Wordpress Themes allow you to choose and change the look and feel of your blog instantly. You can change the layout of the entire blog by changing the Theme. Changing Theme is as simple as selecting a Theme from the 1000s of Wordpress Themes and activating it. The main advantage of Wordpress Theme is that you don't need to write any code for designing the blog. So, creating is blog is easy for non-programmers and non-designers. Any average guy or even a kid can easily setup a blog without coding anything in Wordpress.

There are lots of free and commercial Wordpress Themes available on the web. You can download them and use them in your blogs. There are many sites offering free Wordpress Themes. The Theme files are usually packaged in a zip or RAR file. To install the theme, download and extract the Theme zip to the wp-content/themes folder inside your Wordpress blog folder. To uninstall the Theme, simply delete the Theme folder from wp-content/themes folder. If you are programmer or Web designer having knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL, then you can code your own Theme.

In the last tutorial you learnt how to upload and manage images in Wordpress. You may also want to add youtube videos to your blog. Or you may want to add audio music files to your blog post. You may have some interactive Flash animation or movie for your readers. You can make you blog much more interesting by adding these multimedia elements to your blog than just simple text and images. The process for adding and managing these multimedia is very similar to that of managing images in your blog.

To add audio,video or Flash to your blog post, click on the 'Add Video', 'Add Audio' or 'Add Media' button top bar of the Wordpress Visual Editor in your Edit Post page. The dialog for adding your media opens with 3 tabs : You can upload any media from your Computer from the 'From Computer' Tab, or you can embed any media from another website by typing it's URL in the 'From URL' dialod or you can reuse an existing media from the Media Library. For adding media from your computer, Click on the 'Select Files' button and select the media file from your computer. Then enter the various attributes like Title, Caption, Description and link URL regarding the media. Click on the 'Insert into Post' button to insert the media in the blog post.

Wordpress lets you manage images to be used in your posts very easily. You don't need any FTP software for uploading images for your blog. Wordpress has a inbuilt image manager that uploads and manages images for your blog. You can insert a image in your blog post in 3 ways : upload a new image for your blog from your computer, insert from a URL or reuse an already uploaded image from the media library.

In this article, we will have a look at what are Wordpress Tags, why they are used, how to add tags to your post and how they are different from Wordpress Categories. In Wordpress, Tags are used to add labels specific to the blog post. Tags are words or phrases which describe what the blog post is all about. Blog posts with common labels can be found easily by clicking on that tag. So, Tags are mainly used to organize blog posts with some related topics. Two blog posts sharing the same tag can belong to either same or different categories. So, tags give a way to relate content are more micro-level than the categories.

If you want to create Categories, then you can click the Categories Sub-menu under the Posts Menu. Then under 'Add Category', type the 'Category Name' in the textbox. You can leave 'Category Slug' as blank for now. Basically, a 'Slug' is a URL friendly name of the category which contains only letters, numbers and hyphens. So, if in your Category Name there are spaces they automatically converted to hyphens by wordpress. Only in special case, where you are not satisfied with the default Category Slug name provided by Wordpress, then you can type in your Slug name. Under 'Category Parent', you may select the parent Category from the dropdown, if your new Category is going to be a sub-category under it. Lastly, you can optionally fill in the 'Description' in the Description box. Click on 'Add Category' button to create your category.

Till now you have learnt how to create and edit a post in Wordpress. You can now start publishing your blog posts. After publishing many posts you may find that your readers may have to search for a particular topic of their interest in your blog. For example, you may have a blog on Web Design where you write various posts explaining web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript and also write about Photoshop and Flash. The visitor to your blog may be interested only in a specific topic inside Web Design like Photoshop or CSS. But because there are large number posts on many topics about Web Design in your blog, he may have difficulty on finding your blog posts related to that specific topic only which he is interested in.

In the previous post, we looked at the basic options available for Wordpress Visual Editor. In this post, we will have a look at the more advanced options available in Visual Editor. Wordpress has 2 modes of editing a post : A Visual Editor and a HTML editor. The HTML editor is for software programmers or web designers who know HTML and CSS and want to view or add code for editing the post. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language which is simple language for creating web pages. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. which is used to format the styles for controlling the look and feel of the page. Most of the time you need worry about HTML and CSS as most of the posts can be directly created using the Visual Editor.

Writing and editing a blog post in Wordpress is as easy as editing in any Rich Text Editor like Microsoft Word. You don't need to know any programming language like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You can just start writing your blog posts and add images, videos and formatting in the post using the easy to use Visual Editor Interface. If you have knowledge of HTML and CSS and are more comfortable working with it then you can switch from the Visual Editor to HTML Editor. The code in HTML Editor is always synced with the Visual Editor and vice versa.