WP Help

[RSnider]

I have created a website and have a few questions that I cannot find out how to fix. I am new to using WordPress. I use BlueHost and Filezilla.

My site is at: wwwdotdiabeticdealsforyoudotcom and will be featuring some blog content, with hopefully many links to affiliate products ONCE I FIGURE OUT HOW TO INSERT THEM. LOL

I have a navigation bar on the template / theme I am using and have created a Product Links page. That was the only place I could find to insert any links. I want to have a website we'll say like Sage-Hearts where I can have links and picture spread out throughout the page(s). Is there a tutorial I can see somewhere that will show me how to do this?

As well, how do I re-order the pages in the navigation bar so say the Product Links one is next to the "home" page link?

Would I be better off to design a normal website site in Front Page ( I can use this program better than WP...LOL) and upload it to BlueHost on the server and just have a blog page from there?

Man, I am really confused with WordPress and their 500,000 widgets, gadgets and everything else. LOL

Thanks for your help.

Robert (Moncton, NB Canada)

[Jim Hutchinson]

Hello Robert

Go into Manage > Pages and edit the products page. On the right you will see a list of menu items. The bottom menu item is Page Order. Change it to 2. You might have to go through the others and change the Page Order on them too, since About Me is probably set to 2 already. Each one you change will push the others down the list.

The WYSIWYG editor allows you to insert images, then drag and drop them anywhere in the page. To get exact positioning, click the Code tab on top of the editing window and move things around using cut & paste.

You are much better off using WordPress than you would be with FrontPage. WordPress has so much more flexibility.

To get your affiliate links in the pages, you can either put them into the navigation pane, separated into category, or use a nice plugin named sh-autolink.

That plugin allows you to define certain words and the target links that will point to. Then when you create the pages and articles, sh-autolink will automatically insert your links whenever the chosen word appears. The really cool thing about sh-autolink is that is also looks in the comments people leave and replace those words with links too!

WordPress has a ton of extensions and plugsins. Some of the more productive ones are listed in another post here: Site Design & Construction > Blogger vs Wordpress

Hope that helps

Jim Hutchinson

[BradleyD.Haslam]

[RSnider]

Thanks for the help and suggestions. I will certainly try once again to get the grasp of Wordpress.