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SOPA Explainer

Sue — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:24:18 +0000

Hands down one of the best explanations on how SOPA/PIPA work and why they won’t resolve the issue of intellectual property protection:

As thorough as this video is, it doesn’t touch on some critical uses of the internet by marginalized groups, but overall, nicely done.

Don’t Break the Internet

Sue — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:22:59 +0000

This is a great overview of PIPA/SOPA:

Our #1 reason for fighting PIPA/SOPA is its impact on start up businesses. Protecting incumbent businesses (mostly Hollywood, network TV and 6 music companies) at the expense of innovation has never helped our economy. Please take action by contacting your senator or representative and encouraging them to vote against this bill.

Our sites will go dark on Wednesday, January 18th to protest this ill-conceived legislation. For further information, visit Stop American Censorship.

Event Registration

Sue — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:31:12 +0000

We are using Event Espresso (affiliate link) to manage event registrations and ticketing on a new WordPress site we’re deploying. Here is a brief tutorial on adding your first event in Event Espresso:

As always, please use the comments section for questions or feedback!

Advanced WordPress Use

Sue — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:19:06 +0000

Now that we’ve covered both basic and intermediate WordPress skills, let’s move on to advanced skills! Today’s tutorials include:

Managing Widgets

Restoring a Post

Restoring a Page

Trashing (deleting) a Post

Trashing (deleting) a Page

That’s all for now! If you enjoyed these tutorials, have questions or need assistance, let me know in the comments section!

Intermediate WordPress Tutorials

Sue — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:11:19 +0000

We’ve barely scratched the surface of fun things you can do with your new WordPress site. Today’s tutorials include:

Adding Video to your WordPress site:

Using QuickPress:

Creating and Managing Custom Navigation Menus

Tomorrow will be our last day of tutorials. We’ll be covering the version manager and deleting (trashing) posts and pages.

As always, please leave a comment if you have questions or need help!

Beyond WordPress Basics

Sue — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:07:20 +0000

Now that you’ve mastered the basic techniques of working with WordPress, it’s time to take a look at some of the additional features of your WordPress site. Today’s tutorials:

Working with WordPress Pages

WordPress Comment Manager (if we have configured Facebook commenting on your site, feel free to ignore this):

Using the WordPress Excerpt function:

Working with Lists (ordered & unordered):

If you have any questions or comments, please leave me a comment!

WordPress Tags & Categories

Sue — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:01:09 +0000

WordPress offers the ability to use tags and categories to sort and refine post data. Many advanced themes use tags and categories to display additional post information within pages or sidebars. Here are some helpful tutorials on using these functions within your WordPress site:

Using the Tags function in WordPress:

Working with WordPress categories:

Tomorrow: intermediate WordPress skills, such as working with pages, comments and versions.

WordPress and Links

Sue — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:57:39 +0000

Working with links in WordPress is fairly straightforward. The following tutorials go into more depth about link tools available in your WordPress site:

Adding Links:

Editing Links:

Working with Link Categories:

Editing Images in WordPress

Sue — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:41:14 +0000

Yes, you can do basic image editing functions within WordPress. Here are some basics:

Understanding the Image Editor

Editing Images

Cropping and Scaling an image via the Image Editor

Flip, Undo, Redo your image in the Image Editor

Replacing an Image

WordPress and Pictures

Sue — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:29:09 +0000

WordPress looks best when it has pictures and images to accompany text. Today’s lessons are on working with images in WordPress via the Media Library:

The WordPress Media Library

Adding an Image From Media Library

Adding an Image From Your Computer

Adding an Image From a URL

Deleting an image from your post or page

Using Featured Images

Join us tomorrow for editing images in WordPress.