How to add a Favicon to your WordPress website
What is a Favicon? It’s a small 16×16 pixel icon that shows up in your browser to the left of the web address.
It also helps distinguish your site in your browsers bookmarks and is also used in some social bookmarking sites as well. Here’s how you can easily create the file and make it show up on your website.
Preparing Firefox for WordPress – A visual guide to fast WP access
This WordPress tutorial will show you how to setup Firefox so that getting to your dashboard or posting an article is quick and easy. (Screencast Video Training included)
Take the time and follow this guide step-by-step and WordPress will be only 2 clicks away!
How To Upload using Cpanel – Install WordPress plugin WP-Easy Uploader
WordPress 2.7 users: You can use the inbuilt plugin and auto install feature to install the WP-Easy Uploader plugin. This bypasses having to use Cpanel in the below example. (Go to Plugins >> Add New. In the search type “uploader” and a little way down you will see WP-Easy Uploader – Choose Install Now and foloow the prompts to have this plugin installed.)
This short video Screencast will show you how to upload plugins (or anything for that matter) using Cpanel.
Cpanel is a very common admin backend system that comes with most hosting packages.
In this case we want to upload and install the WP-Easy Uploader plugin. This one plugin gives us the ability to upload anythign to our WordPress blog. Plugins, Themes and anything in fact.
Upload A Plugin within WordPress – Built in and Wp-Easy Uploader
Being open source, features in WordPress come in the form of plugins. Made by developers.
Geeks basically, that make really cool new features available by creating little applications that run within the structure of WordPress.
Hot Tip: Find new plugins and themes fast! Try our new Google WordPress search engine page.
Want to add video from YouTube and Quicktime movies to your site? Try the Vipers Video quicktags Plugin. Maybe you want to make sure the email addresses you display on your page can’t be harvested by spam bots. Go for the DBD EMail encoder.
This 5 minute screencast will show you the most elegant expedient way to try out new plugins on your site.
Sidebar Widgets – Creating and Editing – WordPress Tutorial
Take charge of your Sidebar in WordPress!
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This video training shows you how to create and edit sidebar widgets in your self hosted WordPress website. A summary of which is as follows:
SEO or Search Engine Optimization in WordPress
Having a WordPress blog that you post quality content to is one of the best ways to have a strong presence in the search engines.
Every time you create an article or page it is an opportunity to:
- Create value for your readers and/or customers.
- Reinforce the keywords that target your topic or media.
- Create a stronger presence in the blog and search engines for higher visibility online.
Keep in mind that search engine optimization is just one way that you can attract the right people to your post, page or offer. There are more active ways to bring people to your website but in this article I will cover the basics of SEO within WordPress.
The WordPress Dashboard – Screencast Tutorial
Here we give you a tour of the central control center of WordPress 2.6 . The Dashboard. 
New and revamped in version 2.6 the Dashboard gives you quick access to all your main links and resources.
NOTE : If you are running WP 2.7 this will be outdated.
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Media and Formatting Demo for WordPress 2.6
This is a demonstration of some of the formatting and media posting options you have in WordPress.
Here’s an MP3 player to get you started. 01-preparing-the-way
Then an example of normal text.©
Bold – Italic – Strikethrough – Underline – Multicoloured text. © copyright and other €®?߶∞ symbols.
How To Manage Widgets – WordPress Sidebar Layout
This Screencast will give you an introduction to the Widgets page in the Design tab
Widgets are blocks of content that make up your sidebar or sidebars depending on the Theme you are using. To re-arrange the order of sidebar Widgets click and drag them then press Save.
Adding plugins will add more widgets. Explore more widgets on the WordPress website right here.
