Your first post
Exciting! Let’s make our first post. And we’ll take a quick look around the WordPress editor window too.
Basics
Posts and Pages – the two main types of content in WordPress
It’s super helpful to understand the difference between the different types of information you can add to WordPress. Here we learn the difference between the two main types of “Posts” and “Pages”.
A tour of the Dashboard
Once logged in your can see The Dashboard. Here’s a quick tour and some tips for tidying it up and making it useful.
WordPress login screen and password reset
We start at the start. Well, not QUITE. We start with logging in. Which is a simple job, but I’m often asked where to log in and if I can reset someone password. This video has some quick tips to help you get logged in by yourself!
Categories and Tags
Categories and tags: what’s the difference and how can you use them to organise content on your site
Excerpts
Today we look as excerpts. What they are, how and why to use them and how they might appear on your site.
Screen Options
The Screen Options menu is a hidden-away tool in the WordPress Dashboard that full of things you probably didn’t know that you didn’t know.
The Post Editor – Part 1
I’m back – albeit with a slightly croaky voice – and looking at how to use the post editor.
Inserting Videos
I have no voice today, but I’m marching on. Here’s me showing you how to insert a video from a service like YouTube or Vimeo into a WordPress post or page.
Dashboard Menus and Colour Schemes
Introduction to, and tips and tricks for, WordPress dashboard/admin menus. Shows how to change dashboard colour schemes too!