It’s a bit cheeky saying this is part of the WordPress course, as my parting word of advice on blogging doesn’t really deal with WordPress – rather it tells you how to keep up to date with all the blogs you read without getting swamped!

You can view the lesson here, or by typing the following address into your browser:

http://www.swict.com/resources/wordpress/video/18.asp

This lesson takes all of 47 seconds.

I hope you’ve found this course useful. Blogging is a really simple way to publish content to the web. Any questions, or if there is something you feel I’ve really missed out in this course, then why not let me know? Even better, if you’ve got something that you’d like me to cover in a future tutorial, then please just let me know.

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You know you’re getting near the end when I start talking about the last tab on the dashboard! Today we’ll find out about the options we can alter for our blog.

You can view the lesson here, or by typing the following address into your browser:

http://www.swict.com/resources/wordpress/video/17.asp

This lesson takes a mere 58 seconds.

In the next lesson, we’ll look at my final word of advice on blogging (well, for the moment, at least!)

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It’s all very well having a blog and being able to write whatever you want, but it would be great if you could have other people writing posts too. Maybe you want your colleagues to be able to write posts, or maybe your pupils? It’s easy to have more than one author for your blog.

You can view the lesson here, or by typing the following address into your browser:

http://www.swict.com/resources/wordpress/video/16.asp

This lesson takes 1 min 23 seconds.

In the next lesson, we’ll look at adding options you can alter on your blog.

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If you visit a lot of other blogs, you’ll notice additional content that people have displayed at the sides of their pages. This is made possible by plugins and widgets. Basically, these add-ons display other content or features in your blog. Today we’ll learn how to display widgets in the sidebar of a blog.

You can view the lesson here, or by typing the following address into your browser:

http://www.swict.com/resources/wordpress/video/15.asp

This lesson takes 1 min 47 seconds.

In the next lesson, we’ll look at adding other authors.

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The more you post, the more things you’ll talk about. To help both you and your readers, you can separate posts into categories. Today, we’ll learn how to create and work with categories.

You can view the lesson here, or by typing the following address into your browser:

http://www.swict.com/resources/wordpress/video/14.asp

This lesson takes 1 min 51 seconds.

In the next lesson, we’ll look at plugins and widgets.

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What happens if you are not quite ready to publish a post, or you run out of time to complete it? WordPress has a brilliant function to help you out here. Today, we’ll learn all about drafts.

You can view the lesson here, or by typing the following address into your browser:

http://www.swict.com/resources/wordpress/video/13.asp

This lesson takes 53 seconds.

In the next lesson, we’ll look at categories.

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When you publish a post to your blog, it automatically goes at the top of the page. This is really helpful, as visitors see the most recent thing you have posted, but what if you wanted to keep an item near the top of a page? Or what if you wanted to create separate areas in your blog for different things? You may for example wish a different section for each class you have in your school, or each stage you teach. You can manage this simply using ‘Pages’ in WordPress.

You can view the lesson here, or by typing the following address into your browser:

http://www.swict.com/resources/wordpress/video/12.asp

This lesson takes 1 min 3 seconds.

In the next lesson, we’ll look at working with drafts.

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Probably the best bit about blogging is commenting. By having commenting enabled on your blog, other can join in the conversation. In the lesson today, you’ll learn how to manage comments on your blog.

You can view the lesson here, or by typing the following address into your browser:

http://www.swict.com/resources/wordpress/video/11.asp

This lesson takes 3 min 39 seconds.

In the next lesson, we’ll look at creating new pages.

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The more you use your site, the more managing it becomes an issue. Fortunately, WordPress makes this a simple porcess with the ‘Manage’ tab.You can view the lesson here, or by typing the following address into your browser:

http://www.swict.com/resources/wordpress/video/10.asp

This lesson takes 46 seconds.

In the next lesson, we’ll look at managing comments.

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Adding links into your site is an easy process. This lesson will cover adding links as both text and images, and also managing a ‘blogroll’. For those slightly troubled by this term, a blogroll is simply a list of other sites that you are recommending to your visitors.

I can’t stress the importance of links enough to people. Creating links provides additional information for your readers, but it can also help you create a community. By linking out to other people’s sites, you’ll usually get a link back in return. This can help bring traffic to your site.

You can view the lesson here, or by typing the following address into your browser:

http://www.swict.com/resources/wordpress/video/09.asp

This lesson takes 2 min, 36 secs.

In the next lesson, we’ll look at managing your blog.

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