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Hello

I have a new Wordpress blog online and I am looking to customize the site to make it look the way I desire it to.

This website is using the Genesis Streamline theme that I hired someone to install for me.

Does anyone know of a good place where I can go to get information to help me customize my new blog? I do not want to have to rely on hiring someone to do everything I need to do on this blog.

thanks
millardsc
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  • Profile picture of the author abacies
    Better you can hire virtual assistant if you don't want to hire a coder.
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    • Profile picture of the author image2all
      You can get help from YouTube videos to optimize your new blog. Actually you did not say here, what do you want to do in your blog and what about your blog. Can you tell here what kind of feature do you want to add in your blog please?
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  • Profile picture of the author lostarts
    Best thing is to Google for wordpress tutorials. Just a warning there is going to be a lot to take in, wordpress is fairly complex.

    If you purchased the theme from Studiopress they should provide support documents. Read the docs and go from there. If that doesn't help then go and ask questions in their support forum.

    Best of luck
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  • Profile picture of the author kamran9868
    It's better to hire a Freelancer for such work, or get google your friend... :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
    I agree, just watch tutorials. Videos are great. It takes time, so be patient. You can learn how to do it on your own.
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  • Profile picture of the author SergioFelix
    These tutorials are general, meaning they work for every StudioPress theme (Genesis framework) Genesis Framework Tutorials

    In case you actually bought the genesis framework and Streamline theme, then you can simply log to the StudioPress forums and look in the Streamline threads.

    It doesn't gets any easier than that.
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  • Profile picture of the author sc00byd00
    Word press is a pretty straight forward platform to use, that's why it si so popular. I'm sure that you would be able to find what you want on YouTube.
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    • Profile picture of the author millardsc
      Thanks for the responses. I did get some good leads here that I will follow up on.

      I have worked with Wordpress some in the past, but this theme seems to be a bit more than I have dealt with before.

      Really like the answer about using Youtube also, I didn't think about that.

      Thanks again Warriors.

      millardsc
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  • Profile picture of the author anna14
    Watch videos or read some references
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    • Profile picture of the author nheddi
      I suggest searching on Google and learning through some video tutorials. The more you practice the more you learn.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdik
    Wordpress is very simple blog creation site, Just try to do something in your blog, You can do easily.
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  • Profile picture of the author Emil from Bavaria
    Install a local web server such as Wamp or Mamp (for Mac), then Wordpress and the theme, this way you can try editing the theme with trial & error without affecting your actual web site. Once you're done upload the edited theme to your web hosting account.
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    I have installed the plugin of twitter on my site many time But I can't show this on my webpage.What should I do for installing this plugin.
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  • Profile picture of the author managepro
    Road Map for creating a wordpress website:

    Step 1. Get your Domain and Install Wordpress using Fantastico.
    Step 2. Decide the Look and Feel for you website, and Install your theme.
    Step 3. Setup the configuration for your Website.
    Step 4. Add content to your website.
    Step 5. Add plugins or widgets to enhance the functionality of your website.
    Step 6. Setup banner ads or adsense on your website.
    Step 7. Setup Social Media buttons using plugins.
    Step 8. Perform maintenance activities such as moderating comments.
    Step 9. Manage users on your wordpress website.

    Important plugins you must have:
    1. Akismet Spam Plugin to manage Spam.
    2. Google Analytics plugin to track website performance.
    3. All-in-One SEO or Wordpress SEO plugin for SEO.
    4. Contact Form 7 plugin for contact forms.
    5. Sitemap plugin to create a sitemap and submit to search engines.
    6. Feedburner Plugin for RSS subscriptions from your users.
    7. Aweber plugin if you had like people to subscribe to your list.

    Hope that helps as a road map, rest you can google the above points and find what exactly needs to be done.

    Best Regards,
    Santosh
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    • Profile picture of the author image2all
      Originally Posted by santoshr25 View Post

      Road Map for creating a wordpress website:

      Step 1. Get your Domain and Install Wordpress using Fantastico.
      Step 2. Decide the Look and Feel for you website, and Install your theme.
      Step 3. Setup the configuration for your Website.
      Step 4. Add content to your website.
      Step 5. Add plugins or widgets to enhance the functionality of your website.
      Step 6. Setup banner ads or adsense on your website.
      Step 7. Setup Social Media buttons using plugins.
      Step 8. Perform maintenance activities such as moderating comments.
      Step 9. Manage users on your wordpress website.

      Important plugins you must have:
      1. Akismet Spam Plugin to manage Spam.
      2. Google Analytics plugin to track website performance.
      3. All-in-One SEO or Wordpress SEO plugin for SEO.
      4. Contact Form 7 plugin for contact forms.
      5. Sitemap plugin to create a sitemap and submit to search engines.
      6. Feedburner Plugin for RSS subscriptions from your users.
      7. Aweber plugin if you had like people to subscribe to your list.

      Hope that helps as a road map, rest you can google the above points and find what exactly needs to be done.

      Best Regards,
      Santosh
      This is one of the great instruction to customize your blog. If you wan to add Social Bookmarking button in every post then use Sexy Bookmarks Plugin, Page pell nice page style and Page nave plugin, those plugins can give you nice look to your blog.
      Thanks.
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