Newbie - Wordpress HELP!!!

[stinkingbishop]

Hello lovely ladies. Just started my blog this week about twins (due Monday, gulp, so thought I'd make a head start).

I have several practical questions to get it purty and functional before I start pushing it out there. Would be VERY grateful if anyone could help as pregnancy brain is not helping me.

1. Header - how do I stop it coming up with the automatic 'just another wordpress' sub heading and replace with my own? I don't have Paint/Photoshop BTW.
   

1. How do I get different headers on different pages?
   

1. How do I get an 'about this blog' bit on the front page - maybe an excerpt in the sidebar?
   

1. On the home page, with all the blog entries, I want people to see there are lots (well, 4!) Is there a way of doing excerpts from entries and having a 'read more' click through?
   

1. Links to sites I like in sidebar? Thought that was 'blogroll' but patently not.
   

THANK YOU!

It's likepeasinapod.com BTW if anyone wants to look, will apply for MN network when I'm happy with it!

[lemonygem]

Hello!

Hopefully this can help...

1. You can change the strapline by going to your Dashboard > Settings > General Settings. It's the "Tagline" option.
   

1. When you say headers, do you mean images in the header? The only way I can think of doing this per blog post is to add an image in at the top of the post. You can upload a header image if you go to Appearance > Header
   

1. Probably best to do this as a two-stage thing. First, create a page by going to Pages > Create New Page and make an About page with all the bits and bobs you need, then secondly, going to Appearance > Menus and creating a new menu with the link to your about page
   

1. Go to Settings > reading and select "Summary" where is says "For each article in a feed, show"
   

1. Again in Appearance > Menus, create a menu based on links and add the links you want to appear in that particular menu : )
   

Happy 'pressing : )

Gem

[stinkingbishop]

Thanks so much Gem!

1. Done, hurrah
   

1. Will do, cool
   

1. I have an About Page with content, it's in my top menu - how do I get an excerpt with an image in the righthand sidebar?
   

1. Have done, but it ain't working...could that be because all my posts are on the homepage? Or have I not set it up as a feed properly? Argh!
   

1. Will do
   

Thanks again.

PS - it's likepeasinapod.com/

[stinkingbishop]

Also, and sorry for using you as my personal helpdesk...how can I set it up so when I have the twins next week I can tweet the news and pics and it will pop up as a post on the blog's homepage??

[stinkingbishop]

Scrub that, worked out how to do it so all Twittered up now! [smug emoticon]

[lemonygem]

Haha, excellent news! Glad you got it working! : )