Using WordPress

One of the many reasons to use WordPress for your website is because it makes it easy to update your site and publish fresh new content.

This page contains articles from my Using WordPress tutorial series. This series covers topics for beginners showing visual examples of how to use WordPress to manage and update the content on your website.

Adding & managing WordPress categories after the fact

July 21, 2009

Categories are the key to organizing your WordPress blog. Even long after a post has been published you can edit the categories. You can edit them one at a time or in bulk. Check out the easy steps in the video and written out below.

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The RSS widget – pulling any blog feed into your sidebar

July 18, 2009

The RSS widget lets you display (and customize) the latest updates to any RSS feed in the sidebar of your WordPress blog or website.
What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a way to subscribe to the updates of another blog or website. Typically, you would use an RSS reader like Google Reader (that’s what I [...]

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Spring Cleaning – Adding and deleting categories in WordPress

July 15, 2009

Categories are the key to organizing your WordPress blog. It’s not something that you need to do everyday – but every now and then a spring cleaning is a good idea. Some reasons why you might need some category cleanup include:

You only have 1 or 2 posts in a category. You planned on [...]

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How to Upload a PDF File to Your WordPress Blog

July 14, 2009

Have you ever wanted to make a PDF file available for download on your WordPress blog or website?
For example, maybe you want to make your patient pre-visit form available on your website so new patients can print it off at him and fill it in before coming to the office.
This video shows you [...]

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Checking your stats & inbound links from the dashboard

July 4, 2009

If you’d like to check out who’s reading your blog, and how they tracked you down, the incoming links and stats features of your dashboard make it easy. While there are many other plugins that can give you more analytics – these built in features are a great start.

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Add a PayPal button to your self-hosted WordPress blog

July 2, 2009

PayPal makes accepting payments quite easy. If you’d like to add a PayPal donation button to the posts, pages or sidebar of your self-hosted WordPress blog, this video will show you how.
There are several PayPal requirements as you will need a PayPal premier or business account. The basic PayPal account will not support this [...]

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How to Install Themes in WordPress 2.8

June 24, 2009

WordPress 2.8 introduces an exciting new way to install and activate themes.
Previously, to install a new theme on your WordPress blog or website you had to:

Find your theme on the web and download the zip file
Unpack the zip file to your local machine
Get an FTP (file transfer protocol) client if you don’t already have [...]

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Previewing and activating themes in WordPress

June 21, 2009

Themes are the key to the appearance of your WordPress blog. A key element of WordPress is that your content (pages, posts, comments etc) is stored separately from the theme or display data. What this means is that you can change your theme – and still use 100% of your content. In fact, when you [...]

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How to Moderate Comments from the Dashboard

June 16, 2009

If you’re lucky enough to find yourself with a popular blog, you will likely find it necessary to occasionally moderate the comments that are left on your website. Here’s a short video tutorial outlining exactly how to moderate your most recent comments from your WordPress dashboard.

As shown in the video, the WordPress dashboard contains a [...]

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