Author Website in a Box comes with a pre-built home page (three of them, actually) that include all sorts of features ranging from sign up forms to bookshelf widgets to progress bars. I wanted to give you as many options as I could so you could move the sections up and down and build...
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How to Change the Logo (and Site Name)
I have recently noticed that not everyone replaces the default logo with their own name, or their logo. While I do like the logo (I made it, after all) I also know that authors would be better off if they had their own name up there. Here’s how you change the logo. And while...
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Author Website in a Box is designed to give you all the parts of an author website, including a solid design that you can use as-is or modify. I think it’s a great design, but I never intended to limit you to only building your site using my design. I wanted you to have...
Continue readingHow to Create a Blog Post (Advanced)
Everyone knows how to write a blog post on a WordPress site. Bang out a few paragraphs, add a couple images, and boom, you’ve written a very nice blog post. That is a perfectly acceptable way to publish a blog post (it’s how I do it), but how would you like to do more?...
Continue readingHow to Set Up or Edit a Menu
Author Website in a Box ships with a menu that you can customize (or replace entirely). The following video explains how to set up a menu for your site. Note: it starts from scratch, while I gave you a working menu, but the instructions are still good. The video was made by SiteOrigin, the...
Continue readingHow to Set Up or Edit a Book Listing
Author Website in a Box uses the Novelist plugin to give you a bookshelf that is easy to set up and maintain. All you have to is fill out a form with the details for each of your books and save it, and the plugin will automatically create a book listing filled with the...
Continue readingHow to Sell a Book from Your Author Website
One of the most common requests that users have made about Author Website in a Box has to do with e-commence. They want to sell books or ebooks from their site, which I fully appreciate. Adding e-commerce functions is on my to do list, but I don’t know when I will be able to...
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