Wordpress Essentials For Beginners - 52 HD Videos

Instructor: Penny Peters

This lecture is produced in three different formats: HD Video, Mp3 and Pdf. Just scroll down if you wish to download educational material.

High.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to use and add on domain and this up domain in our control panel or Cpanel.  We’re going to use host gator for this tutorial, so what we’re going to do is scroll down until we get to our domain seCpanel.  We're going to use host gator for this tutorial, so what we're going to do is scroll down until we get to our domain section.  And here you can see we have sub domains at on domains, part domains redirects, an advance dns is the entries. 

I'm going to go ahead and click on sub domains first.  In a sub domain is a domain that has a URL for a different section of your website.  According to this, it can use your main domain name and a prefix.  So in the sub domain box, I'm going to go ahead and put in my sub domain name and it's going to be Wordpress tutorial hub two.  And here you'll see that says in lap .net.  But I can also make it any of these in the dropdown.  But I'm going to leave it as in lap .net.  And then down here it shows what our document route is. 

So if you were to go into your files, you would see that it would be public HTML,tutorial hub.  And I'm going to click on create.  And it shows me that this has now been created.  So it's at Wordpress tutorial hub 2. in lab dot net.  And that is our sub domain.  So let's go ahead and go back and if we scroll down you can see that we've got our subject mains.root domains doctorates, read erections, and actions. 

So this shows us what our sub domains are, and you can see we've got a few of them in here, and it shows us with their addresses are.  If they are be directed, meaning that if somebody types this name in will it redirect them to another web site, so it can even be your website.  If you want to manage the redirection or if you want to remove the file.  So that just means that basically if anyone types in Wordpress tutorial hub to dot in lab dot net, it's going to go ahead and take them to the sub domain off your website.  And you can link this back to your own domain if you want or any other domains.  So that's really simple. 

There's really not much more to say about than that.  So I'm going to scroll backup, and I'm going to go into my Cpanel again, and this time I'm going to take a look at my ad on domains.  Scrolling down, I'm going to click add ons, and this will allow visitors to reach one of your sub domains by typing in your sub domains URL.  That means you can put in additional domains on your new account if your host account allows it.Provider allows it.  These add on to me is a relative to your accounts home directory, and you know that the little house right Provider allows it. 

These add on to me is a relative to your accounts home directory, and you know that the little house right here means that it's your home directoryand then the document bridge.  So let's go ahead and put in our new domain name and I'm going to put in Wordpress tutorial hub 3. com.  And you must put the dot com and you'll notice that this will not turn into a green arrow until you do.  Underneath, we have our sub domains and FTP username and it comes up automatically as Wordpress tutorial hub three. 

You can change that if you want to, but I'm just going to leave it the same.  And then here are document route is home, public HTML, Wordpress tutorial hub dot com.  Underneath we can put in our password or you can use the password generator, and click on add domain.  And it shows us that this new add on domain has been created.  So let's go back and scroll down, and this shows us our ad on domains.  Again, this is our domain name, the domain name with a document route, the username that was chosen, whether it was retracted, and if you want to remove it or manage the redirection.  Meaning that if someone comes and types in this add on domain name, is it going to be a redirect it to another site or to your main page.  So that's how we add a sub domain and can add on domain.  I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial.  Thanks for watching, and I will see you at the next one.

Instructor: Penny Peters

This lecture is produced in three different formats: HD Video, Mp3 and Pdf. Just scroll down if you wish to download educational material.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to install Wordpress automatically on those web servers that don’t offer Fantastico Deluxe. For this one, we’re looking at Bluehost, and we’re going to take a look for the Wordpress button that is featured on its Cpanel or control panel. And we’re going to scroll down until we find Site Builder. 

Now I’m going to click on Wordpress, and this is going to show us how to install Wordpress on our website, or actually for our website. It also gives us external links for the official site for Wordpress, documentation, support forms, how you can donate to Wordpress, read reviews about Wordpress, or go to custom web design for Wordpress.  We’re going to scroll down, and it has directions to install Wordpress.

You can click on install Wordpress.  You can click on install or import below, and by doing this you accept the simple scripts Terms of Service.  And you always want to click on this box to read them before you agree to them.  And underneath there is also an article on creating simple scripts.  And here at theop it also gives versions, plugins and themes that we can add, licensing information, bugs and reported issues, and a script list.  And this script list allows us to put any of these into our Wordpress page.  But I’m going to go back to my Cpanel. 

Once again, we’re going to have to click into my site builder for Wordpress, and I’m going to click on install a brand new version because I don’t have an existing installation already that can be installed.  And I’m going to click install because I have a brand new version rather than import, which is for an existing installation. Clicking install, it shows that it’s loading, and it’s going to ask which version I’d like to install. If you’re not sure, just pick the latest one, especially if it shows that it’s stable.  Next it is going to ask where we would like the Wordpress installed. 

This is our domain name, and I’m going to make a sub directory called tutorial folder.  And I’m going to make a sub directory called tutorial.  Next are the advanced options.  These include administrative privileges, database configuration, and more options. Let’s go ahead and click to display, and this will allow us to give your site a new name, to generate a random administrator username and password if you don’t want to use your own, or you can just put your username and password in here, and you can just automatically create a database. 

And this is going to create a new database for this Wordpress.  Underneath that shows us plugins and themes, including the commerce, small business themes, and Wiziapp, which allows your site to be turned into a native Iphone app.  Finally at the bottom is legal information. I actually want to click these off right now because I don’t want any of those plugins, and I’m going to click I’ve read the terms and conditions once I’ve read the terms and conditions, and click complete.

And our installation is now complete.  The shows us our site URL, our log-in URL; you can select it, then copy, and paste this into your favorites or click on bookmark this link.  The username is admin and right now this is my password because I didn’t reset the password.  So you will probably want to copy and paste that somewhere as well.  Once that is done, you’ll want to go to My Installs, and this shows that you have already installed Wordpress.  And this allows you to go to the admin login, extend, Uninstall the Wordpress, Advanced, and Find Support. Underneath you always have the script lists, and you can add these as well to your web hosting.

So if you want to go ahead and make changes to your Wordpress account, they’re going to automatically update to your Bluehost webserver. If you have any questions, click on support, and you can either call their 188 number, which is toll free, or start right over here with a simple scripts.  So I hope that this helped you out and it’s shown you that you can actually use Bluehost and Wordpress easily with a few clicks of a button. So thanks for watching and I’ll see you at the next tutorial. 

Instructor: Penny Peters

This lecture is produced in three different formats: HD Video, Mp3 and Pdf. Just scroll down if you wish to download educational material.

For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to install a Wordpress automatically with Fantastico De Luxe.  Now if your web host offers Fantastico, this is a fantastic way to just do a quick installation of any Wordpress site.  So I’m on Hostgator right now, and I’m in my control panel, or Cpanel.  And to find the Fantastico De Luxe icon, I’m going to scroll down until I find the software and services bar. 

Once I get here, Fantastico De Luxe is one of the Software Services is offered.  I’m going to double click it, and it’s going to allow us to install automatically all the scripts are over here on the left hand side.  You’ll see that it has blog capabilities, such as Nucleus and Wordpress, and we’re going to do Wordpress. It also has content management, customer relationships, discussion boards, etc.  Also, keep in mind that if you remove any of these scripts from your Fantastico, it’s going to free up space on your databases. 

So let’s go ahead and click on Wordpress to see which details the can give us.  Now according to this, Wordpress is a blogging software with a focus on ease of use, elegance, performance, and standards with a huge selection of themes and plugins.  So let’s go ahead and click on it, and this gives us a home page, which is http://Wordpress.org.  It gives us a link to the Wordpress support form, it allows us to do a new installation, and it shows us current installations that are already in our site. 

So let’s go ahead and do a new installation, and it’s going to ask what domain I’d like to install it on.  And if you use the drop down, it will show you the subdomains that we have for our site.  So I’m going to go and leave it on imlab.net, and I’m going to install it in a directory.  And I’m just going to name this directory Wordpress.  This will be in a subdirectory called Wordpress that is on the domain imlab.net.  If you don’t go ahead and type in the name and directory, it will put the files directly into your root directory. 

Keep in mind, as it says here, the directory should not already exists because you’re currently creating it; I’e typed in the name into the box for install directory.  Underneath that will give us admin access data, and it will ask for your username, and let’s go ahead and put in a name and then a password. And then it’s going to ask for a base configuration.  So the admin nickname is going to be… and then it is going to ask for the admin e-mail address, your site name, and the description. 

And I’m going to click “install Wordpress”.  And now it tells us the SQL database and the SQL user imlab_WRDP is going to be created and used for the installation.  It also tells us that we’ve chosen to install a domain imlab, in a subdirectory called Wordpress in the access URL will be http://imlab.netWordpress.  And to continue, we’re going to go ahead and click “finish installation”.

On the next screen, it’s going to tell you that while Hostgator does offer Fantastico, it’s not going to actually give you support for the Wordpress, but it will allow you to auto-install and auto-configure.  And it’s going to tell you that you need a username and a password to enter into the admin area, and it gives you the username and password.  Then it gives you the full URL to your admin area.  So if you like, you can hit control or command V, if you’ve got PC or Mac, left click, and it will open it up in a new tab.

Once you get here, you can bookmark this so it will automatically go back to your administration page when you go in and make any changes to your Wordpress page.  You can go back into the Wordpress overview, or you can choose to e-mail the details of this installation.  So I’m going to put in the e-mail address I’d like it to go to, and I’m going to click on “send e-mail”.  It sent the installation details, and I’m going to go back into my Wordpress overview.  Now I can login to Wordpress, I can make my site active, and it will automatically save all my changes into my Wordpress site.  So I hope this is helped you out, and made this a little easier for you, giving you a better understanding of Fantastico De Luxe. We’ll see you at the next tutorial; thanks for listening.

Instructor: Penny Peters

This lecture is produced in three different formats: HD Video, Mp3 and Pdf. Just scroll down if you wish to download educational material.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to download and install Wordpress on your web server site, even if you don’t have an easy one button click.  So let’s go ahead to Wordpress.org, and we’re going to find a page that says download Wordpress 3.4.  At the time of this recording, 3.4 is the latest version used, so I’m going to go ahead to click to download, and I’m going to tell it that I want the zip file, and click download Wordpress 3.4. 

I’m going to save the file, and then I’m going to double click and open the folder where the file is saved.  And it’s in my download folder.  I’m going to minimize that screen, and then I’m going to go into my Bluehost Cpanel.  I’m going to scroll down to my file manager and double click, and I’m going to put this into the web root.  Once I’m in the web root folder, I’m going to click on new folder and I’m going to create a new folder called manually.  Because this is where I manually put in the Wordpress. 

And click on create folder.  And now it pops up in my Cpanel, and this is in my root file.  Next, I’m going to reopen the folder where I have saved my Wordpress.  I’m going to right click, and I’m going to tell it to go into Winzip, and I’m going to extract it into a folder that has my name, downloads, in Wordpress.  I like to arrange my files by date modified when I’m doing a job like this.  Once I’ve got it here, I’m going to right click again and I’m going to click on add to Wordpress.zip.  And it’s going to add all of those files to a new folder called Wordpress. 

And a folder should pop up showing my original size and my compressed size, and I’m going to click OK and then get out of these folders.  So once I’ve got that file saved into a sub folder, I’m going to click on my manually folder, I’m going to click upload, and I’m going to find that folder that I just made.  So I’m going to click on Wordpress and I’m going to tell it open.  And it’s going to go ahead and add that whole series of files that are in that folder on to my web server into my manually folder.  So while that is going, and it’s going to take a while, let’s go back into my Bluehost Cpanel and now we’re going to build a database.

The database is going to be under my SQL databases, and we just have to find out where my SQL database is, I’m going to double click on that, and I’m going to put the name of the new database and /manually.  And click on create database.  That database has been made, so I’m going to click on go back, and I’m going to go across this database that I made, right click, and I’m going to open up my Notepad++, and I’m just going to go ahead and open up a new folder and paste that in as the database name.  And I’m going to type in there that that’s the database name. 

Next, I’m going to add a new user.  Then it’s going to ask you to create a username, and I’m just going to make this imlab2.  Now you can only use up to seven letters or numbers, so you want to make it a good one.  Then we’re going to click on password generator.  Once it comes up with a password, we’re going to copy it, and we’re going to paste that into our Notepad++ file, just so we know we’ve got it someplace that it’s definitely correct.  And then I’m going to tell it that I’ve copied the password in a safe place, and to use the password.  And I’m going to tell it to create the username.  So it’s now added this user and this password. 

And I’m going to click on go back.  Now I’m going to scroll down again and I’m going to add this user to a database, so the user is the imlab2, and I’m going to add this to the manually database that I just created that is now having all my files downloaded into it, and click add.  The next page is going to ask for which privileges you want to give this user.  Since its user’s me, I’m going to click on all privileges, but you can click any or all of these if you want to.  And click make changes.  And click on go back.  Now if you scroll down to our databases, you’ll see that in my manually folder, the user imlab2 is a user.  If you want to get rid of any of these user names, you can just click on X, or if you want to get rid of the whole database, click on delete database.  All right, so now that we’ve done that, let’s go back out to our Cpanel.  I’m going to go and check on my third tab, which shows how much progress has been made on my uploading this file. 

As you can see, I’m now complete, so I’m going to X out of the third, go back into my second, and it looks empty.  But if you click on reload, it will show you that all the files are in there.  So now I’m going to click on Wordpress to file, and I’m going to tell it to extract, which is right up here on the right, and this is where I’d like to extract it to, so I’m going to click on extract files.  This will show me all the files that came out, and I’m going to click close and then again I’m going to click reload.  And there they all are, everything from my admin content pages all the way down. 

So now my Wordpress pages uploaded to my web server.  So now, to go head and install it, I’m going to make a new folder, and I’m going to take into here, Wordpresstutorialhub.commanually because that’s the name of the folder, and click enter.  Once you type in the name of your website, back slash, and the name of a new folder you added, a database, you’ll come to a new screen it will say there doesn’t seem to be a WP-config.php file, and it’s going to put up a button for you to create a configuration file, and we’re going to do that now.  This takes you the Wordpress page.  And it’s going to ask you for some information about the database name, username, host, and table prefix. Let’s go in and do that now. So we’re going to go in and it’s going to ask us for the database name.

And we’re going to change the Database name. The database name is going to be from our Notepad file that we copied and pasted earlier. Then, our username, which is going to be the beginning, underscore, and then our username; our password, which we’ve also saved in Notepad, and we’re going to leave the host and table prefix the same. And click submit. And it takes us to a success screen. And we’re going to click on run the install. Now it’s going to ask my site title. My site title for this will be Wordpresstutorialhub. The username we’re going to use is admin right now, and now it wants us to put in a password.

Then it’s going to ask for an email, and once you click on the install button on the bottom of the screen, it’s going to go ahead and take you through the install process. And when you go to look at your website, you’ll see that it will take you to the Wordpress admin. So mine is wordpresstutorialhub.com/manually/wp-admin and it will ask me to go ahead sign in with my username admin and my password that I put in earlier. So that will allow me to get in and start building my Wordpress site. So I hope that this was useful to you, and I know you’re going to have a lot of fun building your site. So I’ll see you at the next tutorial.

For this tutorial, we’re going to go ahead and look at how to upgrade your Wordpress.  This is pretty easy.  There are bunch of steps to it, but once you see how we do it, it will make sense.  The first thing we’re going to do is back up our database that has my site in it.  The Bluehost has site backup and restore, but if your hosting company does not have that, you may need to go down to the databases section and look for that MySQL database wizard. 

I’m going to use the site backup and restore.  Instead of just restoring the database, I want to go ahead and do a full Cpanel backup, and that’s going to be for everything.  My databases, my pictures, everything.  That way if I mess something up, I can go in and reinstall my entire site, and we won’t really have lost anything but time.  So do a full panel backup, and daily system backup, I’m going to click just as if archived, and I’m going to click on start archiving.  Then it is going to give me an option to click to download, and I’m going to download the archive file to my computer. 

That way if something goes wrong, I can go back in and fix it.  I’m going to go back out to my Cpanel, and I’m going to go into the plug-ins on my website.  I’m going to deactivate each plug-in before I’d take these files off. The quickest way is to click the button on the top to click them all, go to bulk actions, and then click on deactivate it.  Once they’re deactivated, I’m going to go back into the Cpanel and then go back in here, and we’re going to take a look at what we need to leave in which files to the left.  So I’m going to go into file manager, into my web root because that’s where my file is from my Wordpress site, and click on go.

And my manually folder, which is where I’m keeping my Wordpress site, I’m going to choose all of the files, just the files, not the folders, by clicking on the top file which happens to be index, and clicking on shift and click on index scroll to the bottom of the list, and still holding shift, click the last one.  If you have a file that is titled WP-config.PHP, you’ll want to make sure that you click control or command and then click off on that file because you don’t want to delete that one. 

If you don’t have it but you should, we’re going to go up and click delete to get rid of those files.  And click delete.  So now we’re left with the folders.  Let’s go ahead and take a look at what we need to leave in the folders.  The first one we’re going to go into his WP content.  This file we’re not going to delete.  However, if you have a cache file in here, you’re going to delete that.  We’re also going to go ahead and take a look in the plug-ins folder.  If you have a file in there that says widgets, you will get rid of that; you’ll see we also have an akismet folder, which is a plug-in file, and I’m going to delete that as well.  And I’m going to go back out into my manually folder.

If you have a WP–images folder, you want to make sure that you leave that on your server.  You’re also going to want to search for a WP– includes/language is folder.  I don’t have any languages for my WP-includes but if you’re using a language file, you’re going to leave that there, too.  Don’t delete it.  Next, if you’ve added any custom rules to your .htaccess file don’t delete it.  And, leave you robots.txt file if you have any of those.  Since I don’t have any of the robots files, I’m just going to go ahead and save all my files and delete them.

Next we’re going to go to Wordpress.org, and I’m going to go to to Wordpress 3.4, which is going to be used as our upgrade.  We’re going to save the file to our computer, and here are my extraction results, and I’m going to click close.  And reload.  Open up my Wordpress file, shift, and click all the files; open up my public HTML folder so I can see my manually folder, and click on my bottom file and write it into manually to get into the right place.  And there it is, all of my files.  Now I’m going to go ahead and log into my Wordpress dashboard.  Once you log into the Wordpress site, you can figure out if you have any upgrades that are available by going up into your address bar and after the WP-admin/, type in upgrade.php.  And you’ll come to a string that will tell you if a database is up to date.  And click continue. 

Once on there, we’re going to go into our dashboard, into our settings, and check our Permalinks.  Make sure that all your Permalinks are correct.  Then, you’re going to go back into your plug-ins and you’re going to reactivate your plug-ins.  So that is how we go ahead and upgrade our Wordpress page.  So thanks for watching I hope this helped you out, and I will see you at the next tutorial.

Instructor: Penny Peters

This lecture is produced in three different formats: HD Video, Mp3 and Pdf. Just scroll down if you wish to download educational material.

High.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to work with tags for our posts., I'm going to go into my dashboard my Wordpress page and I'm going to click on posts.  And as you can see right here, we have tags that are in our posts, meaning that if someone is looking up any of these tags, kind of using it as a key word in google or the other search engines to find something, then our post is going to come up with these tags are keywords. 

So as you can see, I've got some that have no tags at all and I've got the one up here that does have some tags in aI’m going to go into my dashboard my Wordpress page and I’m going to click on posts.  And as you can see right here, we have Some that have no tags at all, and we have the one appear that does have tags in it. 

So I’m going to go ahead and click on add Some that have no tags at all, and we have the one appear that does have tags in it.  So I'm going to go ahead and click on add new, and we're going to add a post.  I am just going to put something quick in here, and we're going to scroll down.  You see we have formats, then categories, and tags.  And here's going to ask us to put in the tags that we would like to use for this post.

  So I'm going to put in tags, Wordpress, find, search engine, or you can choose from the most used tags.  And these are the taxi your views most in your Wordpress posts.  So we have first, pictures, post, tutorials, and what Wordpress.  So we can go head and click on any of these.  And it will go head and add that automatically.  And I'm going to click on add.  And now, we've got all are tags come up underneath, and if you want to delete any of them, just click on the gray axe next to the word.  I'm going to go up and I'm going to click on publish.

Once it updates, we're going to go back out into our posts, and here are our tags.  Now let's take a look up here under posts and go into tags.  This will allow you to add a new tack that you can then choose later on when you're posting.  And you can put in a slug, which is a URL friendly version of the name.  It has lower case letters, numbers, and hyphens.  You can put in a description, and not all themes are going to show your description that some of them well.  You can also choose if you want to edit, quick get it, or delete any of the tags you already have. 

And as usual like so many things in Wordpress, you can also click on a few separate choices and then do a bulk action such as delete.  You can also do a search on your tax.  So let's go ahead and do a search on Wordpress, which we know is in two separate posts.  I'm going to click on search tags, and there it is.  And we can actually go into the two posts that have Wordpress as part of the tags.

So let's say that you have a certain topic that you've posted on, and you want to pull up all of the posts that you have regarding that particular topic.  Simply put it into the search box, click search, and they will all come up here for you.  So that's an easy way to go in and classify what your posts are about basically.  So I hope that this tutorial has helped you out and thanks for listening.  All see you at the next one.

Instructor: Penny Peters

This lecture is produced in three different formats: HD Video, Mp3 and Pdf. Just scroll down if you wish to download educational material.

Welcome back for another Wordpress tutorial.  This time, we’re going to take a look at media.  So over on the left hand side under the dashboard toolbar, we’re going to click on media.  And it’s going to give us a media library.  This shows us all the images if we want, how many images we have, or any unattached images that are actually not attached to any of your posts.  So go head and click on add new. 

To add new, you can either drag and drop your files your computer into this box, or you can select your files.  So let’s say that I want to add a picture.  I’m going to go to my folder, double click, and it’s going to show me that it’s crunching it and bringing it up.  So these are some of the demonstration portrait touch-ups that I’ve added, and I’m going to do some alternate text. 

These were Photoshop work.  I’m going to add a caption, and a description, and this is also going to show me the file URL of that picture, and I’m going to click on save all changes.  Now you can see that I can edit it, delete it permanently, or view it, and this shows how it will come up on my page.  It has under here my caption, and it has my description right here.  Now going back, it shows that the admin was the author of it, and I can attach it to a post if I like, and I can attach it to any of my pages by putting in a word for the search from your posts and clicking search and then click close.

Or if you want to click select, you can select.  Next I can show all the dates, so I can show the oldest or the newest and vice versa, and click filter.  I can also search for media.  So let’s say I knew I was looking for my flower person picture, I can type in flower, I can search media, and it shows the one picture that has that.  You can also go in and do bulk actions, or you can click next to each picture and you can click delete permanently.  Now remember though, once you delete it, it’s gone.

Now let’s say I want to go into my post and click on the first post that I’ve done, and once I’m here, I want to add the second 2^nd picture.  So I’m going to go in, and just like we did in the first one, I’m going to click on upload or insert, and I’m going to go to my media library, which is where my two pictures are, and I’m going to click on the one I want to put, click show.  I’m going to make sure all the information is correct including my dimensions.  I’m going to choose whether I want to non-align it, left align it, center align it, right align it, and how big I want the picture to be.

Keep in mind that if you put this in is a large picture, you can click on insert into post, but then you can click on the picture itself, and you can resize it by clicking and dragging.  And again, if you want to get rid of the picture, just run your mouse over it, click, and click on the delete button.  So that shows you some media settings.  You can also add PDF files in here, which people can click on here on PDF and open it up full screen if they wish.  You can even do, say, music.  But for the moment, I’m just going to do the pictures.  So I hope that gives you a good idea of how easy it is to use the media library in Wordpress.  So go ahead, add some images, spice up your Wordpress page, and I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks and see you next time.

Instructor: Penny Peters

This lecture is produced in three different formats: HD Video, Mp3 and Pdf. Just scroll down if you wish to download educational material.

Hi.  Welcome to our next Wordpress Tutorial.  For this one, we’re going to take a look at links.  Links, of course, are ways for you to easily put a reference in one of your posts to basically any page that you want.  People can use those to go get more information about your topic, or to find something that you find interesting or that you think they may be interested in,  too.  You always know that it’s a link when it’s in blue with an underline.

  So right now, the links that we’ve got in here are already supplied by Wordpress.org.  If you click on any of these, you’ll see that it comes back with the name of the blog, the web address, or where it will take you; and you click on that link, the descriptions, and that will pop up in a little bubble over the link if someone lets their mouse hover over the link, or below the link.  It also has categories, and as we saw on the categories and tags with the posts, you can put links under different categories, say if you wanted to put Wordpress, and these would be say, all of your links that go to different Wordpress articles and pages on the Internet. 

And these can be your pages or they can be someone else’s.  And it also has the most used.  You can add new categories, just like before, and you can choose whether you want your target to come up in a blank window or or tab, in a top window or tab, which will pop up a new page over top of the page they’re on, or the same window or tab.  Next, is the link relationship.  And you can put in here with the relationship is, if it’s another web address of yours, whether the person is a contact, an acquaintance, a friend, or if you don’t know that all.  If you have actually met them, whether they’re a coworker or colleague from work, geographically where they are, whether they are a family member, or whether they’re a romantic interest. 

Some people may think that’s a little too much information, but it’s interesting to be able to put that in there.  Next we have the advanced section.  If you want to put an image address in, you can put that in right here, you can put in your RSS in here, which is a live feed that every time it’s updated it will feed into that article any notes that you want to leave, and if you want to put your rating for the page or link that you’re headed to.  So you can either use any of the links that are here or you can add a new link yourself.  You can click on visit link and it will take you to the link that you’ve put in there, you can keep the link private so no one can see it but you, and once you have everything fixed the way you want it, you can click on update link.

Again, under links you can click on add new or link categories, and this will bring up a list of different categories that you have that you can use for your links.  And you can add a new link category over here as well.  So let’s look at our post.  The first post that I did, I actually put a link in there.  So let’s look in there and see what it’s composed of. First of all, you can see that it’s a link because when I put my mouse over it, it is in blue and the link pops up underneath. Now let’s look at the HTML.  In the HTML, you can see that I’ve put in a link with the a ref that will take me to where I need to go for this.  I can click on that link and then click the link button on top, and it will give me the URL, the title if I want it show up, or it can link to existing content where I would put in the word that I wanted to search, and it would come up with pages that have that word. 

And I can click on update or cancel.  If I want to unlink this word in my blog, I would just click on the broken link or unlink button.  Once I were to preview this, I can’t pull it up and I can click on the Wordpress button, and it would take me right to my link. So that’s why it can be a really good idea to use links in your blobs.  It’s the best way to bring your blog up higher on Google or Yahoo, is to form a successful back linking network, so if you link to some of your friends’ blogs, or some company blobs, andI can get them to link back to you, you will start getting higher rankings in the search engines.  So I hope you see how easy it is to use the links that are in Wordpress, and I hope you use them to your advantage.  So thanks for listening and we’ll see you next time.

Instructor: Penny Peters

This lecture is produced in three different formats: HD Video, Mp3 and Pdf. Just scroll down if you wish to download educational material.

For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look it yet another Wordpress site feature.  For this, we’re going to look at pages.  A page isn’t the same as a post, because it is a website page that is actually up permanently, while the post page will actually update every time you put in a new post.  So this is a part of your website that you can have up, let’s say if you have certain interests that you want to show in addition to your daily posts.  Let’s say that your interest is in Wordpress tutorials. 

So let’s go ahead and take a look at the sample page.  This will show up in your actual site navigation, and this is going to come off as a link on your page.  So let’s go ahead and take a look at the preview of this.  See it comes up in the top here as a sample page in it, and again, it allows people to leave a reply if you want them to.  So let’s say for this one, let’s start a whole new page.  We’re going to do that by clicking add new, and we’re just going to put it as this is the first page.  I’m just going to type a little bit of content in here.  All right. 

So now we’ve got a little bit of content, and just like with the post page, we can save the draft, we can preview it, we can publish it immediately.  And right underneath there there’s going to be a little bit different of the setup.  This will be page attributes, and this will be if there is a parent, and a parent means that this is a hierarchy of your pages.  So let’s say we want to make this a child of the sample page.  Underneath it, it has a default template, a showcase template, and the sidebar template. 

Once you upload the template you’re going to be using for your Wordpress page, these will be different for your pages.  But let’s see what happens when I click on showcase template.  And the order that I want this to show up in my parent page is the first one.  So let’s go up and do a preview, and see what happens.  He this is a showcase page.  As you can see, it’s different from before.  Now back in the page, I’m going to go ahead and click under publish.  And let’s see what that’s going to look like.

I’m going to go into the name of my database for this, I’m going to scroll down, ands now when I run my mouse over sample page, you’ll see that this is the first page that shows up, which means this is a child of this in the drop down menu.  So let’s go ahead and click it, and there it is.  So that is how you can arrange your pages according to which are the parents and which are the children.  And this makes it a lot easier for people to navigate your site, depending on what it is they’re looking for.  You can also set a featured image for this part as well. 

Once you put out to the pages, you’ll see that we have the sample page and then underneath it, with a dash, is the first page.  This shows you that this is a child of the page above it for the sample page.  You can do an edit, quick edit it, trash it, or view it, just from this page.  You can also click these all to do the same bulk edit as we did before.  You can filter it according to what day it was published, and you can do a search.  So this is an easy way to adjust your web site so people can easily find your content, depending on what subject they are looking for.  So I hope this is helped you out and I will see you at the next tutorial.  Thanks for listening.

Instructor: Penny Peters

This lecture is produced in three different formats: HD Video, Mp3 and Pdf. Just scroll down if you wish to download educational material.

The next feature we’re going to look at on Wordpress are the comments.  Comments are what people are saying about or on your page, so let’s go ahead and see what it consists of.  Right now, there are no comments that if been found, but if there were, we could do pending comments, the ones we need to approve before they are published, approved, spam, or trash.  And you can mark each of those comments as one of these and that will allow you to get rid of the ones that you don’t want on there. 

As I’ve said before, there are a lot of spammers who go to Wordpress pages because a lot of people don’t make sure that they’re taking their spam off of their comments.  That can really drive you down lower in the rankings for Google.  However, you will want to have comments on your page usually, because the more you interact with people, the more they will come back and visit your site.  The more hits you get, the higher you get on the search engine rankings. 

Let’s go into the dashboard and we’re going to set our settings.  I’m going to go into “discussions”, and this is going to allow you to change your comment settings for each post.  You have your default articles settings up here, including attempt to notify blocks in the article, allow link notification from other blogs, which allows people to ping you back and track-backs. Pus this helps you to build your back linking network, which will bring you up higher in the rankings, and it will allow you to people to post comments on the articles.

On your other comments settings, the comment author must fill out their name and e-mail, which is very useful because bots that go and search different Wordpress pages are not able to fill those out.  If they can fill it out, they can’t get posted.  Users must be logged in and registered to comment, automatically close comments of an article is older than 14 days, and allow nested comments five levels deep, meaning someone can make a comment, and someone can respond directly to them and so on down to five levels deep.  You can break comments into pages, with top level comments on the first page or the last page, you can display comments with the older comments on the top of each page or the newer. 

You can make it so you are e-mailed whenever someone posts a comment or if a comment is being held for moderation, if an administrator must always approve the comment, or whether the comment author must have a previously approved comment to post. And that you want to hold the comment in a queue if there are two or more links, because this is often a very big problem with spam.

They’ll have more than one link in the content, which could mean they’re trying to grab all your people to take them somewhere else to either get spyware on their computer or to buy something, or something like that. You can also set your comment moderation statements, so if there are any words in a comment, name, or URL, you can make sure they are weeded out before they even hit your page, and you’ll want to put that in here.  And a lot of time people will use that for sales, pornography, things like that.

Underneath you can have a comment that is blacklisted, so any comment that has keywords that you choose will automatically be marked as spam.  Underneath that, you can choose avatars.  Whether you want to show avatars or not, what the maximum rating is; and you will want to make sure that you have this very accurate because you want to make sure that children are not seeing any kind of content that is questionable.  And whether you want them to have their own custom avatar or a generated one will show up based on their e-mail address.

And save changes.  Now, if you do like I do, I make sure that any time someone posts, the comment has to be approved.  Once I do that, again, I go into the comments section, and I go down to all my comments and decide whether they can be published are not.  Keeping a close eye on the comments that are published on your page will help you to be ranked higher to make sure that no one is putting information on there that you feel is inappropriate, or that you don’t feel you want your viewers to have.  So I hope you enjoyed this little section on comments.  Remember, be very careful with what you allow to be published, because it is all associated with your blog.  So thanks for listening, and I’ll talk to you soon.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at the tools, and importing and exporting them on Wordpress.  Under the dashboard, we’re going to go down and click on tools.  This will bring up any tools we already have over here to the right.  The first is Press This, which is an application your browser runs that will allow you to grab little pieces of the Internet, including little pieces of text, videos, from any web page.  It also allows you to edit it before you save or publish it in a post on your site.

  It also has a category and tags converter, so say if you have a bunch of categories and you want to convert them to tags, this can do it for you and vice versa.  Or the tags back to categories.  So let’s take a look at other ones we can get.  First, I’m going to click on import.  And other tools that it has are a blogger tool, and this is to import posts, comments, and users; blog rule, to bring in a blog rule importer, to import links in OPML format; categories and tags converter, which we already have, a Livejournal importer, so that any posts be made from Livejournal using your API can bring posts straight to your Wordpress, a movable type in Typepad, which is when you can install a movable type importer so posting comments can be imported straight from your Typepad; an RSS, which allows you to put in your RSSfeed in your blog, Tumblr, which brings in a Tumblr import so posts immediately from Tumblr can be imported although your major API for that one as well, and a Wordpress importer for posts, pages, comments, etc.

So let’s go ahead and try the blogger importer.  And we’re going to click on install now.  It’s going to pull the plug-in in and I’m going to click on activate plug-in and run importer.  As it says, you have to have a Google account and you have to be updated to be hosted on Blogspot or a custom domain that isn’t an FTP.  So you have to let Blogger know that your Wordpress is allowed to access your account.  So after you provide authorization, it’s going to send you back here.  So I’m going to click on authorize and you’re going to click on grant access. 

And from there, if you’ve got a blog, it will actually import it back in and it will restart.  Now as it says, this information keeps you from having to start your own blog over again. If you attempt to reimport from it, though, duplicate blogs and comments are going to be skipped.  So you can can clear account information, and then we’re going to go into plugins, and now under my plugins you can see that we’ve got a Blogger importer.  So let’s go back into tools, and this time we’re going to look at export. 

And now I’ll click on export, it’s going to allow us to create an xml file that we can put into our computer.  This is going to create all of our posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags.  That means that you can back up the site on your computer, so that if you have to restart your website again, if there’s a mistake made that completely deletes your site or messes up, then you can go ahead and use this.  And I’m going to click on all content and I’m going to click on xml file.  And then it’s going to ask if I want to open it with my web design software or if I want to save it.  I’m going to click save and it’s going to put it into my downloads. So then, if I have to import again, I can do that and it will be just the same as it is now.  So that’s how you use the tools in Wordpress. It’s just one more thing that makes Wordpress even better and easier for building up your website.  So thanks for listening and I’ll see you next time.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at the General settings in Wordpress.  And to get to those, we’re going to be on the dashboard page, and we’re going to go down to settings, and this is just going to have the General settings for our site.  So this will be things like the Wordpresstutorialhub, which is my site title, also a tag line, and as it says, we just want to use a few words but for what your site is about.  Not something to long, but something that gives an accurate idea. 

The Wordpress URL, the site address URL.  Now if you’re going to be using an address for this site page that is different from the directory that you installed your Wordpress in, you’re going to want to go in and put the address that is correct in the site address.  Next, is the e-mail address that you’re using.  The membership, and you can choose whether anyone can register or not, their new user default file, which will decide if they can be a subscriber, administrator, editor, or contributor, and keep in mind this is very important so if you just want someone to be able to come to your site and respond, you just want to have them as a subscriber. 

Your time zone, the date format that you want to appear on your site, and you can see we’ve got an American format, as well as the European format, or you can do a custom format.  The time formats that you would like to show, and what day you would like your week to start on.  Once you get all that information, you can just go ahead and click on save changes.  Let’s take a look at some of the other settings in here.  The first one we are going to look at is the writing settings.  The writing setting has different standards for what will actually be posted.

For instance, the size of your post boxes 20 lines.  You can either change this so it smaller or larger.  You can also choose whether to convert the emoticons text to graphics on the display and you can choose whether you want Wordpress to correctly and validly nest HTML automatically.  The default post category can be on categorized, or if you know, for instance, that everything you write is going to be about Wordpress, you can go ahead and click Wordpress. 

Or, if it’s going to be the pictures, you can click on pictures.  This is going to be your default, but you can always go in and change them later.  The default link category you can choose as blog role, and then there is the Press This, which will allow you to go and grab little pieces off the Internet to put on your own site.  If you want to post your Wordpress by e-mail, you can set up a secret e-mail account using POP3 access.  Any e-mail that’s received at that address will be posted, so you want to keep the addresses hidden, so you don’t want spammers, say, sending something from this e-mail address and then having it automatically pop up. 

These are three random strings you can use that are recommended.  It asks for your mail server, port that you use, your login name, your password, and then if you want to set a default mail category.  Next, we have remote publishing, and this is to post on Wordpress from a desktop blogging client or a remote site that uses the Atom Publishing Protocol, or the XMLR-PC publishing interfaces.  If so, you can check either of these boxes that apply.  At the bottom, when you publish a new post, Wordpress is going to notify updating services.  If you want to learn more about it, you can click right here on updating services and you can separate multiple service URLs by just clicking enter after you add each one.

And at the bottom, you’re going to click on save changes.  So let’s take a look at reading.  This is where you choose whether your front page is going to display the latest thing that you wrote or a static page.  If you choose a static page, it’s going to allow you to choose which static page they are going to see and a post page.  You can choose how many blog pages are going to be showing, so you can choose 10 posts or you can go higher or lower.  And show the syndication feeds, which shows the most recent, which can be 10 items or higher or lower.  If you want to show the full text of each article in your feed, you can show that or just a quick summary. 

And then you’ll want to leave that UTF-8 pretty much the same, unless there are other encodings you’re sure you can use successfully.  And again, hit save changes.  Now let’s look at the discussion.  The discussion settings are basically how you decide how people can interact with your blog.  This is going to be where you attempt to notify any blogs that are linked to you or from your article if you’re going to allow link notifications, such as pingbacks and trackbacks from other blogs, whether you’re going to allow people to post comments on new articles.

Also, comment settings such as whether the author of the comment has to fill out a name and e-mail address, and that’s a good idea if you want to keep spammers off of your site.  You can also choose whether they have to be registered or logged in to comment, which I’m going to choose, and you can automatically close comments on articles that are older than 14 days.  You can enable nested comments up to five levels deep, meaning people can make a response, people can respond directly to them, and so on down to five levels deep.

You can break comments into pages, with how many top level comments you want on a page and if you want those first for last by default.  Next, the comment should be displayed with the older comments within your comments on the page.  You can be emailed if someone posts for a comment or if a comment is being held for you to moderate it before it’s posted.  You can also choose what happens before the comments appear.  If an administrator must always approve the comment, you can click here, and if the comment author must have a previously approved comment to post, you can click there.  If the comment holds two or more links, which is very common in spam, you can also make that decision here.  You can match words and the contents that will have to be in the moderation queue, and then down here you can mark them automatically as spam.

  At the bottom, you can choose whether to display avatars or not, what the worst rating could for your site and its contents, and if they get a default avatar that will automatically generate the four on the bottom, or it will just have these three on the top.  And click save changes.  Next is media.  This decides how large your images are going to be when you bring them in.  It shows the size of your thumbnails, it allows you to choose whether though some may also be automatically cropped, what the medium size or largest images will be, what the largest size and largest images will be, whether they can embed media content from a URL directly into the page, such as from Flicker or Youtube.  The maximum imbed size, and as you can see, if that value is blank and will automatically imbed to the maximum width of your theme. 

Whether you can store uploads in a folder, whether you are going to have the full URL paths to files, and whether you want to organize your uploads into month and year-based folders.  Once you choose all of those, click on save changes.  Next is privacy, and this one is simple.  You may want to keep the search engines from finding your site and tell it to build up to where you want to be.  If so, you’re going to want to click on “ask search engines not to index the site.”  If it’s ready to go and you’re ready for people to see it, just leave it on “allow search engines to index the site” and click on save changes.  Finally, we’ve got the Permalinks.

  The Permalinks are a custom URL structure that is used for your Permalinks and archives.  This helps it to look better, makes it more useful, and makes sure that your links will be compatible on the future.  You can see here in the Permalinks, on the top is the default, which is the default web address, the folder where you web address it is, and the name of your page.  You can also do it by date and name, by month and name, numeric, the post’s name, or you can make up a custom structure of your own.  You can also choose a category base or a tag base if you would like.  And then click on save changes.  So that’s the basic overview of the settings of your Wordpress site.  And you can get a lot done and make sure that it is arranged the way you want it to be just by going in and making sure that the settings are correct.  If you have something you’re not quite sure about, as always, you can always check on Google or you can ask the Wordpress people.  So thanks for listening to this tutorial.  I hope that ithelped you out, and I’ll see you at the next one.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to build a custom menu.  And a lot of themes have custom menus.  And a lot of themes have custom menus that you can put in.  As you can see, we're using the 2011 theme right now.  So I'm going to go ahead and click on menus.  Now let's take a look at what we've got.  Right now, we've got an archives menu that I've actually shut off on our home page and I'm going to pull that up so we can see.

As you can see, I've taken that menu off.  But let's take a look and add a new one.  And for this menu name, we're going to put in my custom menu.  And we're going to click on create menu.  Now, we've got all of these boxes over here on the left that are going to allow us to begin building our custom menu.  So we've got our custom links that we can add here, we've got our pages we can add, we've got our categories we can add.  We also have the formats that we use most. 

So if you want to go ahead in and put in a custom link, we can do that, and click on add to menu, and it's popped up.  Now let's do another one.  Let's go ahead and put our contact me page and our sample page, and click on add to menu.  Using our dropdown, this shows us for the link for what our navigation label is in the title attribute.  You can remove it or you can hit cancel.  Next is the contact me page, and you can also click on here with title attribute is and remove or cancel.  And for the page.  The same navigation, label, title attribute, remove or cancel.  So let's go ahead and click on save menu.  Now you'll also see right here that we can automatically add new top level pages.  And I would like to actually do that, so I'm going to click on that, and click on save menu.  Once I have that done, I'm going to go back out to my themes and I'm going to go to customize.

Now I'm going to click on navigation, and here it is going to allow you to change from your primary menu to your custom menu that I just made.  I'm going to click on my custom menu, and I'm going to click on save, and once it saves, I'm going to go back out into my Wordpress page, refresh it, and you'll see that it's come up as my first menu. 

So that's how we can do a basic customized menu through our themes.  But there's another way to do that as well, and that's by going up into our plug-ins and clicking on add new, and then you can just search here for customize menu.  Search your plug-ins, and then just find a plug-in that will do what you want it to do.  Remember to look for ones that have high star ratings and check their descriptions to make sure that they actually will put in a menu like the one that you want.  So that's how we can do customized menus to different ways.  So thanks for listening, I hope this helped you out, and I'll see you at the next tutorial.

Hi there.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to work on the users who can use and access your site.  So if you look on dashboard, we’re going to scroll down until we get to users.  Now we have three choices.  We can see all of our users, we can add new users, or we can go in and fix our own profile.  Right now, I’m the only user for this site so it has my name as the administrator. 

You can also put your own name in here, and you do that by clicking add it.  It will give you your administration color theme.  You can also disable the visual editor when you’re writing.  It allows you to enable keyboard shortcuts, and you can get more information about that by clicking here.  You can show your toolbar of the site if you’re logged in.  It has your username, your first name, your last name, your nickname, what your display name will be publicly, your e-mail, and any other information you would like to put in here.  You can also change your password to the site by typing it into the first box, and then the second box, and as usual it has a strength indicator.  And then click update your profile. 

So let’s go back out to our list, and let’s say we want to adding a new user.  You can do that by clicking here or by clicking down here.  So to add a new user, I can put in, let’s say, Tom.  And I will also go ahead and enter his password for him.  You can choose to send the password to the new user by e-mail, which is always a good idea so you can make sure you have it right, and then you can choose whether he’s a subscriber, someone who can just read the site, an administrator, someone who can read and make changes to the site, and editor, an author, or a contributor.

  Let’s say that he is going to be an editor.  And I’m going to click add new user.  So now you can see we’ve got me as the administrator, and Tom, the guy I just made up.  You can also go in to bulk actions so I can say, click on time, I can delete, or do the bulk action that’s here in my drop down.  And I can change the role to administrator, editor, etc, so you can do a whole group of people at once, instead of having to do them one at a time.  So back and save you some time.

So now you know how to get in and set the users.  You can also filter this list down to just administrators, just editors, just subscribers, and what other classifications you have.  Now let’s go ahead and take a look at how we can figure out who was allowed to do what with the site.  I’m going to go into settings and under general settings I’m going to scroll down.  This will allow me to choose if anyone can register for the site, and the new user and what role they will play. 

That can be as author, editor, administrator, etc.  So when the new person joins your site or registers for your site, they will automatically come in as one of these.  Unless of someone you know, you may just want to have them come in as a subscriber, because that means they will be able to read your site, comment on your site if you allow comments, but they will not be able to go in and actually change your site for you.  So that’s how we go about going in and setting people up as users of our site, and this is a really easy way to decide who can make changes, and who can just contribute that can really make changes to your content.  So thanks for listening, and I will see you at the next tutorial.

Instructor: Penny Peters

This lecture is produced in three different formats: HD Video, Mp3 and Pdf. Just scroll down if you wish to download educational material.

Hi. This next tutorial is going to be really important for your Wordpress site, because this is going to allow you to choose the theme that you’re going to use for your Wordpress.  Right now, let’s take a look at what I’ve got here.  This one is the automatic default theme that shows up, and it has my picture, it has the links down here, what they are so far, my search, comments, archives, and all of these can be adjusted.  But let’s say that I don’t like this theme in particular. 

What I’m going to do next is go to the top of my dashboard in Wordpresstutorialhub and I’m going to click on that.  And it’s going to take me to my front page.  And then I’m going to go down to themes.  And the theme is what makes it look like it looks.  Right now, this is 2011.  2011 is the default theme that Wordpress gives you when you start.  It allows you to customize your widgets, menus, theme options, header, and background, but there’s also another 2010 down here that I can use.

Or, I can install a theme.  So let’s say that I want to look for a theme by key word.  And I’m going to put in tutorial, just because I want to see what happens when people have made a theme that was done for teaching.  And this will show me the few that come up with a particular key word, or I can go by author or tag.  So let’s say that I want to go ahead and pick one of those two that came up.

  I can also go into featured, and these are just a whole bunch of different Wordpress themes that are featured.  These are recently updated, and there’s also newest.  So I’m just going to pick this one, and it’s called Catchbox, and I’m going to click install.  It’s installing my theme, and it’s done.  So I’m going to click on live preview.  And this is going to show me what my site will look like with this theme.  If I decide I like what I’ve got, I’m going to click on save and activate.  So now when I go into my Wordpress page, the new theme is going to show up.  So now I’ve got home and sample pages just like before, but I can go in and change all sorts of things about this page.

So let’s go ahead and take a look at the widgets that it’s installed.  Widgets are just little programs that allow you to have little things on the side.  For instance you can see right here my main site so far has search, recent posts, recent comments, archives, and Meta data.  Sure enough, here’s my search, comments, archives, and Meta data.  If I decide that I don’t want to use any of these, I can always click and drag them out.  But I’m going to go ahead and leave them there for the moment so I can show you how to use them later.  It also has many options.

Right now, I don’t have a menu in here, but I can create a custom menu just by clicking into menu name.  And click create menu.  And it will allow me to start by clicking my primary menu, adding a secondary menu, and a footer head up menu if I want.  Then I go in here.  Let’s take a look at the theme options.  The theme options right now will allow me to select a color, whether I want my contents on the left or the right, whether I want to show an excerpt or full comment, and whether I want to do a feed direct or if I want to put in a custom CSS style.  So right now, let’s say that I want to change this to black, and I want to make it so my link color is orange.  You can click that and change it to any color you like it to be, by the way.

And click on save changes.  Now I can go into my tutorialhub, do a refresh, and now you can see that I’ve got the black and grey theme, rather than a white theme, and it shows all of my links in orange.  So there are lots of ways you can go in here and change any of these options.  From my featured slider, I can click here to edit, and I can put in a column one, and my column one is going to be my posts, and I can also put featured columns two, three, and four for my featured posts.  I can change my social links, and this is a great what place to put in your links for your Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, and any other social media that you use. 

We’ve got our web master tools, and this allows us to do our Google site verification, Yahoo site, Bing site verification, etc.  You can choose your header, you can either keep it the way it is or put in another picture.  And the picture should basically be the size and shape of your header.  And I’m just going to go ahead in and choose a random picture and put that in.  And I’m going to upload it, and crop and publish.  Or, I can choose one of these pictures.  I can remove my header image, I can change what my header text is going to say, or restore my original header text, and click save.  I’m going to go ahead and click refresh again and see what happens.

You may want to make this big enough that it does the entire page, but if so, you’re going to have to make sure that it has to be 300 by 125 pixels to get it to fit across correctly.  You can also change your background, and the background can be a picture that you like, or it can be a background color.  So let’s say that I want to make it pale pink.  I will save it, then go ahead in hit refresh, and now my background is pale pink.

So as you can see, you can really do a lot of personalization just by using a pre-made theme.  Now let’s take a look at the editor.  The editor’s going to allow us to change our PHP and HTML files.  Again, if you’re not quite sure you’re doing this, you want to stay out of the section.  Because just one misplaced comma and you’ll blow out your entire web site.  So for the moment, if you’re just starting, just go with your themes and work from there.  So I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, and I will talk to you the next time.  Thanks for listening.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to use an editor to modify your theme.  Now a lot of themes are going to have choices over here on the dashboard, and you can go in and change all kinds of things like the headers, the backgrounds, things like that.  But some people want to get a little more in depth with that and go into the editor to change it. Right now I’m using the Infinity theme for my sample website. 

And I’m going to go into “editor” just to show you what the differences are.  As I’ve said before, you should only get into the editor if you know how to write HTML and you’re very comfortable with it.  If you go in here and you’re not really sure you’re doing, even a misplaced comma can completely crash your site.  But if you’ve come this far, you must be pretty sure you know how to write your HTML so it’ll come out the way you want it. 

Now I always recommend that you back up these files before you go in and start changing things, because that way if you do make a mistake, you can just go ahead and upload your last version of all of your files and it will undo whatever it is you’ve done.  So after you’ve gone in and backed it up, we’re going to take a look at our “edit themes”.  First, you can see over here that we need to select that.  I’m right now using the Infinity theme, so I’m going to stay on that one, and underneath it we have our templates.

The 404 template, of course, is the page it comes up when a viewer’s tried to look for a page that doesn’t exist, or if there is a problem with the server.  And all of these templates have information on how these will be handled in your site, including comments, content attachment, theme functions, headers, and so on.  If you want to change the colors, the fonts, anything like that, you’ll want to go into the style sheets, and all of these other templates will grab from the style sheets so it will set the site up the way you want people to see it.  So I’m going to go ahead and click on style sheet and see what I can find.  Now first, if I go into my page, I’m going to scroll down and I can see that my links are in a dark pink color that changes to a dark red if I have are over them.

  I’m going to right click, then I’m going to go to “view page source” and I’m going to look for those links in my HTML.  They’re at the bottom of the page, so they’re going to be right down here.  As you can see, they’re actually referenced after this “a href”.  The A is called the tag, and that means this is going to be a link.  So let’s say we want to change our links to a different color.  I’m going to go ahead into my editor, and I’m going to look for links.  Most themes are going to have these clarified pretty easily so you can see where each part of your page begins.  For instance, everything in this section has to do with the body of your page or post.  So let’s keep scrolling down until we find the links.  Here we’ve got headers, paragraphs, headings, text elements, and so on.

So once I get down to the links, you will see that right now we’ve got a color marked CC0066, and that is a hex color.  That is a web-based color in HTML that will tell your computer which color to show this page.  So this CC0066 is for the A tag visited, meaning I already visited this link.  And you can see they turn to dark red once I’ve already visited them.  So I know that this color is represented by that number.  This number, which is the hover, is the color that happens when if I hover my mouse over top the link.  So let’s go ahead and change the colors of those links to closely match the rest of the page.  I’m going to go into Google, and I’m going to look up hex colors for HTML, click “search”, and I’m going to find a page that shows me which colors are associated with the numbers.  So let’s say that I want to pick a blue.

I’m going to go ahead in, pick a color, and this is going to be the color that I’m going to use when someone is hovering over my link.  So I’m going to click across that number, hit copy, go back into my Wordpress editor, and with my hover, I’m going to paste that number and the hash mark over the existing color.  Now I’m going to go down to click “update file”.  I’m going to go back into my page, and I’m going to refresh it so that it will put into effect the changes I just made.

  And now you can see when I hover that it turns dark blue.  So let us go ahead and pick a color from the pages that I’ve already been to, and I’m going to pick a lighter blue for this one.  I’m going to again copy that color, and I’m going to come in and paste it over the existing color. Scroll down and update it, and again, refresh.  And now you can see all of my links that I’ve gone to have turned pale blue.  And they still turn darker blue if I’ve already gone to them.  Now this is going to work for each of the links on this page.  So that is an example of how I can get into the editor part of your Wordpress page, and you can make it really personalized even beyond what the theme allows you to do with the dashboard.

So if you’re curious about how to make something happen and you’re not sure how to find it, it is always useful to type what you’re trying to do into Google, and chances are, someone else has tried to do it too, and they can lead you in the right direction.  So I hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial, and I’ll a catch you in the next one. Thanks for listening. 

For this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to use widgets.  Widgets are a lot of fun.  These are going to allow you all kinds of interesting things with your site that you may not even thought about before.  So let’s go ahead and take a look.  The first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to go into plugins.  And your plugins are basically your widgets.  Right now, Akismet and Helly Dolly come with any Wordpress site that you get, but let’s take a look at some of the other ones we have.

  Let’s take a look, for instance, at a mailing list that you can add to your site.  So what we’re going to do is we’re going to go to add new under the plugins tab on your dashboard and we’re going to put in mailing list.  And do a search for plugins that come up with this.  Now you’ll see that a whole bunch will come up and they have stars that show from 0 to 5 stars.  Now this will allow you to go in and choose which one works best for your needs.  For instance, this mailing list has a plug-in that allows you to collect e-mail addresses in the front end of your website, write newsletters, access the import and export for your mailing lists that are in Excel, manager mailing lists, etc.  So let’s go ahead and install it now. 

It will ask if you’re sure you want to install it and you’re going to click OK, and we’re going to tell it to activate plug-in.  So now you can see that we’ve got it activated in our plug-in last.  Let’s go ahead and edit and see what it’s going to let us do.  Now this will take us to the PHP page; again, keep in mind if you’re not sure about writing in PHP format, then you don’t want to go in and change any of the files here.  So let’s go ahead into our appearance and we’re going to click on widgets.

Now, we’ve got available widgets that we can add.  We’ve also got inactive widgets if you don’t want to keep them in your sidebar, but you want to make sure that all your settings are the same, you can click and drag these down into the inactive widgets box.  And drop it.  If you want to bring it back, just click it, drag it back up into your sidebar box, and drop it.  So now when we go to our main page and we click it, hit refresh, that particular widget is going to ask us to join the mailing list and we’re going to go ahead and add it in.  And click submit.  So we’re subscribed to the mailing list.  Now if I were to go in and refresh this page again, since I’ve already been here, it’s not going to ask me for that.  Now in my widgets, it’s going to… let’s take a look.

The one that we just did for the mailing list automatically comes up, but, for these ones, these available widgets, let’s take a look at the one you want to put in.  You can grab a links page that you can drag over.  And you don’t have to just put it in the sidebar.  In this particular theme, you can also put it into footer area one, footer area two, or footer area three.  So let’s go ahead and put our most recent comments in footer area one and you can put a title.  And it will ask how many comments you would like to show below.

Right now, I’m just going to leave it at five and I’m going to click save.  You can always delete this, or you can close it.  Now going back into my page, I’m going to refresh again and I’m going to scroll down, and since this is one of my pages, I’m going to go to the bottom and it’s going to ask me to leave a reply.  If there were already comments in here, I would just go ahead and click on post comment.  Now at the bottom of my page, this is the first comment that shows up as the “first comment.”  Now these widgets are really customizable.  You can find things that do pretty much anything you want to do.

  The important thing is to remember to go in and change the widgets the easy way, you’ll want to go into appearance, then into widgets here.  If you go into plugins and you click on editor here, it’s going to take you to where you need to know HTML or PHP to edit it.  So go through each one, decide which widgets you want to have, look at anything that may meet your little heart’s desires to make this page your own, add it as a plug-in, and then you can just pop it right into your Wordpress page.  So I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and it’s really going to help you to get in and do some experimentation.  Remember with the widgets, all you have to do is go into into your plugins page and delete them or go into your appearance widgets page and deactivate them.  And then it’s gone!  So that’s an easy way to do it and it’s an easy way for personalization.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, and I will see you at the next one.

Hi! For this tutorial we are going to show you how to use the Aksimet spam plug-in to control spam.  When you first get your Wordpress account, and you go into your plugins, you will usually see the Aksimet is automatically plugged into your account.  If it’s not, you’ll want to go up to plugins, add new, and type in Aksimet, which is A-K-I-S-M-E-T, and search for plugins.  And it should come up automatically right at the top.

So going back into my install plugins, because I already have Akismet, I’m going to click on activate.  Plugin is now activated, so I’m going to go into my settings.  Now it’s going to ask me for an API key.  You will need to click to get an API key, so click on “get your key”.  On the next page, it’s “Get your Aksimet API key”, which I’m going to choose, and on the next page you can choose whether you want to get the Enterprise at $50.00 a month, Pro at $5.00 a month, or the Personal, which is $120 a year. 

And I’m going to click “sign up for free”.  This will allow you to decide how much you want to pay for it each year.  You will need to put in your name, your e-mail address, decide how much you want to pay each year, and if you decide to pay for it, you can choose your payment method.  But since this is just a tutorial, I’m not going to pay for it for this account.  And you can choose whether you want it to send you emails about how you can decrease spam, and click on “continue”.  Now it says I’m going to get an e-mail with my API Key, so I’m going to login to my e-mail account.

  And here in my e-mail is my API key.  So I’m going to copy it, I am going to go back into my blog page, I’m going to go back into my configuration page for Akismet, and I’m going to paste the key into here.  You can also choose whether you want to auto delete spamming on posts that are more than a month old, or show the number of comments you have approved beside each comment’s author.  I’m going to click on “auto delete spam more than a month old”, and click on “update options”.  Underneath, I’m going to show the server connectivity. 

Right now, all the servers are available, and they’re all working correctly and it checked it 3 minutes ago.  But if you’re not sure if it’s working right, you can click on “check on network status” again, and again, it shows that it is still working, and it last checked a minute ago.  Then you can click on here to confirm that it Aksimet.com is working.  So let’s go ahead and click on “click here” and see what happens.  And it shows us the performance and availability of Aksimet API.  We’ve got a few charts that show how it working and how it’s been working in the past few days, which countries use it the most, etc.

So clicking out of there, I’m going to go back into my Wordpress page, and now I’m going to go into my Wordpress page and into my Aksimet configuration, and now I’m going to go into settings, and now we know that if people respond to any of our posts with comments, this will look for any spam messages they include, sales, or people that are typing in the same things over and over and over again.

And it’s going to get rid of those posts before anyone even sees them.  So this is a great tool to use, so if you decide you like it, just keep it going.  If you don’t, just go into “installed plugins”, and click on “deactivate Aksimet“.  So I hope this helped you out, this is a good tool to use to keep that spam off your pages, and the less spam you have, the more good readers will read what you have to say, and the higher your rankings will go.  So thanks for listening to this tutorial.  I hope this helped you out, and I’ll see you at the next tuturial.

Hi.  In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to do a file transfer using the Cpanel file manager.  And this is going to be using the FTP information.  When you get your account, you should get FTP information that will help you to use this type of file transferring service.  So what I’m going to do is go into my Cpanel, and I’m going to go into my files, and go into FTP accounts.  It’s going to ask me to create an FTP account, which I’m going to do.  So I’m going to do my login again as a man, I’m going to put in a password, again you can make up your own or use the password generator, and then it’s going to ask for the directory. 

Here, you can choose your quota or if it’s unlimited.  I’m going to click create FTP account.  The account has now been created under admin.  So under FTP accounts you can see that we’ve got our new accounts and are here, along with the usage in quota.  You can change your password, change your quota, delete the account, or into your FTP client.  I’m going to go ahead and configure click on configure FTP client. 

Next, it’s going to ask you for Manual settings.  I like to use files alike, so I’m going to go ahead and choose files alone for this, although this also gives you the opportunity to choose for FTP or as a Cyberduck for Mac.  So the FTP configuration file is under files alone and you need to click on that.  I’m going to save my file, and it it’s going to save into my download folder and I’m going to minimize that screen.  Once you’ve downloaded that file you’re going to go into your Manual settings here and you’re going to want to copy and paste all of these into a new notepad page. 

Because you’re going to need these FTP username.  So once that’s done, we’re going to go into the FTP file that we just made on our server so using my new notepad file, I’m going to go to my FTP server, which is FTP.Wordpresstutorialhub.com, I’m going to open a newtab in my window, and I’m going to paste that address in and hit enter.  Then it’s going to ask for my username and password.  Again, I’ve got my username right here, which is my admin at Wordpresstutorialhub.com.  I’m going to post it in and then I’m going to put in my password and click OK. 

And this shows me that file, which is my Wordpresstutorialhub.com.xml.  And I’m going to click on it.  If I click on that, it’s going to show any style information that’s associated with this.  The information on how to use this file as an FTP is contained right in this document.  This is what we’re going to do next.  We’re going to copy this entire file that we’ve brought up on our FTP, we’re going to right click it, hit copy, go into our notepad, and we’re going to paste this into our notepad.  Then we’re going to go to file, save as, and we’re going to save this as a FTP file that we already saved into our downloads folder.  So I’m going to double click on the FTP admin, xml file, and click yes.

I’m going to minimize this window, I’m going to go minimize this window, I’m going to go into import, and this time I’m going to hit brows and I’m going to import our FTP Wordpress tutorial hub dot com xml page and click upload files and import.  Then it’s going to ask if I do want to download and import file attachments, and I’m going to click that on and click submit.  And it says “All done, have fun!”  And remember to update the password and the rules of the imported users.  And that’s how we do an import of a Wordpress page.  Now, if I go to my FTP again, and click, it shows me all of my information about my Wordpress page.  So that’s pretty cool right?  So I hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial thanks for listening.

For this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use an FTP client such as Filezilla to upload files and do file transfers.  First, I’m going to open my Filezilla client.  And this is going to ask me in the top for the host.  The host I’m going to be using is FTP://Wordpresstutorialhub.dot.com.  I’m going to put in my username, which is admin,@Wordpresstutorial hub.dot.com, and my password. And I’m going to click “Enter”. 

Now once I’ve put this in ones, I can always click on my quick and a drop down, and this will bring up all of these other sites that I’ve gone too, and it will allow me to connect to them without having to put in the host username and password in.  So here I am, it says directory listing successful, and over here it shows that I’m on my FTP site.  So to make this quick, I’m going to take my Wordpress tutorial hub.dot.com xml page, I’m going to click it and drag it over and on the bottom, it shows that cute files and how many transfers have been successful or failed.

So we can see the successful transfers I was able to put this to the FTP file and I’m going to minimize that screen and I’m going to go into my FTP accounts.  Scrolling down, I’m going to go into my file manager and I’m going to look up that xml, and you can see that it’s now in my public_HTMLadminWordpress tutorial hub folder.  So in my public HTML, I’m going to go into my admin folder, and there it is.  So now, if I were to go into my Wordpress tutorial hub.dot.com the administration page I can go into tools, then into import, and there’s a file that I needed.  It says it was put in at 732, which was about 1 minute ago, and that’s how I can quickly transfer files using Filezilla client.  So let’s me show you some other way so we can go ahead and transfer files.

I’m going to go into my quick connect box, and I’m going to go into my site but just using my regular account.  And using my quick connect box, I went ahead and click on the one that I want, and now it’s going ahead and connecting me.  So I’ve gone in as the regular user of this account, and when I did you can see that now, and the remote site, as all the files that are on my server.  On my left side are all the files that are in my own computer, so I’m just going to use some of these are ones you can see what will happen when I choose some files. 

And up here, it shows you my folders, so I’m going to go down to another drive which is the driver use for these tutorials, I’m going to open a folder with documents that I want to put in here, I’m going to go down to the four were I want to put them, which is in my public HTML, and my manually folder. I can either click and drag an entire folder over or I can open the folder and I can just click one file to drag.  So I’m going to click and drag it over, or if I want more than one found, I’m going to hit click and shift, or if I only want to click and pick a few files, control or command and click what I want to make sure I don’t feel them in between. 

Once that’s done, I’m going to go ahead and click and drag them over into this folder and let them go.  And down here at the bottom you’ll see that it had the few files, it should be their progress and once you are finished, it went into successful transfers.  If it hadn’t worked, it would’ve gone in to full transfers and I would’ve had to find out why it didn’t work.  So the two files transferred over where the “add on a domain link document”, so let’s go head into our file manager on our Cpanel and make sure it’s in there.  So it was in the manually folder, and it was the add on domain link, and there it is.  So as you can see, using an FTP client is really a lot faster than going in and using the Cpanel.  So I hope this helped you out.  Do a little experimentation with your FTP client and I think you’ll be pretty happy with it.  So thanks for listening and I’ll see you at the next tutorial.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to create a static web page to be the Home Page of your Wordpress blog.  If you decide that you don’t want to use the blog functionality, you’re going to do this, and only create the first page and not the second.  But let’s go ahead and pretend that you are a lot going to use the blog function, but you want a static page as well.

The first thing you’re going to do is go into pages on our dashboard and click on add new.  We’re going to title this first page home and this is going to be our static page.  We’re going to set our template over on the right hand side to default template, and then we want to add any content we want in the front page.  Once I have my content in, I’m going to go ahead and publish my page.  Next, I’m going to add another new page, and this will be titled blog.

Or you can call it news articles or anything else you’d like.  So after calling a blog, this is going to be the page that can be used as a placeholder to show the posts on my site.  Now we don’t want to use a custom page template for this page.  This is going to be generated by home.PHP or index.PHP.  And we don’t want to add content to the blog page, either.  We’re just going to leave this area blank.  Any content that is there’s going to be ignored, and they will only see the title when they come to the page.  We’re going to go ahead and click publish. 

Next, we’re going to go to the administration dashboard, we’re going to go down to settings, and we’re going to go to reading.  Here you will see the front page displays, and we can choose whether to use our latest posts or a static page.  The static page that we’re going to use is going to be the home page.  If you want your Wordpress site to have a blog section, you can set your post page to the post page you’ve created for the blog.  This is right here under blog.  Then you can choose how many blog page is you want to show at most, and how many syndication feeds you want to show.  For each article in the feed, you can either show full text or summary.

Then, just leave your encoding to UTF-8 unless you know there are other encodings that will work for you.  And we’re going to go to save changes.  Next, I’m going to go down to Permalinks, and I’m going to enable the Permalinks to show the page title and the address, which would be right here under post’s name, or you can choose a category base and a tag base, and save the changes.  So let’s go ahead to our home page and see what pops up.  And sure enough, there it is.

Our home page now says “this is my static page for Wordpresstutorialhub”, and visitors will see this page first and the comments section underneath.  So that’s how we change it so instead of a blog page coming up first on our site, we have a static page come up.  And a lot of people like to use that because it look a lot more businesslike and professional than just having a blog on your front page.  So I hope this tutorial helped you out and I will see you at the next one. Thanks for listening.

Instructor: Penny Peters

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Hi there.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to make and add a post in Wordpress, including how to use a schedule, how to include images, different things like that.  So let’s go ahead and take a look.  Right now, I’m in my dashboard for Wordpresstutorialhub.com.  And this shows you some information about your basic settings, add your content, customize your site, and so on.  Let’s go ahead and jump right in with making a post, which is going to lead us to all the other things we can need and use in Wordpress.  So I’m going to go ahead to posts, and go to add new. 

The first thing I’m going to want to do when I add a new post is add a good, catchy title.  And this is going to be down below. We’re just going to type something in, just so we can get some content, and you can see how all these different parts work.  Okay.  So I’ve typed in a little paragraph, there and let’s take a look at the different things we can get upload and all the different ways we can change all our posts.  You’ll see over here on the right we have a visual and an HTML version of this page.

If you’re not sure about your HTML, you may just want to stick in the visual area.  But if you know how to go into HTML and add different elements that you would use on a regular web page design, you can come in here and basically write in HTML.  Let’s go ahead and work on the visual side for a moment.  First, I’m going to go in, select Wordpress, and make it bold.  So just like any other word processing program, you can make a bold, you can underline it, you can use a strikethrough, you can even make a list.

If I were to type these three words, I can go in and I can put them in the list, or I can number them.  I can also do a block quote if I want to, I can left align, middle align, right align, I can even put in a link.  So I would do that by selecting Wordpress and clicking a link.  And it’s going to ask what the URL is.  So let’s say I want to put this to Wordpress.org.  I can put that in and you can choose whether to open a link in a new window, and that can be a good idea if you want to make sure people stay on your page, but can still access other links that you’ve put in there. 

Or you can link it to existing content.  I don’t have any existing content to list right now, so I’m going to go ahead and lead these two Wordpress.org, I’m going to open a new link and a window, and I’m going to click on add link.  And you can see that this comes across to the bright blue of a live link.

I can also insert another tag, I can do a word check, I can toggle full screen mode, and I can show or hide the kitchen sink.  Now by clicking on that, you can see I can choose between what format I want for my paragraph, whether I want to underline it, whether I want to do a full align, which will fully align on both sides; you can choose the color of your text, you can choose whether if you want to paste as plain text or as Word, you can remove the formatting, you can insert a custom character, you can indent, you can undo, or you can ask questions.

So right now I’m going to go ahead and left align those words, and I’m going to take a look at the upload and insert feature.  Now, you can use from your own computer, you can upload a picture, you can do it from a URL, or you can do it from the media library.  Right now I don’t have anything uploaded, but let’s take a look at what I’ve got on my computer.  You can click it and drop, or you can just go ahead and select a picture and it will compress it down and put it into your file.  Underneath, if you scroll down, you can put it in as the title, and you can put alternate text, even put a caption that will appear underneath the picture, and you can put in a description.

  It will also give you a link to a URL so you can pull from other web sites to this picture.  You can align it, left to right, center, or no alignment at all, and you can choose which side you want to put it, and then you can put insert into post, and there you go.  Then if you decide to change anything about this, you can click on your picture, click on the smaller picture that shows up, and this brings it up with your advanced settings.  You can use it as a link and it will link to this picture, or you can go into advanced settings and you can set up border, vertical space and horizontal space around your picture; you can also choose your style, your size if you want to type it in that way, and you can add a title, a relative link, CSS style, and a target, and click update.

  If you want to get rid of it, click on the picture and click on the delete image, and let’s say I want to move it around.  All I have to do is click and drag the picture to wherever I want to go.  Now let’s take a look at our HTML code now that we have added this picture and changed these different things.  So in HTML, you can see that we now have basic HTML language to put the site together.  On the right side of the page, you’ll see that we can save draft, we can preview it. Lt’s go ahead and preview it to see what comes up.

  And there you go.  That’s a preview of my first page.  If you’d like to, you can go ahead and publish and edit, you can change its status between draft and edit, you can change its visibility between public and edit, you can publish it immediately, or you can schedule it to, say, let’s publish tomorrow instead.  And once you set the publishing date, click OK.  Now on the bottom, it will ask you about the format.  If you want a standard format, an aside, a link, a gallery, a status, a quote, or an image. 

You can open a close any of these categories by simply clicking on the title bar.  Next if you scroll down the page, you’re going to see the categories and tags.  We’re going to get into those in the next tutorial because those are how people are going to find your posts according to what it is they’re looking for.  So for instance, I would assign words that would go for categories and tags that deal with Wordpress tutorials for this blog.

  Down at the bottom is the featured image.  You can also take the picture that we just put in, and set it as a featured image.  You can see now that our gallery has one picture in it, and I can use this is a featured image.  We then click there, and click on save all changes.  You can also build up your own media library, and there are widgets that will allow you to do that.  So let’s go ahead and schedule this, and now tomorrow this will show up on my posts.  I’m going to click on posts over on the left hand side and it pops up on my post list. 

The first one that it does is just the standard hello world one, and that happens whenever you get your Wordpress page.  You going to click on that, and I’m going to click on trash because I don’t need that to be on my page.  So now my first page is this is Wordpresstutorialhub first post, and it shows the author was me as the administrator. It shows my categories and my tags, and the date that it will be published, which is tomorrow.  Plus it shows if there are comments.  You can set up your Wordpress page to approve any comments before they’re allowed to be posted, and is always a good idea because spammers target Wordpress pages.  So that’s how you create a post in Wordpress.  So I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and see how really easy it is to go in and change any of these things.  So thank you for listening and we’ll see you next time.

Hi. For this Wordpresstutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to add videos, photos, and other files to your site, and that can include word files PDF files, video files, anything that you think will add value to your site.  So let’s go ahead and go into the Media tab over on the dashboard.  And in the media tab, this shows us all of the forms that we already have.  We also have some jpegs, but let’s go ahead and see what else we can find to add.  I’m going to click on Add New, and I’m going to select a file from my computer.  Let’s say I’m going to pick a music file. 

And this is some stock music that I’ve got, so I’m going to go ahead and click a track, and it’s going to add that track.  It’s going to allow me to caption it, and it’s also going to give me the file URL.  So if I decided I’m going to go, say, to another site, and I’m going to attach this piece of music to that site, I can just go ahead and copy and paste this address to that site.  I’m going to go ahead and click on Save All Changes for the moment, and now you can see in my media library there is new music along with all my other files.  Along the top, it shows me that I have 13 files in this library altogether, how many images, how much are audio, and how many of these are unattached, meaning that they’re not put on any posts or pages that I have. 

As always, I can click on this button and it select all of them to do a bulk action, I can also do this by the dates that things were uploaded to see when things were updated, and which were the oldest or the newest.  If I want to add a new library so I can organize my files, I can do that as well.  If I wanted to add more, I can click on Add New Here or Add New over here.  So let’s go ahead into one of my pages, and let’s see how I would attach this.  I’m going to go into my first page, and I’m going to click at the bottom of my paragraph and go into upload and insert.  When this comes up, it allows me to pull a picture from my computer, from a URL, which is a picture or any file that is anywhere else online, or from My Media library.  And I’m going to go ahead in and click on the stock music file that I just put in and click Show.

So I’ve got everything the way that I want it, and I’m going to go ahead and insert it into my post.  And click on Preview Changes.  So scrolling down, you can see that I’ve got a link now called stock music, and when I click on it, it brings up my audio.  So that’s pretty neat and an easy way to put anything you want online.  Now keep in mind, you may have a limit to how much you can put onto your Wordpress account.  If that’s the case, you can just link anything in your post or pages straight from a file that you upload into your Cpanel’s File Manager on your server.  So that’s how we can go in and add more media to further personalize your Wordpress pages.  So thanks for listening, I hope this helped you out.  All see you at the next tutorial. 

For this tutorial, let’s take a look at how to put a contact form it into my Wordpress page.  And this is going to be way easier than you’re thinking, because again, we always have plugins that we can use.  So let’s go to the plugins tab on our dashboard, and we’re going to go into “adding new plug in”.  From there, we’re going to type in to the search box “contact form” and we’re going to look for the best one for our needs.

  At the top, this shows us that we can do a contact form, and this allows people to give us feedback easily or we can post it to a page or one of our posts.  As you can see, each of these has a rating, so we’re looking for one that has a nice high rating out of all of these.  So let’s go ahead and look at this Contact Form Manager.  This has four and a half stars.  So let’s go ahead and see how it works.

I’m going click on “install now”, and click OK, and it installed it, and let’s click on “activate plug-in”.  Once that’s done, we’ve got our Contact Form Manager right here.  If you look right here under your dashboard now, we’ve got XYZ Contacts, and they’re the makers of the Contact Form Manager.  So let’s click on that, and we can choose our settings.  This will allow it to prevent auto removal of break and page tags.  You can enable that, or keep it disabled.  You can enter a star symbol for mandatory form fields, I want to keep that enabled because I want to make sure that I get the information I need and that can include their name, their e-mail address, their company, etc.

If you want to credit the link to an author, you can add an SMTP; if you want to do in SMTP bug, the pagination of 20 pages or you can put this up or down, if you want to do a Capcha, and then you can click on “update settings”.  So scrolling down, you can go into SMTP settings.  Right now, we don’t have an SMTP account, but will get into that later.  Below that is our contact forms.  This is our first form, and we can edit it or we can delete it.  Let’s go ahead and edit our first form.  First, let’s name it. 

And I’m going to put “contact”.  It is going to ask if we want boxes that say your name, and that will be text-1, your e-mail, e-mail-2, subject, which will be text-3, and message body, which would be text-4.  And you can see these are numbered as you go down the page.  And up here we have the submission, which is five.  We can also add elements.  So let’s go ahead and click on “select tag” and decide if we want a text field, an e-mail field, a drop down menu, date; check boxes, which allow you to check more than one; radio buttons, which only allow you to only choose one.  If you choose a new one, it will unchoose the last one; a place for them to upload files, a submit button, and the Capcha.

  I am going to go ahead and do a Capcha, because I know that spam is more likely to NOT be able to get through a Capcha element.  So I want to put a form element name, and I’m going to that as Capcha, and I’m going to click on “get code”.  It’s going to ask me to copy this code and paste it into the form on the left.  So I’m going to copy between the brackets and the brackets themselves, click copy, I’m going to click here under “message body”, and now you see it is going to give us a text box.  I’m going to right click and hit “text”.  Now here it gives us visuals, so you can actually change the format, the font, the link, how you’re going to set up your whole page; everything you’re going to do to set up a whole page or post.

This allows you to do it visually or through HTML.  And scrolling down, it is going to ask you about the mail-to-site admin.  Now let’s say that I want to make this the admin at Wordpresstutorialhub.com.  You can also put a CC that it will copy it to whatever e-mail address you want.  And then here you can see the from e-mail, which is e-mail-2, and up here the e-mail-2 is their e-mail address.  The subjects is text-3, up here text-3 is the subject they put in, and so on.  Here it allows us to choose whether we want to do a mail comment type of HTML or plain text.  Some people have an e-mail that would not allow them to accept an HTML e-mail, so you may want to be plain text.  But if you are doing this for, say, business or something like that, usually the HTML is a better idea because it looks more polished.

  Down here, we can choose what you want the e-mail to say to you.  For instance, since this is a contact form, you have a new contact request.  So every time someone fills out this form, you will receive an e-mail that says “you have a new contact request”.  You can do it visually or through HTML, and over here you can choose whether you want a redirection link after they submit the form.  So I’m going to just say that I want them to go back to Wordpresstutorialhub.com’s index page and I can just put back slash, and it will know that that means index. 

But you can send them to whichever page you want.  At the bottom, you can decide whether you want to send them an auto reply to the sender, and this can be useful because they will know if their e-mail actually worked.  So you can disable or enable it.  This will put in the sender’s e-mail, which is your e-mail address, your name, it will send it to the e-mail, which is e-mail-2, sending it back to their from, subject-3, again if you wanted HTML or plain text.  You can choose what you want your reply to be.  You can see this is very generic.  “Thank you for contacting us are emails been received the will be contacting you shortly”.  I’m going to take the submit-5 and move it down to the bottom, because I think it is easier for it to be at the bottom of the page than at the top, frankly.  So after HTML, I’m going to scroll down, and I’m going to paste it in right there. 

And I’m going to go down to the bottom and click “update”.  Now I’m going to go to my page, I’m going to click on “contact me”, and I’m just going to fill out the form below and it will get back to us.  Copy my code between the colons, right click, and I’m going to go into “my pages”, and I’ve made a new page called “contact me”.  And this is going to pop up on my list of pages.  I’m in HTML to make sure this works correctly, and I’ve typed in “just enough to fill out the form below and I’ll get back to you asap”.  So I’m going to go ahead and paste that little quick form right into my page, click on “update”, and I’m going to go into my page, and you can see now my “contact me” shows up on my toolbar because I didn’t tell it not to.

  I’m going to click on that, scroll down, and now here’s my form.  But you’re going to want to go in and make sure it works by going in and sending yourself a test email first.  Fill out the Capcha if you decided to use one, and click on “send”.  So I’ve sent it, and it’s redirected me back to my index page.  So that’s pretty cool right?  So once that’s done, in my e-mail address, I will have gotten an e-mail through the contact form and I can add this person either to my contact list or I can answer any questions are concerns they might have.  So you need a contact form somewhere on your sheet you can connect with your readers.  The more you connect, the more they’ll come to you, the higher you will get ranks, and the more popular you will become.  So that’s how this works.  Thanks for listening to this tutorial; I hope that helped you out, and I’ll see you at the next one.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to use the testimonial plug-in for Wordpress so you can put testimonials on your page from fans of your site.  So let’s go ahead to plugins and we’re going to click add new, and do a search for testimonials.  And click on search plugins.  We’re going to look for one that has a nice high ranking, and this one for a IQ Testimonials looks like it has the highest ratings of all.

So let’s go ahead and click on install now and install a plug-in.  Once it is installed, I’m going to click activate.  So let’s go ahead into our settings for testimonials he and this will show you all of the settings so you can put in so you can have a maximum number of testimonials, you can rotate the testimonials, you can have a rotation speed and a fade speed for when they will come up on your page.

For the form settings, you can require a name, e-mail, and all these other options.  So check the ones you want and let’s go down to the global settings.  We’ve got the maximum image width, the maximum image height, they can randomize our testimonials, which is a good idea so people aren’t seeing the same one to the same people all the time, and you can choose your page settings so it has the maximum number of testimonials that will be displayed on any of your pages.

Then you can put in your administration e-mail and click on save changes.  You can reset all your settings to how it was originally, or you can uninstall the plug-in.  I’m going to click on save changes.  Now I’m going to click on IQ Testimonials under the IQ Testimonials tabs to the left.  Now let’s go ahead and add a new testimonial.  You can take these testimonials from emails that people send to you, or from conversations, but you will want to get their permission before you use it.  And you can leave it public, hidden, or pending.  And I’m going to click submit.  And the testimonial has been added successfully.

  Under here, we have other testimonials that have been added.  This is just the one from Gravatar, and this automatically adds because we have added the Gravatar plug-in to our Wordpress site.  So you can scroll to the bottom, check the ones that you want to delete, feature, run feature.  So I’m going to click both of these, mine and the one that was already done by Gravatar, and click on feature.

So let’s go to my appearance, and go to widgets, and find out where these are going to show up.  And here we have the IQ Testimonials.  Now as we know from when we look to the widgets menu before, we can go ahead and click the IQ Testimonials, and we can take it to our main sidebar, showcase sidebar, the footer area, etc.  And I’m going to drop the same footer area one.  I’m going to click, drag, and let it go.  And now I’m going to name it, and click save.  So.  I’m going to go into my website as a visitor I’m going to refresh it, and let’s see where that came up.

  Down here at the bottom, this is a sample testimonial.  Feel free to delete it.  But we know now that it’s going to show up with his picture and we can rotate through.  Another reason that it showed up with this picture, is because he uploaded his image to it.  Since I didn’t, it just put my testimonial, and as you can see they are fading and coming up between those two.  So if you decide that you don’t want to use that anymore, you can go in and delete it out of your footer area or you can always go back in to your plug-in and you can deactivate it.

  But the testimonial is always a good way for people to see how much other people are enjoying your site.  And remember, keep those testimonials new.  You always want to have updated information, because that’s going to help Google and the other search engines find you more easily. So thanks for listening. Use your testimonials and I hope you have a great day. See you next time.

Hello.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to create an e-mail on your web domain.  We’re going to use Cpanel to create this e-mail account, and it is going to forward all your emails to your actual regular e-mail address if you wish.  Or, if you wish, you can just keep the separate e-mail account on your domain.  So what we’re going to do is go into your Cpanel, and we’re going to scroll down until we see “email”. 

And you can see we’ve got all kinds of different selections here, but let’s go ahead and go into “email accounts”.  Now a lot of the server companies will have a video tutorial that you can go through, or you can just watch this one.  So let’s say for instance I want to make an e-mail address that is going to be admin@Wordpresstutorialhub.com.  And this is going to be for me because I’m the admin. 

And I’m going to go in, and put in a password or you can click on password generator.  Just remember, if you use the password generator you’re going to want to copy and paste the password into a Notepad file and paste it later.  Underneath, you can have if you want to have a mailbox quota, or if you want unlimited.  I’m going to leave it at 256 MB because that is what comes free with my account, and I’m going to click “create account”. And now, that account is created for Wordpresstutorialhub.

Underneath, you’ll see that I can search my e-mail for e-mail addresses, and it also has any accounts that I have.  So it admin@Wordpresstutorialhub.com, how much I’ve used of my space, my quota, and the percentage once I actually used some.  Here, you can change your password, so if you used your password generator before, or if you just want to change your password; you will just need to put in your new password, and put it in again, and change password.  You can change your quota, or you can delete this account.  You can see right here that this shows you how many results per page you can have, and I only have one e-mail address right now. 

But if you start building up a lot of addresses, like for other users, you can have up to 25, 50 or 100 on each page.  I’m going to leave mine at 10.  Now I’m going to go ahead and click on the drop down that says “more”, and it’s going to ask if you want to access your webmail or configure your e-mail client.  I’m going to go ahead and click on “access webmail”.  It’s going to ask for your password.  So this is going to be the password that I just put in, so I’m going to put in the e-mail address that I’d just put in and hit “log in”.  And it’s going to take me to my e-mail. 

And right now, I don’t have any e-mail, but when I do, it will be listed on this page.  So we have here as well we can change the password, and we’re going to auto responders. And auto responders are good; let’s say, if you want people to know that you will respond as soon as you receive their e-mail, or let’s say that you want to put one for a holiday.  So I’m going to put here, from Brooke; the subjects is “auto response for vacation”, and my body would be “I am on vacation until July 5 but I will be checking e-mail until then remotely.  I will get back to you as soon as possible”.

Now you can either set it up to start immediately or a custom time so you can schedule it. Let’s say you’re leaving for vacation tomorrow; we can schedule it for then.  You can also set when you want to stop the message.  So let’s say after July 5, I don’t want this message to show up anymore, so I click on “custom”, and I will click on the day that I want it to stop.  When I’m done with that, I will click on “create and modify”, so every time someone sends an e-mail to this address between now and July 5, they’re going to get this response, which is my auto response for vacation.  You can also choose whether this will include HTML, and if it does, you will click this box.  Next, you will want to configure your e-mail client.  Again, you can configure this to go with Outlook if you like to use Outlook, Outlook Express, Imac, etc.  And you’ll click on the video tutorial to do that. 

But when you click on each of these, it will show you that it’s going to install the proper mail setting for whichever setting you choose, and it tells you how to do it.  If you’re prompted to open, run, or save the file, click run or open this file from its current location.  If you want to enter the information into the registry, choose “yes”.  And you would go ahead and save the file.  Underneath, we also have Manual settings so you can go ahead and choose any of these that you would put into your mail configuration.  And I’m going to click “go back”.  Next is e-mail filtering. 

E-mail filtering means that if anyone sends you an e-mail, with perhaps a particular word in it, you can create a new filter. And you can change your roles, if it’s from someone to someone, if it has some particular subjects, replied to address and so on; equals, matches, contains, doesn’t contain, etc.  And here you’ll put in your text.  Let’s say for instance you want to get rid of anyone who is trying to sell you something, so let’s say you want to take out the phrase “low low price”.  So we’ll say if the subject says in it, “low low price”, and then choose our action.

Discard it, redirect it to our e-mail, fail with message, stop processing rules, deliver to folder, or pipe to program.  I want to automatically discard it.  You can also add additional ones by clicking on the plus and click “create”.  And I’ve successfully created a new filter.  I’m going to go back into the filters list and this shows me rule one.  And when I click “add it”, it shows me that this subject equals “low low price”.  Now you can either delete it, or edit it, or you can create a new filter again and add a new filter on.  You can also test the message, so I’m going to put “low low price test”.  And click “test filter”.  And this is the result.  Normal delivery.  And I’m going to click on “go back”.  I can also click on “e-mail trace”. 

And this allows you to review e-mail delivery times from your account.  You can see the details of delivery attempts, including whether that message was delivered or whether the message from the account’s mail server was sent to a remote address.  So you can put the recipient’s e-mail and click on “run report”.  So let’s go back again.  Here I’m given three choices, on which of these I want to choose to enable my auto-load.  Let’s say that I want to read my mail accusing using Horde.  I’m going to click on that, and I’m going to tell it I want to log in.  Now I don’t have any e-mail right now, but if I did, I would be able to put it in here.  Filter it, make notes, make notes, have a calendar, tasks, and content search. 

And as you can see, this is set up just like any other e-mail address, so I’m going to go back into the post panel and I’m going to take a look at how to forward my emails.  So back into the Cpanel I go, and I’m going to scroll down and I’m going to go into “forwarders”.  Now on the forwarder screen you will see that there actually two separate options to forward the e-mail account or to forward all e-mail from the domain.  So let’s go for this one; you can forward it to individual mail accounts or all e-mail from one domain to another.  I’m just going to click on “add forward” for right now.

So in my address to forward, I’m going to go ahead and put in admin@Wordpresstutorialhub.com and I’m going to forward it to my regular e-mail address, which is Wordpresstutorialhub@gmail.com. Now I can also go into “advanced options”, I can discard with an error to sender, and you can place your error message in here if you want this sent to a system account or piped to a program, which enters a path relative to your home directory or discard the mail.  I’m just going to keep it forwarding to my regular e-mail address and click on “forwarder”.  And click “go back” and you’ll see that it’s here on my screen.  So every time someone sends an e-mail through your website to admin@ Wordpresstutorialhub.com, then it will automatically forward it to your forwarding address, which is Wordpresstutorialhub@gmail.com.  So I hope you found this tutorial easy and I think it’s a lot faster than you think it’s going to be.  So go ahead and use it, enjoy it, and I’ll see you at the next tutorial.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to look at how to create a gravatar for your blog.  Now gravatar is basically a little avatar that will show up next to your name, but a gravatar as neat because wherever you go and post, your gravatar will always pop up next your name.  You can also set up setting in your Wordpress page that will allow the gravatars to work automatically and always pop up.  So we’re going to go into plugins under dashboard, and we’re going to go into add new.  We’re going to type in the word gravatar, which is GRAVATAR, and click on search plugins.

Now a lot of these will encourage people to sign up for their gravatar at your site, but I want to go down to the gravatar plug-in.  And I’m going to click on install now.  It will ask if you want to install, and you do, and it will go ahead and install it.  And let’s click on activate plug-in.  So our gravatar plug-in is plugged in.  And we’re going to click on there, we’re going to look at that site and go to gravatar today.  It’s going to ask for our e-mail address, which I’m going to go in and put in, and click on sign up.  So now it sends an e-mail to my e-mail address, and I’m going to go get it signed in and come back to the site, and set my password.

So now I’ve created my account.  And it’s going to ask me to put in a username, password, and sign up.  Now’s going to allow me to choose an image that I want to use.  So let’s add one by clicking here, and I’m going to get one off my computer’s hard drive.  And there we go!  And we’re going to put in this one, which is called the gravatar box, and this is a function that allows your page to find what gravatars they have, and it will pop it up if they already have one.  So let’s click on install now, and click OK, activate our plug-in, and it’s activated. 

Now, I’m going to go into settings, and under discussion, scroll down to the bottom, he and we’re going to tell it to show avatars, and if they do not have an avatar, we can either put in a display logo or the gravatar logo.  I’m just going to put mystery man, and click on save changes.  Their gravatar will pop up here next to their comments instead of these invisible man ones.  So that’s how you can make it so your Wordpress will automatically know what someone’s gravatar is as long as they are signed in under their e-mail address.  So I hope this is helped you out, it’s going to personalize your site, and I’ll see you at the next tutorial.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to add a favicon to your Wordpress blog.  The favicon is one of these little symbols up here the you can generate that will brand your website to being yours.  You can see that we’ve got here the Wordpress one, which is these little squares, but over here we’ve got one for AVG, which is their logo. So let’s go ahead and take a look at how to generate our own favicon and how to make it so it always pops up and our address bar and in our tabs. 

The first thing we’re going to do is generate a favicon, so go ahead into the search engine that you use, and type in favicon generator, which is F-A-V-I-C-O-N generator.  And you’ll see right here we have “favicon icu generator”.  And I’m going to go ahead and click on that site because I’ve used this one before.  You can create favicons, you can import image you already have, you can see the latest favicons and the ones that are top rated, you can login, or you can register.  I’m just going to go ahead and import my image.  I’m going to browse, pull it in; and I’ve already made this in Photoshop, and you can either choose to keep the dimensions are sure that was where I can’t.

I’m going to go ahead and click upload, because mine’s done and I like it the way it is.  They can go in here, and you can change colors or you can change this later, but I like it how it is already made, so I’m going to go ahead and click on “download favicon.  I’m going to tell it to save, and it’s going to save that to my downloads for all my hard drive.  Now I’m going to go into my Wordpress Cpanel. Now I’m going to go into my Wordpress dashboard, and I’m going to go into plugins and I’m going to click on “add new” because I want to find a favicon plug-in that will pull my favicon in and automatically install it on my Wordpress site.

So I’m going to type in favicon, and click on “search plugins”.  And I’m going to go down to “all in one favicon”.  As you can see, this has a very high rating and this is going to allow me to upload my favicon, and put it out as an .icu, .png file, or a gif.  And I’m going to click on “install now”.  Click “OK”, activate my plugins, and then scroll down and go into my settings for “all in one favicon” once it’s installed into my plugins file.  Now for the settings, it will allow you to put in your favicon icu, your favicon .png, your favicon gif, your favicon Apple Touch icon, and so on.

  Find the one you want to use and I’m going to put this in under front end gif.  But now I’m going to click browse , I’m going to go into my download folder, and upload my favicon.  And then I’m going to go down and click save changes.  You can see that now my favicon has popped up right here next to front end gif.  If this is not the one you want to use, you can check the box to delete the favicon and then go down and click save changes.  But this is the one I want to use, so let’s go into my Wordpress page, refresh, and now I’ve got my own favicon that comes up on my tab and in my address bar.  So back in my favicon settings when I scroll down, it also has tips for different types of favicon settings.

  It has delete settings in which you can check the box and check it to delete the settings to go back to the way it was when it was installed, or you can go back out into your regular page.  So doesn’t that look great? That really helps me brands my Wordpress blog.  So I hope you like this tutorial and it will be really easy for you to add your own favicon to your site. Thanks for listening and I’ll see you at the next tutorial.

Hi there.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look how look at how to hide an affiliate link.  An affiliate link is a great way for your Wordpress to make some extra money, and that can be people coming to your Wordpress page and then clicking through your links to do some shopping, and you can actually make, say, a few bucks a month just by having these links on your pages.  So let’s say that now I want to hide my affiliate links to make sure people are staying on my Wordpress page.

What I’ve done here, is I’ve made a post with my affiliates link, and then right down here there is a little bit of content with my affiliates link in it as well, and this is the visual feel rather than the HTML view.  So I’m going to open up another Wordpress dashboard page here so we can take a look, and we’re going to go into plugins and we’re going to look for a new plug in, so click on add new.  And this one is going to hide affiliate links.  So I’ve put in hide affiliate link and I’m searching.  And here at the top we’ve got an affiliate link cloaking.  This means that the visitors will not be able to remove my affiliate ID and they can visit my product website directly. 

You can also be used as a link shrink plug-in.  So let’s go ahead and install it now and activate the Plugin, and in our dashboard, lets go down to link cloaking and we can add a new link, view its status, its options, or get help and report bugs.  So I’m going to go in and add a new link, and link I’m going to put here is… and I’m going to put in the affiliate link.  I can auto replace that affiliate link with the short link that I’ve put up here, and I’m going to put the title, and click on add link. 

Now as you can see, it’s under our affiliate link cloaking.  So let me go ahead and click on view status and this will show you how many times each month that appears and how many times people actually clicked it.  And then down underneath here it shows the link title, the day it was shown, how many hits, how many unique visitors, and the short links on that page.  So up here is the daily status in July, and if you keep scrolling down, is the monthly status of 2012. 

See you can find all this information on how many people are clicking on each of your affiliate links, and this will also help you see which ones are making you money and which ones aren’t bringing you in any thing, so you can get rid of those ones that are bringing you in any money at all, and replace them with those that are making you more.  So let’s go back out to options, and this allows us to show the control panel and the post page, edit page, so I’m going to go ahead in and take a look at my post page. And up here you can see we now have the get the short link.

Scrolling down, we have our affiliate link cloaking with the short link, the affiliate link, and the auto replace affiliate link to the short link already checked, and then the title, and then down under here, it has the actual short and affiliate link.  So this is a great way to make sure that people are going shopping through your site in particular, and not going straight to the shopping site on their own.  That way you know you’re going to be making a few cents for each time they click through.  So thanks for listening, I hope this makes your little extra money, and I will see you at the next tutorial.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to create a Feedburner account.  Feedburner allows me to take my RSS feeds and publish them automatically in Feedburner from my Wordpress page.  So as you can see, I’ve already signed in using my gmail e-mail address, and right here it says that you can look for feeds they used to have a fever dot com defined fee to use to have or to burn a new feed right now.

And it asks you to type in your feed address right here.  And over on the right hand side you’ll see that it has ad sense for feeds, which shows that you have stats right away, enabling social sharing with the flair, socializing your feed with footer, and these are all articles you can read to help you out.  And if the burner status.  So down here it has the known issues and the date.  So now I’m going to type in my blog address.

  If you’re a pod caster, you can click andI’m a pod caster and click the next button.  And it shows us that it’s found more than 1 feed at my Wordpresstutorialhub.commanually address.  So I need to select one of these two uses my source.  In Wordpress tutorial hub at http://Wordpresstutorialhub,commanuallyVcommentsfeeds, or the home, and speed.  So I’m going to go head and use the dot commanuallyV, which is my first option, and click next.  Now it’s gone ahead and verify that the black blog or feed address is mine, and it tells me that it’s going to place the most popular services on my feed and I can go ahead and modify remove them later if I decide that I do not want them.

It also shows the new fee will be activated on my feed per account and I can show setup optional traffic stats cancel including traffic and blog testing services.  So here’s my feed title which is Wordpress tutorial hub and then over here is my feed address, and that’s it feeds at feed burner dot comWordpress tutorial hub.  I can either choose next activated or cancel and do not activate.  But I’m going to go ahead and click next and this shows me my address where I can find my feed and where I can send the link to others so they can read my feed as well.  Right now its added browser friendly, which improves its appearance, and then feedburner stats, its basic fee traffic sand statistics.

  It can also go and add more feeds or stats options or go to my feed management.  I’m going to click next and see what other options we have.  These auctions show what you already have and if you want to track click through is, which is how often people click through items to go to your site, he can click that here.  And also if you want to have item and closure downloads, including podcasts.  If you’d like to have even more, you can click on this box and it will take you to the Feedburner options and click next.  And now I’ve successfully updated the feed for Wordpress tutorial hub.  So I hope this is helped you out, as you can see this is pretty easy.  For the next tutorial I’m going to show you how to activate this on your Wordpress page.  So thanks for watching and I’ll see you at the next tutorial.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to activate our Wordpresstutorialhub with Feedburner.  And this is going to make it so our RSS feeds on our Wordpress pages go automatically into our Feedburner RSS.  So on our Wordpresstutorialhub, I’m going into my dashboard, where I can edit my feed details, delete my feed, or transfer a feed. 

It also has options for me to analyze, which gives us all our statistics; optimize, to help it look good and to make sure that is giving you back all the information you need; publicize, and this is how you will start attracting some subscribers; monetize, and this is how you will get a Google Adsense for your feeds.  And then choose your options on how to control the ads that go into your feed and troubleshootize.  But let’s go ahead and look at edit feed details.  So I’m just going to go ahead and click on my edit feeds, and this will take me to my edit the details and all I have right now is my Wordpresstutorialhub and it doesn’t have any subscribers.

I want to go ahead and get this chiclet so it’s attached to my Wordpress blog.  I’m going to click Wordpresstutorialhub, and you’re going to go into the screen to integrate.  And this will pop up after you’ve successfully updated your feed.  If you go down, you’ll see that it has different options to put this through to Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, Wordpress.com, Myspace, etc.  And if we click on any of these, it tells us how to go ahead and install this option on your blog or Wordpress feed. 

So I’m going to click on publicize, and I’m going to put what is called a chiclet on my website.  And I’m going to click on where it says posting a friendly graphic, and this is going to allow me to put a chiclet on my Wordpress page so people can click on it and subscribe to my RSS feeds.  This is the standard one right now, or you can go ahead and use one of these custom icons from other popular web sites.  I’m just going to click on subscribe in a reader with a larger one, and then I’m going to click and copy of all of the content and I’m going to come down, right click on the box, click on select all, right click again, and hit copy.

And I’m going to go into my Wordpress page, and I’m going to copy this into my Wordpress page.  I’m going to go into my dashboard, and that’s in Wordpress, I’m going to go into appearance, into widgets, and I’m going to scroll down until I find the text widget.  I’m going to open up footer area one, I’m going to go down to text over in my inactive, or unused icons, and I’m going to drop this into the footer area one and then I’m going to right click and paste my HTML from my Feedburner.  And I’m going to title it.  And click save.  I’m going to go into my Wordpress page and see where it comes up.  And there it is, right underneath the testimonials where I put it in the bottom, read my rants, and if they click here, they can subscribe to my feed. 

So let’s go back into our Wordpress dashboard, go into plugins, and then go into add new, and we’re going to look for the Feedburner plugin.  And click on search plugins.  Now if you don’t want to go ahead and use the Feedburner chiclet, you can also come in and use the Feedburner form, Feedburner You Are, or any of these.  Any of these plugins can be used for people to subscribe to your RSS feeds, and they have other options as well that you can read in their description.  So now, every time I go into my Wordpresstutorialhub, and I go into my blog, and I go into add new post, I can go ahead and type something and that will pop up in my Feedburner account.

  I’m going to go into my blog, and right here, this is from my Feedburner site.  It shows my recent posts, and if I go into Feedburner, and now I’ve gone into the address for my Wordpresstutorialhub Feedburner site, and sure enough, there it is.  My first RSS feed entry.  This is my Feedburner site.  It actually also pulled the one before that as well, even though that was before when I actually set up the Feedburner.  So this is really cool.  It is a good way to get good backlinks to your own Wordpress site, and to really get your words out there.  So I hope you really enjoyed this tutorial, and I will see you at the next one.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to install Google Analytics onto your Wordpress blog using plugins.  The first thing we have to do is get a Google Analytics account.  And we’re going to do that by going to Google Analytics, which is www.google.comanalytics.  And we’re going to go into our Wordpress dashboard, into plugins, and we’re going to look at add new. 

We’re going to put in Google Analytics, and search our plugins.  And here you can see it gives us our profiles, our tracking code, our property settings, and our social settings.  I’m going to go ahead and click on tracking code, and as I scroll down, it’s going to give us our application tracking so we can choose if it’s going to be used with Android SDk and IO SDK.  It’s going to give us a property name and URL, the tracking has not been installed yet, but we’re going to do that a moment, and we’re going to do that by coming down here where it gives us a choice between standard, advanced, and custom.

  I’m just going to go ahead and use a standard right now, and I’m going to tell then I’m just going to be tracking a single domain.  But you can also choose multiple domains or multiple top level domains, if that’s what you’ve got.  You can also choose if you’re going to track Adwords campaigns, but I don’t have any Adwords campaigns right now, so I’m going to leave that blank.  And down below it’s going to ask you to paste this code into every page we want to track immediately before the closing, which is the head tag.  I’m going to go ahead and click on save, so it saves my settings.

Here in profiles, you can also choose your assets that you want to be available in this profile, the goals you would like to set, and you can set goals such as people who go to your contact me page, or even who click on your RSS feeds subscription, the users that you’re going to put in here that can check your Google Analytics, and right now it’s just me under administrator.  The filters, and you can choose filters to put in here, and your profile settings.  You can put your default page, if you want to exclude any URL parameters, how you what your currency displayed, whether it’s a commerce site, and if you want to search tracking. 

That’s if you want if you have asearch on your site.  And click apply and you’re done.  Going back into my Wordpress dashboard, I’m going into plugins, and installed plugins, and now I’m going to go into Google Analytics, click on settings, and it’s going to ask me to authenticate with Google.  Then, I’m going to go into my tracking code tab.  This is the traffic ID for my Google Analytics property, which I’m going to copy, go back into my Google configuration; now it’s going to ask you to select the correct Analytics profile.  I’m going to scroll down, and under Authenticate with Google button, I’m going to go into manually enter your UA code.

  I’m going to take the UA code and I’m going to click and paste that in, and tell it to put the tracking code in the header, or you can have it so you can insert it manually, track out on clicks and downloads, showing advanced settings if you wish, and click on update in Google Analytics settings.  And now my Analytic settings are updated.  That means that every time someone comes to my home page, it’s going to go into my Google Analytics and show up.  But it will take until the next day to show up.

  If you go into your dashboard of Google Analytics, you’ll see a bunch of the tools that it has, including how many visits you have your site, the average visit duration, the goal conversion rate, meaning how many goals you have set have been achieved, visits by traffic site, visits by page views and URL, visits and average visit duration, and goal completions.  It also can set automatic alerts.

  When you come back to Google Analytics, you’ll go to standard reporting and you’ll be able to choose which of these metrics you’re going to see.  It is also going to show you all this information down here.  If you want further information, just click through all your options over here on the left hand side, and it will show you everything from traffic sources to web pages people are looking at, to what they are searching for in Google to find your page.  So that’s how you set up Google Analytics using a plugin.  I hope you enjoyed it thanks and I’ll see you at the next tutorial.

Hi.  In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to install your Google Analytics code directly into your Wordpress site without having to go in and use the plug-in.  So if you decide to do this manually, this is how it works.  When you get your tracking code once you set up your Google Analytics, you’re going to scroll down. You’re going to make sure that everything here is correct, including your property name, website URL, tracking status, etc.  You choose whether you going to put in a single domain, one domain with multiple sub domains, multiple top level domains, and if you want to include an Adwords campaign. 

I don’t have any Adwords campaigns, so I’m just going to go head and talent I’m going to be tracking a single domain right now.  Now if you scroll down further, you can see that you can paste this code into your site.  And this code will change with any of these options that you choose above.  So I’m going to go in, copy this file, and I’m going to go into my Wordpress, into appearance, down to editor, and I’m going to put this in the footer file.  The reason I’m going to put this in a footer file is because Google would like you to put this code into every page that you would like to have tracked.  Instead of going through and putting it in every single page all the time, I’m going to put it into a part of the page that shows up with every page that is looked at, and that is the footer.  So look for the footer.php.

I’m going to scroll down, and I’m going to paste that code that I just got from Google Analytics right above the body brackets.  Just paste in, click update file, and now every time someone comes two one of the pages on your site, it will automatically go into Google Analytics, so you can see how many people have been looking at it.  If you go into standard reporting, keep in mind that it’s going to give you information from the day before, so you will see that that is why there aren’t any visits on here now, because I’ve just pasted in all the code.  So you can also go into demographics, you can figure out where the people are looking at you from; you can look at the traffic sources, including where they’re coming from, if it’s Google, Yahoo, if they’re coming directly to you, or if they’re being referred by other sites; the website content they are looking at, what site speed your site is running at, if they’re doing site searches, and all kinds of other information. 

You can also set up customized reporting, where you can choose new metrics that it will report to you. For instance, how many people click to subscribe to your RSS feeds.  So as you can see, even if it seems intimidating, installing Google Analytics manually into your page is really simple.  All you have to do is copy the Analytics code, go into your foot.php, and paste it in right before the body, and there you have it.  So I hope you like this tutorial.  This is a really easy method to use, and I’ll see you at the next one.  Thanks for listening.

Hi.  For this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to use Google Analytics.  Google Analytics is so important to understand what kind of impact your site is having on people, and that includes how many people are reading it, even where they’re coming from, including whether they are looking for youth research engine or coming to it directly, or for being forwarded to you from another site. 

This really allows you to see when you make changes to your site what is working and what isn’t.  So let’s go ahead and take a look.  We’re going to break down Google Analytics to help you get a little better of an understanding.  Now I know this can look a little bit intimidating, but it’s actually really really simple to use.  Once you learn how to look for information you need, and apply it, you’re going to find it this is a fantastic tool.  So what we’re going to do first is look at our home.  And this shows, first of all, my dashboard.

Right now, I have these widgets that come up automatically when I open my Google Analytics account.  That includes how many visits, the average visitor location, the goal conversion rate, visits by traffic and site, visit in page views, visits in average visit duration, goal completions, automatic alerts, if you’d like to set some.  If you’d like to add more, click add widgets, and this will allow you to add metrics, pie charts, timelines, tables; it allows you to name them, link them to report, and pretty much anything else you would need.

So let’s take a look at our standard reporting.  You can see right now that it doesn’t show I’ve had any visitors to my site, but that’s because I just opened this Analytics account a few minutes ago.  It is one day behind for your results.  So if you want to see how many people visited today, you would look tomorrow.  It allows you to look at everything from a day, for the last week, the month, and it allows you to choose whether you want a line chart or a bubble chart.

It allows you to set colors and sizes, and all of this is just make it easier for you to read the information.  If you have e-commerce on your site, you can track that as well.  Underneath, if you scroll down, you can see how many visits, how much revenue you made, how many transactions, the average value of each one, the commerce conversions, and the visit value.  Underneath, it will give you information about where the people are visiting your site from.

If you click on the left, you will see you have an audience tab and when you open that up, it gives you an overview, including how many people came to your site, your bounce rate, which is how many times people got to your page and realized immediately it wasn’t what they were looking for and left, and percentage of new visits.  You can also see their demographics, the systems they are using, if they’re using mobiles, and languages they speak.  If you click through here, you can see your demographics so you can see where your customers are coming from, what languages they are coming from, their behavior, including new versus returning, how often they have returned, and how recently that was; engagements, what technology they are using, browsers and networks, if they’re using mobiles and an overview of that, the devices that they are using.

You can set custom variables that are user defined, and you can do that by clicking on select the metric; and you can set this up by coming down here.  You can go into custom variables and you can decide what you want your variables to be, and you would do that by clicking on custom variable two.  You can also look at visitors flow, and I haven’t had anyone yet, but when it does come up, it’s a flowchart.  You can look into advertising if you have e-commerce accounts, which I don’t.  But if you did, you’d be able to use this part of that service. 

Traffic sources, including an overview where everyone is coming from.  That can involve search engines, direct traffic, and referrals from other pages.  Search engine optimization, which allows you to see what people are searching for when they find your page, and that helps you set up your own keywords.  Planning pages, a geographical summary.  If you’ve got social plugins, including Facebook, LinkedIn, etc., this will give you an overview of those.  And let’s get into content.  This will show you what your site’s content is, and what people are looking at on those pages, your site speed, your overview, page timings, etc.

  Page search, including if people are doing a search on your side, what they’re looking for, what terms they are using, and how many pages they are find from the windows searches.  Events, you can set of events.  For instance, if you have an e-commerce item and you are going to have a big weekend sale, you can set up events to track how many people come to your site.  Adsense if you’ve decided to use Ad sense, this gives you an overview.  Any experiments you feel like running, and you can go in here, and go into experiments and this will give you an idea how to do experiments.  In-page analytics, and this is once you’ve put your widget for Google Analytics or your code into your page, this will show you the insight analysis.  And then at the very bottom, conversions.

For the goals, you can set your conversion goals that you want to do.  To do that, you would click on set up goals, and let’s go ahead and click on goal number one.  And we’re going to call this RSS feed, and this can be so if they decide to become an RSS feed member so they can always see your RSS feeds, we can go ahead and set that up.  And that gold type is a URL destination; and the goal page for this, let’s say, would be our assetsblogRSSfeed.HTML.  You can put exact match, head match, which is the heading, or regular expression match; you can make it case sensitive, and you can do a goal value.  You can also do a goal funnel, which is a series of pages that lead to your goal destination, which is the RSSfeed.HTML page.  This can include steps in your check out process, which take you through your site into your shopping cart, through the payment method up, all the way through the banking page, which is the goal.  If you want to do that, click on save.  If not, click on cancel. 

Once you have your goals set up, it will show you your whole flow, which will show you how many times your goal has been met and you can track how many people actually subscribe to your RSS feed, for instance.  So that’s our standard of living.  We also have the custom reporting page, and this allows you to set up custom reports.  You can choose much of groups, and if you click on the aperture box, you can choose say, traffic sources, conversions, it will give you all the subtitles are subheadings.  If you want to search for one, put it in your search box and hit the magnifying glass.  Once you have named it, set up your mattress. 

You can just add the match and groove.  You can also add a filter.  Let’s say that you want to see everyone who visits your E commerce site from the United States, but you don’t want to see them from outside the country because you can’t send anything outside the country.  You can go in and choose traffic sources he, you can go in and choose so it will disclose anyone who’s not from the United States.  You can also click under profiles.  This our current profile, but we can add additional ones as well.  And again, once you’re done, click on save. 

If you click over here on the name of your site, it will bring up all the accounts if you have Google Analytics accounts with.  Right now I just have the one for the Wordpress tutorial hub.  And you can click on home.  Over here you can see on the homepage that you can do in real time, which will show you how many people are visiting your site right now, as well as how many page is they’re saying, their site speed, where they’re from, and other information, so that’s pretty cool.  You can also look of their traffic sources, so that is where they came from and this was a referral, and their content.  You can set up intelligence events.  And intelligence events and the way you set up customer lords.

Let’s say you have 100 people and a shopping your site, you can set it up so will automatically send you an e-mail.  You can also go into dashboard, and you can create a new dashboard.  It will let you either start one white, or lay you do a starter dashboard that will bring up all of the standard things you would need for this and you could arrange it according to what works best for you.  And once you title it, you can click create dashboard, or cancel out.

So you should really check your analytics page at least once a day he Siew can make sure that any changes that you’re making are having that side effects.  For instance, if you add a new option to your site at you want to see if it is working, you want to go into your dashboard and see if more people are coming to your site at events and implemented that change.  So that’s a quick overview of how to use Google Analytics.  I hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial in this made it a little easier for you.  Thanks for listening and I’ll see you next time.