Knowledge base
Welcome to Turbocharged’s knowledge base. This is a collection of documents, tutorials and visual guides, to help you exploit Turbocharged’s advantages at their fullest.
Deploy your Turbocharged blog and extend it
- Installation guide
- How to install Turbocharged, full instructions.
- How to install a WordPress plugin
- This tutorial will explain how to install a WordPress plugin you’ve downloaded from the Internet.
Tutorials: Learn how to take advantage of the tools included in Turbocharged
- Guaranteeing validity with the XHTML validator plugin
- What validation is, why validation is important, and how you achieve 100% validation with Turbocharged.
- Writing more productively with the Markdown plugin
- The rich text editor in WordPress is wonderful, but it can curtail writer’s productivity. Learn about a fantastic enhancement in Turbocharged that completely avoids the need for the rich text editor, and boosts your writing speed.
- Moving your WordPress blog to a different host and address
- How to migrate your blog from A to B, with no data loss, and a minimum of time. Applies to both WordPress and Turbocharged.
- Creating a static front page on your WordPress blog
- Need a true front page instead of a blog? This tutorial shows you how to do it, with no programming required, and only one line of text to edit. 5 minutes tops.
- Weathering heavy traffic with Turbocharged
- Believe it or not, it’s possible to survive traffic spikes, while still serving pages to your audience swiftly. And you won’t need big iron to do it.
- Stand out in search engines and improve the usability of your content with WordPress and Turbocharged
- The search engine game is not just about getting top result spots. It’s also about what the user sees once your content hits the first result page.
WordPress resources: get acquainted with WordPress
Almost every one of these resources reside in the WordPress Codex; we’re linking to them because they apply to Turbocharged as well, and we think you’ll find them as useful as we did:
- WordPress lessons
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From the basics to the most advanced topics, all you need to know to fully exploit WordPress, written in an effortlessly understandable way. You can also jump to each lesson directly:
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WordPress for Beginners
- Introduction to Blogging
- First Steps With WordPress
- WordPress Semantics - Learning the Jargon
- New To WordPress - Where to Start
- WordPress Blog Design and Layout
- Using WordPress Themes
- HTML to XHTML
- Business Blogging and shopping
- WordPress CSS Information and Techniques
- Finding Your CSS Styles
- Creating Individual Pages
- Stepping Into Templates
- Stepping Into Template Tags
- Using Images
- Finding WordPress Help
- I Make Changes and Nothing Happens
- Installing WordPress-An Audio-Visual Presentation
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Designing Your WordPress Site
- Developing a Colour Scheme
- Designing Headers
- CSS Horizontal Menus
- Dynamic Menu Highlighting
- Good Navigation Links
- Next and Previous Links
- Styling for Print
- Designing Your Post Meta Data Section
- Separating Categories in your Post Meta Data Section
- Customizing the Read More
- Formatting Date and Time
- Styling Lists with CSS
- Designing Headings
- Playing With Fonts
- Using Images
- Wrapping Text Around Images
- Fun Character Entities
- Template Files
- Features and Functions
- Website Development
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WordPress for Beginners
- Blog design and layout
- Learn the basics of design and layout, and how to enhance your Turbocharged blog using WordPress-approved techniques.
- WordPress administration panels
- Learn how to manage your WordPress through its administration console.
Familiarize yourself with features unique to Turbocharged
- Screenshot gallery
- Visually explore what Turbocharged is about.
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