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[How-To Guide] Make Static Homepage With WordPress

After buying hosting from recommended webhosting buyers and WordPress theme from recommended theme club you will install WordPress on your hosting server. At present special offers are running you can take advantage of these offer to save a lot of money.

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After installing WordPress, first thing you do is to change the default password generated by WordPress and after changing password you will install plugins and WordPress theme from WordPress dashboard. Some user (or users) interested in making static websites or static homepage but they do not know how to make static homepage with WordPress. This article focus on making static homepage with WordPress.

Step1: Log-in into wp-admin panel, go to “Pages” and click on “Add New” as shown below:

Step2: When you click on “Add New”, it open a new window (shown below). Now fill-up all the details and click on “Publish” button on right hand side.

Step3: Similarly (as guided in step2), create a new page with the the title “Blog”.

Step4: After publishing this page (step2), go to “Settings” tab and click on “Reading” as shown below.

Step5: As soon as you click on “Reading”, it open a new window (shown below). Now select “A static Page”, after it for front page – select “HomePage” and for blog posts – select “Blog”. After doing all the things, click on “Save Changes” button as shown below:

Step6: Congratulations, you have successfully created Static HomePage with WordPress.

Do let me know if you have any questions or you can also use “Free WordPress Installation Service” and do not forget to like on Facebook.

[How-To Guide] Buy Premium WordPress Themes From WordPress.com

Already, in earlier article I have shared that WordPress.com release premium WordPress theme for its users and now in this post I’m sharing how to buy these premium WordPress theme.

Step1: Log-in into WordPress.com account, go to “Appearance” and click on “Themes” a shown below:

Step2: As soon you click on “Themes”, it open a new window (shown below), and in navigation menu click on “Premium”.

Step3: When you click on “Premium”, it open a new window (shown below). Now select any of the theme (I’m selecting Headlines) and click on “Purchase & Activate ($45.00)”.

Step4: As soon as you click on “Purchase & Activate ($45.00)”, it open a new window (shown below) and now you have to choose the payment gateway to buy premium WordPress.com WordPress Themes

Step5: After selecting the payment gateway, you are ready to buy this premium theme and enjoy it on your WordPress.com blog (I have chosen PayPal as my payment gateway).

Step6: That’s all, now log-in into your PayPal account to buy this premium theme and after buying this premium theme change the layout of your WordPress.com blog immediately.

If you have any query do let me know in comment section and do not forget to like WebGuide4U on Facebook.

[WordPress News] WordPress.com Announced Premium Themes To Its Users

Today Automattic announced that WordPress.com users now able to buy premium WordPress Themes, as before premium themes available for Self-Hosted WordPress blog only. The first two premium themes that will be available on WordPress.com are headlines by Woo Themes and Shelf from Theme Foundary and additional WordPress theme will be rolled out later in this year.

At present 17 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com and premium themes will give these users to buy these premium themes and give their blogs a more professional interface.

These two premium themes available at $45 and $68 respectively and each theme supported by theme shops themselves by using a forum at WordPress.com which is available to only those who buy these themes.

Headlines is $45 and a magazine-style theme, perfect for users who have lots of content. It features 15 different color schemes, drop-down custom menus and a featured post slider.

Shelf, a tumblelog style theme, is $68 it takes advantage of WordPress.com’s nw post formats feature and has a fun horizontal scrolling design.

As a WordPress user would you love to buy these premium themes or not??

[How-To Guide] Add Infolinks Ad Code In Catalyst WordPress Theme

Already,I have shared how to install Catalyst WordPress Theme from WordPress dashboard and how to add Google Analytics tracking code in Catalyst WordPress Theme. All these tutorials help you to get started with Catalyst WordPress Theme.

As a blogger it is necessary for you to monetize your blog so that you can pay your hosting bills easily. For monetizing a blog there are many things which I’m not discussing here.

At WebGuide4U I use Infolinks to monetize my blog. For those who do not know, Infolinks is an InText Ad Network which pays you per click. If you have not signed up for Infolinks, then sign-up now

Sign-Up Link for Infolinks

After a wait, here is a step-by-step guide on adding Infolinks Ad Code in Catalyst WordPress Theme.

Step1: Log-in into wp-admin panel, go to “Catalyst” tab and click on “Core Options” as shown below:

Step2: When you click on “Core Options”, it open a new window (as shown below) and in navigation menu click on “Scripts”.

Step3: Now simply copy Infolinks Ad Code and paste it in “Footer Scripts” and click on “Save Changes” button.

Step4: Congratulations, you have successfully added Google Analytics tracking code in Catalyst WordPress Theme.

If you have not grab your copy of Catalyst WordPress Theme, get it now

Sign-Up Link for Catalyst WordPress Theme

If you have any query do let me know in comment section and do not forget to like on Facebook

[WordPress News] WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 3

WordPress team released WordPress 3.1 RC3 (Release Candidate 3) and it is available for download to all users and developers. RC stands for “Release Candidate” which means that product is almost ready for final launch. WordPress team already released WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 2 after New Year.

According to WordPress team, some of the changes are:

Removal of Ajax

Properly display the author dropdown in Quick Edit

Various important fixes to numerous taxonomy query variables

Fixes to the theme deletion process

Fixes to pages used for posts

IIS and Multisite: Avoid resetting web.config on permalink save

Properly validate post formats and their rewrite rules

Thinking of giving it a try then download it now but remember that it is not ready to use on live site. You can still use it for testing purposes and if you find some bug, then there are few ways to inform WordPress team.

Post it to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums
Report it to the wp-testers mailing list
Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev
File a bug ticket on the WordPress Trac

Download Link for WordPress 3.1 RC3

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