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WordPress Training Videos

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The WordPress training videos below are available for UpThemes customers to learn the basics of using WordPress. They will walk you through all the features you need for managing your WordPress-powered website.

Table of Contents:

  1. The Dashboard
  2. Posts vs. Pages
  3. Post Editor
  4. Creating a New Post
  5. Post Formats
  6. Edit Existing Post
  7. Categories and Tags
  8. Creating Pages
  9. Adding Images
  10. Embedding Video
  11. Media Library
  12. Managing Comments
  13. Creating Links
  14. Changing Themes
  15. Adding widgets
  16. Custom Menus
  17. Installing Plugins
  18. Users
  19. Tools
  20. Settings

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The Dashboard

A quick tour of the dashboard showing the administration page. Getting to know areas such as the toolbar, the main navigation menu, and the work area. Also get familiar with screen options and help and how to make WordPress work best for you by customizing your view. Finally an introduction of the ‘Quick Draft’ feature within your dashboard.

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Posts vs. Pages

Find out the difference between the two primary forms of content supported by WordPress, posts and pages. Find out where they are located and the capabilities of each. Learn how to use them in combination to make your site exactly the way you want.

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Post Editor

Learn how to customize the post editor to show the functions that work best for you. Learn what each edit button does while familiarizing yourself with what you can do in a post. See the difference between the visual and text tab in your post editor.

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Creating a New Post

Learn how to add a new post along with an introduction to permalinks or links for the blog post. As well as categories, tags, and featured images. Learn all the statuses of a post such as draft, publish, and preview. Also learn how to stick a post to the top of a page. By default your post will be published immediately or learn how you can schedule a post.

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Post Formats

Learn about the different types of post formats allowing you to create different posts. The formats determine how your post will be displayed on your site and allows your readers to see the type of content they are viewing.

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Edit Existing Post

Learn how to edit existing posts you have created. Get to know more about the post area. Learn how to change the details of your post by using the ‘Quick Edit’ link. While using the ‘edit’ link to edit the content of your post. Finally, learn how to edit multiple posts details at once and deleting and trash recovery of a post.

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Categories and Tags

Learn how to organize your posts using categories and tags to help your readers find what they are looking for. Learn the difference between a category and a tag and become familiar with adding and editing these items.

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Creating Pages

Refresh on the differences between pages and posts. Learn how to quickly create a page and determine its hierarchy or placement. Along with learning how to edit multiple pages at once.

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Adding Images

Learn how to insert photos and images into your posts and pages. Understand the details of an image and what WordPress automatically does when you upload an image. Learn how to use the different options such as cropping and resizing. Finally wrapping up by demonstrating how to create galleries and the options within your gallery.

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Embedding Video

Learn how to embed video by first uploading video to a video hosting service, such as YouTube. You can use the embed code or the auto embed feature which allows you to paste a video URL from that hosting service directly onto the page showing you a preview of the video. Here’s a list of other sites that you can quickly embed videos from: http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds. Finally check out how you can embed audio creating a playlist.

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Media Library

Learn how to upload images, videos, PDF’s and other file types in the media library. Get familiar on how to edit your images in the media library.

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Managing Comments

Explore how to use comments to engage your readers in conversation. Learn about pingbacks, trackbacks and how to use filtering for your comments. Finally learn the recommended settings for your discussion area.

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Creating Links

Learn how to create links to existing content within your site and outside content to other sites. Next discover how to open those links in a new tab if needed. Using this knowledge you can also use this same process for linking images to a unique url.

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Changing Themes

Learn how to easily install a new theme. Get familiar with editing widgets, menus, header, and background. Learn your way around the customizer including items such as how to display what you want on your homepage, how to feature content on your homepage and widgets. When adding one of our new themes, start at minute 8:38 to easily walk through the steps of install and activation.

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Adding Widgets

Explore how to add widgets or blocks of content to the defined widgetized areas on your site. Learn how to edit the settings and how to drag and drop your widgets to be used where you would like. Also learn about the most flexible widget, the text widget.

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Custom Menus

Learn how to create and customize the navigation menu that appears across the top of your site along with learning how to create a custom menu. Here you will also learn how to make sub-navigation within your menu structure.

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Installing Plugins

Learn how to add new functionality to your WordPress site that doesn’t come standard with the default installation. Easily add new plugins by searching the WordPress plugin directory. Or if you have already downloaded the plugin and have a zip file you can upload that zip file similarly as you did when you added a custom theme. Also, get a quick introduction of Jetpack and the new features it offers your site.

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Users

Learn how to add, edit or delete users along with what each different type of user has permission to see and edit.

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Tools

Learn about the tools that help you manage your site, for example: ‘Press This’, Categories and Tags Converter, Import Content, and Export creating an XML archive (one of the easiest ways to backup your content).

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Settings

Learn how to configure your settings to optimize and get the most out of your WordPress site. General settings the basic configuration settings for your site. Writing settings control the edit interface this is what you use to write new posts or pages. Reading settings allow you to display what you want on the homepage along with the number of posts that show on the page at one time and the number of post that show on your RSS feed. Media settings allow you to define the image size. Permalink settings define the URL of your pages.

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