Add a Contact Form in Wordpress

>> Written on January 6th, 2010 by Leon

Here’s a video tutorial on how to add a contact or enquiry form to a wordpress page or post using the Contact Form 7 plugin.

* Update: The value pasted into the “Mail – From” field and the “Message Body” should be [name] and not [text* name] as outlined in the video.

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Add a Gallery to Wordpress using NextGen

>> Written on December 14th, 2009 by Leon

In this tutorial, I’ve tried to explain the relatively simple process of adding a nice, pro looking photo gallery to a Wordpress Post or Page using the well known and excellent NextGen Gallery Plugin.

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Showing Links and Widgets on your Wordpress Site

>> Written on December 14th, 2009 by Leon

This tutorial covers adding the Links widget and others to the sidebar of your Wordpress site/blog:

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Add A Link In Wordpress

>> Written on December 14th, 2009 by Leon

Here’s a video tutorial on how to add Links to other sites in your Blogroll/Sidebar:

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How to Add a New Page in Wordpress

>> Written on March 6th, 2009 by Leon

Heres a tutorial on how to add a new static content page in Wordpress admin:

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Writing a New Post in Wordpress

>> Written on March 4th, 2009 by Leon

Heres how to write a new Post, Blog or piece of News in wordpress:

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Adding Wordpress Widgets

>> Written on March 2nd, 2009 by Leon

Here’s a screencast on how to add and modify different display modules or “Widgets” to the sidebars of your wordpress powered site or blog:

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Add PDF or File Download to Wordpress

>> Written on January 7th, 2009 by Leon

I’m regularly asked how to add a link to a downloadable PDF file for companies wishing to circulate brochures or pricelists etc via download from a website. The tutorial below works for any downloadable file whether it be a PDF, Word Document, Audio file, etc..

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Resizing Images for the Web or Email

>> Written on January 7th, 2009 by Leon

Getting photos onto a web page is a common but tricky process. You can’t just take a photograph off a digital camera and upload it or email it to someone because chances are it will be too large and take for ever. Heres a tutorial on how to resize an image both physically and file size wise using the freely available Pixresizer software available from bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm

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Add Images in Wordpress

>> Written on January 5th, 2009 by Leon

Heres a video tutorial on how to add an image or photo to a wordpress page or post.

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