Wordpress Quickstart Screencast Tutorial (1)

August 20, 2006

In this tutorial I cover the following:

  1. Installing a free FTP program and connecting to your website
  2. Creating a database for Wordpress.
  3. Installing Wordpress.
  4. Configuring Wordpress settings.
  5. Setting up permalinks.
  6. Writing and editing a post.
  7. Uploading images.
  8. Creating a blog roll (list of links).
  9. Setting up an about page.
  10. Installing a plugin.
  11. 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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Comments

  1. WordPress Tutorials by cre8d design…

    Rachel Cunliffe in her cre8d design blog just posted a wonderful WordPress Quick Screencast Tutorial, Part 1.

    ……

    — Perfect Blogger, August 21, 2006

  2. 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 :-)

    — Ben Bishop, August 21, 2006

  3. 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 :(

    — Rachel, August 21, 2006

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  6. I’ve checked the download speed and it’s fast for me - perhaps try again?

    — Rachel, August 21, 2006

  7. Nice! I am using BLUEHOST.COM and they have a one-click-install for wordpress, works great.

    — Chris, August 21, 2006

  8. 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!

    — Seamus "Moose" Anthony, August 21, 2006

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  12. Impressive work there Rachel!

    — Greg Kiernan, August 21, 2006

  13. Great Rachel !

    Many thanks from Australia.

    Keep the good work mate

    — Gilad, August 21, 2006

  14. awesome accent! :)

    — Mike, August 22, 2006

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  19. 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

    — newdisco, August 22, 2006

  20. 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 ;)

    — Jaime, August 22, 2006

  21. 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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  30. 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!

    — sergio, August 24, 2006

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    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.

    — cowboy3003, August 24, 2006

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    http://silentbits.com/?p=509

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  37. 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?

    — LauraLee Sparks, August 27, 2006

  38. PS Please email me a mailing address for you I’d love to send you some ITunes in appreciation!

    — LauraLee Sparks, August 27, 2006

  39. 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!

    — Rachel, August 27, 2006

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  46. Wow! Thanks for this.

    — MC, October 6, 2006

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  50. 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

    — rav, November 13, 2006

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