Ever need to make the same change to a bunch of posts? Don’t wear your fingers to the bone typing and clicking! Instead, learn how to use Bulk Edit to make all the changes at once.
Organize Posts with Categories
Categories are a great way to organize your posts. To help your visitors find groups of content (without relying on keyword searches) categories are just the thing. In this video we show how to create make curated lists of posts that visitors can access on a page or menu item.
Securing WordPress Content with Passwords
It’s easy to protect a post or page with a password in WordPress. It’s harder to protect uploaded media files. Many people fall into a trap where they protect a page full of links to PDFs, not realizing that the PDFs are freely available to people without a password. In this video we explain the issue and use the Download Monitor plugin to solve it.
Plug In to: Ultimate FAQ
In our “Plug In to:” series, we go deep on a single plugin. In this video we use Ultimate FAQ to quickly create a FAQ on our site. We explore many of the options in the free version, and explain some of the advanced features you will find in the paid Pro version.
WordPress SEO 101
The best, fastest, most beautiful web site in the world is worth nothing if the world can’t find it. “SEO” is the art of convincing search engines to send people your way. In this video we show how to use a WordPress plugin to add some “google juice” to your site, and do it without spending hours updating your site.
Anatomy of a WordPress Page
When you view a page on a WordPress site in your browser, it is constructed of many dynamic parts. WordPress assembles all these pieces behind the scenes on the web server and shows you the finished product: a beautiful web page. In this video, we show all the parts that make up a page and where to go in the WordPress dashboard to change each one of them.
WordPress Restore Classic Editor
The transition to the new “block editor” in WordPress 5 can be jarring. In this video we show how to quickly re-install the classic editor if you need to Get Stuff Done Right Now!
Watch this to get the old editor back, then come back later to watch our Gutenberg 101 video to get a leg up on using the new editor.
WordPress Gutenberg 101
WordPress version 5 came with a whole new editor and it’s very different from the old one. Our latest video shows some of the basics of using the block editor. Watch as we quickly build a post with multi-column layout and inserted images.
WordPress Pingbacks
Many people use WordPress for months or even years without ever knowing what a Pingback is or how it works. Don’t be that person! Watch our latest video which quickly explains what they are, how they work, and what to do if you are swamped with “pingback spam”.