Creating a WordPress Blog Post on Page.ly

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 in Page.ly News by blip | 1 Comment »

Creating a WordPress Blog Post on Page.ly

1. Under ‘Posts’ in your left navigation, click ‘Add New’

2. Enter your posts title and add content in the editing box.

3. Click ‘Update Post’ to save.

Congratulations on your first blog post! Keep it up.

Careful out there

Posted on February 2nd, 2010 in Page.ly News, Page.ly Service Updates by Joshua Strebel | 1 Comment »

The folks at StudioPress one of our theme partners wrote a good post on the dangers of “unauthorized” download sources for WordPress themes and Plugins. If you use WordPress which of course all page.ly customers do… you should read it.

Finding WordPress Plugins for Your Page.ly Website

Posted on January 30th, 2010 in Page.ly News by blip | 1 Comment »

Finding WordPress Plugins for Your Page.ly Website

1. Under ‘Plugins’ in your left navigation, click ‘Add New’

2. You can search for the type of plugin you’d like

3. Inspect the available plugins. Make sure they have numerous rating stars.

4. Click ‘install’ on the right

5. Read the ‘installation’ instructions on the top navigation.

6. Click ‘Install Now’

7. Click ‘Activate Plugin’

Your new plugin is now located with your other installed plugins.

Let’s learn how to create WordPress blog post.

Add a Widget to Your WordPress Website on Page.ly

Posted on January 27th, 2010 in Page.ly News by blip | 1 Comment »

Add a Widget to Your WordPress Website on Page.ly

1. Login into your Page.ly website.

2. Click on ‘Appearance’ located in your left navigation bar.

3. Choose ‘Widgets’.

4. Choose from the available widgets and drag and drop them into the ‘Sidebar 1′ located on the right.

5. Enter information and click ‘Save’.

You can organize the placement of these widgets as well.

Now that you know how to add a widget, let’s learn how to find WordPress plugins.

WordCamp Boston

Posted on January 25th, 2010 in Page.ly News, WordPress by Joshua Strebel | No Comments »

photo by BenSpark.com

Big shout out to the organizers and volunteers of WordCamp Boston. They hosted an awesome event with military precision. It was pretty amazing what and how they did it.

I (Joshua Strebel) was thankful to sponsor and to be part of such a great event. Photo -> My boy band impression on the WordPress Monetization Panel.

The Page.ly Promocode printed on a card in the attendees schwag bag is good until Feb 1st. We look forward to helping you make your WP site awesome.

The WordPress community is really expanding and growing in the all the right directions. Look forward to more great things.

See some more photos tagged Wordcampboston on flickr.

Photo by BenSpark.com