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Week Two: WordPress Essential Training 6–10
What features can you change in “quick edit”?
Quick edit is a very abridged editor the only allows you to change Title, Slug, Date, Author, Categories, Tags, Allowing Comments, Allowing Pings, Changing Post Status, Making the Post Sticky and Password Protecting Posts. It does not allow you to make changes to the body of your post.
When might you “bulk edit”?
Any time that you need to change settings for multiple post at once, Bulk Edit saves the time it would take to go into each individual post and edit Author, Categories, Tags, Allowing Comments, Allowing Pings, Changing Post Status or Making the Post Sticky. An example of how this would be useful would be if an Author of many posts for your site were to “part ways” with your company, you could use Bulk Edit to change the status of that Author’s posts to unpublish them.
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Week One: WordPress Essential Training 1–5
How do you begin creating a WordPress site on your own server?
Download WordPress application from wordpress.org. Create a new MySQL database and database user on your server. Use an FTP client to connect to the database and upload WordPress onto the server. Connect the database to WordPress and look, you have a editable WordPress site connected to your domain name.
In your own words, what is the difference between posts and pages?
A post is a section of information, including but not limited to, text, images, hyperlinks, video and other information. Posts are time stamped and are organized by the date published, usually in reverse chronological order allowing for the latest post to show first. Posts will also provide the author of the information and can be organized by author. And ofcourse, posts can be commented upon by visitors to the site. A page also contains information, including but not limited to, text, images, hyperlinks, video and other information. Where a page differs is that it is not time stamped, there is no author and no commenting or sorting going on. A page is a static permanent spot on your site like a contact page or FAQ. In this way a page is most comparable to the html pages we created in Web Design class.
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