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

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments

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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 · 2 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 · 1 Comment

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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 · 3 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 · 2 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.