Posts Tagged ‘beginner’
WordPress 2.5+ Tutorial – How to Upload and Insert an Image
This beginner-level tutorial shows how to insert an image using WordPress version 2.5 or later. Inserting an image using WordPress version 2.5 or 2.6 is slightly different than inserting an image using WordPress version 2.3 or earlier. Versions 2.5 and 2.6 are essentially the same. Version 2.6 is the latest version as of July 2008.
Inserting an image that you have already uploaded to WordPress but haven’t used in a particular post or page is actually a bit confusing in version 2.5 or later. You need to be able to find the elusive “Insert into Post” button. It’s not obvious.
There are many other settings and features in the “Add media” tools in the WordPress editing interface. This tutorial covers only the most basic aspects of uploading and inserting an image.
Duration : 0:10:15
WordPress 2.5+ Tutorial – How to Wrap Text Around an Image
This beginner-level tutorial by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications teaches you to wrap text around an image using WordPress version 2.5 or later. And it shows how to insert an image and align it left, right or center.
In earlier version 2.3 and earlier of WordPress, it was necessary to use the Code (HTML) editing window to insert a bit of HTML (using cascading style sheets) to get images and text to line up right.
WordPress 2.5 and 2.6 improve text wrapping. Additional HTML code is not necessary. Just use the Add an Image dialog box to set image alignment, and text wraps nicely and aligns well with the image.
Duration : 0:7:14
WordPress Tutorial – Make a “Back to Top” Link (Advanced)
This Advanced-level WordPress Tutorial shows how to insert a “Back to Top” link in a WordPress Page or Post. The tutorial is advanced because it requires use of text editing software and FTP software to download and add HTML code to the header.php file in a WordPress theme. Once you add the HTML code to the header.php file, you can use the Code editing window in the WordPress Dashboard to insert a “Back to Top” link on any page or post. The advanced “Back to Top” link is superior to the “easy” “Back to Top” link covered in an earlier tutorial because it takes you to the top of the page much faster. A faster site provides a better user experience. -Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications
Duration : 0:9:14
WordPress Tutorial – Howto Make a “Back to Top” of Page Link
This Beginner-level WordPress Tutorial shows how to make a “Back to Top” link that you can insert at the bottom of a Page or Post – or in the middle of a long Page or Post – that takes you back to the top of the page when you click on it. This tutorial shows the easy way to create a “Back to Top” link. There is an advanced way that is covered in a separate tutorial. The advanced way takes you to the top of the page faster than the easy way because it works without reloading (refreshing) the page. But the advanced method involves adding a bit of HTML to the header.php text file in the WordPress theme, so you cannot use the advanced method on wordpress.com sites.
Duration : 0:7:51
WordPress Tutorial – Make a Static Page Your Home/Front Page
NOTE: Updated tutorial at http://bit.ly/wp-static-home-page for WordPress version 2.7. This Beginner-level WordPress Tutorial by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications shows you how to make a static WordPress Page your home page (also called “front” page). The default WordPress home page in most themes shows the chronological blog post entries with the most recent post at the top. You can create a static page using the Dashboard – Write – Page, and then tell WordPress to use that page as your home page (using Options – Reading – Front Page). This WordPress tutorial also shows you how to change the order of page navigation tabs or links.
Duration : 0:10:6
Introduction To Wordpress Tutorial 1/3 – How To Blog
Watch More Free Wordpress Videos at http://www.TheGrossLife.com Learning Wordpress doesn’t have to be hard. I am here to teach you, step-by-step, how to leverage the power of Wordpress. Want to learn how to blog? Then you have found the right video.
Duration : 0:10:0
WordPress Tutorial – How to Install WordPress on BlueHost Web Hosting
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Installing WordPress on BlueHost hosting is quick and easy. Watch this tutorial, and you can do it in under four minutes!
Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications shows you how to build your own self-hosted WordPress website or blog with BlueHost hosting.
Duration : 0:3:59
WordPress Tutorial – Make Static Page Your Home Page -Part 3
This WordPress Tutorial follows-up to the tutorials “Make a Static Page Your Home/Front Page” and “Make a Static Page Your Home Page – Part 2″. Tutorial Part 2 shows how to hide the link to a page that you use as your home page so that people aren’t confused by the fact that there are two links to the same page in your main site navigation. That technique works when you have navigation in the sidebar that shows subpages AND you actually have subpages that are part of your site. If you don’t have subpages, there is no way to hide the link to your home page because it will show up in the navigation as a subpage link. So, instead, this tutorial Part 3 shows you how to customize a sidebar using WordPress Widgets. This allows you to remove the page navigation from the sidebar. That way, you can make the home page a subpage and the link won’t show in the main navigation. Confused? Forgive me! It’s not as hard as it may sound. Check out the tutorial and you will see what I mean.
Duration : 0:9:13
WordPress Tutorial – Make “Child” Subpages and Subpage Links
This Beginner-level WordPress tutorial shows how to create a “child” subpage that has another page as its “parent”. You can make links to these subpages using the Blogroll. In some WordPress themes, links to child subpages appear underneath a link to the parent page in the website navigation links – either in the sidebar or under the main horizontal navigation links. In other WordPress themes, you cannot see any links to child pages. In either case, you can create a visible link to a child page by making a new link under one of your Blogroll categories. This tutorial also shows how to find the web address (URL) of a WordPress child page when it is not visible anywhere in the website navigation links.
Duration : 0:10:12
WordPress Tutorial – How to Make a Static Page Your Home Page & Hide Double Home Page Link
This beginner-level WordPress Tutorial by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications shows how to make a “static” WordPress page your Home page (also called a “front page”), and how to hide the second Home page link that sometimes appears in your site navigation when you make that static page a Home page.
By default, a WordPress website displays the blog page on the home / front page. For example, when you go to the Business Blogging 101 website at http://mcbuzz.wordpress.com you see blog posts with the most recent post at the top of the page and earlier posts below that.
WordPress allows you to select a different page as your home page, so that you can display more traditional content like information about yourself or your business. You can also create another page to use as your blog page, with a link to that page in your site navigation. Watch this tutorial to see how to do this.
One problem you may run into when you make a static page your home page is that the link to that page now appears in the main site navigation, so that you have two links to the same page – usually the page called “Home”. The second part of this tutorial shows how to remove one of those links from your site navigation so that visitors to your site are not confused by the duplicate link.
Duration : 0:10:49