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WordPress Video-Plugin Tutorial
WordPress Tutorial – How to Make a "Child" Page (Subpage) and How to Hide Sidebar Widget Link
This beginner-level WordPress tutorial shows 1. How to make a “child” page or subpage of another page (a “parent” page) using the WordPress 2.7 editing interface. And 2. How to hide a link in the Pages sidebar widget, in other words, how to keep a link to a page from showing in the Pages sidebar widget by putting the page ID number into the “Exclude” box in the Pages sidebar widget dialog box. Making “child” pages (subpages) is useful because you may not want all your pages to show in the main page navigation of your WordPress theme. In most themes, only “main” pages (pages that don’t have a “parent”) show up in the main page navigation. In some newer WordPress themes, child pages show up in a popup menu that appears when you roll over the main page link. And in some themes, sub-subpages show up in popup menus as well. These are sometimes called “cascading” navigation menus: sub-subpages show up in a popup menu when you roll over a subpage link. The second part of this tutorial shows how to hide (or “exclude”) a link to a page that would otherwise appear in the links of the Pages sidebar widget. This is useful for a number of reasons. One is that when you make a static page your Home page in WordPress, some themes will show the link to this static page as a second home page link in your main navigation. By making the Home page a subpage and excluding that link from the Pages sidebar navigation, you can eliminate the double Home page link.
WordPress Widget Series – Episode Two
Hey everyone! This is the second and last episode in the short series I did on the Widget System you get out of the box with WordPress 3.x. I don’t address what I covered in the first episode at all so if you missed that one, stop what you’re watching and skip back one. It’ll definitely help with fleshing out the questions you may have with this video. Hopefully after watching this, you’ll have a much better understanding of the widgets that WordPress gives you right out of the box! Take care and enjoy! Tad
WordPress Tutorials Ep. 17 – Enabling and Using Sticky Posts
Hey folks, Ever have to get some important info out to the readership/subscribers/members of your WordPress blog? Want a way for a post to stay put at the top of your blog and not having it get pushed down and then archived? Yes? Well, sticky posts may just be the answer you are looking for! In this episode, I teach you how to create these types of post and hopefully illustrate how they can be handy to you! Enjoy! Tad
WordPress Tutorials – Adding GeoLocation to Your Post
Hey Everyone! In this tutorial I touch upon adding geolocation to your posts! Running a travel blog? Maybe a site based on restaurant reviews? Wanna show where you camped last weekend? Where precisely the club was that you saw that great last week? The “Geolocation” plugin I talk about gives you the ability to insert a link/map to any address on the globe very easily. NOTE: This only pertains to self-hosted WordPress sites. WordPress.com sites have this plugin baked into the infrastructure of there site already! So write about what you experienced and then show the world where the inspiration was! Cheers! Tad
Uploading WordPress Plugins in Cpanel – Screencast Tutorial
effectiveclassywebsites.com – This short video Screencast will show you how to upload plugins (or anything for that matter) using Cpanel. In this case we want to upload and install the WP-Easy Uploader plugin. http This one plugin allows you to easily install many other plugins and themes from within the WordPress admin interface. Very cool! EffectiveClassyWebsites.com Practical Web Training – WordPress Tutorials How To Make Your Own Website “You Don’t have to know how electricity works to be able to flip the switch.”
WordPress Tutorial – WordPress 2.7 Dashboard Basic Introduction
This beginner-level WordPress tutorial shows you how to use the new WordPress version 2.7 Dashboard, also called the WordPress site administration “back-end” or editing interface. It’s a very basic introduction to new features of the Dashboard like drag and drop admin modules (boxes of content), how to open and close module windows and menu options – very cool! – how to collapse and expand sidebar menus, and how to hide or show individual modules throughout the Dashboard. For more in-depth comments and a complete list of WordPress tutorials by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications, or to contact Mark McLaren with questions or comments, please visit mcbuzz.wordpress.com
WordPress Tutorial – How to Upload & Link to a PDF, Microsoft Word doc, or other doc
This beginner-level WordPress tutorial is an update of the existing tutorial on mcbuzz.wordpress.com and YouTube called “WordPress Tutorial – How to Upload and Link to a PDF, Microsoft Word Document, Excel, PowerPoint or Other Doc Using WordPress”. That tutorial was done using an earlier version of WordPress. This tutorial uses WordPress 2.7. This tutorial shows three things 1) How to upload a PDF, Microsoft Word doc, PowerPoint, Excel or other Office-type document using WordPress 2.7. 2) How to insert a link to that document into a WordPress post or page. (Visitors to your site can click on the link to download or view the document.), and 3) that there are two things called “Media Library” in the WordPress 2.7 Dashboard, one of which has more information about the files in the Library than the other does. It’s helpful to see how you get to each of these Media Libraries because you can find the URL link for a file in only one of them, which can be confusing!
WordPress Tutorial – How to Change Install & Activate a New Theme
More free tutorials at mcbuzz.wordpress.com This WordPress Tutorial uses WordPress version 2.8.4 hosted on a third-party web host. The technique to change a theme is the same on sites hosted on WordPress.com. Third-party-hosted WordPress sites (also called “self-hosted” or “full version” or “WordPress.org version” WordPress sites) allow you to upload themes that you buy or find online, either through the WordPress Dashboard or using a search for “free wordpress themes” on Google or one of the other search engines. This tutorial shows how to delete a theme using Appearance – Manage Themes in the WordPress Dashboard. It shows how to find new free themes using Appearance – Install Themes in the WordPress Dashboard. And shows how to upload a theme from your computer. It shows how to activate a new theme once you find it or upload it. WordPress themes come in the form of a .zip file. You can buy “Premium Themes” and you can find thousands of free themes using the Dashboard or by searching for “free wordpress themes” on the Web.