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Working with Posts

Lesson 10 from: WordPress for Photographers

Justin Seeley

Working with Posts

Lesson 10 from: WordPress for Photographers

Justin Seeley

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10. Working with Posts

Next Lesson: Working with Pages

Lessons

Class Trailer

Day 1

1

What Can WordPress Do?

07:49
2

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

10:41
3

Domains and Hosting

08:14
4

Domains Q&A

10:00
5

Demo: 1-Click Install on HostGator

08:53
6

Audience Q&A

38:03
7

WordPress Dashboard Oveview

32:31
8

WordPress Dashboard: Settings

33:22
9

Audience Q&A

03:42
10

Working with Posts

33:44
11

Working with Pages

30:46
12

Audience Q&A

34:57
13

Using WordPress Plug-ins

44:26
14

WordPress Themes

27:13
15

Final Q&A

04:05

Day 2

16

Managing Your Media

35:20
17

Managing Your Media Q&A

05:48
18

Working with Video

09:39
19

Top 5 Photo Plug-ins

19:57
20

Top 5 Themes for Video

13:56
21

Top 5 Video Plug-ins

10:37
22

Creating a Discussion

09:53
23

Moderating Comments

12:26
24

Creating Ratings and Polls

11:27
25

Purchasing a Theme

17:58
26

Customizing a Theme

08:23
27

Editing Code for Non-Geeks

24:54
28

Customizing Themes Q&A

07:43
29

CSS Crash Course

24:15
30

Using the WordPress Codex

13:13
31

Creating and Using Menus

08:28
32

Lightbox Plugins

13:13
33

WordPress Codex, Menus and Plugins Q&A

08:43
34

General WordPress Q&A

10:17
35

Optimizing Images for the Web in Photoshop

32:30
36

Optimizing Images Q&A

10:56
37

Displaying High Resolution Images on the Web

11:35

Day 3

38

Protecting Images Online

22:06
39

Adding Watermarks

17:56
40

Copywriting Images

08:40
41

SEO 101

24:00
42

Engaging Your Audience

05:26
43

URL Shortening

09:54
44

Exporting/Importing WordPress Data

10:33
45

Backing Up WordPress

13:26
46

Security 101

24:20
47

Spotting Trustworthy Themes/Plugins

24:32
48

Trustworthy Themes/Plugins Q&A

21:13
49

Battling Spam

18:38
50

Dealing with a Hacked Site

15:41
51

Protecting Your Site

10:46
52

Using Web Fonts

24:08
53

Web Fonts Q&A

11:36
54

Thanks + Credits

04:04
55

Monetizing Your Content

24:55
56

Final Q&A

28:31

Lesson Info

Working with Posts

So when we're talking about working with posts, we're talking about dynamic content. All right, that's the main difference between posts and pages. That's what a lot of people ask me like, What's the difference between a post within a page? What? What am I dealing with here? Okay, so you have to think about it in terms of static and dynamic content. A page is something that is informational. It contains information that's probably going to stay there. Like, for instance, on my home page. I have a page about me. It's my biography. Information that information doesn't change a lot, right? I might write a new, uh, write a book, my record, a DVD. I might produce a new podcast. That can change, but for the most part, I'm still gonna be Justin. I'm still gonna be from Kentucky and blah blah, blah, so that information is what we call static information that belongs inside of a page dynamic information belongs inside of a post. A post is what creates the evolution part of your blawg, right? Um...

, it's what keeps the readers coming back. The Post. It's what keeps the RSS readers filled with content every day you know, on, you know, big Tech blog's, for instance. There they have a page that lists all their authors. That doesn't change very much, but on the front page of displaced posts constantly and they're constantly posting things. And if you're subscribed to that belong, you don't see the about page in your RSS feed, you see the post content. And so a lot of people, I think it turned off by WordPress because they think they have to do posts you don't have to do postal. WordPress can be simply a, you know, content management platform that you used to display static information. That's totally fine. I know a lot of people that do that. I used to have my own personal site, didn't used to have a blawg element to it. I only recently started getting back into the blawg element in the last couple of weeks, and the only reason line did notice that I wanted to do some more tutorial things. I wanted to showcase some of the photography I've been taking all that stuff. And so I added the blawg element back into my site. You have to do that. All right. You can do purely static content if you want. The dynamic content, though, does keep your site fresh. Keeps new stuff on the home page, keeps new stuff in the freed reader, keeps the viewers coming back for something right. And if you're always pumping out new content, give somebody that reason to come back to you and maybe they see a link to something you're selling or, you know they think, Oh, man, he's great at what he does here. Let's contact him about working for us or something. It's just all about you know all about creating that the up sell really about yourself. So So, um, can you just confine that whole blogging thing to one page? Or is that normally how it is? Yeah, it's normally in just 11 part on on my site, though you know I have the blog's entries on the front page. I don't have to do that. I could just have a static page and then have a separate belonged. Since I'm running a multi site, I could actually have an entirely different site for the Blawg, and that's it was originally what I was going to do. If you remember, I showed you had a testing site for the bowling. That's originally what I was gonna do. I was gonna landing page and then a block. I just said it not to do that because I wanted to get back into the whole blogging thing. But, uh, yeah, you can have that stored. And that's when you change the static home page option stuff. We'll talk about that later. But when you change all that, that's where it goes against its own. And you can be in complete control of the house navigated to you. You want to put on a whole bunch of pages. First part of the navigation. Get your blog's be the last one or something. Absolutely. You have full control over that. Absolute. All right. So when we get into posts, all right, you have the ability to see all of your posts here on the left. So all of your posts on the left, by default, you get Hello, world. That's it. It's proof of concept is very simple. First thing I do when I get a new word person still trash, I trash it. I don't need that thing. Why do I need that? Just cluttering up space if you want. If you're thinking, Oh, man, I should not have deleted Mr WordPress. Okay? Undo. Mr Wordpress comes back. It's not a big deal, all right? The good thing about WORDPRESS, especially the newer versions of WordPress. They have the trash feature. Used to be a delete. It was known, right, nothing could bring it back. And you heard my Kentucky accent Come out there for a second. Sorry about that. Uh, I've only been home a few days, and I'm already adopting it again. But what you do in here is this is a management screen. All right? So if you have multiple people working for you, let's say you're a photographer and you do a photo blawg, for instance. And you're like, OK, assistant person, I want you to publish this photo. And here's the article that I wrote about it, but I want to review it before you post it to the block. So you give them permission to log in and they create a post and they save it. You can come here and you can look at the post and you could say, OK, let's let's go view that post So let's view it. I'm like, OK, yeah, this is cool. If it was published, you know, already there's nothing relying knew about. It's already out there, but I think you know what? I don't I don't really like that. It's Let's let's change that a little bit from here. You have the ability to do something called quick Edit of a Post so I can click quick at it and check this out. I can say, uh, no, it's now draft because it's not ready for prime time. If I go out to my Nothing found, there's no post, it's still there. The Post still exists, right? If I go back and set it to published refresh. There it is again. All right, so you have full control over that. That's the cool part. All right. Totally up to you. You can also, from here change things like the title of the Post. You can change the slug of the Post. The slug is the thing after the slash in the address bar. So when I'm looking at this, okay and I look at hello world, look at the address. More shutter click dot com slash 2011 slash 8 16 slash. Hello, dash world. If I want to change that to Well, let's change the slug. Not the title. Let's change this tear. Hi. Came and hit update. Now, when I go back to this, theoretically, when I refresh this, it automatically changes die. And if I'm on, you know the front page from here. And I click on that if you can't really see the link Bardem. But down in the status bar, it says slash high. So you have the ability to control. That's that kind of individual permanently change that I was talking about earlier. Okay, You can also see the author who if it's, you know, it's got categories. And the date it was published from here as well. All right, so I'm gonna trash this because we don't need All right, so we're just gonna trash it Any time you need to go into the trash. There's the trash right there. Okay, you can click on this and you can delete it permanently where you can restore it. So if you if you're unsure, if you want to get rid of it permanently, leave it in the trash. Let's take up any space. I mean, for crying out loud, just text, right. And if you insert an image into it, the image does not become part of the post. Its dynamically displayed from your media library. So it doesn't. It doesn't increase the size of the post, necessarily. Right. So you can restore that, or you can delete it permanently. Totally up to you. Uh, I'm a pack rat. I don't believe anything. Um uh, I have photos and tutorials and stuff from, you know, 2000 for, and you should see my hard drive. It's a mess, but, uh, you know, wordpress is the same way. I don't I don't throw anything away because you never know when you could salvage part of it. You know, you could salvage the intro to oppose or anything. So you just manage that from here? Okay, let's take a look. How would create post? All right, so I add new in this case, I'm gonna call this hello creativelive audience. Okay. Hello, creative live audience now automatically. When I click down in the content window here, you're gonna notice that it automatically adds a Perma link to it. Okay, If you don't like that permit link. You can change it just like I showed you before. Okay, if you don't want to lose anything, you can always hit. Save his draft over here. Let's take this step by step. Let's go right here. So this is the title. This is what The post is gonna be displayed right here, right in this area. Then here is your content window. This is where you're adding in the content. It's it by defaults. Get the visual editor. The visual editor's what you're using. If you want to do HTML if you're hardcore HTML you can do that. Okay, We're not gonna do that right here at the top. This is where you insert things like images, video, audio, media and more. Press 3.3. This has changed to one single icon that just looks like a little media icon, and then you upload accordingly. Okay, So you don't have all of these more personally 10. now, underneath here. That should look very Microsoft word. He to you. So have you ever used Microsoft word? Chances are, you can use wordpress. That's good news, right? Because we've leased. Probably seen Microsoft Word at some point so you can bold things. Italicized things, um, strike through numbered lists are Excuse me. Bulleted list numbered list. Block quotes. You can align your text to the left, to the center. To the right. You can add links. You can do what's called a more tag. Discuss that in a moment. Spell check. I couldn't live without that. A toggle full screen mode full screen mode is fantastic. Oh, man, it's distraction free writing environment. If you're like me and you get distracted by bells and whistles and things around you, um, this is a great place to come and type. I love this, uh, thing. When you hover over the top, it automatically takes you here. You can exit full screen at any time. So for me, that is high, right? Most of my block post is in full screen mode just because it's so much easier. Okay, here's my favorite button. They call it the kitchen sink, which is fantastic. So the kitchen sink is basically everything else you would ever want to change. So stuff like styling paragraphs. Here's the cool thing about this. Most themes have built in CSS styles. For these things all you're doing is telling it what this is. So if I type out some text and change it to heading two, chances are the CSS document that controls the theme. Has something there that says Heading to is black 36 points times New Roman fund or something like that. You don't have to worry about all that. That's why this is so awesome. It's point click underlining. You've got a line full otherwise known is justified. You've got a text color paste as plain text. If you're taking something from a word document or a text document, it's got formatting on it, and you want to remove all that formatting. You can paste this plain text. You can also paste in from Microsoft Word, which will attempt to maintain your formatting accordingly. You can remove formatting from everything, because if you copy and paste from one place to another, especially on the Web in the WordPress, it brings in links formatting, bold, italic, all that stuff. You can remove all that from here. All right, insert custom. Character is where you get your cliffs and copyright symbols, trademarks, symbols, all that good stuff. So if you don't know about all that you can get all those from here because the HTML code on a lot of these is ridiculous. Like I have to know for a copyright symbol to type out ampersand copy. Semi Colon. Seriously, I don't think so. I'm just gonna hit the copyright. Someone have put it in there for me. Right? So that's what that is. You've also got the ability to indent and out dent text. You can undo and redo stuff here inside of WordPress. And you've got a help section as well. Very, very Microsoft word. So let's grab some filler text for a second. Okay. I'm gonna go Teoh a great site. Bacon ipsum dot com If you've never been to bacon ipsum dot com and is one of the greatest sites ever created, it's all about meat. And so I want five. This is basically to alleviate the durum ipsum text phenomenon. Right, cause everybody's tired of seeing Laura myths. Um, So this is Laura Mattson text based on bacon. There's also tuna ipsum dot com. If you're into fish, so you can do to know if some dot com So in this case, I'm gonna grab five paragraphs of text I want it all meat. That's all I want is meat. I don't want meat and filler, right. I want to start with bacon and then all I have to do is say, Give me bacon and it gives me bacon and I take my bacon and I go, You can ask my wife. It's like my favorite thing in the world to eat. So, um so there we go. Grab that and then I come back in here. Here's one of the funky things about the WordPress editor. And if you've used the word president before, you probably know this. The four mining in here stinks. It really does. When I paste this watch the amount of paragraph space it gives between each one. It's got an extra return almost in between all of them, right? And it didn't do it as bad as it normally does. It usually does to spaces that would actually paste it in pretty well. But sometimes it'll look like this. And so you just have to come in and manually remove that space, which kind of stinks. If you run into that issue a lot, try pasting as plain text. Okay, try pacing when you pace this plane takes, you click that and you just paste it in and it does it for you and then it paste it in here. OK, so there's my my text, all my bacon ipsum jargon. If I want to see this, I can preview it, so I just open this up. There's a little preview button right there. So here's my hello creativelive post and hopes I made a classic mistake. I did not save my work. Therefore, it doesn't display anything, so I have to come back and I save it. Then I'll go back and refresh their is my post. Okay, so there's my post. If I wanted to changing thing about it, I could go back in here. Let's say I want the first part. You know, it's bacon. It's fantastic. So it's bold it Heck, let's underline it. For crying out loud. Let's make it red. It's awesome. Bacon. Now let's go back over here. Excuse me, Let's save it. Previous Bacon red Underline. Bold. All that stuff, right? Let's say in the middle here, this is a quote about swine, right? So we'll just, uh, well, quote that in. That's a That's a block quote. You don't have to save. A lot of times, it'll auto se four Young is doing that to speed up the process a little bit. So there we go notice that just kind of indented in. Most themes make use of some sort of custom block quote styling. So again, it's a different font. It's a talic. It's indented in. Looks good. All that good stuff. Okay, scroll down a little bit on a Let's take this and let's say we want to add a link here. Added Lean. Come to go up here and click the link I in the links section. Let's just do bacon ipsum dot com. Okay, bacon. I heart bacon. I can choose to open this in a new tab or window. Most browsers now open them in new tabs. Thank goodness they don't open them in a new window. I'm gonna choose that on interesting thing that was introduced in WordPress three point. Oh, is this right here linked to existing content? If you have other posts on your blog's, you can actually link to that content directly from here. So if I want a link to my about me page or my sample page. Here's the best part about that is it automatically gives you a ping back or a link back in your incoming links section. And it'll actually notify you that somebody is linked to you. You're linking to you, but it's the same thing, and it helps your search rink a lot when people link back to you. And so, theoretically, if you're linking back to yourself through the system, you're doing yourself a service, right? But in this case, I'm going Teoh link to this ad link. When I do that, you notice it turned blue here. If I save it, go back. There's the Blue Link. If I click it, it opens in a new tab or window. Pretty straightforward. All right, Now let's say that I'm pretty happy I'm happy with Maya with my post here. I have the option over here on the right to set it to draft. It's a draft right now because I've saved into the draft multiple times. I can change the visibility of it. Well, we'll talk about visibility tomorrow when we talk about users. I can also choose to publish it immediately, or I can schedule it. Okay, so let's say I wanted this to come out tomorrow. I change that to November 30th at whatever time I wanted to come out as. Or, let's say, for instance, that you know what? I actually wrote this article in October. So let's say I published it on Halloween. This was, ah, you know, bacon candy, which I've never had, but I've actually seen. So if you ever go to the Oklahoma State Fair, this is no joke. So you go to the Oklahoma State Fair. They have chocolate deep fried bacon on a stick on a wonder why the South is one of the most obese places in America. Um, chocolate deep fried bacon on a sick. Really, It's crazy. So you can set that up. Schedule it. Whatever you need when you hit okay, it will automatically tell you. Okay, Your post will be published on October 31st 2011. Well, that's, you know, a couple weeks ago, but if I had published, it's live, it's out there. So did you get published? It's live my number one thing that I can tell you, and this is something that I learned a long time ago. Don't be afraid to click that published, but okay, The good news is you can always go back in and edit it later. All right? You have editorial licence here and whatever you want to talk about, that's totally up to you. I write stuff all the time. I don't care. People need it or not. It's great creative outlet for me. I wrote a post a couple of days ago called Strive for Happiness, Not Success. A lot of people disagreed with the philosophies that I put them. You know what it was what was up here at the time, and I put it out. I don't care. So now this previews kind of outdated. Let's go to my home page. I just did that by clicking the title. There it is. Hello, creative live audience. Here's my bacon article, right with everything as it should be now, I told you before I was gonna talk to you about something called a more tag. It's also called the teaser tag Good. So let's say I want them to read this first paragraph and I want them to read that on my home page. But after that I want them to actual Have to click through to the article to read it. Okay. Yeah, exactly. Light bulb. Right. So I click are hit enter to create a line, and then I'm going to click right here to create a more tack. Doesn't do anything really to the post itself. If I hit update, though. And I go back out to my site, remember, this is my home page shutter click that by default, it shows all of this. If I refresh, it shows the first paragraph and then a little continue reading teas button right there. Right in a lot of teams. Only because of the alignment between you, me and the screen behind you. I didn't see what you actually did. Do that. So I apologize. Yeah. Go back. No problem. It's something actually. Really want to be able. Yeah, absolutely. So, what I do, I find where I want to put it? Sure. Okay. And I hit return? Yep. And then this little guy right here, that's and I just click on that insert more tag and it on, Mac. It puts it in there, and I'll update and then on the front end of the site it automatically does this. Okay, You can also do a custom ex ERT for posts. So if you didn't want them to actually read the article, you want to do your own expert, you can go in here, do this, you going to screen options, and you can turn on ex ERT and you can come down here and you can type in a specific excerpt that you want to display. If the theme you have supports exerts it will automatically display the exit as opposed to the And that's another way of just kind of teasing. Cool. Thank you, Kind of, uh, all right. Okay. So depending on the fame you're using, this will look different. And a lot of things they have, like a really cool button, stylized button or something that kind of tease you through to the next thing, which is really cool for using a membership plug in, or something like that. You can, you know, hide everything below the more tag until people have paid you to see it. That's another way of monetizing your sites, which is pretty cool. So all right, now we're gonna talk about discussion a lot tomorrow, but let's say that you're gonna post. You said earlier you're talking about doing political blogging, right? Okay, So political blogging, that's a hot button issue. No matter where you are in America, right? And so if you're gonna be posting a lot of opinions that you know is gonna create a firestorm on you, chances heart, you might want to not have comments for that post. Right? If you're gonna be swaying one way or the other so you can actually go here to the discussion tap. And this is all under screen options, right? Appear at the top so you can click there and turn on discussion by default. It's turned off. He used to be on by default, but it's off now for some reason. Okay, so now I can scroll down and down here at the bottom. I can say, OK, I want to allow people to, you know, do track baxam ping backs. We don't know what those are. You can open that up and you can read all about what those are in their intro to blogging things. Basically, it's like when people link to, you know, stuff like that. So I want them to be able to do that, and I want those to appear in my comments list because I want people to see Oh, well, this is kind of popular. It's getting some traction across the Web, but maybe I don't want people to be able to say anything, All right, so I go there and hit update. Now when I go back to the site and look at the post. In most cases, the theme will display comments closed for this post. You know, normally it has a big comments box where you type stuff in. If you're logged in and love a block, well, you can close that. So if it's a hot button issue, or if it's something you know, it's just an informational update. You really don't need any commentary on you know you don't need any feedback from the peanut gallery. You can close the comments anytime you want, and you can close the comments on a post that have already it. Art has comments on it. The ones that are there will display, but it's just close for now. So if you get into a flame war with some people or whatever, good, but normally if you allow comments you're in charge of whether they get posted. Not right, right? Absolutely. Yeah. Unless you allow free range on your rights, which you could set that. But that's dangerous. Yeah, Yeah, absolutely. And so we'll talk about how toe control all that tomorrow during the user segment. But, you know, this is just a quick and easy way of okay on a post by just turning it off, just Yeah, Yeah. Just turns it off completely. So nobody composed anything, and it also lets everyone know that they can't come exactly got it. Just a good way toe. Let people know. Hey, discussions over. All right. A couple other things because I think we're fast approaching lunch. So a couple of things about posting you'd be aware of if your post or your theme support post formats, those almost likely be located over here. So it's like the tumbler style snuff if you wanted it to be, like a quote or a gallery post or something. Now, the 2011 theme doesn't have definitive styles for each one of these, unfortunately, addition so that I can show you, but I'll talk about a certain themes that do when We start talking about themes later on today, and so they make better use of these all right categories by default. It's uncanny arised, and we're gonna talk about how to set up categories more in depth a little bit later. But right now, let me show you how to do this. So if I want to add a category of sadness, The news update I just type in at new category type in news it add category. I'll uncheck on Categorized as I don't really like that. All right, now let's talk about the differences stream categories and tags categories or more broad. Right, so this is a news update. But it might be a news update about bacon, pork and stuff, right? So I could tag it with bacon comma pork meet awesomeness, you know, and I contact that I can it add, and it automatically adds all that stuff in. Then you can add something in, and I'll show you had this one talk about themes. Later, they called a tag cloud that you can set in the sidebar your website. That way, people can say OK, Justin likes to talk about photography or whatever. If you go to my website, for instance. You can see over here on the left I have attacked Cloud. And in that tag line, you can see I talk a lot about photography. Photoshopped, Uh, OK, seeks. I used to live there HDR, adobe tips, workarounds, workshops, all that kind of stuff. And you can click on those and automatically shows you so I could say how to buy click how to It takes me to all the posts that are how to posts, right? This was actually posted in showcases and tutorials, the category, But it has to do with how to do something. So I tagged it with how to. And so that's what you can do in here, too. Okay. And then just make sure everything's updated and you are good to go. Do those categories or tags relate to CEO? It all categories and tags? Not necessarily. I mean, you can I'll tell walking through an S e o. Plug in tomorrow and we'll talk about that. Great. Thanks. All right. So there are some other things in here that you may need to take a look at in here. Okay. For instance, custom fields. This is a little bit advanced. OK, so don't get too upset if you don't understand what this means. But basically, custom fields are little things that you can add in there. So let's say, for instance, that I'm running a podcast and I want to include a download link somewhere in my theme I haven't defined, you know, call out for the download link and display it here. I could have a custom field that says, OK, download link, and then I entering the value of that download link, and it's displayed dynamically through the theme. All right, a lot of themes will have custom options in here already built that you don't have to make custom fields with. If you want to learn more about these, I think it's a valuable piece of information to read about, so I would turn that on again. That's underneath screen options and custom fields and then go down here and just read use in your theme and you can read about how to do that. I make use of that all the time in different ways, so it just depends. Like all my podcast site that I used to run, I would have a custom field for the ITunes subscription link for the feed burner subscription link to download the exercise files of the tutorial or whatever. So I just depends. So, like you could have it, you know, download a model release, download something else. Download comp of this photo or whatever it might be. All right. All right. Um, author, this is another one. It's kind of cool. So you can come in here and you can set the author. So let's say theoretically that I have my assistant post something for me, or I have my you know, my wife write an article for me or something, but, you know, they don't necessarily want their name displayed or they don't You know that they didn't actually write the article. I gave them the article, and they just posted it for me. They can go in and they can change. Who wrote the art? I only have one user me right now, so I can't really change it. But I could change that up any time I wanted to. That is going to affect who is the author in the post metadata. So you know when you get in here and it tells me. Oh, let's go here on that. Okay. When it tells me who this is written by which is right here at the bottom by Justin Seeley If I change the author, it would automatically change that. If I had a bio thing at the bottom, it would automatically change the bio information based on who's who set to the author and all that good stuff to. Okay, one more thing I'll show you. And then I think they'll probably take us. Teoh, about time to go is inserting pictures in here. So create some space there. And if I want to insert a picture in here, I can grab the upload button right here, and I can choose a file from my computer. All right? And so it takes a minute. There we go. OK, so let's say that I want to use one of my photos, and these are all photos that I've taken recently. So let's just take it. There's my wife. Uh, she'll be really happy. I sure that eso we upload it. Okay, I can and I'll talk about more of this in the media management thing tomorrow, but if I wanted to link to something I can I'm gonna choose no link. I don't want it to be aligned Anything. I wanted to be in on its own line and I wanted to be a medium size because the large size of the 1000 pixels by 700 pixels, that's pretty big. All right, so let's just do medium and then let's insert it into the post. Here we go. Preview changes. There it is. In my post, I could align that to the left so that the text wraps around it. I could lead to the rights and textract around the left, Totally up to you. If I want to change, I can click on it and go in here and I can say, Yeah, I wanted a line to the left. Okay, I could give it alternate text, which is good, especially if people with disabilities to come into your site or if the image happens to break you can add a caption. So I can say this image is neat and you give it a link. Not going to you, but you could update right. There's a caption. And I'll tell you what, move this back. Let's just move it up here, theoretically, can't clicking. But that's all right. Let's just preview the changes. There it is, wrapped on the left hand side. There's my caption underneath it. Depending on your theme, the captain's gonna look different every time. Okay, So, like I said, we'll talk a lot more about managing media tomorrow, how to put it in the post and all that good stuff. But I just want to give you an overview of how to do that. Hopefully, now you see that it's not as intimidating as you might have thought for publishing post editing posts and all that kind of stuff, keeping them updated, changing categories and all that great stuff. Um, and that's all there is to it, Basically. Okay, The only other thing. One more. I promise. That's the last one. The great thing about WordPress. You know what everybody uses a U R l shorter, right? We're gonna talk about how to do your own your oil shorter in the class, but they have a built in short link in here. So if I don't want to link on Twitter to all of this excuse me. You can go get short link and it gives me this little thing, which is a lot shorter to that. If you have certain plug ins and sold, you can actually use a custom domain with that. And it's really cool. All right, so any questions, we have questions from the Internet. Um, wink Power would like to know when editing and full screen mode. How do you How do we enable the kitchen sink options? I noticed that many of the editor options vanish when going into full screen mode. Yeah, in full screen mode. Unfortunately, you lose that, Um, so if you go into full lips, not kitchen sink area. So we go in full screen mode, you're gonna lose a lot of that stuff. Basically, what this has meant for is just content production, essentially, And so if you're gonna do any of the other editing type deals, you need to just go out of full screen mode for that. Just one or two more really quick one, uh, Js. Beals has asked, Is it possible to remove the text? Comments are closed. Yeah, absolutely. Change it. Yeah, it depends on the theme. You'll have to find where it is in the same chances are. It's in the common stop PHP document. But, um, we talk about customizing themes. I can go over that. Yeah, absolutely. Ah. Futures photos would like to know if you can share a preview or draft before having go live. You You can, um if you if you give somebody permission to log into your site, they have to be logged in to see it. But you can potentially dumb questions. The terminology post that. Really? It means page, right? No post is, um, Post is exactly what it is that blawg post. Right? Okay, so that's the content of a pay of your pay again, right? What? Yeah, There's two different types. Remember, There's posts and pages. Pages are static. This is actually a post page. And then there's a page pate so page can can contain a post right post is not a page, but yeah, I know. It's kind of it's kind of confusing. So basically, every post gets its own page called a single, or I'm viewing a single post right here. So this is the single post page, but on a regular page, right, this is like a static page, right? It's the same kind of thing, is just based on different content.

Class Materials

bonus material with enrollment

WordpressSlides.pdf
wp_seo_101.pdf

Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

I watched all three days of the course. I am a photographer. The course was titled WordPress for Photographers. Only about 5% of the course was tailored to photographers. Most of the content and discussion was for pro website consultants and bloggers. That aside, Mr. Seeley is so well versed in what he knows well. Imagine sitting in front of the camera for 3 straight days remaining articulate and very professional! The class was really presented for bloggers, not photographers. An example of this is on day 3 where the presenter, after talking about photographers' concerns for an hour or two, said he wanted to transition out of photography into blogging. The class seemed short on the type of content that photographers need. It would have served photographers better if the students present in the studio were all photographers. Discussions on watermarking, photo file size and image theft/copyright infringement showed that Mr. Seeley's background in the needs of photographers is lacking, while his expertise in graphics and web design are VERY impressive. Too much of the class time was devoted to answering narrowly focused tech support questions from people other than photographers. It was a wonderful class for the audience that hijacked it, but it should have been titled and described differently if it was intended for web-blog designers. I really liked the energy, humor, and expertise of Mr. Seeley but the class was too-often off-mission. On day 1, it would have been very productive to show a photographer's WP website that was esthetically beautiful and had all the bells and whistles photographers are looking for. Then explain how you get from nothing to the final website using WordPress. That would have met the needs of pro photographers!

Shannon
 

Justin is an excellent presenter. He's easy to listen to and it's obvious he knows his stuff. As a presenter/trainer, I really appreciated his ability to stick with his outline while he fielded questions, both off and on topic. It takes some balancing to do that. He was good at noting questions that were too far afield and I think he actually answered all of them by the end of the three days. I would definitely attend more classes presented by him. Thanks, Justin and CreativeLIVE.

a Creativelive Student
 

Amazing class! Superb presentation! Justin kept the technical geek-speak to a minimal and made the entire class easy to understand and fun! I think this class should be called Wordpress for the Non-Geek! (As others have said there was not a lot of information specific to photographers, but when it was referenced there was great examples and information provided!)

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