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Add a New User or Author to Your WordPress Website

mitz — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:27:04 +0000

In WordPress you can have more than one user for your website. The first user is by default the admin that will have all the control and be able to change all the settings available. Any users that are created after that can be made an administrator or preferably an author, a contributor, or a subscriber. There are different privileges for all and in this video below it shows how I create a user account with limited privileges. When I sign in as an admin I see everything and can delete or edit anything I like. Whereas if a contributor or author signs in they can only make a post and cannot change any settings or edit other posts.

Therefore you can invite anyone to be an author on your Wordpress website and you know they will not be able to mess with anything they are not meant to be touching.

How to add a new user in WordPress?

Sign into your WordPress dashboard.
Click on the Users section in the menu on the left side.
Click on add new user.
The hardest part here is choosing if the user is going to be an author, contributor, or an admin?

What is the difference between an administrator, an editor, an author, a contributor, and a subscriber?

From www.wordpress.org
■Administrator – Somebody who has access to all the administration features
■Editor – Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
■Author – Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts
■Contributor – Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish posts
■Subscriber – Somebody who can read comments/comment/receive news letters, etc.

What is the difference between an author and a contributor?

Webmasters need to know whether they should make a user a contributor or an author. You should definitely not make anyone and administrator.

In most WordPress installations, depending on your theme options, and author has more privileges than a contributor. An author can add images and also publish their own posts. A contributor cannot publish their post and sometimes cannot add images. A contributor can save a post as pending, for an administrator to approve and publish. This is the best option for you when you want to accept guest posters on your WordPress website.

Install WordPress Using Fantastico in Cpanel Hosting

mitz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:08:03 +0000

It sounds like a daunting task, however it is very simple. To install WordPress using Fantastico in cPanel hosting is by far the easiest way to get the job done. I wish I could have found a video tutorial like this when I was struggling to work it out some years ago.

If your website hosting comes with a cPanel that includes Fantastico then you are laughing. You can have a website installed within minutes. Hosting such as Hostgator and Just host can help you out with this.

If you plan on building a WordPress website from scratch or even many WordPress websites like I do, you definitely want to make the job easy for you by finding the right WordPress website host. As you can see in the picture below, I have hosting that has a feature called Fantastico which allows me to install WordPress at the push of a button.

This is what you see when you are in your hosting cPanel. If you click on the Fantastico link you will be able to install not only WordPress, but in many other website templates.

You can see all of the details by watching the video above. You can also download my details free PDF report about how to build a WordPress website.

Get your Blog pinging everytime you make a post

mitz — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:47:34 +0000

When you make a new post it is important to ping your blog. It is so important that this feature is built into WordPress. What it does is let other websites know that you have updated your website. Why wait until someone finds out your blog has a new post, why not tell the world!

To find the pinging settings in WordPress go to Settings>Then press on writing. Scroll down to the bottom. To use pinging your blog must not be private, it must be shared with the Search engines. To Change the privacy settings go to settings>then privacy.

Watch this video tutorial on how I setup and tweak my blog pinging.

Here is my ping list that I paste into the Settings in WordPress…

You can also get a list from www.pingler.com They are a free pinging service. But in WordPress we are doing it automatically.

Upload video to multiple websites at once, including Youtube

mitz — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:50:05 +0000

I like it when a website or a piece of software can make life easy for you, and this is what Tubemogul does. Tubemogul.com is a website where you can join for free and upload your videos to. WOW you said…Well then it uploads your video to all the other video sharing websites for you. All you have to do is fill in the usual details when uploading a video, and within minutes your video is viral on the internet. How crazy is that? All this for free.

So this means you can upload one video to www.tubemogul.comand it will then upload it to other sites of your choice. Tubemogul is uploading your video to multiple websites at once, without you having to lift another finger. It even uploads to YouTube quicker than doing it at Youtube.

Watch this video for more information.

Why Should I Choose WordPress to Build My Website?

mitz — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:41:52 +0000

There are some simple reasons why you should choose WordPress to build your next website.

Its easy to install WordPress if you have fantastico in your cpanel website hosting. (A must have)
You can edit your website from any computer, as long as you have access to the internet and a computer.
You do not need to know fancy html or php coding to make great websites.
You can get thousands of free themes and premium WordPress themes that upload in seconds.
You can easily backup your website data to your computer for safety.
Google and the other search engines love WordPress.
You can get some amazing WordPress plugins that do alot of the work for you.