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Post by George Awuah-Gyasi on June 5, 2012

I hope its not too soon tho ask. How can one insert an audio with wordpress?

Creating a WordPress Blog

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Creating a WordPress Blog

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Table of Contents

Section 1: Wordpress
Creating a WordPress Blog

12m 20s

Intro
0:00
Introduction to WordPress
0:39
Example Blog 1
0:55
Example Blog 2
2:22
Using Your Own Domain: WordPress.Org
4:14
Example: Setting Up Your Blog
6:49
Creating a WordPress Account
7:00
Dashboard & Home Page
8:24
Add New Post
10:06
Change Themes & General Settings
10:50
Installing WordPress on Your Own Domain

11m 54s

Intro
0:00
Installing WordPress on Your Own Domain
0:53
Example Websites with Own Domains
1:06
Downloading & Installing WordPress
3:38
cPanel
5:33
FileZilla
7:03
Installed WordPress Login
9:00
WordPress on Your Own Domains
9:41
Using WordPress

16m 4s

Intro
0:00
Using WordPress
0:26
Dashboard
0:27
Posts
1:49
Pages: Add New Page & Edit Page
2:58
Media
3:52
Links
4:24
Comments
6:18
Appearances: Theme
6:40
Appearances: Widgets
7:40
Appearances: Edit CSS
9:33
Users: Invites, My Profile, Personal Setting
11:21
Tools: Import, Export, Delete Site
12:15
General Settings
13:20
Writing Settings
14:04
Reading Settings
14:23
Discussion, Media, Privacy, Open ID, Text Messaging, Sharing, and Domain
14:42
Upgrades
15:04
WordPress Themes

13m 51s

Intro
0:00
WordPress Themes
0:05
Free Themes Directory
0:40
Download, Preview, and Install Themes
1:56
Searching for Themes on Google
4:26
Manage & Install Themes
5:28
Edit Themes
9:50
Posts and Pages

23m 6s

Intro
0:00
Posts and Pages
0:42
Posts and Pages Overview
0:43
Blog vs. Regular Website
1:38
Posts
3:53
Introduction to Posts
3:54
Edit Post
5:12
Pages
8:50
Introduction to Page
8:51
Creating a New Page
9:48
Permakink Settings
10:23
Trackbacks and Pingbacks
15:07
Posts Cont.
17:33
Categories
17:34
Post Tags
18:48
Theme Specific Characteristics
19:40
Featured Image
21:16
Revisions
21:49
Upload and Insert Media to Posts and Pages
22:17
WordPress Plugins

16m 43s

Intro
0:00
WordPress Plugins
0:17
Introduction to Plugins
0:18
Statistic Plugins
0:48
Searching for and Adding Plugins
0:49
Google Analytics
1:26
Sticky Statistic
2:14
Comments Plugins
3:52
Facebook Comments for WordPress
4:31
Sociable for WordPress 3.0
5:36
Image Gallery Plugins
7:03
NextGen Gallery
7:35
Importing and Exporting Blogs Plugins
10:56
Importing and Exporting Blogs
10:57
Adding Media to WordPress

14m 50s

Intro
0:00
Adding Media to WordPress
0:10
Introduction to Adding Media
0:11
Adding Images From URL
1:05
Adding Images From Computer
4:17
Adding Images From Media Library
6:53
Adding Videos
7:35
Adding PDF
12:13
Getting Help from the WordPress Community

16m 45s

Intro
0:00
WordPress.Org
0:42
Showcase
1:25
Docs: Getting Started and Working with WordPress
2:39
Docs: Search
7:03
Forums: Search for Related Questions
8:15
Forums: Asking Question in the How-To and Troubleshooting
10:50
Troubleshooting Error Message on Google
13:58
Creating and Customizing Themes

17m 6s

Intro
0:00
Creating and Customizing Themes
0:22
Introduction to Editing Themes
0:23
Example: Edit Header
2:17
Example: Edit Stylesheet
9:15
Creating & Editing New Themes
10:12
Interworking of WordPress
13:58
WordPress Programming
15:30
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

19m 18s

Intro
0:00
Valuable Website
1:23
Introduction to SEO
1:24
External Links: Trackback and Pingbacks
4:19
Internal Links
5:49
Generating Keywords
7:40
Generating Keywords in General Settings
11:43
Proper Semantic Use of Tags and HTML
13:26
SEO Optimization Plugins
16:56
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