Tutorials

How To Upload using Cpanel – Install WordPress plugin WP-Easy Uploader

Posted by: herrin on Dec 4, 2008 in Wordpress Tutorials | One Comment

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

Posted by: herrin on Nov 27, 2008 in Wordpress Tutorials | No Comments

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

Posted by: herrin on Oct 30, 2008 in Wordpress Tutorials | No Comments

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

Posted by: herrin on Sep 30, 2008 in Wordpress Tutorials | No Comments

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.

Uploading and Managing images in Next Gen Gallery – Screencast Tutorial

Posted by: herrin on Sep 1, 2008 in Wordpress Tutorials | 8 Comments

This Screencast video training will show you how to upload and manage galleries in your Next Gen Gallery on your WordPress website.

If you find this training useful, visit the subscriptions page where you can download all our free video screencasts via iTunes.

There are 4 Chapters in this Quicktime movie. They are:

Adding Images
Managing Galleries
Adding a New Gallery
The Next Gen HTML Button

Remember you can go full screen!

How To Manage Widgets – WordPress Sidebar Layout

Posted by: herrin on Aug 26, 2008 in Wordpress Tutorials | No Comments

This Screencast will give you an introduction to the Widgets page in the Design tab

widgets-block

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.

Preparing for WordPress – Essential Downloads and Setup

Posted by: herrin on Aug 21, 2008 in Web Tutorials, Wordpress Tutorials | No Comments

This article outlines some essential downloads and setup you will need to make sure that your experience with WordPress is a smooth and happy one. Screencast coming soon!

NOTE: All the links in this article open a new browser window.