Here's a quick video going over some WordPress basics: adding a post to a category and then adding a link (formerly known as blogroll). In this video, we&apos...
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Here's a quick video going over some WordPress basics: adding a post to a category and then adding a link (formerly known as blogroll). In this video, we're looking at a site that has mostly pages as the navigation structure but within those pages are custom templates that list posts from a certain category. A nice way to (1) keep things simple on your site navigation-wise, but also (2) add new posts--and thereby new content--to your site rather than just adding a list to a long page (bad idea for search engine optimization).
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A brief overview of publishing a post (or a page) in WordPress 2.9.2. I go over selecting a category (or categories), adding the title, typing in content, pasting ...
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A brief overview of publishing a post (or a page) in WordPress 2.9.2. I go over selecting a category (or categories), adding the title, typing in content, pasting in content (from Microsoft Word), uploading an image, adding an image title, an image caption, choosing the thumbnail size and selecting to have that thumbnail open up the larger image. Also deleting a post or editing existing posts. Ten minutes never went by so quickly ... ;-)
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With shortcodes, you can add a quick Buy Now or Add to Cart button directly in a post/page on your site. You don't have to worry about putting in scary PHP co...
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With shortcodes, you can add a quick Buy Now or Add to Cart button directly in a post/page on your site. You don't have to worry about putting in scary PHP code into your post, but just a bracketed short bit of code that will magically turn into a button that will let your visitor put the item directly into their cart. So it doesn't bring them to the product page, but puts the item right in the cart.
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0 Views 18:28:18 02/19/10
Rather than having code in your editor put it in a page template. Especially if the code is page specific. In this way, we clean up the page editing area and make ...
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Rather than having code in your editor put it in a page template. Especially if the code is page specific. In this way, we clean up the page editing area and make it "unbreakable" for users who are in there adding content and don't want to have to not watch out and break code. We also got to remove a plugin by using WordPress core code instead of a plugin code to get that list of recent posts from a certain category.
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0 Views 20:25:26 02/18/10
With GoDaddy's Deluxe Hosting, you can set up an unlimited amount of websites. Using their auto installer for WordPress (GoDaddy calls them Value Applications...
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With GoDaddy's Deluxe Hosting, you can set up an unlimited amount of websites. Using their auto installer for WordPress (GoDaddy calls them Value Applications), you can have your WordPress site up in under ten minutes. Note that the domains used in this video are also registered at GoDaddy.
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Client asked, "Can I have different backgrounds on different pages?" Well, sure, but it's going to be something like conditional PHP code and CSS ("If on this...
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Client asked, "Can I have different backgrounds on different pages?" Well, sure, but it's going to be something like conditional PHP code and CSS ("If on this page, show that CSS/background.") etc. Which of course is doable, but wait ... check the plugin directory and I find "Custom Post Background." Does just what I was hoping and there's even a friendly WP admin interface and better yet, it lets me use images from the Media Gallery. Gotta love WordPress.
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If you paste from Microsoft Word directly into WordPress without using the "Paste from Word" button, you'll usually have some formatting issues. In this case,...
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If you paste from Microsoft Word directly into WordPress without using the "Paste from Word" button, you'll usually have some formatting issues. In this case, although the font seemed OK, the browser couldn't read some of the "fancy quotes" or em dashes and turned them into vertical bars of codey-gobbledy-gook. Here's how to manually clean it up and get rid of that nasty Word code.
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WordPress has a few options built into the core that allow you to add a gallery of images. In this video screencast, I'll walk through uploading images, addin...
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WordPress has a few options built into the core that allow you to add a gallery of images. In this video screencast, I'll walk through uploading images, adding them to a WordPress gallery, but also how to add them one by one to a post so you have a bit more control over the layout.
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The WordPress E-Commerce plugin is a powerful e-commerce/shopping cart plugin that works well and is easy to use. It's not as full-featured as something like ...
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The WordPress E-Commerce plugin is a powerful e-commerce/shopping cart plugin that works well and is easy to use. It's not as full-featured as something like Magento or Zen Cart, but it is a plugin for WordPress and that there is enough to at least give it a try. In this screencast, I walk through adding new products and adding video.
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Depending on your hosting environment, you may have run into time-outs or errors when trying to upload large files in WordPress. It might be solved by a php.ini or...
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Depending on your hosting environment, you may have run into time-outs or errors when trying to upload large files in WordPress. It might be solved by a php.ini or .htaccess file edit, but that's if you know how to do those things and even then it might not work. Of course, you could upload using any FTP program, but that's again assuming you know how to do that. I wanted to stick with WordPress and get the job done. I used two plugins: myFTP and Add from Server. The video shows how it works.
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Mailman (usually provided for free with a cPanel backend control panel on Unix hosting) does a good job with mailing lists. This is one-to-all email, not necessari...
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Mailman (usually provided for free with a cPanel backend control panel on Unix hosting) does a good job with mailing lists. This is one-to-all email, not necessarily a newsletter that everyone in the group can use. Pretty simple software, but it works well. Here's a quick video showing how to add a new member to a list or remover an existing member from a list.
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1 Views 18:57:14 10/08/09
A how-to screencast on intstalling WordPress onto a UNIX server using cPanel. Set up the database, set up a user, add the user to the database, upload the zip file...
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A how-to screencast on intstalling WordPress onto a UNIX server using cPanel. Set up the database, set up a user, add the user to the database, upload the zip file, unzip, go to the URL, done. Sure, you could often use the automation Fantastico installer, but I like knowing my SQL DB names and passwords and having more control of the process. Plus, it only takes about five minutes.
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Google Apps is a fantastic tool. You can set up your own domain (yourdomain.com) to use Google Apps. For example, you can have you@yourdomain.com as your email wit...
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Google Apps is a fantastic tool. You can set up your own domain (yourdomain.com) to use Google Apps. For example, you can have you@yourdomain.com as your email with a Google Apps email (works and acts just like Gmail). You can access it at http://mail.yourdomain.com. You can still use your favorite email program to get your mail via POP or IMAP. While you're at it, you can set up Google Docs and Google Calendar to work on your domain. This video shows how to set up your domain (DNS settings, A records, MX records, CNAMES, etc.) to use Google Apps. Sounds complicated. Well, it is. Here goes!
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Overview of the dashboard stats and then deeper statistics provided by the wordpress.com stats plugin. Quickly go over the different areas of the stats (Referrers,...
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Overview of the dashboard stats and then deeper statistics provided by the wordpress.com stats plugin. Quickly go over the different areas of the stats (Referrers, Top Posts & Pages, Search Engine Terms, Clicks, and Incoming Links) and then a bit of analysis of the keywords. Finally, a very brief example of how to put those keywords to use in a particular post using the All-in-One SEO plugin.
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A quick overview of Brian Gardner's StudioPress Lifestyle theme. I walk through adding/changing the thumbnail images on the home page (resizing), adding text,...
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A quick overview of Brian Gardner's StudioPress Lifestyle theme. I walk through adding/changing the thumbnail images on the home page (resizing), adding text, image, and "featured text" to the Featured Content Gallery on the home page, editing some basic text formatting in a post and finally using the Random Quotes plugin.
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In this WordPress tutorial, I'll show you how to add photos to your galleries for the PhotoNexus theme for WordPress. I'll also show you how to add a new...
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In this WordPress tutorial, I'll show you how to add photos to your galleries for the PhotoNexus theme for WordPress. I'll also show you how to add a new gallery (category) and then sort the categories in the sidebar.
Word Press Tutorial | Overview Of Basic Publishing 03/05/10
A brief overview of publishing a post (or a page) in WordPress 2.9.2. I go over selecting a category (or categories), adding the title, typing in content, pasting in content (from Microsoft Word), uploading an image, adding an image title, an image caption, choosing the thumbnail size and selecting to have that thumbnail open up the larger image. Also deleting a post or editing existing posts. Ten minutes never went by so quickly ... ;-)