Build Your Own WordPress Site Guide

Everyone has a place on the web nowadays, whether you’re a construction professional, an auctioning vegan, or just someone who wants to be heard. And MakeUseOf’s not talking about Twitter accounts and Facebook profiles, but rather about fully-fledged websites. Tomorrow, you could have yours!
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How to remove default META Links in WordPress 2.8

One of those things that you would want to do in WordPress is to edit the default META widget so as to remove the default links “Valid XHTML”, “XFN”, “Entries RSS”, “Comments RSS” as in technical blogs these may be looked at irrelevant content. I’ve always struggled with this and have to open and look for it in multiple files and so did I with WordPress 2.8 and finally found a way around it.
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How to Install WordPress Manually

This tutorial will show you how to install WordPress. If your web hosting control panel happens to include a script auto-installer, you can simply click to install WordPress automatically. Otherwise, you can visit www.wordpress.org and download/install the script manually. Save the file to your hard drive. Then use any zip utility program (eg., WinZip) to extract the files. Once the files are extracted, open Windows Explorer and rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php. You will now open this file in any text editor to configure it. Before you do this, be sure to first create a database in web hosting control panel. If you do not know how to do this, ask your Site Administrator to do it for you.

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Setting Your wordpress Blog’s Clock

For those to whom time and date on a blog post is critical, you need to set your blog’s clock to correlate with your date and time zone. It helps if you know how many hours your time zone is from GMT/UTC time.

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How To Display Adsense On Your First Post Within The Loop

In this guide you’ll learn how to display Adsense on just your first post within the Loop. Sure, there may be plugins that will do this for you. This guide, however, will use code examples to accomplish the same thing by editing your WordPress theme.

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