How To Make Technical Changes on a WordPress Website

This is an article that will describe the step-by-step process of how to modify and change different technical components of a WordPress website.

How To Change the WordPress Theme

The theme of your website is important because it affects how it looks visually. Below are the Step-by-step instructions of how to change your theme:

Step One: Backing up Your Site

Step Two: Go to your WordPress Themes Section

Step Three: Install the WordPress Theme of your Choice

Step Four: Activate Your Chosen WordPress Theme

How to use HTML Tags to Define Content on a Blog Post

Important note: Tags usually start with <> and finish off with </>

How To Use Custom CSS

The abbreviation, ‘CSS’, stands for Cascading Style Sheets and below is a step-by-step process of how to use them:

Step 1: Navigate to the dashboard of your site

Step 2: Click on where it says Appearance, and then click on Editor

Step 3: In the Design menu, select Styles

Step 4: Navigate and click on the three dots on the right side of where it says Styles, and then click the option that says Additional CSS

Step 5: You can then type/paste your custom CSS into the text box presented

Step 6: Navigate and click on Save at the top right of your screen, which will save your custom CSS to your site

How to Create an Unordered List using Code Block

In order to create lists, these are the tags you can use: <ol>, <ul>, and <li>

The following is an example of an unordered list:

<ul><li>Whiskey</li>

<li>Rum</li>

<li>Vodka</li>

<li>Gin</li>

This then displays as:

  • Whisky
  • Rum
  • Vodka
  • Gin

To add emphasis to a word or sentence using <em>, here is how you do it:

“This is the world’s <em>greatest ever made</em> cheesecake!”

This will them come out as, “This is the world’s greatest ever made cheesecake!”

For Creating an H1 heading, here is how you do it below:

<h1>Main Heading</h1>

H1 Heading looks like this

For Creating an H2 heading, here is how you do it below:

<h2>Sub Heading</h2>

H2 Heading Looks Like this

How To Install Google Analytics in WordPress

First things first, you need to create or login into a Google Analytics account. Below are the steps to first create your account, and then how to actually install it into your WordPress website.

Step One: Click on this link to get started: Analytics (google.com)

Step Two: Fill out your information to; create an account; create your property; describe your business, choose your business objectives, and how you would like to collect your data

Step Three: Install your Google Tag to your site, then click on Site Kit Plugin, which will then show you the Tag ID of your site. Copy the ID

Step Four: Paste your Tag ID into the WordPress Site by clicking on Dashboard, then click on Tools, select Marketing, click on the Traffic Tab, navigate to the Google section, and then paste the ID in the Google Analytics Measurement ID box, and hit Save.


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