Author Archive

  • Previewing and activating themes

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 14, 2009 — If you’re not sure about a theme and want to try it on for size before wrapping your live blog in it, that’s easy enough to do. Here’s how.

  • Previewing and activating themes in WordPress.com

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 13, 2009 — If you’d like to see how your blog might look wrapped in a certain theme without making the changes to your live content, WordPress makes it easy for you get a sneak peak. Here’s how it works.

  • Organizing your links into categories

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 13, 2009 — If you have a lot of links in your sidebar, you might want to make them easier to navigate by breaking up them up into categories. Here’s how it works.

  • Inviting your friends to WordPress.com

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 13, 2009 — If you think that someone you know might like to start their own blog, browse through the .com community, or become a contributor to your blog, you can send out an invite from WordPress. Here’s how.

  • Customizing your header image

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 13, 2009 — Certain themes allow you to easily change the image that appears in the background of your blog’s header (the part at the top with your title and tagline). This video talks you through changing yours.

  • Creating a static front page for your blog

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 13, 2009 — If you’d rather have your landing page display something other than your latest blog posts, WordPress makes that easy. This video walks you through the process of setting up separate blog and front pages

  • Choosing a theme for your blog

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 13, 2009 — WordPress.com has a lot of themes to choose from – if you have a hard time deciding on which one would work best for you, this video will talk you though the options and make sense of them

  • Adding users to your blog (or removing them)

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 12, 2009 — If you’d like to blog with friends, colleagues or family, you can invite other people to join you in creating your blog content. This short tutorial shows you how to add or remove people, and explains the differences between permission levels.

  • Adding a widget to your sidebar

    January 12, 2009 — Widgets let you customize the content that appears in the sidebar(s) of your blog. This video walks you through the basics of adding widgets.

  • WordPress 2.7 Coltrane

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 8, 2009 — This 3 minute flyby gives you the lowdown on the latest features of WordPress 2.7 Coltrane