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Help Center: How do I manage my Wordpress Blog?
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How do I change my blog title?
To change the blog title, click on the 'Options' tab and type the new blog title in the first box 'Weblog title'.
Be sure to click on 'update options' when you are done.
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What is all this on the front page?
When you first log in, the page you see is to keep you & us up to date on the blog software in case
we need to upgrade or things of that nature. The links you, as a user, are likely to need from this page are
'Write', 'Manage' or 'Comments' from the top tabs, or 'Write a post' from underneath the Welcome heading.
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How do I write a new post?
Click on either the 'Write' tab or the 'Write a post' link. You will see a page where you can enter your
text for the new post. You can either 'save and continue editing' which is a good idea every few minutes so the
server doesn't time out and lose the post you have typed, 'save' which means you can leave the page and come back
to it later, or 'publish' which makes it live on the blog. To add the entry to a certain category so that
readers can find it more easily, you can use the checkboxes at right or add a new category using the textbox
in that area.
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How do I edit a post?
If, instead, you want to edit a draft or edit an already-published post, click on the 'Manage' tab at the top of
the page. Unpublished drafts are listed at the top, next to 'Your Drafts'. Published posts are listed beneath the
'Last 15 posts' heading. You can click on 'edit' to edit a post or 'delete' to delete it. If you need to see
earlier posts, click on the 'Previous Entries' link at bottom left.
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How do I approve or delete comments?
The other thing that you will want to do on the blog is approve comments or delete spam from the comments.
So click on the 'Comments' tab, and then on the 'Awaiting Moderation' tab. These comments have not yet been
published on the blog. You can either use the edit and delete links for each comment, or you can select a radio
button next to 'bulk action' for each one and then click on the 'bulk moderate comments' button at the
bottom. If a comment is spam, it's best to mark it as spam rather than simply deleting it. This 'teaches' the
program to better recognize spam next time.
You don't need to worry about the 'Akismet Spam' tab. It's possible but highly unlikely that any real comments
have been caught by that spam filter, and the spam caught there is deleted automatically after 15 days.
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