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Ever take the time to think of and enter tags to your post relevant to the subject you’re writing about only to have them not appear once you publish your post?

To display your tags you would copy and paste the following code to your theme’s single.php file.

<p><?php the_tags(); ?></p>

Where you want to place it is dependent to you and your theme. But you would normally want to place it along with the Author, Category and Comment Count section of your post.

Once you’ve saved and uploaded the file, refresh a blog post you’ve included tags with and you should notice the tags now appear within the post.

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WordPress 3.1 was just recently released and one of the new and most obvious features; the new admin bar that appears on your WordPress site at the top of your browser. The admin bar will only appear if you’re logged into your WordPress admin account. Now, some people might find this a bit annoying or redundant, for myself I tend to open my WordPress Admin console and WordPress blog in seperate tabs so I don’t see a need for it. If you would like to disable the admin bar here are the steps you would follow.

On your Dashboard head to Your Profile settings, once there you can view the “Show Admin Bar” options. By default it’s selected to appear when viewing site. By not selecting both the admin bar will not be shown.

If you would like to disable the admin bar for all users on your site, add the following code to your functions.php file:

What are your experiences with the new WordPress admin bar?

Installing WordPress on GoDaddy Hosting is as simple as a couple of clicks. I’m going to attempt my best to give you a step by step tutorial on how to do this. I do have a couple bits of advice for first timers to help try and put ease to the process.

1. Take a deep breath and make sure you’re in a comfortable environment to be able to concentrate solely on the task at hand.

2. Create a folder for your blog which will contain notes, set-up information, account info, etc. This folder will not contain your site files but instead serve as a place to go back to if you need information to access your site. It’s good to plan ahead, if you’re planning on creating more blogs it’s hard to remember every single username, password, blog email address, Facebook login, twitter login, etc. for each blog. Till this day I still tend to forget my case-sensitive passwords when logging onto my WordPress blogs.

3. Create a spreadsheet for your WordPress information, you’ll be needing to create various names, logins, passwords, for your database and WordPress blog. The set-up information can be overwhelming so it’s best to keep this handy should you ever have a need to go back to it. Store this spreadsheet in the folder your created for your blog.

4. Have an alternate email address ready which will be used when WordPress sends you notifications such as user comments and account information. The last thing you want is an important email from mom that you missed because it was surrounded by hundreds of comment notifications about your Justin Bieber post. You can also use this email account for social networking sites to help promote and market your blog. Other uses could include signing up for WordPress Plugins and Widgets which some require, commenting on other blogs, and signing up for forums related to your blog theme.

5. Obviously you can’t setup a WordPress blog on Godaddy if you haven’t purchased hosting. Our next post will give you a step by step guide to purchasing hosting with Godaddy for your WordPress blog. Till then, Adios!

When you create a post on WordPress and publish your post without selecting a category, you’re post by default gets placed under “Uncategorized”.

However this “Uncategorized” category seems very unprofessional and frowned open by seasoned bloggers. Unfortunately you can’t just delete this category but you can easily rename it to anything you would like. You can name it “Other”, “Miscellaneous” or something else much more creative.

To rename the Uncategorized Category simply go to your dashboard under “Posts” and click “Categories”.

Once in the Categories section hover your cursor over “Uncategorized” and click on “Edit”.

The “Edit Category” section for that particular category should appear and from there you can change the name from Uncategorized to any name of your choice. I would recommend to change the slug to the same name for consistency. Be sure to keep the slug lowercase. Once done click update and your Uncategorized Category has now been changed.

By default WordPress displays your post in all it’s entirety on the frontpage. Some of you may not find this appealing since it causes your reader to have to scroll all the way down on your front page to view other posts. By setting a cut off point you allow an excerpt of your post to be displayed giving the reader a choice to click through to view the entire post. This also allows your reader to view more of your posts which they might interest them as well.

The method for inserting a cut off point on your post is by inserting the <!––more––> tag. You can insert the tag manually or use the More button found on your editor. You can insert this tag anywhere on your post which creates a (more…) link which cuts off the rest of the post and links to the actual post page.

How to Customize the “(more…)” link

You can actually customize the more link to make it more descriptive such as (Read More…) or (Continue Reading…).

The easiest way to do this is to include your descriptive message in the more tag. So to customize your more link to (Read More…), your more tag would look like this:

<!––more Read More––>

To display as (Continue Reading…), your more tag would look like this:

<!––more Continue Reading––>