Tutorials

Screencasts (videos) of help topics for website editing, promotion, and programming.

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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