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People who are even a little bit familiar with blogging know something about WordPress. But, lots of others still need to gain information about what it can offer. The tips below can help better things and teach you about WordPress.

WordPress makes video blogging easy. It can takes some extra preparation time, but it can be worth the effort. Many users want to see videos. Videos offer perspectives that written content cannot, so they are quite helpful.

Prior to installing WordPress, find out as much as possible about the program. It’s best to start WordPress when you have an understanding of how it works and a general idea of which plugins will work best for you. Research SEO, WordPress and content generation before starting to develop your site.

Make a schedule for your posts. You will be more motivated when you have a schedule. You can even create a week’s worth of content all at once and tell WordPress when to post it to your blog.

Get rid of special characters in the URLs of your WordPress blog posts. They make life hard for search engines when they spider the site, so get rid of them. Your URLs should also be shortened to just include keywords, so they do not overwhelm your visitors.

You may invest lots of time editing your WordPress site only to get the idea that none of it was saved. Most likely, this is not the case. Clear the browser cache to see if it helps. Hold down the Shift key as you click Refresh to see the changes to your site.

Posts are always shown chronologically, until you say otherwise. If you want to rearrange some posts, you will have to modify the date of your post. To do this, open up a post and look for the date located at the top of the right corner. Click the date, choose a new one and save the post to alter its position.

Work on making the greeting found at the beginning of your WordPress page even better. You can cultivate customer relationships this way, by including a message on top commenting on how visitors found your site. This will make things look less robotic on your webpage and can be accessed with the WP Greet Box plugin.

Be sure that your readers can forward your posts to their emails whenever they desire. There are some people who cannot look at Twitter or Facebook in the office;however, they want to share your information with others. Set this up using a WP-Email plugin.

Your username should never be “admin”. Doing so can make your site vulnerable to bot attacks. This is a security risk. Take a look at the users page to get rid of any names such as “admin” or even “administrator.” Choose another username altogether.

WordPress is nothing new, and many, many bloggers have given it a shot over the past few years. Even bloggers who have used WordPress for some time may not fully understand all of its capabilities. Hopefully, your efforts will be fruitful.