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
Blog
SASP – SSL
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
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 – Basic Editing
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
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.
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.
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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.
Seedprod
Plugin for creating custom pages
WP – Custom Page
How to create a custom page
- with plugin seedprod – do not use
Blank Page – this works - From Scratch – not recommended