KISS WordPress: KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid, #1

By Gerald Jacobs

Have you wanted to start a blogger, but found learning WordPress or other apps daunting? Did you read about how to do it, but it didn't do it for you? The KISS WordPress Notebook is exactly what you need! Read this simple step-by-step Notebook which will take you on an illustrated journey to creating your own blog with WordPress. It is simple and non-technical. Designed for people who just want to get their message out without becoming a tech guru. You'll be up and running with your own great-looking blog in less than a week, guaranteed!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gerald Jacobs
• Release date: May 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201860707

Gerald Jacobs

Gerald grew up in the military during post World War II at the dawn of the nuclear age. The Tampa Bay area has always been his home when not gallivanting around the world with his family.  Recently concluding a 30 plus year career as a real estate Broker, Gerald is finally devoting his life to writing. His first book, 'U Can Be A Networking Maniac', is a self-help book showing a successful path to relationship networking for sales and marketing people. His newest first-time novel, 'The Monk' is a historical adventure. The story world is the west coast of Florida during the 1920s.  His website, GoGerald.com has a short story link that brings that same story world to life. It offers a quick insight into that world and Gerald's writing style. Don't miss checking Gerald's blog site, oldnbold.net. for more great fun!

Book preview

First Edition May 2021

Published By Sweetwater Publishing

Tampa, Florida

Cover Art Courtesy

Canva.com

Author website: GoGerald.com

KISS WordPress

Quick Start Notebook

Introduction

Yeah, that’s right, KISS WordPress. Keeping it simple, stupid. That’s what this is about.

When I started, I was so dumb I thought WordPress was two words.

I don’t know all that much yet, but as long as I know more than you, I can help you learn.

About this Notebook, I find reading it with the pages in tandem, instead of one at a time is helpful. There are many illustrations and it’s hard to tie them in with the accompanying text on the same page.

I’m big on self education. I will read all I can find about a subject. I spent months doing that. I tried creating a site that I could be proud of having my name attached to it. There has been some bitter frustration. Quitting is not in my nature.

In my distant past, I have used website creating programs such as Dream Weaver and Front Page. They were labor intensive and forced you to learn at least some code. That’s not for me anymore. That’s not how I make my living. In my business life, I measure a lot of different values. One thing I always quantify is what is my highest dollar return for my time spent. I must use my time doing the highest dollar value tasks.

I was in the real estate business for over 30 years. I used to teach my agents that we have two kinds of work in this business. We have $25 an hour work and $250 an hour work. It’s up to you to decide which to spend your time doing.

I found the opposite is also true with my expenses. How can I reduce them? I wanted lower cost solutions, sometimes these metrics come into conflict.

Web presence is one of those areas of conflict. Do I pay a professional company to build my author website? You bet I do. I put my time to better use writing. That’s what I now do. Did I like what they did for me? I did, but. . . . Here’s the deal. Even though I found them to be excellent, the words I used to express exactly what I wanted from them were not the words they heard from me. Whose fault? I expect the flaw is in just being human. There was a time when I thought communicating thoughtfully with others was important. Later I felt communicating accurately was the way to go. Even later I found that communicating effectively is what works best. I wasn’t communicating effectively in