Chapter 4

Writing and Managing Your Blog

In This Chapter

arrow Writing your first post and making it look nice

arrow Organizing and categorizing your blog

arrow Inviting friends and establishing their permissions

arrow Moderating discussions — even when you aren’t logged in

arrow Combating comment spam

arrow Deciding what shows up on your front page

arrow Protecting your blog’s privacy

arrow Initiating trusting relationships with OpenID

The first chapter in this part covers the signup process and a few important settings and options that you configure when you first log in to your new WordPress.com blog. Now it’s time to make a blogger out of you. In this chapter, I show you the tools you need to write your first post. When you understand ...

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