This beginner-level WordPress tutorial shows 1. How to make a “child” page or subpage of another page (a “parent” page) using the WordPress 2.7 editing interface. And 2. How to hide a link in the Pages sidebar widget, in other words, how to keep a link to a page from showing in the Pages sidebar widget by putting the page ID number into the “Exclude” box in the Pages sidebar widget dialog box. Making “child” pages (subpages) is useful because you may not want all your pages to show in the main page navigation of your WordPress theme. In most themes, only “main” pages (pages that don’t have a “parent”) show up in the main page navigation. In some newer WordPress themes, child pages show up in a popup menu that appears when you roll over the main page link. And in some themes, sub-subpages show up in popup menus as well. These are sometimes called “cascading” navigation menus: sub-subpages show up in a popup menu when you roll over a subpage link. The second part of this tutorial shows how to hide (or “exclude”) a link to a page that would otherwise appear in the links of the Pages sidebar widget. This is useful for a number of reasons. One is that when you make a static page your Home page in WordPress, some themes will show the link to this static page as a second home page link in your main navigation. By making the Home page a subpage and excluding that link from the Pages sidebar navigation, you can eliminate the double Home page link.

This Beginner-level WordPress tutorial shows how to apply formatting to WordPress text: Bold text, Italic text, color text. WordPress version 2.3 visual editor includes a color palette for text. -by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications

In this Beginner-level WordPress tutorial you will learn how to login to the WordPress Dashboard (admin panel) on a website / blog hosted on WordPress.com, how to login to a site hosted on your own host such as Yahoo! or GoDaddy, and how to log out (log off).

This is PART TWO of the Intermediate level WordPress tutorial that shows how to use a text widget to customize a WordPress sidebar. To see the final product of the tutorial in the Business Blogging 101 website and the HTML code used in this example, go to mcbuzz.wordpress.com and search for “text widget”. Widgets are a very useful feature of most new WordPress themes. They allow you to add custom content to your sidebars with little or no knowledge of HTML or other code. The example I use in this tutorial shows how to create a custom text box with a short biographical note and part of that text is a link. In this PART TWO of the tutorial, I show how to insert an image into the same custom sidebar box, along with a LinkedIn profile “badge”. You can use these techniques to put whatever you want into your own WordPress sidebar.

Text for this tutorial here: snurl.com See the post at snurl.com for more details and for code examples. This is an OLD tutorial and according to several users, I talk too slowly. Hey, insomniacs love this tutorial, I’ll have you know! Apparently there is not much else out there. Otherwise, why bother watching the whole thing! This WordPress tutorial shows how to change fonts and font size – and other font properties – using the HTML or Code editing window of the WordPress admin panel and “inline” Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that you insert into the HTML of your WordPress page or post.

NOTE: For the latest WordPress Tutorials visit mcbuzz.wordpress.com This Beginner-level WordPress tutorial uses WordPress version 2.3. See Business Blogging 101 at http for more up-to-date tutorials. This tutorial shows how to use the WordPress version 2.3 Dashboard (admin panel) to edit an existing webpage on a WordPress-powered website / blog. This is the first in a series of WordPress tutorials by Mark McLaren and McBuzz Communications.

This Advanced-level WordPress tutorial shows how to download, edit and upload a WordPress theme sidebar file (sidebar.php) using FTP software and a text editor. This is considered an advanced WordPress tutorial because you work with the files for the WordPress theme. You do not use the WordPress Dashboard in this tutorial. The tutorial assumes you know how to setup and use FTP software on your computer so that you can download and upload the sidebar file. It also assumes you know how to open a text file like sidebar.php using a text editor. On a PC, common text editors are Notepad and Wordpad. On a Mac, the default text editor is TextEdit. A good Macintosh text editor for HTML and PHP files is BBEdit.

Visit mcbuzz.wordpress.com to see all the Free wordpress Tutorials available on Business Blogging 101. This video is an introduction to the Business Blogging 101 website, a site dedicated to free support and tutorials for wordpress created by Mark mclaren of mcbuzz Communications. Ask questions, comment and connect with other wordpress users. Most of the tutorials are for beginners, but there are intermediate-level tutorials and discussion about advanced techniques for wordpress including how to customize a wordpress theme, best wordpress plugins, hacks and workarounds for wordpress using CSS, PHP and HTML.

PLEASE NOTE: This Intermediate-level tutorial is for WordPress version 2.3 and earlier. To wrap text around an image in version 2.5 or later, see the new tutorials in the mcbuzzvideo collection called “WordPress 2.5+ Tutorial – How to Upload and Insert an Image” and “WordPress 2.5+ Tutorial – How to Wrap Text Around an Image”. The second technique in this tutorial works for any HTML page, whether you use WordPress or not. If you need more control over how an image is positioned relative to …

NOTE: Updated tutorial at bit.ly for WordPress version 2.7. This Beginner-level WordPress Tutorial by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications shows you how to make a static WordPress Page your home page (also called “front” page). The default WordPress home page in most themes shows the chronological blog post entries with the most recent post at the top. You can create a static page using the Dashboard – Write – Page, and then tell WordPress to use that page as your home page (using Options …