If you’re an avid Internet user, chances are that you’ve read a blog or two. A lot of the blogs you’ve seen are likely operating on WordPress, which some say it the best blogging platform there is. If you want to have a blog of your own, you have to find out all you can about WordPress, and if you keep reading you’re going to learn a lot.

Remember to clean up permalinks. For instance, “Ten Ways Smart Parents Can Tame Their Children” would come across as a cumbersome, long URL. Choose something simpler like “intelligent-parents-manage-children”.

Learn what you need to know before you begin. You will be more successful if you make a good plan before you begin. Search engine optimization is another thing you want to be concerned with.

When you are ready to start posting, create a schedule. You will feel motivated to post regularly if you have a good schedule. As a matter of fact, you can create your posts ahead of time and then use the WP scheduling feature to post them at specific times.

Review your content for irrelevant material and remove it. That way, the site stays suitable for the interested folks who read it. You can use a plugin called Akismet to filter spam on your website.

Do not automatically assume your changes were not retained when making adjustments to your site. This isn’t always true. You can solve this by clearing the cache of your browser. Just press and hold your “shift” key while refreshing your browser and your changes should appear.

Unless you change it, posts will appear chronologically. In order to rearrange things, dates will need to be changed. Open a post and look at the upper right hand corner. There you will find the date. Click the date and change it. Save your post and its order will change.

Work on creating a better greeting for the top of your WordPress website. This makes things a bit more personal with readers since you can make a message that shows how others found your site. This makes your site seem more personal.

Ensure that users have easy access to your articles, which should be in their email, at their leisure. This is important for sharing purposes as well, as many users may not be able to access Facebook or Twitter at work but may want to share your articles with friends. Utilize a WP-email application to ensure this happens.

WordPress has so much to offer, whether you’re a novice blogger or a seasoned pro. Knowing more about the program and its uses will make you a skilled blogger. Make sure to think about this information when you get back to the blogosphere.