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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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Schedule a post to publish at a future date and time

When you write a post in WordPress you don’t need to publish it right away. Here’s how to schedule the publication date and time anytime in the future.

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Creating a link using images in posts or pages

If you want to link to an external site or somewhere on your own site, using an image, here’s how to do it in the WordPress text editor.

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Create a link within the text of posts or pages

If you want to link to external sites or other parts of your own site using text within posts or pages, here’s how.

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Using the Auto Save function

WordPress is always automatically saving your posts or pages as you work on them – in case you forget to save or something crashes. When you see the Auto Save notification at the top of the page, what are your options?

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Create extra space between two paragraphs

If you need to create extra space between paragraphs in the visual editor of WordPress, you cannot simply hit the ‘return’ key more than once. Here’s a simple way to solve the problem.

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How to paste Word doc text into posts or pages

If you’re trying to get text from a Word document to place into a post or page, you need to go about it the right way or you could end up with a lot of hidden coding that bloats the size of your web page.

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Adjusting the size of the text editor

The default size of the text editor in WordPress is fairly small. If you’d like more real estate for your writing, there are a couple of ways to do it – one temporary, the other remains in effect until you change it again.
NOTE: This applies only to the VISUAL mode of the text editor – [...]

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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.

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Removing links from text or images

If you have a link that you want to remove from text or images in WordPress, here’s how to do it in the text editor of your posts or pages.

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Flowing text around images in posts or pages

If you want text in your posts or pages to automatically flow around images, this is how to do it.

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Unschedule a post so it will publish immediately

If you’ve created a post and scheduled it go live sometime in the future, and then you change your mind, here’s how to make it live – publish it – right now.

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Using the Insert More button on the visual editor

When you have a lot of text in a post, you may not want it all showing up on the home page or other places where you list your posts. You can easily choose to have only a portion of the post show up, with a “Read more” notice for visitors to click on and [...]