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Backing up your site is essential. The worst thing that can happen is to work for a couple of months getting things the way you want them, and then losing everything because you did not back it up.

There are many plugins available for WordPress backup. I am currently using the free version of Updraft plus.

We offer a single domain free SSL which you can install it on any 1 main domain OR any 1 subdomain, if you want more SSL you have to purchase SSL additionally.

In order to install a SSL you must have an emil working on the domain

Add to SmarterAST

My SASP now uses Namecheap as the domain provider

Today I installed this plugin. It was easy to install, and after figuring out how it works it does what I wanted it to. It really needs a good video tutorial.
Basic Tutorial

How to add afree SSL to SmarterASP domain Requires and Advanced Plan. See SSL Installation for WordPress for more info.

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Free Cloudflare SSL – NOT SO FREE?

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see WordPress Plugin for SSL

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.

Editing a new page or post is not as simple as it might seem. While to ‘block’ approach simplifies some things, it makes others difficult or impossible without plugins.

Duplicate a Page
Not as simple as it sounds. Requires a plugin called Duplicate Posts

Make a page template – need advanced tools

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

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

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.