Author Archives: Sue

SOPA Explainer

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Sue

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 … Continue reading →

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Don’t Break the Internet

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Sue

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 … Continue reading →

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Event Registration

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Sue

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 … Continue reading →

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Advanced WordPress Use

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Sue

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 … Continue reading →

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Intermediate WordPress Tutorials

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Sue

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: Creating and Managing Custom Navigation Menus Tomorrow will be our last day of … Continue reading →

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Beyond WordPress Basics

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Sue

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 … Continue reading →

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WordPress Tags & Categories

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Sue

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 … Continue reading →

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WordPress and Links

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Sue

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:

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Editing Images in WordPress

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Sue

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 … Continue reading →

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WordPress and Pictures

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Sue

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 … Continue reading →

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