Getting Started With Wordpress

New to Wordpress? Don’t worry… you’re not alone. While it really is a pretty easy system to use once you get the hang of it, Wordpress does take a little bit of getting used to, and one of the best ways we’ve found to learn Wordpress is through video tutorials. We’ve compiled some great tutorials below that are a perfect place to start if you are not familiar with Wordpress and are learning it for the first time. If you have experience with other content management systems, you’ll likely find yourself pleasantly surprised and impressed with both Wordpress’s ease of use as well as the amount of control it gives you over your web site.

Green Media adds tutorials on an as needed basis that cover a variety of different topics including common plugins and advanced topics. Be sure to search our site for any other topics you might be looking for… you may well find something out there.

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Beginner’s Video Tutorial Guide:

1. Writing and Publishing a Post

   The thing you’ll probably be doing most with WordPress – writing and publishing posts – is covered in this short video tutorial

2. Adding Text and Image Links to Pages and Posts

   One of the most common tasks that anybody will have in front of them when working with Wordpress is creating both internal and external links (internal links being links to pages within your web site, while external links being links to pages deemed outside of your web site). This tutorial covers adding links to both text and images alike.

3. Saving and returning to draft posts & pages

   If you’d like to save your work and come back to it another time, without putting it out for the world to see, WordPress gives you various draft options. This video talks you through the process.

4. Embedding photos, video & audio into your posts

   Embedding photos, video & audio into your posts and pages is quick and easy as this Wordpress video tutorial describes in detail. The tutorial also covers adding additional types of media, most notable PDF files that you may find it helpful to include on your pages and posts.

5. Controlling your Sidebar by Adding Widgets

   Widgets let you customize the content that appears in the sidebar(s) of your blog, and sometimes other special areas of your web site as well. This video walks you through the basics of adding widgets.

6. Text widgets – a quick way to add text, links and images to your sidebar

   The text widget is as simple as it gets, but it’s actually surprisingly versatile. This short video demo shows you a couple of ways you could put a text widget to use in your sidebar, including adding short snippets of HTML for uses like including opt-in forms or setting up affiliate links.

7. Controlling How Comments Work in your Blog by Setting your Discussion Settings Properly

   It’s important to understand how your readers interact with your blog content through comments, and there are a variety of options available within Wordpress to control the commenting system. This video tutorial walks you through the available options.

8. Moderating your Recent Comments

   If you want to get a quick glance at your latest comments, moderate them right from the dashboard, or moderate them through the primary Comments area within Wordpress, this video tutorial will provide a really nice walk through.

All tutorials are current as of Wordpress 2.7.