Did you know the contents of your dashboard can be rearranged? Yep, you can control what appears there.
What about the admin bar, you can decide if you want to see it on your blog, the admin page or neither.
Want to know something cool? How about you try and compare the same revision of a post. I’m not going to tell you how to do it, but it does yeild cool results…
If you log into your admin panel and click on your username in the top right corner you will be taken to your profile.
This page lets you add your personal information (most of which will only show up depending on the theme) and your password.
But one thing I’m mentioning is your Nickname. Now my login name is not BlooLagoo, it’s actually admin as I’m the admin here. However that’s boring, so I set my nickname as BlooLagoo, saved the page and then set my displayname as my nickname.
That way your display name can be grammatically correct, you can have capital letters in it etc. No more leo, you can be Leo.
Each blog can have its own theme, and as such there’s just over a hundred to pick from. However, those may not be anything you want.
If you google for “Free Wordpress Theme” you will literally find thousands to pick from. If you do find one you like and it isn’t available here, drop an email over to admin[at]bloolagoo.org with a link to it and I can get it added.
Since this is a shared blogging environment you don’t actually have access to editing the files. However, if you do want to edit a theme just poke me and we can sort things out. You can provide the theme and I can add it just for your own website (as I’ve done for my own, since that theme has been modified a lot and wouldn’t work with another blog).
There are a lot to pick from, so go nuts.
So, did you know that it is possible to post in the future?
Sometimes you may have an idea for a post, but you really don’t want to publish it immediately. You may have only just posted and instead want to space it out a little bit. This is where scheduling posts comes into play.
On the write/edit post page above the Publish button is a short link saying “Publish immediately Edit”. If you click the edit link a box appears where you can specify what date should appear as the published date.
If you pick it in the past then Wordpress will consider it already published, but if you stick a future date it turns to a scheduled post.
This means that until that specific date/time then the post will not appear.
You can write a post for the next week in advanced if you want, so your blog is updated with new content each week.
Isn’t that neat?