Chapter 8

Establishing Your Blog Routine

In This Chapter

arrow Setting up categories

arrow Building your blogroll

arrow Exploring permalinks

arrow Writing and editing posts and pages

arrow Managing and moderating comments

WordPress is a powerful publishing tool, especially when you use the full range of options available. With the basic settings configured (which I show you how to do in Chapter 7), now is the time to go forth and blog! You can, at this point, skip to the “Blog It!: Writing Your First Entry” section in this chapter and jump right in to creating new posts for your blog. Or you can stay right here and discover some of the options you can set to make your blog a bit more organized and logical from the get-go.

A blog can become unwieldy and disorganized, requiring you to revisit these next few features sometime in the near future so that you can get the beast under control. So why not do a little planning and get the work over with now? I promise it won’t take that long, and you’ll thank me for it ...

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