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WordPress Tutorial – Edit a Sidebar File Using a Text Editor

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:07:59 +0000

This Advanced-level WordPress tutorial shows how to download, edit and upload a WordPress theme sidebar file (sidebar.php) using FTP software and a text editor. This is considered an advanced WordPress tutorial because you work with the files for the WordPress theme. You do not use the WordPress Dashboard in this tutorial. The tutorial assumes you know how to setup and use FTP software on your computer so that you can download and upload the sidebar file. It also assumes you know how to open a text file like sidebar.php using a text editor. On a PC, common text editors are Notepad and Wordpad. On a Mac, the default text editor is TextEdit. A good Macintosh text editor for HTML and PHP files is BBEdit.

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WordPress Tutorial – Make a Static Page Your Home/Front Page

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:58:23 +0000

This 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

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:57:34 +0000

This 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

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:21:34 +0000

This 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

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:40:47 +0000

This 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.

WordPress Tutorial – How to Insert an Image & Make It a Link

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:22:21 +0000

This Beginner-level WordPress tutorial shows how to insert an image into a WordPress Post or Page. Once you insert the image, you can make it a clickable link. Steps: Upload the image, give it a Title, insert using the Visual text editing window, select the image and give it a URL using the Insert Link button. – by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications.

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WordPress Tutorial How to Add Flickr Photo Widget to Sidebar

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:32:34 +0000

This Intermediate-level WordPress Tutorial shows how to add Flickr Photos to your WordPress blog’s sidebar using the Flickr Widget that comes with WordPress 2.5+ You need to first create a Flickr account at Flickr.com and upload photos to the account. If you need a tutorial on how to do that, send me a comment or, better yet, go to http://mcbuzz.wordpress.com/ , and send me a comment there. After you create your Flickr account, this tutorial shows you how to add the Flickr Widget to your WordPress sidebar, insert the Flickr RSS URL and BOOM! you’ve got clickable Flickr images in your sidebar! To see more WordPress tutorials, go to http://mcbuzz.wordpress.com/

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WordPress Tutorial – Make Menus of Links Using the Blogroll

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:10:00 +0000

Beginner-level WordPress Tutorial shows how to create lists or menus of links to other websites using the Blogroll. These menus usually appear in the sidebar of a WordPress page or post. You create a new menu by creating a new Blogroll category. You can make as many menus as you want. In the second part of this tutorial, I show how you can also make lists of links to pages or posts within your own website or blog. -by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications

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How-to: Use WordPress/PodPress to podcast to iTunes

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:15:55 +0000

http://www.pcmech.com – A short tutorial on how to use Wordpress and Podpress along with FeedBurner to submit your podcasts to iTunes

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WordPress Tutorial – How to Upload & Link to PDF or Word Doc

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:05:20 +0000

Beginner-level WordPress tutorial shows how to upload a PDF, Microsoft Word document, Excel, PowerPoint, or other document using WordPress, and then make a link to that file in a Post or Page. When finished, you will have a link that site visitors can click on to download the file or open it in a Web browser. – by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications.

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