Installation and Configuration
Configuring WordPress Settings: Miscellaneous
This video is a continuation in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on Miscellaneous Settings.
The Miscellaneous Settings page is sort of a catchall configuration screen for various options that don’t fit anywhere else.
Configuring WordPress Settings: Privacy
This video is a continuation in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on Privacy Settings.
Privacy Settings are fairly new and somewhat minimal at this point. They can be used to turn off update notifications in an effort to hide your blog from search engines. As noted in the video, this is far from a fool-proof solution, but it can be a useful feature in certain situations.
Configuring WordPress Settings: Discussion
This video is a continuation in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on Discussion Settings.
Discussion Settings allow you to better control comments on your blog. Various settings allow you to easily define which comments should automatically require moderation, and what information commenters need to include in order to post a comment.
Configuring WordPress Settings: Reading
This video is a continuation in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on Reading Settings.
Reading Settings control the number of posts that appear on a page, whether your RSS feed includes full or partial posts, default page encoding, and article compression.
Configuring WordPress Settings: Writing
This video is a continuation in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on Writing Settings.
Writing Settings allow you to assign default categories for posts and the blogroll, setup a mail server for blogging by email, and define update services that should be notified whenever you add new content.
Configuring WordPress Settings: General
WordPress is an incredibly flexible and powerful blogging system. A great deal of that flexibility can be configured through the various Settings pages in the WordPress administrator.
This is the first in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on General Settings.
General Settings include blog title, tagline, blog URL, and time settings, among other things.
Import and Export WordPress Data
This video details the WordPress Import and Export features. Export allows bloggers to migrate their blog content to another WordPress installation. Import allows bloggers to import content from other blogging systems such as Blogger, TypePad, Live Journal, and others.
The video also covers some overlooked Import features, including the ability to migrate tags from various tagging system plugins (like Ultimate Tag Warrior) to the native WordPress tagging system.
Managing WordPress Files
The WordPress blogging system is made up of hundreds of system files. Most bloggers will never have a need to edit these files directly. Those who do will likely edit the system files on a test server and upload the fully tested and modified files using an FTP program.
Regardless, WordPress provides a method for editing system directly from the Administrative interface. As I note in the video, this feature should be used with caution.
Managing WordPress Uploads
Update: With version 2.5, the Manage Uploads administrative feature has been replaced by the new Media Library.
Chances are you’ll be uploading photos, videos, and various binary files (like PDF documents) to your blog. Over time, active bloggers can accumulate a large number of file uploads. Managing uploads exclusively through the Post and Page interfaces can be challenging when your uploads span across many months (and years) and hundreds of posts.
Fortunately, WordPress allows you to manage your uploads directly. This video shows you how.
Managing WordPress Users
Now that you know how to update your WordPress user profile, you may want to create additional users. You might need to do this because you’re running a group blog, or you wish to allow additional authors to contribute to your blog from time-to-time.
This video will show you everything you need to know about managing users in WordPress, and provides an introduction to WordPress user roles and permissions. For a more detailed analysis of user roles be sure to watch the special video explaining WordPress user roles.