Helpful Video Tutorials For WordPress Users

I love working with business owners when it comes time to get their web presence up to speed. I even enjoy training them on WordPress as their first entry into website editing. I generally give my clients a 1 hour in-person training time where I give them a tour and let them get hands-on with their new website. But for some reason, the ‘drinking from the fire hose‘ approach leaves many with unanswered questions or tasks that they forgot how to handle.

Below is a collection of videos from various sources that seek to help FourTen Creative clients manage their new WordPress websites.

Basic Introduction Playlist at YouTube

This collection of intro videos provides a great entry the very basic, essential tasks in managing your WordPress  website.

Topics include:

• Logging in
• Pages
• Posts
• Images
• Users

Managing Widgets

Organizing The Dashboard and Post Edit Views

These couple videos provide a visual example of how to organize the Dashboard and Post edit page environment. This is especially helpful if you get lost easily when viewing the admin section of your website.

Gravity Forms

If you got your site from FourTen Creative, then you’ve been preloaded with some useful plugins. One of the most powerful is Gravity Forms. This intro video gives you a visual tutorial on creating, placing and managing forms with the plugin.

All in One SEO

Easily one of the most popular plugins for WordPress, All In One SEO Pack allows you to set title, description and keywords for your whole website, pages and even single posts. This is incredibly a great way too leverage the power of WordPress blogging for raising your site’s search engine profile.

Podcasting

A popular use for WordPress is to power a podcast. When I set up churches with a WordPress website, they are generally using the Podcasting plugin to create audio enclosures. Don’t know what that means? You don’t need to. Just watch the video and you’ll have a podcast going in no time.

Posted on Thursday, May 27th in news.