<div dir="ltr">Welcome, Roger, and thanks for introducing yourself. I turn to this friendly and knowledgeable group often for advice. <div><br></div><div>I agree with Rich that WordPress is a terrific platform. I have never heard of it not working on a site, though if your host company doesn't support it, you'd need to do a manual installation (there are people on this list who could help you with that). Most webhosts have one-click WordPress installation in their CPanels.</div><div><br></div><div>You do need to know some things about WP before you set up.</div><div><ul><li>There is WordPress.com, which is hosted on THEIR servers, and WordPress.org, where your content is hosted on YOUR server (you don't have to own your server--let your hosting company do that). You want .ORG, so you have full control over the content and cant be held hostage over it. Neither one charges money.</li><li>WordPress is a very simple shell that uses "themes" to determine the look and feel. There are thousands of themes out there, some at no cost and others for a fee. Find one you like, but play with it to see how easy it is to work. There are some that nest text inside Java routines as one example) and I have found it's really tough to find the place I need to be to make minor edits.</li><li>Editing in WordPress is really easy, assuming you picked a theme that didn't have the issue I just described. The interface is similar to Microsoft Word or GMail if you turn off the blocks feature. So you don't have to learn any HTML. Instead of e.g. <b>your bold text</b>, you just highlight the text and click the B button in the formatting ribbon.</li><li>Find and install a few key plugins: a backup program so if WP utterly collapses, you still have your content; a file-namer that gives your posts a meaningful name taken from your headline, probably some others</li><li>WordPress updates frequently, both to add function and to beef up security. Set yours up to automatically run the updater, but remember to check every now and then to see if you need to update your plugins. Updating is just a few clicks and very intuitive.</li><li>You have a choice every time you post new content: a post, which goes at the top of your blog (which posts in reverse chronological order so the newest is on top) or a page, which is part of your permanent website structure and can be organized with menus, etc. Posts can also be sorted by category, so your reader can see everything you've put in any particular category just by clicking on the category name. I find it very worth the extra few minutes to add categories, keyword tags (which help people find your post), a picture, and an excerpt.</li><li>Consider having a designer set up the site to begin with, making sure they know you want a theme that's easy to edit posts, and then posting your own content from there.</li></ul><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"></div><div>Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"</div><div>________________________________________________</div><div>Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, </div><div>poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change</div><div>* First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified</div><div>* Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame</div><div>* Certified speaker: International Platform Association</div><div><a href="http://goingbeyondsustainability.com" target="_blank">http://goingbeyondsustainability.com</a> </div><div>mailto:<a href="mailto:shel@greenandprofitable.com" target="_blank">shel@greenandprofitable.com</a> 413-586-2388</div><div>Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. </div><div>Latest:Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World </div><div>(co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)</div><div><br></div><div>Watch my TEDx Talk,</div><div>"Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"</div><div><a href="http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809</a> </div><div>(move your mouse to "event videos")</div><div>_________________________________________________</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 10:09 PM Rich@tnr via Hidden-discuss <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Tell us something about the site you are using now - it looks
like a white label server with custom web interface.<br>
For example if it handled wordpress, it would do all you wanted
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<p>Sorry, earlier I send this answer to the wrong msg.<br>
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first-time poster on this discussion list. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">I am hoping to start a blog
soon as I transition my business into a new area. I am trying
to find a free or low-cost blogging platform that I can synch
with my website domain, <a href="http://rogermagnusresearch.com" target="_blank">rogermagnusresearch.com</a>. Does anyone
have any suggestions? I realize my website is very simple and
I hope to upgrade it eventually as I have more clients. </div>
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clients to the blog and wonder about Jotform to capture a name
and email address. One thing I like about it is it replies
with a thank you message when someone signs up. Is that
something you would recommend, something else, or is a link
to my email sufficient? </div>
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