Uploading and Installing Themes in WordPress
With a few clicks, your whole WordPress site can look totally different. The content remains but is displayed differently thanks to some awesome coding wizardry. Fortunately for us, getting some new layouts for your site is pretty easy.
This will show you how to upload and install a new WP theme that you have downloaded. It also covers how to browse the WordPress.org themes site as well.
Installing Plugins in WordPress
Making use of the huge range of great plugins (essentially add-on code for your website) became wonderfully easy from WordPress 2.7 and onwards.
Here we show you how to quickly and easily find and add plugins to your self-hosted WordPress website.
Insights – Plugin Tutorial – Awesome WordPress Media and Links tool
Insights
What It Does: Allows you to quickly and easily, search for and insert YouTube movies, royalty free images from Flickr, Wikipedia links, Google searches and even links from your own site, into your posts and pages.
Insights uses a dynamic AJAX interface which loads search results in seconds, all within the WordPress posting page!
Who Needs It: Anyone that has a self-hosted WordPress website.
iPhoto Tutorial – Importing Images from CD – Screencast Training Movie
This short training movie will show you how to easily import a CD of images into Apple iPhoto ready for your slide shows or web display.
We also touch on an important iPhoto management tip.
If you hold the Option key when you launch iPhoto it will allow you to create a new library or choose a previous one. Great if you have many projects and do not want them to be mixed up together.
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:
How To Embed Video into Articles in WordPress 2.6 – Screencast Tutorial
This tutorial will show you how to embed videos from YouTube and other sharing sites into your WordPress blog posts and pages.
For information on how to maximize your video sharing efforts click here.
Here is the process summarized:
Writing Posts and Pages in WordPress 2.6 – Screencast Tutorial
This 27 minute Screencast Training goes into depth, and will show you how to post articles and pages in WordPress 2.6.
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