This presentation covers topics on how to manage Menus, details of what is Widgets, how to invite for feedback, creating polls, how to build a strong and visible reader community and using site statistics to understand your readers in WordPress.

1. Customizing Your Blog 2
Jamshid Hashimi
Trainer, Cresco Solution
http://www.jamshidhashimi.com
jamshid@netlinks.af
@jamshidhashimi
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2. Agenda
• Managing Menus
• What are Widgets?
• Which Widgets are available to you?
• Primary and secondary widget areas
• Inviting feedback
• Creating polls
• How to build a strong, visible reader community?
• Using site statistics to understand your readers

3. Managing Menus
• The Appearance Menus Screen enables a user to create custom
navigation menu in place of a theme’s default menu
• Screen Options
• Expanding, Collapsing, and Rearranging, Modules
• Create a Menu
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Delete Menu
Automatically add new top-level pages to this menu
Theme locations
Save menu
Delet Menu

4. Managing Menus

5. Managing Menus

6. Managing Menus

7. Managing Menus
• Navigation Label
• The label for this particular menu item
• Title Attribute
• The attribute used when displaying the label
• Link Target
• Select "Same window or tab" or "New window or tab" from the pull-down.
• CSS Classes
• Optional CSS Classes for this menu item
• Link Relationship (XFN)
• Allows for the generation of XFN attributes automatically so you can show how you
are related to the authors/owners of site to which you are linking. See Link
Relationship for details.

8. Managing Menus
• Description
• Description for this link. The description will be displayed in the menu if the
current theme supports it.
• Original
• A link to the original source of the menu item (e.g. a link to view the post or
page).
• Remove
• Remove this menu item from the menu.
• Cancel
• Cancel the configuration of the menu item and

10. What are Widgets?
• WordPress Widgets add content and features to your Sidebars.
• Widgets make it easy to customize the content of your sidebar(s).
• Widgets require no code experience or expertise. They can be added,
removed, and rearranged on the WordPress Administration
• Appearance > Widgets panel.

11. What are Widgets?

12. What are Widgets?
• Adding Widgets

13. What are Widgets?
• Configuring Widgets

14. What are Widgets?
• Widget Visibility

15. What are Widgets?
• Widget Visibility

17. Inviting feedback

18. Inviting feedback

19. Inviting feedback

20. Inviting feedback

21. Inviting feedback

23. Creating polls
• Polls are another great way to enhance your blog with an interactive
element or feature.
• WordPress.com is directly integrated with Polldaddy, a popular online
poll creation service, so adding them to your blog is very easy.
• Feedback → Polls

24. Creating polls

25. Creating polls

26. Creating polls

27. Creating polls

28. Creating polls

30. How to build a strong, visible reader
community?
• Ask them how they feel about things.
• Follow up questions
• Reward them for hanging out with the community.
• Guest post for your blog
• Connect them with each other.
• 5 Bloggers I Can’t Live Without and Why
• Choose from your readers
• Recognize their contributions.
• Respond to their comment.
• Give your new readers a smile and a nod.
• An inspiring blog title
• Banner image
• Quotes

31. Using site statistics to understand your
readers
• Want to know how many visits your site gets, and what posts and
pages are most popular?
• Sparkline
• 48 upright bars representing the last 48 hours of page views
• Darker lines indicating nighttime page views

32. Using site statistics to understand your
readers
• Views and Visitors

33. Using site statistics to understand your
readers
• Views by Country

34. Using site statistics to understand your
readers
• Referrers
• Lists other blogs, web sites and search engines that link to blog
• Top Posts & Pages
• Search Engine Terms
• Clicks
• External links inside blog
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Post and Page
Comments
Bogroll
Usernames in comment

35. Using site statistics to understand your
readers

36. Questions?