How to Insert a video into your WP blog

This is part 8 of a WordPress How-to video series.

Not so long ago, inserting a video into your WordPress based site was a real challenge, however, now with the latest version of WP and the many easy-to-use plugins available this has become so easy and straight-forward.

A lot of scenarios are available for such a thing but I would greatly recommend uploading your video to a video-sharing site like YouTube or Vimeo, or similar the then including the link into your site.

Topics covered in Screen Cast:

• Using Plugins to insert videos into your site or blog
• My Favorite free plugins for video
• How to setup the plugin and how to use it?
• Insert a video without the need for plugins

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Create Custom Menus with Ease in WordPress 3.0

This is part 7 of a WordPress How-to video series.

Today I will cover the topic of using the New WordPress 3.0 Custom Menus, and how to make the best use of them in your site.

Topics covered in Screen Cast:

• How to create a new custom menu and add pages, categories and external links to it
• How to arrange , rename menu and create sub-items with ease.
• How to include it in themes that natively support it like the twenty ten theme.
• What to do if your theme doesn’t support the custom menus.

If your theme doesn’t yet support this wonderful new feature, you can contact your theme developer or you can try to enable it yourself by following the simple instructions in this tutorial from templatic.

Hope you find that helpful and I look forward to your comments about the screen cast and your impressions of the new custom menu feature as well.

Don’t forget to watch the video in full screen mode to enjoy!

What I like most about Joomla in Video

After comparing Joomla WordPress to Joomla twice, focusing on the strengths of Joomla in one, and the new features that make WordPress 3.0 a better CMS in two, I thought it would be nice to show in video the things I still like about Joomla.

This is part 6 of a WordPress How-to video series.

Topics covered in Screen Cast:

• The Joomla welcome screen is very simple
• Really easy to sort article and find what you need
• How easy to use ads and banners in Joomla
• Adding contact forms and Polls built into Joomla without plugins

Viewing the video in full screen mode will be much more enjoyable!

Please, let me know what you think about them and your comments are highly welcomed.

Change the look of your WP site using themes

The ability to change a theme with one click was one of the first things that attracted me to WordPress, and I have to admit that the first time I tried it, I couldn’t believe my eyes how easy it was!

This is part 5 of a WordPress How-to video series.

Topics covered in Screen Cast:

• What are themes and why we need them.
• How to get and install a new theme .
• Where can you get free themes or paid ones.

Check out some of the themes I created for WP sites here, my portfolio.

You can get lots of free themes at the WordPress.org site here.

And there are lots of sources for paid themes, like themeforest.net, woothemes and a lot others.

I also do a lot custom theme creation, so if you have a design you want me to do for you or want to have your site designed and coded, please, contact me here.

As usual, watching the screen cast in Full screen gives you a better experience.

elmalak

Organize your Pages easily

This is part 4 of a WordPress How-to video series.

Although WordPress was initially a blogging platform, nowadays, lots of people are using as a regular website, or what’s called a CMS( content management system). To make this easier you need a way to control the pages especially if you have lots of them, in multiple levels.

This screen cast explains how to use a popular plugin for such a task called, Page Tree, which makes it super easy to control as many pages as you like. Of course you need to install the plugin first to be able to try what’s in the video yourself.

Topics covered in Screen Cast:

• Using page tree to have better control over your pages.
• How to find your page easily

You can get the free plugin here, Page Tree Plugin

Another plugin that you can use for the same purpose is called, PageMash.

I look forward to hearing any comments or suggestions and other plugins that you know with the same or better functionality.

N.B.:

Viewing the screen cast in full screen mode will give you a better experience.

WordPress Overview for beginners

After I started my WordPress How-to video series I thought, what if somebody is totally new to WordPress and doesn’t know where to go to get things done into WP Dashboard, so I decided to shoot a quick video as an overview for the absolute beginners to WordPress.

Topics covered in Screen Cast:

A quick overview on the WP Dashboard, and a walk-through the various main tabs and sections and what does each of them do.

For more in depth coverage of specific parts, feel free to watch the other episodes of  WordPress How-to video series.

I look forward to hearing any comments you might have after watching the video.

Enjoy!

N.B.:

Viewing the screen cast in full screen mode will give you a better experience.