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WP – Getting Started

This is the WordPress Getting Started Post.

Getting Started Tutorial
This tutorial recommends you do not use free site. I would strongly urge anyone w/o a lot of internet development experience to use a free site to determine if you really want to set up a website. Once you get into it you will find it a lot more difficult than you may have expected.
WordPress.com has a free site that is a great place to get you feet wet.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW.
1. WP not uses the Gutenburg block editor. This may be great for a beginner, but severly limits page fromatting.

WP – Blank Slate

Blank Slate is a WordPress plugin that allows the creation of a new blank page with no formatting.
WordPress uses the template you choose for all pages and cannot be altered. This will let you create your onw pages in any format.


– Start w/o intro

SASP – EMAIL

How to add email to SASP.

I now have an email server on my site. It turned out to be very easy to install and is very easy to use. Has a gread dark mode option.
It works so good I am not going to try to get it working on Outllook.

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 CONFIGURE OUTLOOK 2010 https://www.smarterasp.net/support/kb/a52/how-to-configure-an-email-account-in-outlook-2010.aspx  

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Follow the steps below to setup Outlook 2010 to retrieve and send email from our mail servers (replace “yourdomain.com” with your actual domain name).

  • Open Outlook.
  • Click the “File” tab, then select “Account Settings…”  This will bring up the Account Settings Window.
  • On the “E-mail” tab, select “New…”  This will open up a wizard.
  • In the “Choose Service” window, select “E-mail Account” and click “Next >”
  • In the “Auto Account Setup” window, select “Manually configure server settings or additional server types” and click “Next >”
  • In the “Choose Service” window, select “Internet E-mail” and click “Next >”
  • In the “Add New Account” window

o    User Information

§  Your Name: The name you want to appear in outgoing emails (e.g. John Smith)

§  E-mail Address: The email address you want to appear in outgoing email (e.g. John@youdomain.com)

o    Server Information

§  Account Type: Select “IMAP” for  Account Type

§  Incoming mail server: mail.youdomain.com

§  Outgoing mail server: mail.youdomain.com

o    Logon Information

§  User Name: The user’s full email address (e.g. John@youdomain.com)

§  Password: The user’s email account password.

§  Make sure “Remember Password” is checked.

  • Click on the “More Settings …” button.
  • Click on the “Outgoing Server” tab.
  • Make sure “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” is checked and “Use same settings as my incoming server” is selected.
  • Click on “Next >”  Outlook will perform some tests to make sure the settings are working correctly.  Close the “Test Account Settings” window when it’s done.
  • Click on “Finish” to end the wizard.

Note: SMTP default port is 25, alternative port is 8889

SASP Secure

Add security (HHTPS) to SmarterASP web site

My SmarterASP does not currently have SSL. To add SSL requires an upgrade to by subscription, which I do not want ot pay for. This is only a test site that I am using for development and contains nothing I cannot re-create if lost.

HTML and CSS

If you are to manage you own site at some point you will need to have a working knowledge of HTML. and CSS.

The first thing to master is adding HTML to your page with the HTML block.

> echo “hello”;

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Start a WordPress Page
Use SeedProd Plugin to create a new page.
The free version is very liminted and to purchase
is expensive.
Beaverbuilder Plugin This plugin costs $99 so
I will not even check it out. There is a free version
if someone else wants to try it.
Create A Custom Page How to create a new page
without a plugin. – Requires you are willing to edit you source documents.

websites

If you are thinking about starting you own website then there are many things you must do.

The first thing you should do is to decide what it is you want to do with the site. That will be a major factor in picking which site you will use to build or host your web.

One of your top considerations should be to support and help available. Email support is not good. Waiting for a day when you are starting out is a long time. However, live chat is usually an additional charge, or not available at all