Here’s some short and useful wordpress tutorial videos. I’ll keep this page updated with new ones as I find them.
How-To: The WordPress.com dashboard – introduction
How-To: Writing and publishing a post
How-To: Saving and returning to draft posts & pages
How-To: Adding categories and tags to your posts
How-To: Adding and deleting categories
This is a simple intro to making a blog post
Where is Insert Image Into Post Button – Add Image Gallery (6min)
WordPress 2.9 – a Tour of the new Image Editing Features (7min)
Add image galleries with NextGen Gallery Plugin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZmZ6p_kZGo&feature=related
(skip the first step in this video where he installs the plugin)
How to Use WordPress 3.0 Widgets (3:20)
Sidebar Widgets: You can edit your sidebar (and/or footer) by going to the ‘appearance’ and ‘widget’ area of the admin interface.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1WQs66R9LA
and another version that explains all the default widgets (10:06)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18A27ZoxDns
How to use the “Press This” bookmarklet to quickly turn any web page you happen to be viewing into a blog post on your site. this tutorial has screenshots and a great video at the bottom of the page. Here’s just the video:
WordPress “Password Protect” individual posts (3min)
Editing the post thumbnail (3min)
http://vimeo.com/8462281
Using the WordPress Media Library (5min) (a very basic introduction)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeKpGPou9n8
More tutorial links:
- Embed a YouTube video
- Custom menus: Read a tutorial
- And if you are tired of videos and want a printable PDF tutorial try this free download from interconnectit.com
let me know if these are helpful — leave a comment if you have some favorites you’d like to share.
