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Managing Comments

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 at 5:11 pm  
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09 COMMENTS 200x112 Managing CommentsComments are one of the ways interaction occurs between readers and writers of a blog. You can moderate comments, allow registration for commenting, and organize comments through the WordPress dashboard.

In this video, we’ll take a look at how to enable and moderate comments on your WordPress site, including tips and best practices to encourage interactive discussion with your visitors.

Comments are an important feature of a modern site, because they allow your readers to respond to your content and interact with you. Typically, readers provide their own thoughts or questions regarding the content of the post, but your readers may also provide links to other resources, generate discussion, or simply compliment you for a well-written post.

Comments can be controlled and regulated through the use of filters for language and content, and even queued for approval before they are visible on the web site. This is useful in dealing with comment spam.

Covered in this video:

  • How to enable Comments and Discussions.
  • Best practices and settings for allowing comments.
  • Filtering comments for language and content.
  • How to approve, edit, delete or mark a comment as spam using the Comments sub-panel.

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How to Create Links

Friday, July 22nd, 2011 at 5:15 pm  
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10 LINKS 200x112 How to Create LinksLinks between and among websites are a big part of findability on the internet and search results. Here’s how to make links on your WordPress website, on a Post or a Page, anywhere within the content of your website. You can also create links between the posts on your website to help your readers find related information.

There are two ways to easily add links to your WordPress site.

Most often, you’ll be creating links within your posts and pages, which will enable you to share related and useful content with your readers. But, you can also build a list of links that you’d like your readers to check out. This list of links can be displayed in your site’s sidebar (or elsewhere).

Use the Links > Add New sub-panel to share your favorite links with your visitors or recommend related resources, and sort your links into categories.

Covered in this video:

  • How to easily create a link within a post or page.
  • How to add new links to your sidebar using the Links > Add New sub-panel.
  • Choosing the target or destination when your visitor clicks on a link.
  • Organize your links into related link categories for easy navigation.
  • Editing or deleting multiple links at once using the Links > Edit sub-panel.

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Appearance: Header and Background

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 at 5:19 pm  
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11 HEADER BACKGROUND 200x112 Appearance: Header and BackgroundStarting to think about the look and feel of your website, a quick tour of changing some imagery in the background and header of your website, using the new twenty-eleven theme in WordPress.

From time to time, you might like to update the look and feel of your WordPress site. This video demonstrates how to change the look of your site by installing a new Theme.

From the Appearance sub-panel, you can change the entire look and feel of your site by installing and activating new themes, or by changing your existing theme. A theme is actually a bundle of files that determine the overall design of a site, including colors, graphics, layout, and fonts. There are literally thousands of WordPress themes available to choose from, running the entire gamut of both quality and price.

This video also covers how to add a custom background image or custom header graphic to your site design.

Covered in this video:

  • How to find and install new themes.
  • Updating the look of your site with one click using the Appearance sub-panel.
  • Previewing changes before you activate a new theme.
  • Editing the background and header in the default WordPress Theme, Twenty Ten.

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Adding Widgets

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 at 5:24 pm  
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12 WIDGETS 200x112 Adding WidgetsThe sidebar of your WordPress website can have a whole lot of options. Learn to configure them using Widgets in the WordPress dashboard, and you can set lots of functions like Recent Posts lists, Menus, and Tag Clouds.

In this video, we’ll learn what Widgets are, and how they can be used to easily add blocks of content to your site’s sidebar or footer.

Widgets are actually snippets of code that allow you to display blocks of customized information in your theme’s sidebar or footer. Widgets can be used to display your most recent posts and comments, archives, categories, or links in your sidebar or footer.

Covered in this video:

  • What are widgets, and how do they appear on your website?
  • How to add and edit widgets using the Appearance > Widgets sub-panel.
  • How to rearrange the order of widgets in the sidebar of your site.
  • Making the most of multiple widget areas.

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Building Custom Menus

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 at 5:28 pm  
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13 CUSTOM MENUS 200x112 Building Custom MenusThe Menu controls in the WordPress dashboard let you choose your navigation scheme and configuration with lots of options. This video shows you how to choose menu items, the order and hierarchy of the items, and how to use more than one menu at a time on different parts of your site.

You’ll learn how to use build custom navigation menus, including drop-down menu items.

In the Menus sub-panel, you can create one or more custom menus, for use in your site’s primary navigation menu, or other areas in our site. Custom menus may contain links to individual pages, categories archives, or even external URLs.

Covered in this video:

  • How to create a new custom menu.
  • Adding pages, categories and custom links to your newly-created menu.
  • How to rearrange menu items.
  • Creating nested, or drop-down menus.
  • How to build multiple custom menus, and why.

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Installing Plugins

Monday, July 18th, 2011 at 5:31 pm  
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14 PLUGINS 200x112 Installing PluginsPlugins for WordPress show how much a community can do with freely open-source material to work with. Third-party applications are a major reason why WordPress is such a useful content management system, and not just blogging software. Here’s an intro on installing and finding them.

This video demonstrates how to find, install, and configure third-party plugins to add new functions and features to your WordPress site.

Plugins allow you to add new features to your WordPress blog that don’t come standard with the default installation. There are thousands of plugins available for WordPress, and with the Plugins sub-panel, finding, installing, and managing new plugins is easy!

Covered in this video:

  • What are plugins, and what do they do?
  • How to activate and deactivate plugins using the Plugins sub-panel.
  • How to find new plugins directly from the Plugins > Add New sub-panel.
  • Using the automatic plugin installer.
  • Configuring a sample plugin.

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Adding New Users

Sunday, July 17th, 2011 at 5:36 pm  
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15 USERS 200x112 Adding New UsersThis video is about WordPress Users, and managing the different available roles, and registration options in the WordPress dashboard. Users are those who can log in to your WordPress installation, and you can give them different levels of permissions, from Authors or Editors, to additional Administrators and simple Subscribers.

The Authors & Users sub-panel enables you to set up new user accounts, as well as change user information, or delete users.

Covered in this video:

  • How to add a new user in the Users > Add New sub-panel.
  • How to edit or delete existing users.
  • How to set individual permissions for each user.
  • What roles and capabilities are available to each permission level?
  • Editing your own profile and login information.

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Useful Tools

Saturday, July 16th, 2011 at 5:38 pm  
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16 TOOLS 200x112 Useful ToolsHere’s a video that shows some tools available in WordPress to import or export content, and other useful things.

It also includes information about the Press This functions which let you quickly post an excerpt from another website, with a reference and a link also.

Covered in this video:

  • Quick publishing via the Press This bookmarklet.
  • The Category/Tag conversion tool.
  • How to import posts and comments from other blog services.
  • How to easily backup or export your WordPress content at any time.

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Settings and Configuration

Friday, July 15th, 2011 at 5:41 pm  
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17 SETTINGS1 200x112 Settings and ConfigurationThis final video in the series shows the settings and configurations you can make to customize the function and look of your blog to the greatest detail. It also includes some important settings that need to be made after installing a new WordPress website.

We’ll discuss how to configure the settings to optimize and get the most out of your WordPress site.

The Settings sub-panel contains all of the settings that determine how your site behaves, how you interact with your site, and how the rest of the world interacts with your site.

Covered in this video:

  • General – Updating your site’s title and location, who may register an account at your blog, and how dates and times are calculated and displayed.
  • Writing – Customizing the interface with which you write new posts.
  • Reading – Deciding if you want posts–or a static page–to be displayed as your site’s homepage. How many posts are displayed at one time, and how to adjust RSS syndication feed features to determine how the information from your site is sent to a reader’s web browser or other applications.
  • Discussion – Control the settings concerning incoming and outgoing comments, pingbacks and trackbacks, email notifications and the use of avatars.
  • Media – Specify the maximum dimensions in pixels to use when inserting an image into the body of a post.
  • Privacy – Choose whether you want your site to be indexed by search engines–like Google, Bing, or Yahoo!–or only to normal visitors.
  • Permalinks – Create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives.
  • Miscellaneous – File upload settings, link tracking and support for custom “hacks”.

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Install WordPress

Thursday, July 14th, 2011 at 12:32 am  
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What is WordPress anyway? Here’s a great overview of what it is, and what it can do.

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What are the differences, pros and cons of using WordPress.org versus WordPress.com? This video is a great place to get informed.

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Need some smart, quick and easy instructions for installing a WordPress.org at your own domain and server? Click over www.wp101.com for an installation tutorial video.

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