WordPress for Intermediates

Posted in: News by Brad Williams on February 1, 2012

We’re very excited to announce our first class in the new Intermediate courses at WP Classroom:  WordPress for Intermediates: Themes and Child Themes

This new class will feature all sorts of great topics including:

• Creating child themes
• Page templates
• Sidebar templates and widgetized areas
• Creating menus and navigation widgets
• Twenty Eleven customizations

The first class is scheduled for Wednesday February 8th at 7pm EST.  For more information, and to register for your seat in the class, visit WordPress for Intermediates: Themes and Child Themes.

February WordPress Beginner Online Classes Scheduled

Posted in: News by Brad Williams on January 27, 2012

WordPress for Beginners February 2012 classes have been scheduled! We have two sets of classes to choose from:

Monday, February 13th – WordPress for Beginners
Wednesday, February 15th – Extending WordPress for Beginners

Monday, February 27th – WordPress for Beginners
Wednesday, February 29th – Extending WordPress for Beginners

We also have classes scheduled for March and April. For more information on the classes we offer, and to signup for a class, visit our register section.

October Online WordPress Training Classes Scheduled!

Posted in: News by Brad Williams on October 6, 2011

The next WordPress for Beginners online training class is scheduled for October 17th, 2011 from 7pm – 9pm EDT and Extending WordPress for Beginners is scheduled for October 18th, 2011 from 7pm-9pm EDT. Be sure to register for class today!

Our last WordPress for Beginners class was a great success! Everyone who attended had a great time and learned lots of WordPress knowledge! Also as an added bonus anyone who attends an online training course will have access to download a recording of that session to watch over and over again.

All classes offered by WPClassroom.com utilize the most powerful online training tools provided by Cisco WebEx. WebEx is the industry leader in online training. WebEx combines real-time desktop sharing with phone conferencing so everyone sees the same thing during the training course. You can join from PC, Mac, Linux, Unix, and Solaris systems. You can also join from an iPhone!

Make sure to get registered before all of the seats are gone!

How To: Show or Hide the WordPress Admin Bar

Posted in: Tutorials by Brad Williams on June 3, 2011

WordPress 3.1 introduced the Admin Bar, a horizontal menu displayed at the top of your WP website. This Admin Bar features quick links to the dashboard, creating new posts, comments, and is only visible if you are logged in.

To show or hide the WordPress Admin Bar visit the edit profile settings page under the menu Users > Profile. Here you will find two options for Show Admin Bar: “when viewing site” and “in dashboard”

By default “when viewing site” is enabled and “in dashboard” is not. To disable the Admin Bar just uncheck the “when viewing site” option and the Admin Bar will no longer be displayed. You can also enable the Admin Bar in the WP Dashboard by checking “in dashboard”. These two settings are stored per user, so one WP user can have the bar enabled and a different user can have it disabled.

The WordPress Admin Bar is not for everyone, but it can be a valuable tool to help navigate through your WordPress website.

WordPress for Beginners June Class Scheduled!

Posted in: News by Brad Williams on June 1, 2011

The next WordPress for Beginners online training class is scheduled for June 22nd, 2011 from 7pm – 9pm EDT and Extending WordPress for Beginners is scheduled for June 23rd, 2011 from 7pm-9pm EDT. These are the essential training classes for anyone wanting to learn how to use WordPress to its full potential!

Our last WordPress for Beginners class was a great success! Everyone who attended had a great time and learned lots of WordPress knowledge! Also as an added bonus anyone who attends an online training course will have access to download a recording of that session to watch over and over again.

All classes offered by WPClassroom.com utilize the most powerful online training tools provided by Cisco WebEx. WebEx is the industry leader in online training. WebEx combines real-time desktop sharing with phone conferencing so everyone sees the same thing during the training course. You can join from PC, Mac, Linux, Unix, and Solaris systems. You can also join from an iPhone!

Make sure to get registered before all of the seats are gone!

How To: Allow Post Contributions in WordPress

Posted in: Tutorials by Brad Williams on September 23, 2009

Have you ever wanted to give your website visitors the ability to register in WordPress and contribute posts for review? This feature is actually built into the WordPress core. You can easily accomplish this in WordPress by changing two settings:

First visit the General > Settings SubPanel. Here you will need to set enable the “Anyone can register” Membership option. Next you will need to set the “New User Default Role” to Contributor. That’s it!

Now any visitor to your website can register an account, create new blog posts, and submit those blog posts to you for moderation. Contributed posts can be approved by either an Editor or Admin on your website.

I also recommend installing the Sidebar Login plugin. This plugin will give you a login widget for your sidebar, making it extremely easy for your members to login to your WordPress website. Now all you need are some writers!

WordPress for Beginners October Class Scheduled

Posted in: News by Brad Williams on September 10, 2009

The next WordPress for Beginners online training class is scheduled for October 6th, 2009 from 6pm – 9pm EDT. This is the essential training class for anyone wanting to learn how to use WordPress to its full potential!

Our first WordPress for Beginners class was a great success! Everyone who attended had a great time and learned lots of WordPress knowledge! Also as an added bonus anyone who attends an online training course will have access to download a recording of that session to watch over and over again.

All classes offered by WPClassroom.com utilize the most powerful online training tools provided by Cisco WebEx. WebEx is the industry leader in online training. WebEx combines real-time desktop sharing with phone conferencing so everyone sees the same thing during the training course. You can join from PC, Mac, Linux, Unix, and Solaris systems. You can also join from an iPhone!

Make sure to get registered before all of the seats are gone!

How To: Backup your WordPress Website on a Schedule

Posted in: Tutorials by Brad Williams on August 24, 2009

A common question among WordPress users is: “How can I backup my WordPress website?”.  To do proper backups, we recommend a plugin called: WP-DB Backup

The WordPress Database Backup Plugin can be configured to automatically backup all of your WordPress content on a schedule. You can also configure the plugin to email you a copy of the backup after it completes.

Auto-backups can be ran hourly, twice daily, once daily, or once weekly. You can also select which database tables are saved during the backup. If you have old database tables that don’t need a backup you can choose to ignore those during the backup process.

The WordPress Database Backup plugin is a great no worries approach to WordPress backup. Set your scheduled backups and watch as your backup file is emailed directly to you like clockwork!

How To: Publish a Post at a Future Date and Time

Posted in: Tutorials by Brad Williams on August 22, 2009

WordPress has the ability to automatically publish any post at a future data and time. First click the “Edit” link next to the Publish setting in the Publish meta box:

Next set the month, day, year, and time that you want your post to publish and click “OK”:

WordPress will automatically publish your post at this exact date and time.

This makes it extremely easy to write posts ahead of your publishing schedule and have them published automatically. This is a great technique if you are going on vacation but don’t want a big gap in posts published on your website or blog.

How To: Change Your WordPress URL

Posted in: Tutorials by Brad Williams on July 6, 2009

There are two places you need to update your WordPress URL when you plan on changing it.  They are both located under the General > Settings SubPanel.  Update the “WordPress address (URL)” and “Blog address (URL)” values to the new URL for your website.

This is a great tip if you are launching a new or rebranded WordPress website.  Development can happen on http://new.mydomain.com until you are ready to launch.

Optionally if you would like to update this value directly in your WordPress database just run the query below. Make sure you update the value in the query to your new domain before running:

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'http://mydomain.com/' WHERE option_name = 'siteurl' OR option_name = 'home''