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The formal description for tags is: they’re a different form of taxonomy. I had no idea what this means. I’ll try to translate, and give an example of usefulness.

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We all use email every day, but most of us take it for granted without knowing how it actually works. There’s some pretty strange terminology around this subject – let me explain it to you in simple words.

Your Local Email Client

First let’s talk about the email client. That’s the programme you use to check your emails. Outlook is an email client, so is Thunderbird, Mail on Mac, Outlook Express, and even the app you use on your smart phone which you can read and send emails with. Many email services also provide access via a web interface in your browser, those are called Webmail Clients – and they’re also email clients.

Whenever you hear someone ask “what is you email client?” then what they mean is “which thing is it you’re using to read your email”.

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Here’s a screencast I’ve made about writing pages, it illustrates how to add a single picture to your posts or pages: http://wphosting.tv/2011/11/workshop-writing-pages/

To add an image, use the little picture button next to Upload/Insert (underneath the post title):

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Sometimes you may find that you’ve been writing a post or page for a while, and then your computer crashes. Or your internet goes down. Or god knows what else happens, and you hadn’t clicked the save button yet.

Thanks to the auto-save feature of WordPress, your content should be should be safe and sound, even if you had not given it a title yet.

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You want to make sure you have a local copy of your website. That’s in case you want to leave your current hosting provider, or you fear that important content could be lost in a data centre crash. I’ve seen it, it’s not pretty.

Here are some plugins you can use to backup your site from the WordPress back end.

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Menus can be a bit cumbersome. The key thing is that you need to create the menu first, then activate it on the left hand side. Here’s what your structure looks like once you’ve created a menu:

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RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a generic content feed of your website’s content. Every WordPress site has one (several in fact).

For example, my website is http://wphosting.tv and my RSS feed is http://wphosting.tv/feed. Have a look at the differences.

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Here are some instructions on how to set a video to private in YouTube:

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If you want to stick with WordPress.com but would like you blog to appear as a particular domain (like yourdomain.com) then you can do that right from within the backend. Head over to Store and pick the first package called Add a Domain:

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