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How to use WordPress 2.9 [simple]
23. Feb, 2010 
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I’ve had a few clients ask me for a very simple tutorial about creating a new post in WordPress 2.9. After telling them to just head over to YouTube and follow the videos there, I finally went myself and looked for a few tutorials to send along as links.
I searched for “wordpress 2.9 video tutorials” and to my great surprise I couldn’t find a good video tutorial. I found videos talking about new features in WordPress 2.9, and I found some that talked about plugins for WordPress 2.9, but none that just showed someone how to post to their blog.
SEO can be a funny thing, because I highly doubt that there aren’t any good video tutorials out there. For whatever reason I just couldn’t find them. So I went ahead and made a short video showing the basics of posting to a WordPress 2.9 blog. Since I love MemberWing I went to the trouble of showing how to include paid vs. premium content in a blog post. Have a look below (it’s HD, so you can make it full screen and easily see all the details).
By the way, in WordPress 2.9, all I had to do to embed that video was paste the YouTube link (that’s amazing). In all my years developing software I haven’t many tools that meet the need like WordPress does. Hopefully this short tutorial video will get you on your way.
If you know of other tutorials or have questions, post them as comments below. I read read every comment.
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Hi Daniel,
I’m brand new to WordPress and just put up my first site last week. It’s more of a CMS, but your video showed me a few more options when I put up some posts.
I did copy the code from YouTube for the few videos I have up and pasted them into the HTML mode for my post, but when I went to Visual mode a large blank yellow box shows up on my Edit Post page. Is this how the YouTube videos look in your Visual mode?
Also, I’m having trouble with my widgets. Just can’t seem to get them to work. I’m using the Flexx Pro theme from iThemes, which I really like. I don’t know if this is a theme problem or a WP 2.9 issue. Do you have any recommendations?
Thanks,
Jan
Hi Jan,
In the editor you can’t really see the video. You just have to trust that it’s going to show up right when you view the page. You can click the preview button and you’ll see the page as it will look when live. Another problem is that the editor in wordpress will actually change the embed code when you switch back to visual mode. I think I should do a complete post on this subject (mental note)…
Widgets can be tricky. What type of widget are you putting in? Are they text widgets or something else? I’ll have a look at the theme and see if there’s any reason it wouldn’t work…