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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Begin with one of our video tutorials, or print out some tutorials (courtesy of Edublogs.org).

Step-by Step Tutorials Courtesy of Edublogs.org

Getting Started Tutorials: Using your site dashboard (pdf) Writing your First Post (pdf) Editing Posts (pdf) Differences between Posts and Pages (pdf) Writing Pages (pdf) What is An About Page (pdf) How to Work with Posts and Pages: How to insert links in your post (pdf) Adding Categories and Tags into your Posts (pdf) Scheduling a post for a later date (pdf) Password protecting posts (pdf) Making a post “stuck” to the top of the blog’s front page (pdf) How to create a Static Front page for your blog (pdf) Using Sub pages on blogs (pdf) Changing page order in your blog’s navigation (pdf) Uploading Files and Embedding Images: Inserting images into your Posts (pdf) Inserting photo gallery into your Posts (pdf) Embedding Videos from Video Sharing Websites into Posts (pdf) (video) Inserting Documents, PDF and PowerPoints into Posts (pdf) Upload images, audio, video and files with the Media Library (pdf)

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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.