WordPress is Like a Chest of Drawers: Learn Where Everything Goes

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This is one of the first things I tell bloggers in my WordPress Workshop. I say, you will save countless hours and gray hairs by memorizing all the nooks and crannies of the WordPress Dashboard from the get go. WordPress may be user friendly, but it is also a labyrinth, so brain map it.

Think of the Dashboard Navigation as a giant chests of drawers, with more drawers nested inside of each drawer. Users simply have to remember which drawer to open to find the page where the data belongs, to put everything in its proper field.

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WordCamp is Coming to Vancouver

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WordCamp, the boot camp for everything WordPress, is coming to the BCIT campus in Burnaby on October 13.

This year there will be two full-day tracks: one for  Users and one for Developers, so update your iCalendars now!

Organizers Vanessa Chu and Morten Rand-Hendriksen are currently looking for speakers for both Users and Developer tracks.

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How To Post On A WordPress Blog

You are a member of a group that has a WordPress blog and you want to contribute. But, you don’t know how to post on a WordPress blog. What to do?

Use this guide to get started blogging.

Login to WordPress Blog Dashboard

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The administrator of your group must first give you a login and password to get into the “back end” of the WordPress blog. Go to the site itself and at the end the URL, type “/wp-admin,” ie. yoursite.com/wp-admin. This is a standard way to bring up the login page.

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