In this final video for our Using WordPress Themes lesson, we highlight some of the typical elements that you can customize in typical WordPress themes. Most themes have some limited ability to be customized. If you're familiar with the Genesis 2 theme and the Thesis 2 theme then you know there's quite a wide range
Introduction
WordPress 3.9 Crash Course – Part 23 – Reorganize our File, Simple WordPress Theme Customization
May 14, 2014Typical WordPress themes have some limited ability to be customized. If you're familiar with the Genesis theme and the Thesis theme then you know there's quite a wide range of customization that you can do but the typical wordpress.org theme does not have a huge range. However, you can make some pretty decent changes. We’ve
WordPress 3.9 Crash Course – Part 8 – 3 Different Faces of WordPress
May 13, 2014Now we’re going to talk about the ways in which you can use WordPress. This is more of a conceptual conversation rather than a how to one. WordPress started as a blogging platform and it was only useful to people who wanted to create a blog. But a blog can be anything, right? It started
WordPress 3.9 Crash Course – Part 1 – Introduction
May 13, 2014Good morning everybody and welcome to this special seminar, the WordPress 3.9 Crash Course. We will be going over all of the basics of using WordPress and, in particular, using WordPress 3.9. This series is really intended for beginners. If you already have experience using WordPress or if you already feel comfortable with your WordPress
WordPress 3.9 Crash Course
May 13, 2014Learn all the basics of using WordPress 3.9 in this extensive video tutorial series. You'll learn everything there is to know about the basic workings of WordPress from how to install it on various domains to ways of setting WordPress up for different types of websites and all it's tools and settings. You'll also learn about the new features in the media library and editor.
Lesson 12 – Part 2 – Organizing Content in WordPress
September 18, 2012The next thing we're going to talk about is organizing content in WordPress. Right now, we have a sense of the terminology of the WordPress Content Management System. Now, we're going to talk about organizing content in WordPress. To start that off, we're going to talk about the inherent organization in WordPress because if you
Lesson 12 – Part 1 – WordPress as a Content Management Sytem (CMS)
March 10, 2012Good evening everybody and welcome to this Lesson 12 of our live How to Build a Professional Website Using WordPress and Thesis class. Tonight, we are going to discuss how to use WordPress as a Content Management System in the context of the site and we'll be discussing how to add blog functionality to the
Lesson 12 – Part 2 – Organizing Content in WordPress
March 10, 2012Inherent Organization in WordPress The first part of organizing content in WordPress is the inherent organization that exists in WordPress. By inherent organization what I mean is, organization that exists without you doing anything. WordPress has some organization that is automatic and that is inherent. It also has some organization that requires you to take
Lesson 10 – Understanding and Using Plugins & Widgets
February 6, 2012Lesson 10 of our Build a Professional Services Website using the Thesis theme and WordPress is all about understanding and using plugins and widgets for your small business/professional services website. We talk about what WordPress widgets are and how to use them. Then we show examples of types of widgets that are useful for blogs
Lesson 3 – Part 4 – Configure WordPress to Act Like a Traditional Website
August 31, 2011Welcome back to Part 4 of Lesson 3 of the How to Build a Website Tutorial Series. In this part of the lesson we are going to continue configuring WordPress but before we do that, we are going to talk a little bit about the different types of sites that WordPress was designed to create.
Lesson 3 – Part 4 – Initial Configuration of WordPress
July 23, 2011The next thing we're going to do in this Install and Configure WordPress on Your Site lesson is to set up the general settings on the website. We're going to start with General. As I said before the Site Title should have been added when we set the site up with MOJO Marketplace but since