WordPress.tv: Home of the Visual WordPress Tip
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jan 12 2010 at 8:00 am | 1 Comment »
WordPress.tv is an amazing and growing resource for visual tips and tutorials for using WordPress, as well as WordPress-related interviews and topics. It is also the key repository for WordCamp videos, a tremendous showcase of WordPress and blogging topics presented by some innovative thinkers and experts in the WordPress Community.
Companies around the world are pointing their social media and blogging employees to WordPress.tv to learn how to use WordPress in their company, and many are showing them at conferences and training workshops. All the tutorials are available free of charge, all submitted by the WordPress Community or the team of WordPress.tv.
Michael Pick of WordPress.tv is a long time expert at video and video editing and has brought fun and innovative videos to the WordPress Community helping us learn visually about how to use WordPress. He and his team help WordCamp organizers around the world to live stream and capture video from the event and share it with the world.
They also dig all around the web looking for videos on WordPress. If you are interested, check out their submission guidelines. It lists the different types of video content they accept: WordCamp Videos, screencast tutorials, and vodcasts, what they describe as WordPress related interviews, reviews, animations, or…whatever. As long as it is WordPress related. They also include a great list of screencasting resources to help you get started and understand how this all works.
Videos are presented in English and many other languages, with more international language tutorials coming. Subtitle captioning has recently been added for English, Turkish, and Galician, with more on the way. Hover your mouse over the video for subtitle and other options. If you have some screencasting and video experience, your help would be appreciated.
Finding Video Tutorials on WordPress.tv
Unfortunately, while Michael and his crew are working hard on adding appropriate tags and categorizing the content, it’s hard to find things unless you know exactly what you are looking for. Here are some tips to help you navigate the WordPress.tv site.
The content is divided up into two “flavors” representing the version of WordPress you are using. The two parent flavors are WordPress.org and WordPress.com.
The next layer of flavors are version numbers, represented by their version numbers such as 2.8, 2.9, and so on.
The category list is visible when you click on a category found in the right sidebar area of the iframe hosting the video. Scroll down to find tags and categories. The key parent category for WordPress.tv is How-To with subcategories for:
- Admin
- Akismet
- bbPress
- Blog Management
- Blogging Tools
- BuddyPress
- Concepts
- Design
- Development
- Discussion
- eCommerce
- Gravatar
- Importing
- Installation
- Integration
- IntenseDebate
- Media
- Mobile
- Organizing
- Plugins
- Publishing
- SEO
- Set-Up
- Themes
- Users
- Widgets
- WordPress.TV
- Writing
You can find WordCamp videos under the WordCampTV category. Some fantastic tutorials and how-tos are presented at WordCamps.
The WordPress.tv Blog releases frequent updates and news on recent releases as well as topics they are looking for. The Making WordPress.tv blog goes behind the scenes into the development area of WordPress.tv.
WordPress.tv Video Tutorials
Here are some of the WordPress.tv video tutorials and tips that may be of interest, especially to those new to WordPress, starting with how to embed photos, video, and audio in your WordPress blog posts.
- Adding a new link to your sidebar
- Adding and deleting categories
- Arranging links into categories
- Creating a PollDaddy Poll
- Customizing your writing settings
- Displaying a list of links in your sidebar
- Editing your existing list of links
- Embedding photos, video & audio into your posts
- Moderating your recent comments from the dashboard
- Setting your discussion settings
- Creating a static front page for your blog
- Customizing your header image
- Adding an About Me or Any Other Static Page
- Adding categories and tags to your posts
- Creating a post excerpt & using the
- Previewing and activating themes
- Publishing your post at a later date
- Rearranging the post editor to suit your style
- Saving and returning to draft posts & pages
- Writing and publishing a post
- How to Add Video to Your Blog
- CSS-Tricks: Designing for WordPress Part One of Three
- Installing WordPress with FTP
- Speed up WordPress with Gears for Firefox
- Styling Category Levels in WordPress with CSS
- Anatomy of a WordPress Theme – exploring the files behind your theme
- Introducing Post by Email for WordPress.com
- Add Twitter Updates to Your Sidebar: Self-Hosted Edition
- Scalable WordPress Navigation Using Sort Order
- The Category Cloud Widget for WordPress.com
- The Flickr Widget for WordPress.com
- The Pages Widget for WordPress
- The Search Widget for WordPress
- The Text Widget for WordPress
- An Introduction to Custom Fields
- Building The Ultimate Website Content Map
As video and screencasting becomes easier and more affordable, expect to see WordPress.tv grow even more, bringing great hands-on, free tutorials to the WordPress Community.
EXCELLENT! I am so glad to see this here. The videos make a lot more sense to someone like me (relative newbie) than the Codex does, although it’s well written.
Thank you for setting this up!