Here’s a quick video going over some WordPress basics: adding a post to a category and then adding a link (formerly known as blogroll).
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WordPress Tutorial | Overview of Basic Publishing (2.9.2)
A brief overview of publishing a post (or a page) in WordPress 2.9.2. Adding text, images, categories, etc.
Can’t Save/Publish Long Posts in WordPress
A few clients are running into trouble when trying to post/publish or even save very long posts (think: a few pages). I think I just found the answer and I posted it on the WordPress forums, but here's the code that needs to go into the .htaccess file: PLAIN TEXT PHP: SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPOST Off
Custom Query String
Found this plugin: Custom Query String Let's you put pots in order by date or alpha, all or some (# determined by you), desc or asc. Simple and nice, used for Early Bird Online.
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.
Recent posts in category
This code seems to do the trick: PLAIN TEXT CODE: <h2>News & Views</h2> <ul class="cat class"> <li class="list class"> <a href="http://www.likoma.com/recent-posts-in-category/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Recent posts in category">Recent posts in category</a> </li></ul> <li class="list class"> <a href="http://www.likoma.com/recent-posts-in-category/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Recent posts in category">Recent posts in category</a> </li></ul> <li class="list class"> <a href="http://www.likoma.com/recent-posts-in-category/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent [...]
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 [...]
The Excerpt Reloaded
Kaf has a fantastic plugin called The Excerpt Reloaded. I was having real trouble getting the 'allowtags' to work until I finally replaced: "the_excerpt_reloaded" with "wp_the_excerpt_reloaded" then it all worked like a charm.
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?
WP 2.0.1 Adding content, images, files, timestamp
WP 2.0.1 has a nice new WYSIWYG editor that allows you to add an image easily and also files and G2 (Gallery2) images. Here's the video. (about 11 MB, it'll take some time to load)
Categories, Pages, and Posts in WordPress and Drupal
Both WordPress (WP) and Drupal (DP) use databases to sort the content of a site. Here's a summary of how it works.
