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WordPress Tutorial – Make a Static Page Your Home/Front Page
Monday, August 18th, 2008This Beginner-level WordPress Tutorial by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications shows you how to make a static WordPress Page your home page (also called “front” page). The default WordPress home page in most themes shows the chronological blog post entries with the most recent post at the top. You can create a static page using the Dashboard – Write – Page, and then tell WordPress to use that page as your home page (using Options – Reading – Front Page). This WordPress tutorial also shows you how to change the order of page navigation tabs or links.
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WordPress 2.5+ Tutorial – How to Upload and Insert an Image
Sunday, August 17th, 2008This beginner-level tutorial shows how to insert an image using WordPress version 2.5 or later. Inserting an image using WordPress version 2.5 or 2.6 is slightly different than inserting an image using WordPress version 2.3 or earlier. Versions 2.5 and 2.6 are essentially the same. Version 2.6 is the latest version as of July 2008. Inserting an image that you have already uploaded to WordPress but haven’t used in a particular post or page is actually a bit confusing in version 2.5 or later. You need to be able to find the elusive “Insert into Post” button. It’s not obvious. There are many other settings and features in the “Add media” tools in the WordPress editing interface. This tutorial covers only the most basic aspects of uploading and inserting an image.
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WordPress Tutorial – How to Edit a WordPress Page
Sunday, August 17th, 2008This Beginner-level WordPress tutorial shows how to use the WordPress Dashboard (admin panel) to edit an existing webpage on a WordPress-powered website / blog. This is the first in a series of WordPress tutorials by Mark McLaren and McBuzz Communications.
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WordPress Tutorial – Make Static Page Your Home Page -Part 3
Sunday, August 17th, 2008This WordPress Tutorial follows-up to the tutorials “Make a Static Page Your Home/Front Page” and “Make a Static Page Your Home Page – Part 2″. Tutorial Part 2 shows how to hide the link to a page that you use as your home page so that people aren’t confused by the fact that there are two links to the same page in your main site navigation. That technique works when you have navigation in the sidebar that shows subpages AND you actually have subpages that are part of your site. If you don’t have subpages, there is no way to hide the link to your home page because it will show up in the navigation as a subpage link. So, instead, this tutorial Part 3 shows you how to customize a sidebar using WordPress Widgets. This allows you to remove the page navigation from the sidebar. That way, you can make the home page a subpage and the link won’t show in the main navigation. Confused? Forgive me! It’s not as hard as it may sound. Check out the tutorial and you will see what I mean.
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WordPress Tutorial – How to Use the Easy Text Editing Window
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Beginner-level WordPress tutorial shows how to set up WordPress so you can use the easy visual rich text editor to edit your website or blog. Without the correct “Use visual rich text editor” setting you will only see the “code” editing window in the Dashboard. The setting is under Users – Your Profile. On a Mac, use Firefox, not Safari. -by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications
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WordPress Tutorial – Make Menus of Links With the Blogroll 2
Thursday, August 14th, 2008This Beginner-level WordPress Tutorial is the second of two parts about how to create lists or menus of links using the Blogroll. These menus usually appear in the sidebar of a WordPress page or post. In this second part of this tutorial, I show how you can make lists of links to pages or posts within your own website or blog. This is a handy way to create additional navigation within your site given that WordPress themes often have a limited amount of space for main page navigation (About Us, Contact Us, etc.). -by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications
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WordPress Tutorial – More About Changing Fonts & Font Size
Friday, August 8th, 2008See http://snurl.com/2a4p1 for tutorial notes. This Intermediate-level WordPress Tutorial is a follow-up to http://mcbuzz.wordpress.com Changing Fonts and Font Size in WordPress. It shows how to use “inline” Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the WordPress HTML code editing window to change the font family of text. It also shows how to change normal text into a heading using the Advanced Editing Toolbar.
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WordPress Tutorial – Change Fonts and Font Size in WordPress
Thursday, August 7th, 2008There is a post that goes with this tutorial at http://mcbuzz.wordpress.com (Business Blogging 101) http://snurl.com/2a4p1 This Intermediate-level WordPress tutorial shows how to change fonts and font size – and other font properties – using the HTML or Code editing window of the WordPress admin panel and “inline” Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that you insert into the HTML of your WordPress page or post. See the post at http://snurl.com/2a4p1 for more details and for code examples.
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WordPress 2.5+ Tutorial – How to Wrap Text Around an Image
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008This beginner-level tutorial by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications teaches you to wrap text around an image using WordPress version 2.5 or later. And it shows how to insert an image and align it left, right or center. In earlier version 2.3 and earlier of WordPress, it was necessary to use the Code (HTML) editing window to insert a bit of HTML (using cascading style sheets) to get images and text to line up right. WordPress 2.5 and 2.6 improve text wrapping. Additional HTML code is not necessary. Just use the Add an Image dialog box to set image alignment, and text wraps nicely and aligns well with the image.
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