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Features, How To, WordPress

Easy and Effective WordPress Features

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WordPress has many features and options. So many, that it is easy to get a little overwhelmed as a newbie to the blogging platform. There are a few simple features that can help you best take advantage of WordPress. We share them below.

Widgets

What is a widget? It’s WordPress’s name for any special feature you can add, adjust, or tweak within their platform. Examples of widgets might be a calendar, a drop down list of categories for your posts or just space for some HTML coding. The GDI Affiliate Blog takes advantage of widgets—everything you see on the right-hand side of the blog is a widget from past posts to our current Facebook feed. Some blog themes have widgets already built into them. To see what widgets you have, add more and edit them, log in to you blog and navigate then to Appearance>Widgets.

For a more in-depth explanation of adding a widget, see our video tutorial on it HERE.

Scheduling

WordPress allows you to create posts and set when you would like to publish them. If you’re going to be away from your blog or just like to stick to a schedule, you simply edit the date and time when you would like you new post to go live. Then click “Schedule” which will appear in place of “Publish” and your post will be waiting in the queue ready to go on your set date.

 Easy Embedding

Embedding YouTube videos into your WordPress posts is very easy, and requires no HTML knowledge. To add a YouTube video to a post, navigate to the video you wish to add on YouTube. Then click Share>Embed just below it. A code will appear in a box, copy that code. Now head back to the post you’re creating and click the HTML tab at the top of the edit window. Now paste your code where you would like it to appear in the text. Update your post to save it and preview. Your video will be embedded and ready to play.

What WordPress features are you favorite?

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GDI Features: WordPress

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What it is

WordPress is a free open source blogging software that has become one of the most popular and prominent content management services on the web. In WordPress.org’s own words: “The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” – we’d love you to join the family.”

Features

WordPress has many great features, not the least of which is an easy to use blogging platform that can be customized in many different ways. You can edit, format, and publish blog posts with WordPress. You can customize your blog by adding new widgets or new themes. There are thousands of themes available for WordPress that can be easily found by searching and installing directly through WordPress or searching with and outside search engine. If you already have a WordPress blog, you can also easily move it to GDI. With GDI, regular customers may use up to 10 GB of space for the sum of all their plugins. Premium customers have 100 GB of space available for the sum of all their plugins.

How to take advantage of it

Log in to your Members Area and navigate to Plugins. Here you can activate your blog or create new ones. Once your blog is live take advantage of it by customizing it every way you can. Add plugins, manage widgets and play with themes. Once your blog looks the way you would like, utilize WordPress to its fullest by adding and scheduling posts, posting video and sharing photos. The possibilities with WordPress are endless! To get up to speed right away, watch our WordPress tutorial video above.

Features, How To

Your .WS Email

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What it is

.WS email is the name of the email service GDI provides to anyone with a .WS domain. You may create a maximum of 10 active mailboxes per domain. You may also create up to 10 Forwarded Prefixes.

Features

With .WS email as a basic affiliate you can have up to 10 active mailboxes per domain. For each  mailbox you get 1 gigabyte of space. .WS email provides all the benefits of emails services, including mobile, at your own personalized domain.

How to take advantage of it

Simply log in to your Members Area and navigate to Setup Your Email on the lefthand side. From here you can select names for and set up all 10 of you emails accounts at your domain. To access you email once you have it set up, head to Email.ws. Login here and you can send, create, read and do anything you would like with your new personalized email addressees. You can find answers to any other questions you have just below the email set up in the Members Area.