NOTE: For starters – take note of what your WordPress Theme is as you’ll need this for a full install as this process is just a quick backup that exports your websites content & stores the data in an XML file.
I save this file in 3 separate places, generally
This is in case something happens with my website then I’ve got backups stored everywhere.
Creating a User couldn’t have been any simpler … in your Dashboard ⇒ USERS > ADD NEW …
Enter details then select the type of ROLE the user will have access to ⇒ ADD NEW USER
You can edit the user & also include an image too
The easiest way to create a CONTACT US form is to search for a PLUGIN that specifically does this for you.
In your DASHBOARD, go to:
PLUGINS > SEARCH: CONTACT FORM
Look for one that serves it purpose, I’m using CONTACT FORM 7, then
INSTALL > ACTIVATE
Go to your DASHBOARD > CONTACT > CONTACT FORMS (a form has been automatically generated for you)
Then go to the MAIL tab, check your email address &everything else is correct, click SAVE.
In the CONTACT > CONTACT FORMS screen you’ll see the name of your CONTACT FORM & there’ll be a SHORTCODE next to it.
Copy that, ADD a CONTACT US page … paste the SHORTCODE in there & PUBLISH
Now you should have a CONTACT US page that people can fill out & when it sends, it’ll go directly to the email you’ve setup in WordPress.
A person came across a problem where they had written content for their website in Microsoft Word, copied it & then pasted the data DIRECTLY INTO THEIR WEBSITE.
Sometimes it looks alright & other times it could look really weird with different fonts, special characters or symbols; it just stuffs up your formatting.
Although you can’t see it, when you copy/paste out of Word you take a whole bunch of hidden formatting bits & pieces. But don’t freak, there’s an easy way to fix this!
If using a WINDOWS computer, search for NOTEPAD, built into the system, seems MACS use TEXTEDIT
Notepad is a text editor that should be already installed on your Windows computer. It’s used for editing plain text files & for our purposes we are using it as a “dumping ground” to get rid of any hidden formatting issues that we copied out of Word.
Now comes the fun part … COPY the content from Word & paste it into Notepad.
Copy from Word & paste into Notepad
Then copy the text out of Notepad & paste it into your website POST or PAGE & you’re done!
Notepad fixes Word Formatting
It doesn’t look like anything’s changed but all those hidden surprises attached behind the scenes in your Word document have now gone.
Simple task but if you’re NONE THE WISER, hours will be lost mucking around trying to fix your content unnecessarily!
It’s really easy to check …
e.g. site:compuhint.com
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