Introduction to WordPress

Introduction to installing and using WordPress on a VPS

Setting up a WordPress instance on a VPS on OVHcloud

Setting up a WordPress blog on a VPS-hosted instance

Fixing ‘Site Health’ issues with default WordPress install

Some simple but useful customizations for a WordPress blog

Adding a real page to a WordPress install hosted on a VPS

Now select the site name|Menus (e.g. MPLMP Demo|Menus) Modifying Top Menu Check ‘About’ and select ‘Add to Menu’ Click on ‘Sample Page’ and select ‘Remove’ Select ‘Save Menu’ Select site name|Visit Site (e.g. MPLMP Demo|Visit Site) You will see ‘About’ instead of ‘Sample Page’ on the top right. Select ‘Dashboard’ again. Select ‘Pages|All Pages’ All Pages screen while hovering over ‘Sample Page’ Hover over ‘Sample Page’ and select ‘Trash’ If you now select ‘Trash (1)’ you can permanently delete the ‘Sample Page’.

Add a ‘real’ post to a WordPress instance hosted on a VPS

Improving on the default WordPress front page for use with a blog

Final appearance of blog front page – two posts in bordered boxes with a menu on the top left and the site name in the top right The front page now looks as depicted above. Now we delete the ‘Hello world!’ post. This is like deleting a page but one selects ‘Posts|All Posts’ instead of ‘Pages|All Pages’. Deleting a page with comments automatically deletes the comments.