Speakers: Michael Pick

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Customizing your writing settings

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 5, 2009 — If you’d like to customize your settings for writing with WordPress, this one minute tutorial will walk you through adjusting your blog’s writing settings

  • Checking your stats & inbound links from the dashboard

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 5, 2009 — If you’d like to check out who’s reading your blog, and how they tracked you down, the incoming links and stats features of your dashboard make it easy. This 60 second tutorial walks you through the process.

  • Changing your reading settings

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 5, 2009 — Reading settings let you customize how your readers will experience your blog – whether from the web or their feed reader. This brief tutorial walks you through the options

  • Getting a post out quickly with QuickPress

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 5, 2009 — If you want to quickly get a post out without the trimmings of the main editor, QuickPress makes it simple to publish right from the dashboard. This short video walks you through it.

  • Creating a PollDaddy Poll

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 5, 2009 — If you want to quiz or poll your readers with a customizable, embeddable poll, the PollDaddy feature baked into the WordPress.com editor makes it really easy. This short video talks you through the process of putting a poll together and checking up on the results.

  • Changing your default media settings

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 5, 2009 — If you prefer to set your own default image dimensions, you can do so from the Media Settings menu. This short tutorial walks you through the process.

  • Arranging links into categories

    Speaker: Michael Pick

    January 5, 2009 — If you get to the point where you have a huge sprawl of links to other websites in your blogroll, you might want to organize them into categories to make your links easier to navigate. This short tutorial shows you how.