[Video Tutorial] Create your own Wordpress site

26 Responses to “[Video Tutorial] Create your own Wordpress site”

1. Tim Gruber on February 26th, 2008 11:23 am

   Nice to see this Richard. I’m working on building a site for my magazine class now based on the Revolution theme. Fingers crossed It’ll actually be something respectable. I’ll fire you a link when I’m a little further along with it.

   Hope all is well.

2. David Duncan on February 26th, 2008 12:30 pm

   The video was great, easy to follow. I am looking forward to the next one that deals with plug-ins.

   Question, I use aplus.net for my site and use the blog through them. I am interested in the wordpress blog. Can I still upload the wordpress blog with out damaging the I use now?

   Thanks.

3. Chris Jordan on February 26th, 2008 2:47 pm

   yes you can. just create a new folder on your server named blog or wordpress or whatever, then upload the wordpress files into that folder. then whenever you are working on the wordpress blog you will be dealing with everything in its own space and it won’t interfere with the current blog you now have.

   hope this makes sense -

   chris

4. rhernandez on February 26th, 2008 4:27 pm

   thanks for the assist chris!

5. David Duncan on February 26th, 2008 7:59 pm

   Chris,

   It does, thanks for the help.

6. Chris Jordan on February 26th, 2008 9:30 pm

   i’ll be your wingman anytime maverick

   goose

7. Mize on February 27th, 2008 10:43 am

   This tutorial has my shooters begging me to revamp our MM page. A lesson on how to embed Soundslides and video (SWF) projects is key to getting our IS department to allow us to rebuild our current site. We already use WordPress for internal blogs but those were set up for me by the IS dept on our server. Any and all help with embeds would be awesome. Thanks, Mize

8. David Stephenson on February 28th, 2008 7:22 pm

   Hey Richard, thanks for the nod to heraldleaderphoto in your tutorial!

   Mize, we use the Kimili Flash plugin for Wordpress as method of embedding Soundslides into the Wordpress blog. Very easy. We’ve also devised a way (with the help of Joe Weiss) to get a pageview for each photo viewed in the Soundslides - that had always been a hurdle to overcome with our Interactive dept. That move alone instantly changed our pageview numbers more than 20x.

   Also, I’ve embeded videos from at least four different hosts and have never had a problem, nor have I had to use any special plugins.

9. rhernandez on February 29th, 2008 7:29 am

   yeah never underestimate joe, he always has something cool and useful up his sleeve. We use the same plug-ins, and we been running for two years on WP with about 100,000 + uniques a month with no problems.

   -r

10. detphoto on March 3rd, 2008 6:18 am

    How about some clues as to how this: http://mercurynewsphoto.com/ is done.

11. TJ Mullinax on March 5th, 2008 10:33 pm

    Just another shout out about WP. Here at yakimaherald.com, I have been using wordpress mu to create and manage multiple blogs from one login. It’s been very useful for creating blogs on the fly with customized and pre-made themes, especially when deadlines come crashing down and you need a quick Web site to display who-knows-what, right now.
    I used it two pull together three different sites in short order, for different needs, and they were all managed from one login, one install of plugins, one - just about everything. WPMU does take a bit more back-end setup but once it’s up, it works pretty smoothly.

    Another shift in the WP community is that great theme builders are out there selling pretty much pre-built and nearly fully supported themes to fit most needs. MMS is using a modified version of the revolution theme, which can be purchased fairly inexpensively, and they usually take less programming knowledge to customize it. We took the revolution ‘news’ theme and customized it for the snovalleystar.com (weekly newspaper) in under two weeks. It launched today. We’ve got to the point where in the next couple months, nearly all of our blogs are going to be completely updated to utilize the latest plugins and publishing capabilities.

    A few wp sites that we launched and why they were successful:
    - snovalleystar.com (A fast, easy to manage, inexpensive publishing solution)
    - NW video workshop (Needed an easy to update site to provide workshop information, links and media to registrants.)
    - Going for the crown blog (Had about six hours to set up a blog for a reporter to cover Miss Washington in Vegas this year. The reporter had never blogged before and had about 30 min. training in WP before she took off.)

    The only problem with WP is spam… unless you use akismet as well as other anti-spam tools, you face the potential for lots of spam to cleanup.
    -TJ

12. v. on March 17th, 2008 12:14 pm

    thank you, i found it really helpful. soon i hope to go from having a free wordpress blog from wordpress.com to using wordpress.org on my website (which i’m still working on). thanks

13. Joe Barrentine on March 17th, 2008 7:40 pm

    Thanks Richard!

14. Mike Bicknell on March 19th, 2008 10:45 am

    That’s great, Koci. Thanks for the intro–it will help me this summer when I start creating multimedia blogs for work and for personal / portfolio use. I hope that you continue this series. I’m very interested in adding slideshows, widgets, and videos. Keep it up! Glad you’re back!

15. Russell Pell on March 20th, 2008 9:41 am

    awesome to see this site back online. thanks for the wp blog tutorial - ready for the ss and video follow up. cheers rp

16. Horaceol on March 23rd, 2008 8:02 pm

    nice work, brother

17. Thad on March 24th, 2008 11:08 am

    I run a photography department in the midwest. Long story short, I started making magazine style Wordpress templates for a few multimedia projects a while back. Lots of people asked for the source files, so I created a little side project which offers some paid and free Magazine-style wordpress templates:

    http://www.graphpaperpress.com

    More stuff is planned in the near future.

    Thad

18. koci on March 24th, 2008 11:10 am

    you rock!!!

19. Thad on March 24th, 2008 11:10 am

    I should add that there will be a few portfolio-style templates appearing after I get back from the NCAA tournament.

    Thad

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21. Jared Soares on March 26th, 2008 7:35 am

    Richard many thanks for posting this tutorial, .php files are not so intimidating anymore. Can’t wait for the next one.

22. Ron Hawkes on August 31st, 2008 5:31 pm

    Wow, I am looking to move my blog to Wordpress and had looked at Revolution today so this was a great find. Wonderful job. Hope you do another with embedding soundslides, videos, widgets and more. Great help, thank you

23. koci on September 1st, 2008 9:37 am

    next wordpress tutorial coming soon!

24. Robert Lopez on November 19th, 2008 9:09 pm

    Great tutorial — I’d love to see the next steps: embedding slideshows, videos, etc …
    Thanks!

25. Greg Cooper on November 23rd, 2008 9:42 am

    Richard, thank you. Despite my having a more analytical mind, code is so Greek to me. This helps. -Coop

26. mikel on December 14th, 2008 3:04 pm

    nice work thank you

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