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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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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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Backing up posts and pages using the Export function

A full back-up of your WordPress installation takes a bit of work, but if you need a quick way to save at least your posts, pages, comments, categories, and tags, then the Export tool is the way to go.

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Breaking up lines within a paragraph

If you want to split up lines within a paragraph using the visual editor in WordPress, you know that hitting the return key just produces a new paragraph, so what to do? Here’s what:

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Passworded posts or pages remain visible

After viewing a password-protected post or page, you’ll find that the page is still visible several days later. Don’t worry, the post or page is still passworded for everyone else. And here’s a way to get rid of that cookie easily.

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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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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.

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Sub-page list in sidebar without a menu listing

If you want to have a list of sub-pages always visible in the sidebar, without the parent page showing in the main pages menu, here’s how to do it:

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Change the colour of an individual text link

Normally you’d control the look of text links through your theme’s style sheet, but suppose you want one particular link to have it’s own unique colour. You can do this with a bit of CSS in your text editor.

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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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Change the default categories for posts or links

If you forget to assign a category to a post or a link, WordPress automatically assigns them to a default category. Here’s how to control those defaults.

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The hierarchy of post categories

Post categories in WordPress can have sub-categories, which in turn can have their own sub-categories, and so on. This hierarchical relationship has many uses – it also means that you don’t have to check off parent categories, because all children, grand-children, etc. are automatically included in the parent.