small business website and as a blog. We discuss WordPress and Thesis settings and explain what categories and tags are and how they work.

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How to Configure WordPress and Thesis as a Blog – Part 2 WordPress Discussion Settings

This is part two of five in a series on how to configure WordPress and Thesis as a blog. Here we go over the WordPress Discussion Settings and the purpose of checking or unchecking the options under these different comment settings to moderate comments and prevent spam. Video Transcript The next area of change is [...]

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How to Configure WordPress and Thesis as a Blog – Part 3 Thesis Settings

This is part three of five in a series on how to configure WordPress and Thesis as a blog. In this session we go over Thesis Display Options and Comment Options and how to configure the comments the way you want them to look on your posts to pages. Video Transcript Okay so those are [...]

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Lesson 12 - Part 4 - Add Blog Functionality to the Site

Lesson 12 – Part 4 – Add Blog Functionality to the Site

Site Structure Before Adding Blog Functionality The next thing we’re going to do then is to add blog functionality to the site. In order for us to do that, we need to come back and review our site architecture that we talked about in Lesson 7 of the series. So far right now, what we [...]

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How to Configure WordPress and Thesis as a Blog – Part 4 Understanding and Using Categories

This is part four of five in a series on how to configure WordPress and Thesis as a blog. Here we go over the importance of categories as post specific functionality if you are using the ‘blog’ as a blog. Categories allow posts to be hierarchically organized. We discuss how categories help you achieve a [...]

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How to Configure WordPress and Thesis as a Blog – Part 5 Understanding and Using Tags

This is part five of five in a series on How to configure WordPress and Thesis as a blog. In this session we discuss the use of tags and categories, how to add tags and how they work in general. Video Transcript Okay so then on to tags. Tags are very similar to, let’s see…oh, [...]

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Lesson 12 - Part 6 - Using Blog Related Widgets

Lesson 12 – Part 6 – Using Blog Related Widgets

Now we need to talk about using blog related widgets because last time we talked about all the non-blog related widgets. There actually are a number of widgets that we want to use if we are using this blog functionality. Killer Recent Entries The two widgets that we’re going to take a look at tonight [...]

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How is SEO for Blogs Different than for Business Websites

Is there a difference between SEO techniques for blogs and SEO techniques for typical static business websites? The concepts remain the same, however, in WordPress, blog posts add the opportunity to refine the semantic nature of your urls, thus potentially improving your performance for your keywords. I discuss how to organize blog posts to take [...]

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How to Organize an Ecommerce Site Where the Store is Distinctly Separate from the Blog

This member wants to discuss possible site organization scenarios that make the Ecommerce site separate and distinct from the blog. We discuss using pages for products if the product catalog is small. If the product catalog is large we discuss two options. The first is using custom post types for products and the second is [...]

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Integrating WP eStore with a Blog

A member who plans to create an online store to sell jewelry wants advice on integrating WP eStore with her blog. She also wonders if WP eStore is a good solution for selling her products and wonders if a simple PayPal “buy now” button would be sufficient. I discuss integrating WP eStore, and then the [...]

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