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A Preview of WordPress Version 3.6

Preview of WordPress 3.6

As you might know, version 3.6 is on the horizon and expected out sometime at the end of this month. In the meantime, I have been playing around with the Beta 2 version. In this video, I will talk about 4 areas that will most affect you as a user: Autosaves, New Menu User Interface, Post Formats and Revisions. As soon as this version is out of beta, and officially released I will be doing an … [Read more...]

Creating and Managing Navigation Menus in WordPress

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WordPress makes it easy to create and manage your navigation menus. It also let's you create easy menus to add to sidebars or footers. Watch this video to learn how to do this using the "menu" feature in your dashboard. WPStarter Video Archives. … [Read more...]

An Overview of the Default Widgets

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With every install of WordPress, you will have some widgets that automatically show up. Most of these are self-explanatory, but in this video I walk you through their features just to make sure you aren't missing something. All WPStarter Videos, as they are posted, will be listed here. … [Read more...]

When the Links Disappeared with Version 3.5

Create a new menu for your links

If you just started using WordPress with version 3.5, you didn't notice. If you are still using "links" in your WordPress site, you didn't notice. But if your site was up before version 3.5, and you weren't using your links, you may have noticed. So what the heck am I talking about? With the last update of 3.5, "links" were removed. So depending on if you were using them before, depends … [Read more...]

My Presentation from New Media Expo in Las Vegas

New Media Expo 2013 - How to Laser-focus Your WordPress Blog in 60 Minutes

Just wanted to do a quick post as I just got back from speaking and attending the New Media Expo (formerly known as BlogWorld Expo). Since this was my fourth time attending, and third time speaking, as always, the conference was amazing. Met so many new people, connected with friends and colleagues, and, of course, gleamed some new ideas. In fact you may see something new coming soon to add to … [Read more...]

How To Easily Create a Navigation Button That Doesn’t Link

Custom Menu Non Link

When creating your navigation bar in the "menus" feature in WordPress, there are times when you don't want a nav button to link. For example, above in my own navigation bar you will see that "training and coaching" is not a link, but more of a heading for the drop-down items below it. Sometimes it is just better to do it this way then to try and figure out yet another page called "training and … [Read more...]