Advanced WordPress Use

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!

Intermediate WordPress Tutorials

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 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!

Beyond WordPress Basics

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 Tags & Categories

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.

WordPress and Links

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:

Editing Images in WordPress

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 and Pictures

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



Adding an Image From a URL

Deleting an image from your post or page

Using Featured Images

Join us tomorrow for editing images in WordPress.

image of the WordPress logo

WordPress Support

Lately my development plate has been heaped full of WordPress goodness. Accordingly, I’ll be using my blog for the next interval for some basic WordPress training.

Today’s tutorials are on getting started with a WordPress site.

The WordPress dashboard:



Using the visual editor:



Adding a new post to your blog:



Adding paragraphs to posts or pages:

Tomorrow I’ll have 4 more tutorials on WordPress basics. If you have questions or comments on today’s tutorials, please leave a comment.