Screencasts (videos) of help topics for website editing, promotion, and programming.
A how-to screencast on intstalling WordPress onto a UNIX server using cPanel. Set up the database, set up a user, add the user to the database, upload the zip file, unzip, go to the URL, done.
Overview of the dashboard stats and then deeper statistics provided by the wordpress.com stats plugin. Quickly go over the different areas of the stats (Referrers, Top Posts & Pages, Search Engine Terms, Clicks, and Incoming Links) and then a bit of analysis of the keywords. Finally, a very brief example of how to put those keywords to use in a particular post using the All-in-One SEO plugin.
A quick overview of Brian Gardner's StudioPress Lifestyle theme. I walk through adding/changing the thumbnail images on the home page (resizing), adding text, image, and "featured text" to the Featured Content Gallery on the home page, editing some basic text formatting in a post and finally using the Random Quotes plugin.
In this WordPress tutorial, I'll show you how to add photos to your galleries for the PhotoNexus theme for WordPress. I'll also show you how to add a new gallery (category) and then sort the categories in the sidebar. Click image to left to view video.
Need to update your password, email address, phone number, business name or other contact information on your WordPress website? Here's how.
Using the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editing in WordPress, it's easy to add a link to your site's page/post/content. Watch the screencast to see it magically done before your eyes.
Google Apps (for email) used to have simple forwarders, but now they use Groups as forwarders so you can email to more than one person. Lots of options to work with.
You're all set up with Google Apps, loving it, and want to add a new email address. Not just a forwarder, but a real account with POP access and webmail access etc. Here's a step-by-step video to show you how.
If you paste content from Microsoft Word (or any formatted content) directly into the editing area of the WordPress backend, chances are a bunch of formatting code will come with it. Here's a video to help clean up the mess.
We wanted to get some images into WordPress side by side and with captions, but also in categories on the same page.
Here's a brief WordPress tutorial that covers adding a simple post to your site. I choose the category, give it a title, paste in some body text, publish, and voila!
With WordPress 2.6 +, image captions are built into the core image/media manager so no more need for plugins! Also, the video directly below is using WP 2.6.1 and the new media manager, its upload, editing, alignment, and caption function — all built into the core now.
Captions for images are tricky enough, then add text alignment (wrapping) and CSS and it's a recipe for disaster. Using the "Image Caption" plugin for WordPress and the simple alignment tool in WordPress, I'll walk through aligning images, their captions, and the surrounding text.
Below is a screencast showing how to upload, link, name, and insert PDFs (or any file other than images) into a WordPress post/page.
This plugin allows you to assign a certain image to a post (much category icons does) and let's you resize it, give it some CSS formatting, etc.
