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 Creating and Editing Sidebar Widgets: Play in Popup | Download (6)

Take charge of your sidebar in Wordpress!

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:

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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.

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 Managing Next Gen Gallery Plugin: Play in Popup | Download (78)

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

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

1. Adding Images
2. Managing Galleries
3. Adding a New Gallery
4. The Next Gen HTML Button

 The Wordpress Dashboard: Play in Popup | Download (18)

Here we give you a tour of the central control center of Wordpress. The Dashboard.

New and revamped in version 2.6 the Dashboard gives you quick access to all your main links and resources.

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.

Then an example of normal text.©

Bold - Italic - Strikethrough - Underline - Multicoloured text. © copyright and other €®?߶∞ symbols.

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 Wordpress Widgets: Play in Popup | Download (12)

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.

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.

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 Adding A Link to the Wordpress Blogroll: Play in Popup | Download (17)

Adding a link to another website or URL is easy in Wordpress 2.6.

The steps are as follows:

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 Embedding Video in Wordpress Articles: Play in Popup | Download (21)

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:

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 How To Write Posts and Pages in Wordpress 2.6 - Screencast: Play in Popup | Download (101)

This 27 minute Screencast Training goes into depth, and will show you how to post articles and pages in Wordpress 2.6.

This tutorial is broken down into convenient chapters within the Quicktime movie. Click in the drop-down to the right of the timeline in the movie player. The chapters are:

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