Akismet in WordPress

Akismet is a very intelligent spam filter you can install on your WordPress blog to keep spam comments to a minimum. Spam comments are becoming increasingly common as blogs grow in popularity but Akismet’s filtering system helps keep spam to a minimum. Pica Design will set up your Akismet account when we set up your [...]

Using NextGEN Gallery

NextGen Gallery is a very robust WordPress plugin for creating and managing an image gallery on your WordPress blog. It is best used for displaying a large amount of photos at once, and alleviates the need to insert pictures manually like we described in How to Insert a Picture into Post in WordPress. Pica Design [...]

Intro to Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a powerful tool for anyone with a website. Who wouldn’t want to know about how many people have visited their website, how they got there, and what they were most interested in? I also have to mention how easy Google Analytics is to use! Pica Design will gladly set up a Google [...]

Cloud Tags in WordPress

Cloud tags are a feature used in many blogs to show how popular certain subjects are to the writers. By making a list of all the tags used on a blog, WordPress can assign different font sizes and colors for tags used more often, creating a visual representation of what is popular in the blog. [...]

WordPress Pages vs. Posts

Posts and pages are used very differently in WordPress blogs, and it is important to know how to use each properly. Posts are listed in reverse chronological order and make up what you think of as a typical ‘blog.’ Posts are included in category lists, archives, and feeds and are always associated with a date, [...]

How to Insert a Picture into Post in WordPress

Adding a picture to a post in WordPress is easy. The best way to do this is through WordPress itself, using WP’s powerful “Add An Image” system. To do this, first follow the steps found in How to Create a Blog Post in WordPress. Once you are ready to insert an image into your post, [...]

How to Create a Blog Post in WordPress

Posts are the entries that will make up your blog, each self-contained, like a newspaper article. The sum of your posts make up the content of your blog To start, Log in to your blog. For instructions on how to log in, click here. Click the “Posts” tab on the left Click the “Add New” [...]

The WordPress Dashboard

After you login the first screen you will see is called the Dashboard: (click to enlarge) The Dashboard is the right part of the page, beneath the house icon, that provides quick access to key data on your blog. Each panel has a focus: Right Now Summarizes the basic stats of the website. Note that [...]

How to Login to WordPress

1. Enter the URL of your blog, followed by the words wp-admin: www.yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin 2. A screen should appear that looks like this: 3. Enter your username and password, and click Log In. 4. If you are a client of Pica Design’s, and you have lost your password, please contact web@picadesign.com to receive a new one.