WordPress videos, tutorials, and how-to articles: List of what’s here

This post lists WordPress videos, tutorials, and how-to articles posted on this site.

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The Creative Commons: How to get great photos for your website

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We live in an world where media has become increasingly visual: video, photo, and multimedia fill our websites and TV broadcasts, and even our supermarket aisles and waiting areas. In fact, we expect to see photos and video clips on the news and on websites, and visitors generally stay longer on sites and channels providing visual imagery. For new website owners and bloggers who plan on updating at least the content of their websites themselves, the expectation of providing visual imagery can be daunting. It doesn’t have to be.

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How to attribute Creative Commons-licensed work

A previous post described Creative Commons licensing, and gave suggestions on how to find photos on the Creative Commons area of Flickr, with one brief example of how to attribute the work back to its creator. Here’s more information on how to fully attribute a work you use under a Creative Commons license. The examples shown are for photographs, but the same format and spirit can be used for other works.

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How to find and fix broken links in WordPress

This video shows you how to find and fix broken links on your self-hosted WordPress site using the Broken Link Checker plugin.

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How to update your WordPress version

This video shows you how to upgrade the WordPress version easily on your self-hosted WordPress site.

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