March 22, 2014 — HTML is one of the core languages of the Internet. You don’t HAVE to know HTML to build and maintain a WordPress website – but knowing the basic tags gives you more control over the content, presentation, and impact of your message. This presentation covers the basic HTML tags commonly used in WordPress. You’ll learn how to insert a link, format text size/style/position, load an image, and more, all through the WordPress HTML editor.

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January 24, 2012

August 3, 2009 — The Text widget lets you insert text or HTML code into the sidebar of your blog. Learn more about it at the WordPress.com support page, or check out W3Schools excellent HTML tutorials to get your started.

July 12, 2009 — Jeremy Clarke talks to users at WordCamp Montreal who know how to blog but have not yet figured out how to control the way their blog works at the theme level. He explains how the files in your theme folder work to define different kinds of content and how to identify WordPress “template tags” and move them around in your theme.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.