I’ve been working on my screencasting skills (thanks to BB Flashback) and am going to unveil my (strong?) kiwi accent shortly with a screencast tutorial which I’m planning to record very soon (Sunday?). In the first “get up to speed with Wordpress” tutorial I’m planning on covering how to set up your blog:
- Installing a free FTP program and connecting to your website
- Creating a database for Wordpress.
- Installing Wordpress.
- Configuring Wordpress settings.
- Setting up permalinks.
- Writing a post.
- Uploading images.
- Creating a blog roll (list of links).
- Setting up an about page.
- Setting up a contact page with a contact form.
- Setting up spam protection.
- Adding a stats counter.
- Setting up a back up system.
- Setting up Feedburner and making sure all feed traffic goes through it.
- Showing your delicious links on your blog.
- Showing your Flickr photos on your blog.
- Adding Adsense Ads to your blog.
- Finding other plugins to install.
- Adding a tag cloud to your blog.
- Removing the meta tag information from the sidebar.
- Finding new themes and switching to a new theme.
Is there anything else (aside from designing a theme which isn’t the topic of this screencast) that would be handy this screencast which would get you up and running with a blog with the standard sorts of things people need/want? Is there anything I should remove because it’s not a core thing people want to know about when setting up their blog?
your thoughts
Gareth
This is exciting stuff! That list looks complete to me. I am eagerly awaiting this screencast. Readers of Rachel’s blog should digg this! Sorry Rachel – that might lead to a cre8-crash, but this kind of stuff is essential for people like me, who need to be shown this stuff before developing the confidence to do it themselves. I’ll be pointing psychsplash readers towards this entry to help get some more psychologists blogging.
Andy Howard
ahhhh this will be awesome! I’m continually discussing these configs with online strategy clients/friends, and everyone always asks for video! this is sure to become a very popular web resource… great move Rachel!
Amit Agarwal
You might also want to include some popular Wordpress plugins in your screencasts.
Looking forward to you first show
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Ben Bishop
Looking forward to it……
Rachel C
Hi Amit – I’m including the contact form plugin, feedburner plugin, ultimate tag warrior, flickr and delicious plugins – were there some others you had in mind (I’m trying to keep to the most useful)?
Chelsea
Great list… The only thing I can think of to add is …. how to modify or add a blogroll?
Donna
This will be an incredible resource for setting up the WordPress. Very cool and can’t wait.
Steve Ole Olson
Two items I’ve had to deal with that might fit your plans – checking the theme for proper behaviour in IE as well as FF & are the search bots going to treat it well?
petitefleur
Hi, Rachel using video is such a good idea! Can’t wait to see your screencasting!
Jaime
Hi Rachel, first of all excuse my bad english, I am from Peru. It will be excellent, but I’d like to see how to design a theme, only a little about that part, =) thanks.
Rachel C
Thanks everyone for your positive feedback about the idea. I am deliberately leaving off designing themes/checking themes in different browsers etc because it’s such a huge topic but if the first screencast goes well, maybe I’ll do another one
tim bulkeley
Like othgers, I’d start by saying “Wow no. If you can do all that (and I can follow) I might even try moving from blogger to WP!”
But again like others, I’d at least like some hints on getting started with a look, even if it’s a built in one…
Rachel C
Thanks Tim – will definitely show how to install a new theme and switch to it. If the first one is successful (fingers crossed!) I can look at another one on themes.
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Cris
Rachel you are my idol!
I am really new in this stuff, you don’t understand how help….Rachel where is it the second part?
And, can you explain how to change the themes, and configure the RSS ? you know what i mean, the button….i don’t know what are useful for but i am a newbie….Please post the second tutorial too!
Thanks
Rachel
The second part hasn’t been finished – I have been up to my neck in work.