Wordpress Basics

Managing Wordpress Plugins

There are some amazing plugins and some that will make hash of your Wordpress install. The key is to know what you want, see if it works with your themes and version, then look at reviews and bug fixes to make sure it’s current and the reviews make sense. In general you can just un-install [...]

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Working with the Menu in Twenty Ten

The newest default theme with Wordpress 3.0 is called Twenty Ten and it takes major steps forward in the ability to control the design of your Wordpress blog right from the start. The ability to easily add menus and drop-downs is something many people used to go to premium themes for. Here’s a description of [...]

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Wordpress Settings Overview

The settings section of the Wordpress dashboard is where you get to fine-tune everything, but it can be a little off-putting. What IS all this stuff and what do we do with it? This video is the longer version and walks you through the whole thing step by step. If you’d like to cut to [...]

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Wordpress Dashboard Introduction

Ah the dashboard. This is the heart and soul of your Wordpress blog yet most people are a bit intimidated by all the options. Where to start? I’ll walk you through an overview here and then you can dig deeper in the rest of the classes in the Wordpress Class series.

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Add Video to Your Wordpress Blog

It’s easy to add value to a blog post by linking to a video. In this post we’ll cover how to embed a video, upload one of your own or link to a video URL and play it in a player that shows in Flash or HTML5.
this video is part of the Wordpress Class Series. [...]

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Wordpress Privacy Settings Tab

The Privacy settings tab is where you control whether your blog is publicly viewable, available to search engines or private.

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Wordpress Reading Settings Tab

An overview of the Reading Settings Tab. This is where you set what visitors see on the home page, where the blog posts are displayed etc.

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Wordpress Writing Settings Tab

A quick Overview of the writing settings tab on your Wordpress dashboard.

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Wordpress Permalinks Settings Tab

Permalinks are the permanent links to your posts. It’s how people can link to your posts on their websites and share the posts with their friends. There’s a lot of customization you can do to make these links more user and search engine friendly.

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Wordpress Media Settings

The media settings tab in the Wordpress dashboard is where you set the defaults for how media is handled on your blog.

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Adding an Image to a Post in Wordpress

Adding images to your posts and pages is an easy way to make them more visually interesting or emphasize a point. In this video we show you how to upload an image so you can use it in your blog post. Click the link to learn more about using the media center in Wordpress.

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