WordPress Quickstart Screencast Tutorial (1)

August 20, 2006

In this tutorial I cover the following:

Installing a free FTP program and connecting to your website
Creating a database for WordPress.
Installing WordPress.
Configuring WordPress settings.
Setting up permalinks.
Writing and editing a post.
Uploading images.
Creating a blog roll (list of links).
Setting up an about page.
Installing a plugin.
Setting up a contact page with a contact form.

The resulting site after Tutorial 1 is found at CelebCynic.

This only covers half the items I wanted to cover in the first screencast but it’s getting rather large already (~70MB) and long (30 minutes). The other items will be covered in part 2 of the tutorial.

Download the WordPress Quickstart Screencast Tutorial (1)

If you find this helpful, please let me know!

If you’re feeling extremely grateful, I would appreciate accept any iTunes vouchers (in New Zealand we cannot legally buy music for iPods – our credit cards/Paypal accounts aren’t accepted).

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http://www.benbishop.me.uk/ Ben Bishop

Rachel, I am really keen to take a look at this but I am getting about 6kbs dl speed? Can it be moved to a quiker server? What about uploading to YouTube or Google Video for example, is it possible to convert from swf? Thanks for the effort you have put into this though
http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/ Rachel

Hmm, I’m using ourmedia which hasn’t been a problem in the past. Google Video doesn’t accept flash files currently and it’s too long for youtube
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http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/ Rachel

I’ve checked the download speed and it’s fast for me – perhaps try again?
http://thecontemporarytaoist.blogspot.com Seamus “Moose” Anthony

Hey thanks so much, I was just sitting down to begin figuring out how to make the leap from blogger to wordpress, I checked my RSS and Darren Rowse sent me packing to this fantastic tutorial – you rock! Thanks again.

Looking forward to the rest of it!
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http://bloggersbuzz.com Greg Kiernan

Impressive work there Rachel!
Gilad

Great Rachel !

Many thanks from Australia.

Keep the good work mate
Mike

awesome accent!
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you code encode it to avi or mpg and upload it to google video. maybe i can do it for you. thanks for the tutorial. it’s great
Jaime

Hi Rachel, I enjoy this tutorial, is very helpful, thank you for this work, you are great I am eager about part 2 (you have a pretty voice
http://gimps.de Maria making pictures

Great tutorial. It was very helpful to me.
I had issues in understanding the installation of wordpress before I found this tutorial.

Thank you for sharing this helpful tutorial with me !
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http://ihatedesign.frih.net/blog/ sergio

Rachel te tutorial is awesome, i like the simplicity and the topics you covered, i have a blog, but this covers many things ive never note.

Thanks for the time, and keep going!
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Rachel this tutorial is great. It gave a overview on how to install and configure WordPress. Hope you go in more details and produce more videos which can be used for starters on WordPress.

Just a question, will you be covering Skin design for WordPress. That would make a great topic for video.

Thanks for your effort and time.
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http://www.pomomusings.com adam walker cleaveland

great tutorial rachel – but is this person just linking to you or trying to take credit for this?

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http://www.thesimplesolutionva.com LauraLee Sparks

Rachel, This was great, I have confidence now that I can get started with setting up my WordPress blog. I’m looking forward to Part II. Any idea when that will be available?
http://www.thesimplesolutionva.com LauraLee Sparks

PS Please email me a mailing address for you I’d love to send you some ITunes in appreciation!
http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/ Rachel

Thanks I’m hoping to do another one next weekend as I’ve been mega busy this weekend.

My email address is on the contact page (rachelcunliffe at gmail).

Cheers!
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Wow! Thanks for this.
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This made my first self-installation of WordPress a breeze. Thank you so much!
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http://www.bitesoftware.com rav

Really useful info here, couldn’t view everything tho but will definitely bookmark everything. I’ve made a free flash contact form maker which you can customise and add to your wordpress site. http://www.bitesoftware.com/trialversions.html#freecontactform

To be honest I think WordPress is so much better than Blogger although I’d like to explore the CSS thing a bit more – have you experimented any with your templates and tags??

cheers
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