We wanted to get some images into WordPress side by side and with captions, but also in categories on the same page.
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WordPress Tutorial: Creating a simple post (2.6.1)
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!
WordPress Tutorial: Uploading images and adding captions (2.6.1)
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.
WordPress Tutorial: Image Captions and Text Alignment
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.
WordPress Tutorial: Uploading PDFs
Below is a screencast showing how to upload, link, name, and insert PDFs (or any file other than images) into a WordPress post/page.
Post Icons
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.
Setting up a member/user directory in WordPress
I’ve had several requests to help out with how I put together the member/user directories on a few sites (e.g. BNI Embarcadero). I recently did another tutorial (more links to code on that page) showing how to use the UserExtra forms from the user’s perspective, but this is a tutorial that shows how to set [...]
Add an event in WordPress
Here’s a quick video tutorial walking you through adding an event in WordPress using the EventCalendar3 plugin. Add an event in WordPress
Extended Profile
For months, I’ve been wanting to use the Extended Profile data (from the userextra plugin, comments) to show a list of members on a post/page. I wanted more than just Firstname Lastname, Email, ICQ, etc. I wanted Address, City, Favorite Vegetable, whatever. After finding this code and then this bit of PHP to pull the [...]
Random Quotes
2008 Update: new favorite: Stray Random Quotes There’s a great plugin (Donkey Quote) that sets up a random text generator that’s easy to edit in WordPress. Here’s a quick video showing the basics of what it can do. Random Quotes Plugin
Simple Page Edit in WordPress
Here’s a video created for BNI Embarcadero that walks through basic editing of a page. WordPress Tutorial Video: Simple Page Edit in WordPress
Lost Password, Update User Info
Here’s a quick WordPress Tutorial to help you get your lost password and update some of your user information on your WordPress site. In this example, there are some extra fields used for more user info (e.g. address, phone, etc.). Lost Password, Update User Info Video Video will take some time to load.
Using CSS and Blockquote
I wanted to put this up here as an example of how CSS (formatting) on a global scale can help you editing your WordPress site with the tools you have in the editing/formatting screen. Watch the video below to see how I use the blockquote icon (the indent icon) and CSS formatting to make an [...]
WordPress Overview
I created a WordPress Overview video that walks through some of the features of WordPress (version 2.0.4). WordPress Overview Help Video The video covers: adding a category, adding a post, pasting content (as Plain Text and from Word using (modified) Advanced WYSIWYG Editor plugin), inserting (and editing) an image (using Image Manager plugin), adding (and [...]
Tutorials
We could write it all out and paste screenshots and make big numbered lists. But why? The screencasts (screen-capture video together with audio) walk you through step-by-step how to processes. Popcorn?
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