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Setup Week: Updates

Settings and Configuration, Setup and Settings / March 31, 2015

We take a slight diversion today to look at how you can easily run software updates in WordPress.

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Setup Week: Installing and activating themes

Settings and Configuration, Setup and Settings, Themes / March 30, 2015

Today we look at how to add a new Theme to your WordPress website.

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Setup Week: The Final Settings

Settings and Configuration, Setup and Settings / March 27, 2015

This is pretty dull. But today’s Press Up covers the remaining settings in WordPress for discussion and media.

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Setup Week: Reading Settings, the Front Page setting, and Permalinks

Settings and Configuration, Setup and Settings / March 26, 2015

Today we look into the “Front Page Displays” setting a bit more and, as a result, we investigate “Permalinks”

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Setup Week: Writing and reading settings

Settings and Configuration, Setup and Settings / March 25, 2015

More settings! Today looking at reading and writing settings and the confusing “Front page displays” setting.

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Setup Week: Basic Settings and the Customizer

Settings and Configuration, Setup and Settings / March 24, 2015

It’s setup week! Today we start looking at the basic settings and take a very quick look at the customizer.

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Setup week: Install

Settings and Configuration, Setup and Settings / March 23, 2015

Today I show how easy it is to install WordPress from a hosting control panel that supports a one-click install.

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Auto Updates

Settings and Configuration / February 20, 2015

A new version of WordPress was released this week. It will have auto-updated your site. This video explains.

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Menus – Part 2

Settings and Configuration / February 20, 2015

This video looks more at WordPress menus and, in particular, creating different menus and assigning them to different theme locations.

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Menus – Part 1

Settings and Configuration / February 19, 2015

Today we look at WordPress Menus. Sometimes called “Navigation menus” or “Nav menus”

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