Another excellent tutorial from WordPress.tv about one of the new features of WordPress 2.7: The ability to quick edit posts, without having to go in and manually edit every one of them.
In short, this feature allows you to rapidly add a category, apply tags, change an author, or change post status to posts (either a [...]

I’ve said it many times before: the single best thing 5-minute thing you can do to help boost your blog’s search-engine mojo is to add links to your blogroll. Lots of them.
The more sites you link to, the more will link back to you, and the higher your ranking will get. Trust me, it works. [...]

Ever wondered what that “Meta” widget in the sidebar is? Aside from being an easy way to find the login link for your blog, it serves a few other useful purposes. This video from WordPress.tv sums them up pretty nicely.

On the one hand, I’m thrilled to report that WordPress.tv, the new tutorial site launched by the folks behind your favorite blog software, is one of the most slick, pragmatic, useful tools every created to teach people the in’s and out’s of WordPress.
On the other hand, I’m left wondering why did I spend soooo much [...]

This post is only intended for advanced users — i.e. Blog Czars, Online Editors, and Developers. If that doesn’t include you, by all means, you’re still encouraged to read and learn. But keep in mind that these instructions are very specific to our installation of WordPress MU and will differ somewhat with regular WordPress.com and [...]

One of the quickest and easiest ways to give your sidebar a little more fresh content is to add an RSS feed from another blog or news source. If you really like reading another colleague’s blog, you can pull in his or her five most recent entries. For example, on Bob Ingle’s “Politics Patrol” blog, [...]

I realized recently that I’d never posted anything to Blog Boot Camp about how to embed video. Shame on me! I realize this may be a bit remedial for some, but if you’ve not yet posted a video clip and always wondered how to do so, this tutorial is for you.
Step 1. Figure out if [...]

I could try to summarize all the features of WordPress 2.7 in a post, but frankly, this video does a better job than I ever could.

I’ve been running “Coltrane” (formerly “Crazyhorse”) a few weeks now on Blog Boot Camp, and I can honestly say, it’s all that and a bag of chips. A huge number [...]

In yesterday’s Gannett NJ “Blog Buzz” email, I mentioned how a number of blogs in the state have begun using event calendars in their sidebar. As I put it:
These are very simple to administer from the blog’s backend, and have the added benefit of allowing the blogger to add an event as both a calendar [...]

It happens to every blogger sooner or later: The dreaded missing sidebar.
More often than not, the sidebar hasn’t actually disappeared entirely; it’s just at the bottom of your blog, beneath all the posts. Which, of course, is just as bad. We call this a “blown out” sidebar.
So why does this happen? It’s usually due to [...]