WP User’s Guide
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Great, thank !
Figaro,
Have you considered posting this to Scribd? http://www.scribd.com/
You could embed the scribd viewer and let them cover the storage/bandwidth.
Jan Dembowski
@Jan Dembowski
Thanks for the link Jan…I wasn’t aware of this service, but I’ll check into it a bit more later. For now, storage and bandwidth isn’t a problem…I have my own server with lots of each. I’ll be updating and expanding this quite a bit over the next couple of months, until I get it closer to it’s final form, it may be easier to just keep it here.
Thanks Figaro. I have been looking for something like this for few months. I actaully followed a link here to look at one of your excellent videos and ended up finding this guide. I’ll be watching for your updates.
@TomGreen
You’re welcome…hope you find it useful. Feel free to pass it on.
Thank you very much for this. You are very helpful. This manual complements your video tutorials well.
Hi Figaro,
I just moved my blog from wordpress.com to hostmonster. I got pretty much everything OK, except the blog stats. I installed the plugin, which works fine, but I don’t know how to recover the visit stats from wordpress.com and move then to my new host. Any idea?
@Olivier: Not sure you can without being able to export the table from the db…and, as far as I know, you don’t have access to that on wp.com.
This is genius! Very well done and clear. Thank you
Looks like a fine PDF file. But I have two problems: it’s in RGB format, and the beige background is just a waste of toner. Could you fix this for version 2?
@Tobias
The background is white in the new version…should have it published in a couple of weeks…you can preview it above.
Great work! Just one comment though, it would be handy to have an index page.
cheers!
@ink: Thanks. I’ve added a table of contents to the version 2. I will have it posted for download in a week or so.
Okay, I feel so stupid right now. I am trying to upload a wordpress theme and I’ve viewed about 4 different tutorials. But what no one seems to tell me is how in the heck I access the themes folder in WP. I have the theme on my desk top and I have Smart FTP client. I just can’t seem to get there. Where can I find step by step idiot proof instructions.
Thanks!
@Tracy: You don’t need to ftp themes any longer. Just login to your WP admin and select Appearance/Add New Theme and at the upper-left, click on Upload. You can upload your theme zip file there.
Please include bookmarks in your pdf (or links from the table of contents to the rest of the eBook).
@Pearl: Good suggestion…will do.
Hi,
I’ve seen a post that you added that shows people how to edit the Kubrick WordPress webpage.
However, there is no link to the video or lessons?
Can you help?
Gary
@Gary Lea: Try the Kubrick tag on this site.
The userguide looks useful but I find it very difficult to read with the educhalk.org word emblazoned in the background…
@sumoman
Better?
That’s fantastic! Its stopped me going cross-eyed! Its also reduced the size of the download by 2 MB.
Very exhaustive!
can you tell me the following. I have shifted from wordpress.com to .org
Should I add www in url or not (I see you have not)? I cannot find anything on this on net. If yes, where from? From the option in dashboard region? I am low on tech knowledge.
You have a great blog here. You could have published this booklet with MakeUseOf.
You may install comment reply subscription plugin.
Thanks.
@VIKAS GUPTA: I would recommend not setting it up with www. If your hosting account is set-up properly, and yours is, then if someone does enter your address with www it automatically redirects to the address without the www. Give it a try…type your web address with the www in the address bar and you’ll see it redirects properly.
Thanks a lot for the information, I’m a newbie, I just downloaded the user’s guide. Hope to learn more from you. Keep up the good work. GOD BLESS YOU.
Great product! Wish there was a link from the WP site to your manual. It would have saved me time. I have left money! Thanks!
@Spencer: Thanks for the donation Spencer…much appreciated. Unfortunately, WP considers links to my site to be SPAM and they delete them…
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/315495?replies=5
You are FABULOUS ! The PDF, the Videos, FABULOUS !
How would you suggest rolling a current website that is not WordPress built into a WordPress theme. I’m still seeking tutorials on using WP2.9 but the main project is to take a website done in WebEditor 8.0 and switch to a theme based and, hopefully, easier to use WP
@George Dennis: May not be what you want to hear, but the manual process would be best…install WP and then manually move your existing content…good opportunity to do some “house cleaning” as well…if your sites are like mine, I have all kinds of old, not needed, content spread all over the place.
Hi Figaro
I have a small but important question i can’t find an answer to anywhere. I want to use my blog for affiliate marketing but when i write a post on my wp blog, my affiliate links that I put in my post to lead to the sale page are not live in the published post. Could you please help me with this? Thank you very much. I downloaded your amazing guide today, however I did not see this problem addressed in there. But it’s going to be my bible for wp though, finally something I can understand. Thank you so much!!
Thanks a bunch!
Impressive stuff, Can we expect something similar for WP v3.X soon as well?
@Tanveer Malik
Not anytime soon…I’m pretty swamped with other paying work at the moment.
Is this updated? If not, is there an update?
Hi ther…I stumbled across your blog. there is a lot of great stuff here. Thanks for the WordPress guide, it will come very handy. I also enjoyed your article on Moodle. I was not aware of such serious security risks in Moodle. I know of a government institution that was planning to use Moodle as an e-learning platform for their highly confidential internal courses. I sincerely hope that they are aware of this problem….
Best regards and thanks again…
Joanna
Very helpful blog. The pdf looks very good. Thank you so much!
Rod.
Just wanted to let you know how incredibly helpful you’ve been to me over the years. I “discovered” your videos series on running wordpress on a stick on Youtube years ago; I’ve downloaded and still use your videos every few weeks to monkey-see-monkey-do myself out of issues -which I usually cause!
You’ve probably saved me thousands in consulting and webmaster fees – HUGE THANKS, Dude!
One word: AWESOME!
Great one. I hope you are planing to publish an updated version of the same eBook as lot of stuff has changed.
Thanks.