
Explore a WordPress overview with plugins, customization, and gallery features to expand your blog, export posts, and create a personalized site. Tailor themes for artists, writers, and businesses.
Adjust WordPress settings to optimize content by configuring general (title tag, site address, time zone), readings (home page post limit), discussion (comment moderation), permalinks, and All in One SEO Pack.
Learn how to add and activate WordPress plugins, including Kismet for spam protection and all-in-one for search engine optimization, plus galleries, social share, reCAPTCHA, and WP Touch.
Add a new post in WordPress, write the title and body, use the editor toolbar to format text and insert media, then add tags, categories, and keywords before publishing.
Learn to add a photo or gallery in WordPress using the Next-Gen Gallery plugin, selecting from the media library, inserting into a post, and viewing a gallery with next/previous navigation.
Explore dynamic widgets and social media plugins in WordPress, configure per-page visibility, customize a Facebook like box and Twitter feed, manage galleries, and enhance posts with the Tiny nice editor.
Create a WordPress image gallery with the Next-Gen gallery plugin by uploading optimized 800x600 photos, renaming for SEO, adding descriptions and tags, and sorting before publishing.
Learn to create rotating headers in WordPress using the custom rotating header plugin. Upload evenly sized images, set transition times and fade styles, and order images to rotate automatically.
Explore how a WordPress theme blends blogging and portfolio, using the posting area for writing or imagery, and add uniform featured images with custom fields and categories.
name your posts with keywords and write rich descriptions to boost discoverability in search engines; name and optimize images with hyphens or underscores to ensure accurate indexing.
Explore the Genesys theme overview and the back country child theme, plus WordPress back end basics such as posts, pages, media, widgets, menus, plugins, and calendars for site management.
Susan Newman demonstrates how WordPress can be customized to match branding, showcasing custom layouts and backgrounds across blogs, portfolios, and projects. The lecture highlights per site customization to fit branding.
11 WordPress video screencast tutorials, created by Susan Newman, from beginner to more advanced, that will help those looking for features and understanding some of the most important SEO benefits available to explode your content and get it seen. It’s an easy content management system, and if used properly, taking advantage of widgets, plugins and settings, your new wordpress site will be SEO (search engine optimization) rich.
“If you build it RIGHT, they will come.”
The first 5 videos I created were for the beginner just starting out. These tutorials are for WordPress sites hosted on your own, not on the free WordPress site.
Tutorial One - WordPress Tutorial – Overview
Tutorial Two - Adjusting the Settings to Optimize your Content
Tutorial Three - Adding and Activating Plugins
Tutorial Four - Adding a Post, SEO Tags, Title, Description and Categories
Tutorial Five - Adding a Photo or Gallery Within a Post
The second series gets into more advanced areas, such as some of the latest dynamic plugins and widgets for social media and assorted new tools to manage posting and pages. How to create a gallery of images using different gallery plugins. Some of the newest features like rotating headers, and customizing the site just how you’d like it.
Tutorial Six – Advanced Dynamic Plugins/Widgets for your Sidebar and TinyMCE Advanced Styling
Tutorial Seven – Uploading and Creating a Gallery of Images Using a Gallery Plugin
Tutorial Eight – Custom Rotating Headers
Tutorial Nine – Both Blogging and Portfolio in One Theme
Tutorial Ten – Naming Your Pages and Images so they are SEO Ready
Bonus #Eleven Video: ***WordPress Genesis Tutorial Overview Including Portfolio Slideshows, and Menus for Multiple Navigation Areas