Category Archives: WordPress

Beginners, How To, SiteBuilder, WordPress

GDI’s Blogging Options

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Blogging is a powerful way to share content, connect with visitors, and promote your GDI opportunity. Use your blog to talk about success and challenges, new marketing tactics, or just to share pictures and videos. Blog are easy to maintain and update. GDI offers three options for building and sharing your blog.

SiteBuilder Blog

If you want to create a blog but still create your WebSite with SiteBuilder, the SiteBuilder blog plugin is for you. Head to your SiteBuilder Main Menu and select the Plugins tab on the left hand side. Check the Active box to the right of the Blog plugin. You will then be prompted to name your blog. Once your blog is named you will be taken to the editor for your first post. Your blog is now ready to go!

WordPress

You can edit, format, and publish blog posts with WordPress. You can customize your blog by adding new widgets or new themes. If you already have a WordPress blog, you can also easily move it to GDI.

To create a WordPress blog , 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.

Hosting

If you already have a blog with another service, you can still host it with GDI. GDI offers a hosting package that comes complete with FTP access, 1GB of storage space, and 100GB monthly bandwidth. By using GDI’s hosting you can keep your same blog, secure a better domain name and build income while you do it!

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?