Tips for adding customizations to WordPress.

1. Session 4:
Elizabeth Taber Library
How to Start a WordPress Blog
Blog Customizations
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2. Appearance
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3. Appearance
• Themes: You have many options to choose
• Widgets: These appear on your sidebars
• Menus: Navigation bar
• Theme Options: each theme has various options
• Header: You can personalize your header
• Background: You can personalize your
background
• Custom: You may need to pay for these options
• Mobile: It is a good idea to enable this feature
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4. Header
• You may upload your own custom header with
many of the themes.
• You may need to resize an image to fit
properly before you upload it.
• You may keep the text (found under Settings)
or remove it.
• Headers should be uploaded as .png or .jpg
files
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5. WordPress.com Appearance
(Videos I Created for You)
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• How to Add a Header to Your WordPress.com
Blog
• How to Change the Background Color
• How to Make a Specific Homepage in
WordPress
• Sidebar
• How to Customize Your Navigation Bar

6. Tools to Create Headers
• Power Point
• Adobe PhotoShop Elements
• Tweak.com (free logo builder)
• http://www.picmonkey.com/
• http://www.photoscape.org
• http://www.irfanview.com/
NOTE: People don’t like to hunt to figure out how to get in
touch with you – if you have a physical location put your
address in your header. If you want people to call you, put
your phone number in your header. Don’t assume people
know who you are or where you are located.
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