WordPress Custom Homepage Tutorial

WordPress Custom Homepage Tutorial


Learn how to setup a custom (or static) homepage in WordPress. This involves creating WP pages, adjusting a few simple settings, and using a special page template. Check out my “Get a Developer Job” course:

Link to download .zip of theme files as shown in this video (note: this is not a “complete” WordPress theme yet and this download is only intended for educational purposes to dissect and review):

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Updated WordPress.com – Step-by-Step Tutorial On How To Blog

Updated WordPress.com – Step-by-Step Tutorial On How To Blog


Chris Abraham walks you through how to join the fastest-growing and most elegant free blogging services, WordPress.com.

Go from the simple acts of joining all the way through set up and administration.

Become a blogger in less than and hour. Most folks only need the first 15 minutes to get you started.

Chris is a professional blogging instructor. Enjoy!

All of you have been asking me to update my step-by-step tutorial on how to use WordPress.com as a blogging platform — please check it out and please let me know what I have missed.

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Web Design For New Jersey Movers

Web Design For New Jersey Movers

Proud To Be Canadian Designing Websites For New Jersey Moving Companies

 

It’s not often we get inquiries from outside Canada for web design services. The U.S. has plenty of web developers and designers that are more than capable to get the job done. So why did they reach out to us in Canada? Well, it appears they had a business associate along the Canadian U.S. border that had used our services before. This was a great referral, we do our best to provide better than excellent customer service to our clients for this reason alone. Design work these days isn’t as hard as it once was. With so many plug and play apps that allow you to build sites with drag and drop functionality like WIX.com (yes I know they are a Canadian company).

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So when a local New Jersey moving company reached out for a custom design, we didn’t hesitate to deliver one of our best design concepts. We were familiar enough with the area of New Jersey that they serviced that we were able to create a custom look and feel that surprised even the locals. In addition to our design, we made it mobile responsive and also added a local GPS app that allowed the local residence to monitor the moving truck before it arrived to the home and after it departed to deliver the customers belongings either to a storage unit or the customers new home. This feature was made into an app and also embedded into the website. If you are unfamiliar with how moving companies bill, it’s common to bill for travel time, load and unload time. This app/widget also allowed the business to monitor the moving trucks and make sure the movers weren’t making any unnecessary stops along the way.

This was one of those projects that started out as web design and moved into app development and custom programming. Moving services in the U.S. are becoming more and more efficient and affordable. To make a long distance move from New Jersey to Canada once would have cost you an arm and a leg, however now with efficient travel guides, GPS systems, two way moving options, and online communications, businesses more than ever are providing affordable moving services and we would be pleased to design web sites for all of them.

If you own or know of moving companies NJ that would like us to design a website for you then contact us using the contact page listed in the menu.

Beginners WordPress Tutorial | How To Create A Website With WordPress | Step-by-Step Video Tutorial

Beginners WordPress Tutorial | How To Create A Website With WordPress | Step-by-Step Video Tutorial


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In this Beginners WordPress Tutorial, I will show you how to create a website with WordPress, START TO FINISH, step-by-step, so that you can get your own WP site up & running online quickly!

Total beginner or more advanced, follow along and build your own mobile-friendly, responsive website with the free WordPress Twenty Twelve theme. Enjoy and please leave your questions and comments below!

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1:56 Quick website tour
4:43 Video overview
6:04 Choosing domain name
8:06 Get web hosting & domain
12:08 Installing WordPress
16:56 WordPress themes
17:54 Initial settings
20:15 Adding pages
22:23 Change site from blog to static website
23:36 Removing comments
24:51 Make a custom menu
29:55 Removing sidebar from home page
31:05 WP visual editor
35:33 Finding royalty-free images
36:58 Inserting & editing images
38:45 Making & inserting a header
48:40 Changing the site background
52:21 Adding free icons & content to front page widgets
1:02:22 Editing the About Me page
1:07:58 Adding widgets to sidebar
1:11:11 Adding a photo gallery
1:15:13 Embedding a video
1:18:05 Adding a blog
1:23:41 Adding a contact form
1:29:06 Embedding a Google map
1:30:43 Installing & configuring WP Better Security plugin

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TESSERACT 2 Finally Here!

TESSERACT 2 Finally Here!


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Tesseract 2 theme update is finally here! Woocommerce, full width, blog, content blocks and more!

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Beginner WordPress Tutorial (Step By Step) – 2013

Beginner WordPress Tutorial (Step By Step) – 2013


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Here’s how to make a website using WordPress. This is for complete beginners, so you do not need to know anything about making websites in order to follow along.

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Avada WordPress Tutorial Complete Customization

Avada WordPress Tutorial Complete Customization


This is a quick Tutorial on how to set up WordPress Avada Theme and customize it using the Fusion Page Builder. i will talk about setting up the revolution slider and various responsive sections and blog formats supported by the the theme
Contact me for any Theme Customizations or Custom Plugins. My website is You can contact me at . I offer discount WordPress Theme Customization Service and have extensive experience with WordPress.

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WordPress Tutorial – How To Make A Static Page Your Home Page & Hide Double Home Page Link

WordPress Tutorial – How To Make A Static Page Your Home Page & Hide Double Home Page Link


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This beginner-level WordPress Tutorial by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications shows how to make a “static” WordPress page your Home page (also called a “front page”), and how to hide the second Home page link that sometimes appears in your site navigation when you make that static page a Home page.

By default, a WordPress website displays the blog page on the home / front page. For example, when you go to the Business Blogging 101 website at you see blog posts with the most recent post at the top of the page and earlier posts below that.

WordPress allows you to select a different page as your home page, so that you can display more traditional content like information about yourself or your business. You can also create another page to use as your blog page, with a link to that page in your site navigation. Watch this tutorial to see how to do this.

One problem you may run into when you make a static page your home page is that the link to that page now appears in the main site navigation, so that you have two links to the same page – usually the page called “Home”. The second part of this tutorial shows how to remove one of those links from your site navigation so that visitors to your site are not confused by the duplicate link.

Promotion Slider – WordPress Tutorial Video

Promotion Slider – WordPress Tutorial Video


In this WordPress tutorial video we cover setting up the Promotional Slider plugin, along with various customizations. Free WordPress training by Site Sparker.

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WordPress Slider Tutorial : How To Add An Image Slider To WordPress

WordPress Slider Tutorial : How To Add An Image Slider To WordPress


WOW Slider:
Wordpress Slider Full Tutorial:

This video is for WOW Slider v.2.4+

1. Create a slideshow in the app and click “Publish”,
select “WordPress jQuery Slider” as an export option, get
wowslider.zip plugin
2. Install and activate the created WP module — wowslider.zip as WordPress plugin
3. WOW Slider menu will appear. Go to WOW Slider – All Sliders and copy the shortcode of your slider,
for this example
4. Add the shortcode inside the page where you want your image gallery to appear
5. Preview changes
6. Use WOW Slider wordpress menu “WOW Slider – Add New” to add each next slider image gallery

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