1. By Dale Knight

7. History of the WordPress Name
Besides the technical terminology of WordPress, it's also interesting to know the history of the name, WordPress. The name "WordPress" was originally coined by Christine Selleck (see related post) in response to developer Matthew Mullenweg's desire to associate his new software project with printing presses. In this sense, press refers to the world of reporters, journalists, columnists, and photographers. An aptly chosen name, because WordPress serves as the printing press that enables its users to publish their words. It's a good name, don't you think so?

19. This is your default blog
Kinda fuglicious.. Lets fix that.

20. Login
On the bottom right of your new site, click Login. If you don’t see that, the address will be

21. Login
This will be the login (lastname first initial) and password you been given!

22. Your Dashboard… and Adding a theme
Click Appearance and then choose Theme

23. Write a post
Click Posts, click Add New.
Make sure you choose Post and not Page.
(Pages are static things like About Us, or Contact.)

24. Clickity, click, click click
Enter a title, and content. You can add a category on the right hand side.

25. Future Posts - Timestamp
Write many posts released
over time.
Let your blog work for you
while you are off doing
other things.

26. Tweaking site, using Widgets
Click Appearance and then Widgets

27. Widgets
Widgets allow you to add standard functionality to your blog. Stuff like having a list of posts in the side bar. Or showing a calender

28. Adding widgets
All you have to do is drag and drop any widget onto the sidebar. It will then be on your site.

29. How a widget looks
Here’s the widget we just added… this is the Recent Posts widget with a title I called Recent Hotness

30. Plugins
Click Plugins and then Add new.
Plugins open up tons and tons of powerful functions. Think of them like a widget, but typically more powerfull.

33. FireFox Web Browser Use two tabs per blog.
Allows WordPress Theme view of post before publishing.
Copy post ID number from Administration Panels

34. WordPress Press-It & QuickPress
Quick posting to your blog.
Built-in feature of WordPress.
QuickPress found on the Dashboard Panel
Press-It on Tools Panel
Click and drag to your browser toolbar.

37. WordPress News Blog Herald Weblog Tools Collection Planet WordPress
WordPress Codex
WordPress Planet from Ozh
WordPress Podcast