WordPress 101 Video Training Part 1: The Dashboard
Tutorial Details
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 7 minutes
- Program: WordPress
- Version (if applicable): 3.0 and higher
Best of Wptuts 2011: Every week through January, we’re going to revisit some of our favorite posts and series from 2011. The WP101 series by Shawn Hesketh was a landmark… not because it broke new ground for the advanced users in the community, but because it essentially formed a free training series that you can hand over to your clients to show them the ropes of using WP! Don’t have the time to show a particular client how to use a particular feature? No problem, this series has you covered!
Welcome to the WPtuts+ WordPress 101 tutorial series! This video will walk you through the use of the WordPress Admin Panel, aka, The Dashboard. This is a great video for those just getting started with WordPress, and can also be helpful for advanced users that want to offer some help to their clients. Join us and begin effectively managing your sites’ content today. This is Part 1 of our in depth WordPress training series provided in partnership with WP101.
Part 1: The Dashboard
In this video we are going to take a look at the WordPress Administration Panel, which provides all of the functions and features of your WordPress powered website. Enjoy.
About the WP101 Series…
Just about anyone working with WP, from rookies to seasoned veterans should find some serious value here…
This is an exclusive series that we’re assembling in collaboration with the super talented Shawn Hesketh and WP101.com. It’s part of our “Basix” series for anyone brand new to the platform, but just about anyone working with WP, from rookies to seasoned veterans should find some serious value here:
- Experienced designers, developers, and agencies can send your clients to this series for basic training.
- Theme and Plugin developers can include links to these videos in your own documentation.
- Anyone brand new to WordPress can check out these videos before starting the rest of our “Basix” tutorials.
We’ll eventually have just about 20 posts in all, which means that when we’re done, you’ll have a great place to send clients or review all of the basic bits and pieces of WordPress. We’ll likely be releasing two of these each weekend to help spread them out a bit, so check back each weekend for the next segment!
The Rest of the Series…
We’ll be updating these videos with each major release of WordPress so the videos don’t go stale when you’re trying to teach (or learn!) any of the brand new features. Here’s the lineup on deck for the next two months:
- Part 1: The Dashboard
- Part 2: Creating a New Post
- Part 3: Edit an Existing Post
- Part 4: Using Categories and Tags
- Part 5: Creating and Editing Pages
- Part 6: Add Photos and Images
- Part 7: How to Embed Video
- Part 8: Using the Media Library
- Part 9: Managing Comments
- Part 10: How to Create a Link
- Part 11: Changing the Theme
- Part 12: Adding Widgets
- Part 13: Building Custom Menus
- Part 14: Installing Plugins
- Part 15: Adding New Users
- Part 16: Useful Tools
- Part 17: Configuration Settings
Can’t wait for the rest of the series? You can grab the entire set directly from WP101.com (there’s a variety of licensing options). For everyone else, we hope you’ll join us each weekend.
Oh, and if you’re excited about this new resource, be sure to give Shawn a shout in the comments section. He’s worked super hard to provide this excellent resource to the community!
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Nice
now whenever someone is asking me for help in wordpress and how it works, I can just point them here
That’s the idea
To save developers time and money while simultaneously sending anyone new to WP to a quality resource where they can learn at their own pace (and that, let’s face it, might even be better than how you or I learned).
I was thinking the same thing. It will be much easier than sitting with clients and teaching them. Thanks Brandon
Hah – thanks Connor – but thank Shawn for the actual videos – I’m just the guy making the arrangements
Thanks for the feedback, guys. I originally created this video series because I found that I was repeating the same information over and over again with my own clients in personalized training sessions. While WordPress is one of the most user-friendly and intuitive web publishing platforms out there, it can still be an imposing learning curve for folks who are new to web-based content management systems.
My hope is that these videos will free up your time to do what you do best… while giving your customers a thorough understanding of the WordPress basics. Enjoy!
Great concept… videos make much more sense than having to explain to clients how to use this stuff over and over and over.
Are you guys going to be updating all of the videos with every new release of WP?
你好，中国大陆地区对于你们上传的视频无法浏览，请问是否有别的视频站点的链接供选择？
we are fans of tutsplus.com. thanks.
Thank you a lot, Shawn!
Are you going to make special videos about WP security and SEO?
It’s very important topics as you know.
Oh, and one more thing. Please start to speak Russian.It’ll be much easier to understand you (4 me and few other millions people)
This is great. I frequently have clients that are new to WordPress and would like some guidance.
nice video. thumbs up wptuts
This is awesome concept.
Waiting for the next video..:)
nice video! waiting for the next video
I will definitively use when training my clients. Nice piece of work Shawn!
By the way, I’m trying to access the wp101com site and I get 403 error.
Thanks for sharing the videos!
guys how come my dashboard looks different from the one shown, it doesn’t show some of things like what version of WP im running and i can’t seem to install a customised theme…
Hi Nick, are you perhaps using a site on WordPress.com? The tutorials available here are for self-hosted WordPress, which you can download from WordPress.org and install on your own web server.