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Beginners Guide, Blogging, Wordpress · July 18, 2018

How to add categories and tags for WordPress pages?

Categories and Tags are predefined taxonomies in WordPress which are used to sort your content into sections. They make easier for your readers to find the posts what they are looking for. By default Categories and Tags are limited to only posts. While creating a post on your WordPress website, it can be categorized into different sections and can be filed under one or more categories and tags to navigate the content easily. While creating a page on your website you cannot find the option to add categories or tags to that particular page. In this article, I’ll explain how to add categories and tags for WordPress pages which helps to sort your content easily.

How to add categories and tags for WordPress pages?

You can easily add the categories and tags for WordPress pages by using 2 methods.

Adding code snippet to function.php file.
Using a plugin.

Now I’ll demonstrate how to add categories and tags for WordPress pages using above 2 ways.

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Beginners Guide, Blogging, Make money online · May 28, 2018

How to Submit Bluehost Affiliate Tax Form for Indian Residents?

Bluehost is one of the most popular Affiliate Programs in Web hosting services that offer 65$ commission per sale. Anyone can join Bluehost affiliate program and earn money by promoting their products. Once you signed up for Affiliate Program, you need to submit the tax form in order to receive the payment. You must have encountered a problem while submitting the Bluehost Affiliate Tax Form. Here is the complete guide on How to Submit Bluehost Affiliate Tax Form for Indian Residents.

How to Submit Bluehost Affiliate Tax Form for Indian Residents?

Bluehost provides 65$ commission per every qualified sale but you need to fill out the tax form in order to receive the payment. Follow this step by step guide to submit Bluehost Affiliate Tax Form for Indian Residents or Non-U.S residents.

Once you signed up and logged into your Bluehost Affiliate panel, you’ll be asked to submit the tax form in order to receive the payment for your referrals. You can see the notice

“Our records indicate we do not have a tax form on file for your account. In order to receive the payment for any referrals, you must complete the required form. To resolve the issue, please submit the tax form at this page.”

Now click on the link to submit the tax form or Go to Settings and click on tax form to submit the form.

There are 2 forms available for U.S and Non-U.S residents. You need to select the appropriate form to fill the accurate details to receive the payment.

Form W-9 for U.S residents
Form W-8BEN for Non U.S residents

If you are Indian Bluehost Affiliate or Non-U.S resident follow these steps to fill the form.

Beginners Guide, Glossary, Wordpress · May 14, 2018

What is Homepage and How to Create a Custom Homepage for WordPress Website?

The term Homepage is a regularly used word in WordPress. In this post will check what is a Homepage and How to Create a Custom Homepage for WordPress Website?

What is a Homepage in WordPress?

The term Home or Homepage is referred to the front page or main page of your website. By default, WordPress will show your posts in reverse chronological order (most recent post appears first) on your website home page.

Custom Homepage or Static FrontPage is a great feature in WordPress that helps to separate the blog content from other sections and add welcoming information on the front page. You can create a custom homepage for your blog to make it fully functioned website.

How to Create a Custom Homepage for WordPress Website?

You can add a static homepage to your website as the front page and need to assign another page to publish your posts. Follow this step by step guide to create a custom Homepage for WordPress Website.

Step 1: Before assigning a static front page to your website, you need to create and publish home page and blog page on your WordPress website.

Create a Home Page:

In your WordPress dashboard, go to Settings >> Pages and click on add new to create a new page and name it as Home.

Under page attributes, select the appropriate template from the drop-down box under templates. Most WordPress themes comes with custom page templates to change the look for static front pages. If your theme has front page template option, select the same from the drop-down list or select default template.

Do not add any content in the content area and hit publish.

Create a Blog Page:

Next, you need another page for blog posts. In the same way, create another page and name it as Blog.

Under page attributes, select the appropriate template from the drop-down box under templates. A lot of WordPress themes comes with Blog template. If your theme has Blog template option, select the same from the drop-down list or select default template.

Do not add any content in the content area and hit publish.

Beginners Guide, Glossary, Wordpress · May 9, 2018

What Is Gallery And How To Create An Image Gallery In WordPress?

Image Galleries are the best way to showcase your multiple pictures in one place. We can easily create and post Image Galleries in WordPress. In this post, we will check what is Gallery and How to Create an Image Gallery in WordPress with and without a plugin.

What is Gallery?

The gallery is a collection of pictures. WordPress has its own built-in create Image Gallery feature that allows you to add multiple images to a post or page in a single step.

You can easily upload images using add media option to post or pages in WordPress. However, if you add multiple images, those images will appear one by one and viewer need to scroll a lot to see all images. By creating an image gallery, images will display in a grid layout. Readers can click on thumbnails to launch a full-size image. With the slideshow option, images will automatically move from one to another with a certain time gap.

Image Galleries are the great way to showcase your pictures professionally in less space to your viewers.

How to Create an Image Gallery in WordPress?

You can create an Image Gallery in WordPress using 2 methods. You can easily create a gallery using WordPress built-in create Image Gallery feature and another one is using a plugin. Let’s check how to create an Image Gallery in WordPress using both methods.

Beginners Guide, Blogging · March 28, 2018

Beginners Guide to Google Search Console:

Google Search Console formerly known as Google webmaster tools is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor and maintain the presence of your site in Google search results. This Google Search Console Beginners Guide will help to know How to Submit Website to Google Search Console and how to maintain your site’s presence in Google search results.

Google Search Console:

Google Search Console is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor and maintain your site’s presence in Google search results. Search console lets you easily monitor your website traffic, optimizing your ranking, in some cases resolving server errors, site load issues and security issues.

Google Search Console Features:

It has the tools that let webmasters can

Submit the sitemap to Google and check if there any errors with sitemap
Maintain and resolve spam or malware issues
Submit new content for crawling and remove content from Google if you don’t want to show in search results
Get a list of internal and external pages that linked to the website
Can check mobile site performance
Write and check a robot.txt file that helps to discover website pages

After launching your website you need to submit your website to search engines in order to index your website. Google Search engine is the most used search engine in the world. Submitting your website to Google helps you to index your website easily and fast also helps to increase website traffic.

How to Submit Website to Google Search Console:

Step 1: Go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ and log in with your Gmail account.

Gmail account is mandatory in order to connect your website to Google search console. If you don’t have, create one for free.

Step 2: After login to your Google account, type your website URL and click on “Add A Property” button in order to add your website.

Step 3: Now you need to verify your website. Google offers so many methods to verify your website. Simply choose the option and verify your website.

Verification Methods:

HTML File Upload:

You can verify your website ownership by uploading the HTML file to your website. You can use this method to verify your website if you’re able to upload files to your website root directory.

To use this method, choose HTML file upload method on the verification details page. Now you’ll be asked to download the HTML file. Download it and upload the HTML file to your website without making any changes to the file. After uploading the HTML file, come back to Google Search Console and click on verify button to verify your ownership.

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How to add categories and tags for WordPress pages?

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How to Submit Bluehost Affiliate Tax Form for Indian Residents?

How to Submit Bluehost Affiliate Tax Form for Indian Residents?