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    These videos were not designed specifically for the AAA installation of Wordpress. Not all features described in these videos will be available on your AAA blog. For more videos from this source visit Wordpress.tv

    Contents

    1. Introduction to the Dashboard
    2. Creating Your Wordpress Profile
    3. How to Write and Publish a Post
    4. Adding Users to Your Blog
    5. Working With Media
      1. Embedding Photos, Video, & Audio Into Your Post
      2. Creating an Image Gallery
      3. Changing Your Default Media Settings
    6. Working with Categories and Tags
      1. Adding categories and tags to your posts
      2. Adding and deleting categories
      3. Adding & managing categories after the fact
    7. Customization with themes and widgets
      1. Previewing and Activating Themes

    Introduction to the Dashboard

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    This video provides a basic introduction to the Dashboard and how to customize it.

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    Creating Your Wordpress Profile

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    Your WordPress.com profile lets the world know a little bit about you, and also gives you a chance to upload a Gravatar. In this video, we quickly show you the process of getting your profile set up

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    How-to Write and Publish a Post

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    Screencast tutorial taking you through how to write and publish a post.

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    Adding Users to your Blog

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    In this short video Kenneth Watt of Technofinger.com talks you through the process of adding additional users to your self-hosted WordPress blog. NOTE: This screencast was not created specifically for AAA Blogs and the process for adding users is slightly different in that all users must have a UO DuckID to be added to your blog.

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    Working with Media in Wordpress

    Embedding photos, video & audio into your posts

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    If you’d like to insert photos, videos, audio or other media into your blog posts, this video will walk you through the basic.

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    Creating an Image Gallery

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    If you’d like to put a gallery of images into your post – this video will quickly walk you through the process.

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    Changing Your Default Media Settings

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    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.

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    Working With Categories and Tags

    Adding categories and tags to your posts

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    Categories and tags help to organize the content in your blog, and make it easier for people to navigate through to find what they’re looking for. In this short video, we’ll take a look at how to add and manage both.

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    Adding and deleting categories

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    If you want to add (or remove) categories to and from one or several posts at once, this short tutorial will walk you through what you need to do.

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    Adding & managing categories after the fact

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    If you’d like to tidy up your blog categorization, or assign categories to already published content, this video will show you how.

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    Customization with Themes and Widgets

    Previewing and Activating Themes

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    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.

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