Likoma

About this original series

Likoma is a website design shop that specializes in empowering you to update the content on your own site using WordPress.

  • Category

    How To

  • # Episodes

    40 episodes

  • Rating

    TV-UN

Episodes of Likoma

    • Play WordPress Tutorial | Adding Posts to a Page and Adding Links (Blogroll) - Likoma on Blip Likoma episodes on Blip

      WordPress Tutorial | Adding Posts to a Page and ...

      Here's a quick video going over some WordPress basics: adding a post to a category and then adding a link (formerly known as blogroll). In this video, we're looking at a site that has mostly pages as the navigation structure but within those pages are custom templates that list posts from a certain category. A nice way to (1) keep things simple on your site navigation-wise, but also (2) add new posts--and thereby new content--to your site rather than just adding a list to a long page (bad idea...

      • Release date
        Sep 10, 2010
      • Runtime
        07:27
    • Play WordPress Tutorial | Overview of Basic Publishing - Likoma on Blip Likoma episodes on Blip

      WordPress Tutorial | Overview of Basic Publishing

      A brief overview of publishing a post (or a page) in WordPress 2.9.2. I go over selecting a category (or categories), adding the title, typing in content, pasting in content (from Microsoft Word), uploading an image, adding an image title, an image caption, choosing the thumbnail size and selecting to have that thumbnail open up the larger image. Also deleting a post or editing existing posts. Ten minutes never went by so quickly ... ;-)

      • Release date
        Mar 5, 2010
      • Runtime
        09:59
    • Play WordPress Tutorial | WordPress E-Commerce Shortcodes - Likoma on Blip Likoma episodes on Blip

      WordPress Tutorial | WordPress E-Commerce Shortc...

      With shortcodes, you can add a quick Buy Now or Add to Cart button directly in a post/page on your site. You don't have to worry about putting in scary PHP code into your post, but just a bracketed short bit of code that will magically turn into a button that will let your visitor put the item directly into their cart. So it doesn't bring them to the product page, but puts the item right in the cart.

      • Release date
        Feb 24, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:47
    • Play WordPress Tutorial | Page Template and Recent Posts from Category - Likoma on Blip Likoma episodes on Blip

      WordPress Tutorial | Page Template and Recent Po...

      Rather than having code in your editor put it in a page template. Especially if the code is page specific. In this way, we clean up the page editing area and make it "unbreakable" for users who are in there adding content and don't want to have to not watch out and break code. We also got to remove a plugin by using WordPress core code instead of a plugin code to get that list of recent posts from a certain category.

      • Release date
        Feb 19, 2010
      • Runtime
        02:47
    • Play WordPress Tutorial | WordPress Auto Install on GoDaddy - Likoma on Blip Likoma episodes on Blip

      WordPress Tutorial | WordPress Auto Install on G...

      With GoDaddy's Deluxe Hosting, you can set up an unlimited amount of websites. Using their auto installer for WordPress (GoDaddy calls them Value Applications), you can have your WordPress site up in under ten minutes. Note that the domains used in this video are also registered at GoDaddy.

      • Release date
        Feb 18, 2010
      • Runtime
        04:51
    • Play WordPress Tutorial Custom Post Background - Likoma on Blip Likoma episodes on Blip

      WordPress Tutorial Custom Post Background

      Client asked, "Can I have different backgrounds on different pages?" Well, sure, but it's going to be something like conditional PHP code and CSS ("If on this page, show that CSS/background.") etc. Which of course is doable, but wait ... check the plugin directory and I find "Custom Post Background." Does just what I was hoping and there's even a friendly WP admin interface and better yet, it lets me use images from the Media Gallery. Gotta love WordPress.

      • Release date
        Feb 4, 2010
      • Runtime
        02:51
    • Play WordPress Tutorial Fixing Microsoft Word Formatting - Likoma on Blip Likoma episodes on Blip

      WordPress Tutorial Fixing Microsoft Word Formatt...

      If you paste from Microsoft Word directly into WordPress without using the "Paste from Word" button, you'll usually have some formatting issues. In this case, although the font seemed OK, the browser couldn't read some of the "fancy quotes" or em dashes and turned them into vertical bars of codey-gobbledy-gook. Here's how to manually clean it up and get rid of that nasty Word code.

      • Release date
        Feb 1, 2010
      • Runtime
        02:29
    • Play WordPress Tutorial Photo Galleries - Likoma on Blip Likoma episodes on Blip

      WordPress Tutorial Photo Galleries

      WordPress has a few options built into the core that allow you to add a gallery of images. In this video screencast, I'll walk through uploading images, adding them to a WordPress gallery, but also how to add them one by one to a post so you have a bit more control over the layout.

      • Release date
        Jan 25, 2010
      • Runtime
        05:00
    • Play WordPress Tutorial: Adding Images in WP E-Commerce - Likoma on Blip Likoma episodes on Blip

      WordPress Tutorial: Adding Images in WP E-Commerce

      The WordPress E-Commerce plugin is a powerful e-commerce/shopping cart plugin that works well and is easy to use. It's not as full-featured as something like Magento or Zen Cart, but it is a plugin for WordPress and that there is enough to at least give it a try. In this screencast, I walk through adding new products and adding video.

      • Release date
        Dec 18, 2009
      • Runtime
        05:56
    • Play WordPress Tutorial: Uploading Large Files - Likoma on Blip Likoma episodes on Blip

      WordPress Tutorial: Uploading Large Files

      Depending on your hosting environment, you may have run into time-outs or errors when trying to upload large files in WordPress. It might be solved by a php.ini or .htaccess file edit, but that's if you know how to do those things and even then it might not work. Of course, you could upload using any FTP program, but that's again assuming you know how to do that. I wanted to stick with WordPress and get the job done. I used two plugins: myFTP and Add from Server. The video shows how it works.

      • Release date
        Dec 11, 2009
      • Runtime
        04:13
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