We’ve gotten some instructional videos to help you get the most out of your WordPress site here at blogs.shu.edu. Here are a few that might be especially helpful.
The Basics
Pages and Posts
This video introduces users to:
- Locating posts or pages to edit using Posts > Posts or Pages > Pages
- Accessing the Post and Page action menu links
- Open up a post or page in Edit mode
- Changing text to bold and italics
- Aligning text left, centre and right
- Updating posts and posts
Images
This video introduces users to:
- how to add an image from the media library to a post or page using the Add an Image icon in the Visual Editor
- How to add and edit the image information in the Media Library tab in the Add an Image screen
- Image alignment and changing image size
Your Media Library
Not just pretty pictures — audio, video, and file attachments.
This video introduces users to:
- How to find the media library.
- How to edit items within the media library.
- How to delete photos, videos, audio and documents in the library.
Staying Organized
Categories
Tags
Customizing Your Site
Change Your Theme
Menus
This video introduces users to:
- custom menus
- relating a menu to a theme location
- adding and rearranging menu items
Widgets
This video introduces users to:
- widgets and widget areas
- adding a widget to a widget area
- inactive widgets
More Advanced Topics
Image Galleries
This video introduces users to:
- Adding media inside the post content editor.
- Adding new images or selecting existing library images for your gallery.
- How to select multiple images for gallery insertion.
- Re-arranging photo order inside galleries.
- Allow for viewing single images in the WordPress Attachment Page.
- Placing other content above and below image galleries.
- Navigating through images in WordPress image galleries.
Post Excerpts
Featured Images
Many more are available — on video embedding, editing, quick drafts, managing and editing images, and more. Let us know if there’s a topic you’re interested in learning more about.
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