Category Archives: WordPress for Artists

Coming this spring: A comprehensive online self study, step by step course to help you get your WordPress website up and running in no time. The School at WordPress for Artists is going to be a private site for artists or anyone who wants to learn WordPress. Inside you will find detailed step by step instructions for adding content and managing your website and/or blog with WordPress. Read the WordPress for Artists School Syllabus What is WordPress? WordPress is an …
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How to format text and image content Correctly for search engine optimization In addition to setting up the All in One SEO Pack or WordPress SEO by Yoast, you should always make sure that you format website content correctly. There are only three things to remember here. 1. Text link Descriptions Every time you put in a link, always make sure the link has a description. I selected one of my links here, clicked on the Link button to edit …
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When you are composing the content for a page or post and include a number of images with your text it is always nice to float your images to the right, left or center. Gaining a decent page layout with WordPress can be just a tiny bit frustrating to get text to wrap images and not have everything run together. Solution: the horizontal rule! That’s one right below this line of text. Here’s an example layout where everything runs together: …
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Formatting your visual artist CV in WordPress. Formatting your Curriculum Vitae (CV for short) can be a royal pain using the limited editor features in WordPress. Even with the advanced editor features from TinyMCE there is still no tabbing. You can indent but not between the year and text without creating a return. This is what I want to do: (screen shot from Word) Notice how the list is indented over from the year. I can not do that in …
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