How To Install WordPress On Your Mac With XAMPP

May 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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Hi everyone, and welcome to Tubetorial. I’m Lorraine Nepomuceno.
If you create WordPress themes or plug-ins, one of the most useful things you can do is install WordPress on your computer. That way, you can do all your testing and tweaking “locally”, without having to connect to a web host or server. Today, I want to [...]

Jazz Up your WordPress Admin with Fluency

March 31st, 2010 · No Comments

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Hi everyone, and welcome to Tubetorial. I’m Lorraine Nepomuceno.
If, like me, you spend hours every day in various WordPress dashboards, you might be interested in applying a new theme to your WordPress administration area. This is also particularly useful for those of us who install WordPress on client sites, allowing us to give an added [...]

Two Ways to Add Custom Messages to WordPress, Part 2

March 28th, 2010 · No Comments

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This is Part 2 of our tutorial on ways to add custom messages to your WordPress blog or website. Most marketing experts agree that return visitors are more valuable to you than new ones. Today, we’re going to look at a way to personally greet your return visitors with a custom message- [...]

Two Ways to Add Custom Messages to WordPress, Part I

March 27th, 2010 · No Comments

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One of the reasons blogs and websites are such popular forms of media is because of how interactive they can be. Today we’re going to look at two ways to add custom messages to your website or blog, which are small ways to add a little more interactivity- and add more value- to them.
We’re doing [...]

Three Fun Twitter Plug-Ins for WordPress, Part III: NewsTweet

March 25th, 2010 · 16 Comments

Hi everyone, and welcome to Tubetorial. I’m Lorraine Nepomuceno.
This is the third and final episode in our series of fun Twitter Plug-Ins for WordPress.
The plugin we’re featuring today is called NewsTweet, and what it is is basically a sidebar widget for your blog that automatically searches through Tweets on Twitter for search terms you specify, [...]

Three Fun Twitter Plug-Ins for WordPress, Part II: Tweet Old Post

February 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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Hi everyone, and welcome to Tubetorial. I’m Lorraine Nepomuceno.
This is the second episode in our series of fun Twitter Plug-Ins for WordPress. If, like me, you like to use Twitter to keep in touch with your blog readers as well as your friends and family, you’ll appreciate the plug-in we’re looking at today.
The plug-in is [...]

Three Fun Twitter Plug-Ins for WordPress, Part I: Tweet Highlights

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments

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Hi everyone, and welcome to Tubetorial. I’m Lorraine Nepomuceno.
Today, I thought we would do something a little more fun with WordPress and Twitter. If you use Twitter a lot, and are looking for ways to integrate it with your WordPress-powered blog- other than the usual “latest tweets” widget- you’ll enjoy the three plug-ins I’m about [...]

How to Add Translation to Your WordPress Blog

February 16th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Hi everyone, and welcome to Tubetorial. Today I want to show you how to instantly add translation to your WordPress blog or site- using a nifty little plugin called Global Translator. It’s free, although there is a Pro version, which you should consider using if you need additional features.
For this tutorial, I’m installing Global Translator [...]

Three WordPress Plugins to Fight Comment Spam

January 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments

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Hi everyone, and welcome to Tubetorial. I’m Lorraine Nepomuceno.
If you have a blog, you probably know what a problem comment spam can be. Today I want to show you three WordPress plugins to fight comment spam. To use these, your blog must be powered by self-hosted WordPress. I’ll be including links to where you [...]

How to Use Thumbnails in Wordpress

January 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments

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Hi everyone, and welcome to Tubetorial. I’m Lorraine Nepomuceno.
Today I want to show you how to use the new thumbnail feature. This is a new feature, because in the past to attach thumbnails to your posts, you had to use custom fields or maybe a plug-in. But the latest version of Wordpress- 2.9- now [...]

How to Create Sticky Posts in Wordpress

January 8th, 2010 · 5 Comments

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Hi everyone, and welcome to Tubetorial. I’m Lorraine Nepomuceno.
Today I want to show you how to use the Sticky Posts feature in your Wordpress blog. Sticky posts are blog posts or articles that remain at the top of your homepage for as long as you like. This is great for certain important posts you [...]

How to Convert Your HTML Page to a Wordpress Theme, Part I

November 30th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Hi everyone, and welcome to Tubetorial. I’m Lorraine Nepomuceno.
Welcome to Part I of How to Convert Your HTML Page to a Wordpress Theme. Today, I’ll be showing you how to take a simple HTML page, and begin converting it for use in Wordpress.
Here, I’ve got my page. It’s a simple lay-out, as you can see. [...]

How to Install IntenseDebate on your Wordpress Blog

September 29th, 2009 · 4 Comments

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Hi everyone, and welcome to Tubetorial. I’m Lorraine Nepomuceno.
Today, I’m going to show you how to install IntenseDebate on your Wordpress blog. IntenseDebate is a commenting system that you can install on your blog to enhance how your blog handles comments. It includes a lot of features… for example, it allows you to respond to [...]

Quick Steps to Secure Wordpress

August 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments

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Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of Tubetorial. I’m Lorraine Nepomuceno.
Today, I’ll be showing you some quick steps you can take to improve the security of your Wordpress installation. Now, Wordpress is one of the- if not THE most- popular blogging platform today, and it’s an excellent script, but that doesn’t mean it’s [...]

How to Schedule Your WordPress Posts to Publish in the Future

January 23rd, 2009 · 6 Comments

The following video shows you how to schedule your WordPress posts to publish in the future.
Now why would you want to do this? I can think of at least two reasons.
First, writing multiple posts in one sitting is a great way to improve your blogging productivity. It usually takes less time to write [...]

How to Change the Admin Panel on WordPress 2.7

December 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

This video shows you how to change the administration panel on WordPress 2.7.
I’ve found five ways to customize the appearance of the admin panel.

Minimize the windows.
Use the “screen options” tab.
Modify the left sidebar.
Go with one column.
Move the windows around.

WordPress 2.4 Administration Panel Preview

May 30th, 2008 · 83 Comments

WordPress continues to evolve and change, and one of the things that will take a bit of getting used to in WordPress 2.4 will be its latest administration panel design, which is a bit of a departure from previous versions.
The full design hasn’t yet been implemented as of yet, but I wanted to give everyone [...]