My Journal
The following is the beginning of my Work-From-Home Journal:

I knew very little about FTP (File Transfer Protocol) when I started with NZPCS but it didn’t take long before my mentor helped me learn. I also gleaned some FTP basics from watching one of the many videos provided by NZPCS .

After my initial setup of WordPress and my plugins were activated, I needed to activate my Akismet plugin. Akismet is important in that it blocks spammers from filtering in on your site. In order to activate Akismet I needed an API key; to get a key I needed an account with WordPress.com. So I opened an account and they sent me my key via email. I entered the key in the appropriate spot and am now protected from spammers.

Now that this was accomplished I went to the Manage Tab then to Comments and deleted the “Mr WordPress Comments.”

Next I applied “the ping list” — this I learned from watching the NZPCS video: First I opened the Blogpack supplied by NZPCS (downloaded software for WordPress) and copied the pinglist from Note Pad provided in the blogpack. I then went to my WordPress dashboard and clicked Options, then Writing. I scrolled to the end of the page and pasted my pinglist into the window provided.

My next step was to change the Permalink structure. I clicked the Option tab then Permalinks. I scrolled down until I found Custom. Then I typed in: /%category%/%postname%

It is important to remember to click “update file” each time you change settings.

Next I inserted my Google pub ID code into the google_ad_client. I did this by clicking the Presentation tab then Theme Editor. In the sidebar I found Sidebar and Footer. I opened each one and added my Google pub ID.

Thanks for reading.

To your success.

Marlene Cronkhite