Hey Alternative,

If your wondering about modifying the pages in notepad like you can do with a static html page, then the answer is no. Wordpress does not create text files or individual html pages when you make new posts. Instead, it stores them in an MySQL database on your server and interprets the code and then displays it to a site visitor as an individual page. So the only way to edit a blog post or page is by logging into the Wordpress admin panel.

As for security... I would recomend deleting the default 'Admin' account. Every wordpress blog out there has the administrator username of 'admin' so hackers only have to take the time to figure out the password if your still using the default username. You should create a new account, give it administrator privalages and then delete the default 'admin' account. Also, be sure that the nickname being displayed as the post author is different from the login username.

Hope this helps,
Colin

No problem. Just glad to help.

You can also submit posts using Windows Live Writer. Its a really good editor and I feel its much better than submitting the post through the Wordpress admin panel.

If you use a one-click installer from cPanel, try to see if it lets you create your initial admin account with a custom login/pass combo. That way there is no need to be creating it later, and deleting.

Just to add to this - I've been using Scribefire, a firefox plugin - lets you blog right from your browser, whatever page you're on, so you can add to your blog really easily!

very nice info in here. ive learned a lot from you guys. thanks

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