Hands down one of the best explanations on how SOPA/PIPA work and why they won’t resolve the issue of intellectual property protection:
As thorough as this video is, it doesn’t touch on some critical uses of the internet by marginalized groups, but overall, nicely done.
This is a great overview of PIPA/SOPA:
Our #1 reason for fighting PIPA/SOPA is its impact on start up businesses. Protecting incumbent businesses (mostly Hollywood, network TV and 6 music companies) at the expense of innovation has never helped our economy. Please take action by contacting your senator or representative and encouraging them to vote against this bill.
Our sites will go dark on Wednesday, January 18th to protest this ill-conceived legislation. For further information, visit Stop American Censorship.
We are using Event Espresso (affiliate link) to manage event registrations and ticketing on a new WordPress site we’re deploying. Here is a brief tutorial on adding your first event in Event Espresso:
As always, please use the comments section for questions or feedback!
Now that we’ve covered both basic and intermediate WordPress skills, let’s move on to advanced skills! Today’s tutorials include:
Managing Widgets
Restoring a Post
Restoring a Page
Trashing (deleting) a Post
Trashing (deleting) a Page
That’s all for now! If you enjoyed these tutorials, have questions or need assistance, let me know in the comments section!
We’ve barely scratched the surface of fun things you can do with your new WordPress site. Today’s tutorials include:
Adding Video to your WordPress site:
Using QuickPress:
Tomorrow will be our last day of tutorials. We’ll be covering the version manager and deleting (trashing) posts and pages.
As always, please leave a comment if you have questions or need help!
Now that you’ve mastered the basic techniques of working with WordPress, it’s time to take a look at some of the additional features of your WordPress site. Today’s tutorials:
Working with WordPress Pages
WordPress Comment Manager (if we have configured Facebook commenting on your site, feel free to ignore this):
Using the WordPress Excerpt function:
Working with Lists (ordered & unordered):
If you have any questions or comments, please leave me a comment!
WordPress offers the ability to use tags and categories to sort and refine post data. Many advanced themes use tags and categories to display additional post information within pages or sidebars. Here are some helpful tutorials on using these functions within your WordPress site:
Using the Tags function in WordPress:
Working with WordPress categories:
Tomorrow: intermediate WordPress skills, such as working with pages, comments and versions.
Working with links in WordPress is fairly straightforward. The following tutorials go into more depth about link tools available in your WordPress site:
Adding Links:
Editing Links:
Working with Link Categories:
Yes, you can do basic image editing functions within WordPress. Here are some basics:
Understanding the Image Editor
Editing Images
Cropping and Scaling an image via the Image Editor
Flip, Undo, Redo your image in the Image Editor
Replacing an Image
WordPress looks best when it has pictures and images to accompany text. Today’s lessons are on working with images in WordPress via the Media Library:
The WordPress Media Library
Adding an Image From Media Library
Adding an Image From Your Computer
Deleting an image from your post or page
Using Featured Images
Join us tomorrow for editing images in WordPress.
