APS WordPress Help

The following site provides instructions, videos, tips and tricks for learning the WordPress Content Management System and for making your school or department Web Site functional, attrractive and engaging.

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For those of you who have been using the Anarchy Media Player plugin to embed videos into your WordPress Web Sites, we have had to remove it due to performance and speed issues.

However, you can still embed videos in your site! You'll have to post your videos first to media sites like youtube.com, teachertube.com, google video, etc., but then you can copy and paste the embed code from those sites into your post, page, or even a text widget.

The folks over at edublogs.org have a great step-by-step tutorial that shows you how to embed videos in your sites this way:

• View how to embed a video in your site (courtesy of help.edublogs.org)

The folks over at www.edublogs.org have a very comprehensive and easy-to-use help and support site. They use WordPress as well, and most of their help files are easy-to-follow and filled with helpful diagrams and screenshots. If you are looking for additional help with using WordPress, check out their help site at help.edublogs.org.

This intermediate video tutorial shows you how to make a page button on your Web site redirect to a completely different Web site.

Learn how to manually insert a link into a post or a page, plus learn a couple of automatic ways of inserting links.

Learn how to upload and insert an image into a Post or Page in WordPress.