This is my education presentation for Intermediate Wordpress users. Users should already know how to post, edit posts, add pages on Wordpress.

1. Intermediate WordPress
Guide to Creating Your Social Media World
Gregory Drejza
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2. Agenda
Intermediate WordPress
• Posting with Pictures and Video
• Uploading Media
• Linking Media
• Creating Links Libraries
• Changing Your Appearance with Themes
• Understand / Adding Widgets
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3. Place to Get More Info –
Mashable.com
www.Mashable.com
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4. Log Into Your WordPress Account
We Start Here!
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5. WordPress Dashboard
Here is where you Navigate
around WordPress, posts,
settings, media and more
cool stuff
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6. Review Your About Me Page
Looks just like a
posting page
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7. Let’s See Your Posts
Edit doesn’t appear until you hover
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8. Create a Post
Post Title
Publishing
Add Pictures, Video
Edit Tools
Tags
Post Content
Categories
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9. Insert a Picture from URL
Once you have decided what your blog
post topic is, go look for pictures on
Google. Using “images” on left.
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10. Picture from URL
Click on the picture to see it better, then
right click on it, find Properties, and right
click again to find and select the URL.
Copy & Paste
the URL into
WordPress
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11. Insert URL into Wordpress
Insert URL Here
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12. Media Library
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13. Add New Pictures to Library
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14. Editing Pictures
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15. Insert Media into Post
From Media
Library
Choose a picture to
insert into your post
from the media library.
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16. Edit/Advanced Edit
Edit
picture
size
Edit picture size
Justification and links
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17. Insert into Post
Change
Picture Size
Insert into post
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18. Links Library – Add New Links
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19. Add a Link
Name of Link (not URL)
Web Address, URL
Click to add link
Describe the site, link
Category of the link
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20. Link Category & Targets
Add to an existing link category or
add a new category
Target is: when the link is opened,
how do you want it opened?
Choose “_blank” – new window
Add relationship if desired
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21. Widgets
W i d g e t is a fancy word for tools or
content that you can add, arrange, and
remove from the sidebars of your blog.
Widgets make it easy to customize the
content of your blog sidebar.
Available widgets: Image, Links, Text,
Facebook Like, Flickr, Twitter & More
Let’s look at Link and Image widget
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22. “Links” Widget
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23. “Image” Widget
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24. WordPress Theme Settings
Appearance
Settings
Themes
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25. Next Month – Intermediate WordPress
Advanced WordPress
• Adding Icon Widgets
• Adding Facebook Widgets
• Leverging HTML
• Adding Pages
• Embeding HTML Video Source Code (YouTube
Videos)
• Auto Sharing to other Social Media Sites
• Changing Page Headings and Colors
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