How to add a Youtube Video to your WordPress post
There are a few ways to do this and some plugins that will handle it for you, but usually it is as easy as copy/pasting. Copy the url of the video you want Click into the content box of your post Paste the url and usually that will do the trick, however if it doesn’t …
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WordPress: How to add a page to a menu
It can seem a bit fiddly at first to add a page to a menu in WordPress, but once you have done it a couple of times, you will quickly get the hang of it. Look for the “Appearance” menu on the lefthandside in admin, click it Then look for “Menus” and click it In our …
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WordPress: How to make a new page
Making a new page is something that WordPress makes nice and easy. In just a few seconds you can have your new page ready to go. Look on the lefthandside menu for “Pages”, click it Now you should see “Add new”, Click it That’s it, short video below You might want to add it to …
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WordPress How To: Change the colour of text
You might be bored of the default text colour, or maybe you need to highlight some text with more than just bold or font size, you want to use colour as well. Here is how. Select the text Look for the “A” icon in the toolbar, if you can’t see it, it will be because …
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WordPress How to: Get the most traffic from images
When you add an image to your post, even if you have taken care of the Caption, Alt tag and Title tag values you may be missing a trick. When your users click on an image, do your users see the image within a page or just the image? If the image is within a …
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WordPress How To: Add an Alt and a title tag to WordPress
Search engines use alt tags and title tags to understand what an image is about. The alt tag is also used for blind readers to indicate the content of the image. Adding useful values for these to your images will increase the traffic to your posts. This is how it’s done. Click on the image …
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WordPress How To: Resize an image
Sometimes you find you can fit in a larger image than expected in your WordPress post, and it’s easy to adjust the size as long as you uploaded a nice big image in the first place. Click on the image and choose “edit” Look for the size option drop down Update
WordPress How to: Notify on draft
If you have help writing yours posts, it’s likely you want to check them before they go live, but how do you know they are ready for publication without logging in and checking? Well it’s possible to receive an email when a post is “Pending Review”, which is a draft setting. First install a plugin …
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Using the Jetpack Publicize WordPress plugin
The Publicize Plugin for WordPress is a great tool. It lets you post to your social media at the same as you make your posts. The social media posts all link back to your blog or website, putting your audience in front of your best content!. In fact it’s likely you are reading this because we used the …
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