Stone River eLearning – WordPress Essentials

There are many options for customization of your blog. You can learn about widgets. Blogrolls. Custom sidebars. Plugins. You can jump into the worlds of blogging by WordPress!

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Stone River eLearning – WordPress Essentials

Learn all about the world’s most popular blog platform. WordPress! The 8+ hour course will award you with a certificate.-Geoff Blake, a renowned software trainer, teaches you how install and configure a blog on both a local and live machine. He also shows you how to add images and media to pages, create posts and create pages. Learn about blog customization, including widgets, blogrolls and custom sidebars. You can also learn about plugins and other useful tools. You can jump into the worlds of blogging by WordPress!

This course teaches Wordpess 3.x.

Course Curriculum

We are glad you came to WordPress Mastery!

Are you ready for something? WordPress? (1:30)

Ten Ton Word Press Project files

Understanding what WordPress It is

About Blogging WordPress (6:31)

The main areas of A WordPress Blog (4:46)

A Blog’s Front End And Back End (4:46)

Let’s get up and running together WordPress

Set up a free blog WordPress.com (9:20)

Set up a Self-Hosted WordPress Blog (9:06)

Part One of Installing Locally on A Mac Part One: Installation MAMP (8.17)

Installing Locally on A Mac Part Two: Installation WordPress (14:03)

Part One: Installing Locally On A Computer: Installing XAMPP (5.53)

Installing Locally on a PC Part 2: Installing WordPress (11:39)

TASK #1 – Applications you might use with WordPress (4:38)

The Sights: Take a Tour Of The WordPress Interface

Viewing and customizing the Dashboard (9.58)

Touring the Rest of The Admin Interface (7.29)

The WordPress Codex and Online Forums (4.14)

Making Your Blog Your Own

Gettin’ to Settin’ Up Your Profile (7.31)

Setting the General Options for The Blog (5:50).

Moving on to the themes: How to change your blog’s design (5:27).

Discovering even more themes (7:10)

Viewing your Blog’s Theme files (6:35).

Use The WordPress Theme Directory (4.50).

Manually installing themes (3:37).

Auto-Installing Themes from The Theme Directory (3.00)

TASK 2: Ten Awesome WordPress Explore These Themes (3:48)

Let’s get started creating some posts

Tour of the Edit Post Screen and Writing Posts with The Visual Editor (7.52)

Quick Note: Setting Your Post’s Discussion Option (1:14).

Editing your posts and a quick edit feature (3:04).

Formatting and previewing your posts (6:10)

Inserting and editing links to sites and email addresses (7:46).

Super-Sweet: It’s WordPress’s Kitchen Sink Toolbar (5:01)

Setting publishing options for your posts (5:45).

Understanding Excerpts, Trackbacks, And Pingbacks (7:06)

Additional Posting Techniques

Get Editing Published Posts (3.38)

Making Your Blog Easier To Read: Adding “More” Links (5.16)

The HTML Editor – Create and Edit Posts (7:29)

Ready to Get Started? Dreamweaver: Create HTML posts (8:33).

Setting up your blog’s writing settings (4:25).

Password Protection for a Post (4:44).

Part 1: Adding Media to Posts

First, setting up your blog’s media options (6.01)

Droppin’ Graphics into Posts (6:40).

Adding an image from a URL (4.08)

Loading images into The Media Library (4.25)

Inserting Images into Posts from The Library (2.12)

Editing Your Inserted Images (6:21)

Editing Images with The HTML Editor (5.04)

Take a look at this: WordPress’s Image editor (6:34).

Understanding Graphics In Web Design (9.57)

TECHNIQUE #1: Preparing Images In Photoshop For Use On Your Blog (17:16)

TECHNIQUE 2: WordPress Workflow: From Illustrator to Photoshop To Your Blog (12.35)

Here’s the Video (:50)

Part two: Adding Media to Posts

Add Video to Your A Posts (5.51)

Auto Use-Embed to Add in Video (4:03).

Droppin’ In Some Audio (4:16)

Linking to PDFs and Other Media (4:05).

Managing Your Inserted Media (3:56)

Working with Categories and Tags

Getting ed with categories (3:31)

Creating New Blog Categories (4:10)

Gettin’ Organized: Applying Categories to Posts (4.39)

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Setting your blog’s default category (and a fast way to create categories) (4:54

Applying tags to posts (5:08).

Work with WordPress Pages

Understanding Pages Versus posts (8:00)

Editing and scratch buildingWordPress Pages (6:55).

TECHNIQUE 3: Dreamweaver: Create an HTML Contact Page (17:22).

Dreamweaver Design 8:40 – Setting your Blog’s Frontpage and Going Further

Controlling Page Order and Hierarchy (5:00).

Make the Most of Your Theme’s Page templates (6:02)

How to create and manage a blogroll

What is a blogroll? Let’s Get ed (5:00)

Adding Links to Your Bloggerroll (5:32).

Add and Remove Blogroll Links (2.24)

Create Custom Link Categories (5.41)

Viewing Comments and Adding Users

Viewing a Blog’s Comments (4.25)

A Real-World Look at the Disqus Commenting System (3.42).

Moderating Comments On Your Blog (5:39)

Setting up discussion options (6:36).

Allowing Others to Contribute: Adding Users (6:51

Understanding WordPress2.54 Different User Privileges

Customizing RSS Feeds and Permalinks

Setting the Permalinks for Your Blog (5:04).

Let’s get started creating custom permalinks (7:30).

Viewing Your Blog’s.Htaccess File (2.12)

Blog Syndication: Understanding RSS Feeds (3:26)

4:24 How to Determine Your Blog’s RSS URL

Figuring out RSS Feeds for Your Blog’s Categories (3.59)

Add Widgets to Your Blog

A First Look at Widgets (4.16)

Diggin’ Into Sidebar Customization (3:29)

Making Widgets More Comfortable (and Setting up An RSS Widget). (3:49).

Take a look at the Arbitrary Text Widget (6.03).

Dreamweaver to Create a Custom Widget (8.39)

TECHNIQUE #4: Adding a Tweet Widget to Your Blog (8.03)

Into The World Of Plugins

Now on to the Plugins. A Big Toe In The Large Pool Of WordPress Plugins (5.44)

Explore The WordPress Plugin Directory (6.07)

Installation and Configuration of Plugins (5.44)

Manually installing plugins on your blog (6:36).

TASK #3: Ten Killer WordPress Plugins to Explore (2:31).

Add In Some Custom Widgets (5.21)

Upload Your Completed Website

Step One: Exporting your local database (4:18).

Step 2: Changing local URLs to remote URLs (4.44).

Step Three: Create the Live MySQL Database (2.27)

Step 4: Adding a User to the Live Database (2:00).

Step Five: Importing a Local Database into the Live Database (2.31)

Step Six: Setting Live Database Information (3.47)

Step Seven: Uploading site files (2:57).

Step 8: Viewing the Live Results (1:23).

Wrapping up

These are the Killer Products WordPress Resources (5:10)

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