You can make pages or posts private in Wordpress, which means that they aren’t visible on your blog/website. They will still be visible to users with Editor or Administrator status.
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Currently we’re only covering installed versions of WordPress, but in future we’ll be adding tutorials on the hosted version at WordPress.com.
Videos are classified by WordPress 2.7 or 2.6 mostly because the admin screens look different, so if you don’t see a video on your topic, try looking in the other section or try the alphabetical listing.
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You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
WordPress 2.7 
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
WordPress 2.6 
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You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Changing page order in the menu using My Page Order
The default method for changing the order of pages in Wordpress is not very user-friendly, but there’s a great plug-in called My Page Order which works very well. Here’s how to use it (assuming you’ve got it installed – check out our videos on installing plug-ins – click here for automatic installation in WP 2.7 [...]
You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Embedding videos from video sharing sites
If you find something on YouTube or other video-sharing sites and you’d like to place them in a post or a page, here’s how.
You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Assigning a group of posts to a category
If you have a number of posts that need to be assigned to one or more categories in WordPress, you can easily do that in a couple of keystrokes.
You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Adding Links
Here’s how to add links in WordPress.
You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Accessing the media library
Every image, video, or document that you upload into WordPress can be accessed from the Media Library. There are two ways of getting to that library.
You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Adding link categories
Links can be grouped under various categories and there are two ways to add new link categories.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Changing your home page
The page that people see when they first come to your site can easily be changed in WordPress – here’s how.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Editing images within the text editor
If you’ve got an image already in your post or page, you can manipulate it many ways right in the body of the text.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Text editor – overview
Here’s a quick overview of the text editor in WordPress 2.6, with both Visual or WYSIWYG, and HTML functionality.
You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Remember the Update button!
When writing or editing in WordPress, it can seem like you’ve saved what you’ve done, but it’s only over when the Update button’s been pressed! Here’s an example:
You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Changing page order in the menu
By default, WordPress orders pages alphabetically. If you want to change that from the Admin screen, using what’s available in WordPress, here’s how.
You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Deleting categories
When you need to delete a category in WordPress, there are a couple of ways to do it, and some things to keep in mind.
You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Minimizing the admin menu bar
You can easily shrink the size of the left hand menu bar in the administration screen.
You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Creating child pages
You can create sub-pages or child pages in Wordpress – here’s how it works and a bit about ways to organize child pages.
You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Setting the permalinks style
The default URLs for WordPress posts and pages are not meant to be pretty – either for humans or for search engine robots. So you can change the way permalinks or the permanent direct link for a post or page are displayed.
You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
Changing category names
After setting up a category for your posts, you may change your mind and want a new name for that category. Here are a couple of ways to do that.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Uploading new images
Here’s a detailed look at how you upload images into WordPress.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Adding media – overview
Whether it’s an image, a video, a PDF document, here’s a quick look at how you upload them and get them into your WordPress content.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Highlighting quotes or text blocks
If you want to make larger areas of text stand out from all the rest – when quoting someone, for example – then here’s how to do it with “block quoting” in WordPress.
