New to WordPress? This tutorial will guide you through the basic steps of publishing with the world's most popular content management system. Learn how to post and mange your content, manage tags and categories, upload media and more.
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KDMC produces a wealth of digital media tutorials to support our training sessions and classes. While the focus of some tutorials is on technology and journalism, most are general enough to be of use to anyone.
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WordPress Using, extending and modifying WordPress
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WordPress: Getting Started Power your site with a simple but powerful CMS
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WordPress: Beyond the Basics Deep dive on themes, plugins, menus and more
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Now that you've found your footing with WordPress, it's time to roll up your sleeves and dig deeper. In this tutorial we cover building menus and sidebar widgets, installing and working with themes and plugins, batch post management, using the Links manager, and more.
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WordPress: Managing Settings Exploring the options in the WP Settings panel
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This is a companion to the WordPress: Beyond the Basics tutorial. It takes a deep dive into all the options found in the Settings section of the WordPress Dashboard.
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Installing WordPress Get your WordPress installation up and running
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Depending on your existing web experience, the most complex aspect of running a WordPress site may be the installation process. In this tutorial, we demystify the process of using WordPress installers at popular web hosts, and offer pointers on first post-installation steps.
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WordPress: Photo Galleries WordPress photo galleries that work
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Learn how the WordPress Media Library and galleries work, how to set up and use the NextGen plugin to improve photo management and create slideshows and galleries that can be rated or contributed to by users.
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WordPress: Modifying Themes Tweaking the look and feel of WordPress sites
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Learn how themes are constructed and how to get your chosen theme to work exactly the way you want it to.
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WordPress: Building a "Topics" Site Search Engine Optimize your WordPress site
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A news site often publishes many related articles on the same topic, such as "Healthcare Reform." While these disparate articles may be linked to one another through a tagging or category interface, it's ideal if a site can maintain a single, stable URL that gathers related content under a single umbrella. Having a "topic page" system helps both readers and the publication to locate and target related information, and improves SEO value. This tutorial demonstrates how KDMC fellows can use our demonstration "Topic Central" system, as well as how developers can create such a system with WordPress.
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WordPress: Getting Started Power your site with a simple but powerful CMS
WordPress: Getting Started
New to WordPress? This tutorial will guide you through the basic steps of publishing with the world's most popular content management system. Learn how to post and mange your content, manage tags and categories, upload media and more.
WordPress: Beyond the Basics
Now that you've found your footing with WordPress, it's time to roll up your sleeves and dig deeper. In this tutorial we cover building menus and sidebar widgets, installing and working with themes and plugins, batch post management, using the Links manager, and more.
WordPress: Managing Settings
This is a companion to the WordPress: Beyond the Basics tutorial. It takes a deep dive into all the options found in the Settings section of the WordPress Dashboard.
Installing WordPress
Depending on your existing web experience, the most complex aspect of running a WordPress site may be the installation process. In this tutorial, we demystify the process of using WordPress installers at popular web hosts, and offer pointers on first post-installation steps.
WordPress: Photo Galleries
Learn how the WordPress Media Library and galleries work, how to set up and use the NextGen plugin to improve photo management and create slideshows and galleries that can be rated or contributed to by users.
WordPress: Modifying Themes
Learn how themes are constructed and how to get your chosen theme to work exactly the way you want it to.
WordPress: Building a "Topics" Site
A news site often publishes many related articles on the same topic, such as "Healthcare Reform." While these disparate articles may be linked to one another through a tagging or category interface, it's ideal if a site can maintain a single, stable URL that gathers related content under a single umbrella. Having a "topic page" system helps both readers and the publication to locate and target related information, and improves SEO value. This tutorial demonstrates how KDMC fellows can use our demonstration "Topic Central" system, as well as how developers can create such a system with WordPress.
WordPress Links and Resources
Additional reading, related software, training and more.
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