Dr. Hyndman’s PodBlog

I created the following WordPress tutorials for my graduate educational technology classes. I use a customized version of WordPress in my classes to teach my students how to use them as classroom websites. I’ve customized the source files and database to simplify the interface, remove or disable a lot of the blogging features (since we are using this as a website and not a blog), and to make it as easy as possible for a non-techie to build and maintain a nice website. So, if you are familiar with the standard WordPress install, the screens and menus will look a little different (and in some cases a lot different), but most of the information still applies to a standard WordPress install. I’m making these available to the public as my small contribution to the WordPress community for a great piece of software. I’ll be adding more tutorials in the near future with hopes of building a comprehenisve video library. I hope you find them useful.

Getting Started:

1. Logging in and out of your site
2. Navigating your site
3. Initial configuration

Posting to Your Site:

1. Posting
2. Deleting a post
3. Editing a post
4. Saving Draft Posts
5. Using categories

Creating Pages:

1. Creating a page
2. Deleting a page
3. Editing a page

Uploading Files:

1. A word about documents
2. A word about images
3. Uploading documents
4. Uploading images

Formatting Posts & Pages:

1. Activate advanced WYSIWYG editor
2. Inserting hyperlinks
3. Setting hyperlinks to open in new window
4. Copy and paste from Word
5. Split post
6. Image and text alignment
7. Horizontal space between images and text
8. Changing the default category
9. Editing post timestamp

Working with Links:

1. Adding links
2. Deleting and editing links
3. Link categories

Themes — Changing the Look of Your Site:

1. Editing the default Kubrick theme
2. Selecting a custom theme

Plugins — Adding Features:

1. The advanced editor
2. The audio player — Configuration
3. The audio player — Use

Users and Roles:

1. Creating Users
2. The Admin Role
3. The Editor Role
4. The Author Role
5. The Contributor Role
6. The Subscriber Role
7. Deleting Users