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.
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!
New WordPress E-Commerce plugin hits it out of the park
If you’ve been looking for a smooth, cleanly implemented, well supported e-commerce solution for WordPress then read on…
Shopp
What It Does: Allows you to sell both shipped and digital products or services from your WordPress website. It offers a variety of different payment gateways to suit many nationalities and requirements. All major gateways such as PayPal are supported.
Who Needs It: Anyone that wants a serious e-commerce business.
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.
WordPress 2.7 Sneak Preview
The next update for WordPress is coming in the next week or two. It features some awesome new changes to the interface that I can say are great improvements.
I am testing the beta 2.7 on this site now and I am quickly seeing how much smoother the process is becoming. Its cleaner, more usable and a little faster as well. Check out the new movie released by WordPress.com to allay fears of an ever changing interface!
Sidebar Widgets – Creating and Editing – WordPress Tutorial
Take charge of your Sidebar in WordPress!
Grab the full quicktime downloads of the latest version of WordPress Screencasts. Subscribe to our free newsletter now. (look up!)
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.
