This lesson shows you everything you need to know about creating and managing users in WordPress. If you’re running your WordPress website solo, you may not *think* you need to create additional users. But, as I explain in this screencast, there are plenty of reasons why you might take advantage of WordPress’s multi-user capabilities.

If you need help understanding user roles, be sure to watch the video where I explain WordPress user roles in detail.
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If you’re collaborating with multiple authors, working with an editorial staff, or requiring subscribers to create user accounts in order to comment, an understanding of the WordPress user role system is essential. This video will help you sort out your options by explaining the permissions associated with each role, and demonstrating how the WordPress administrative interface changes depending on a user’s role.

The video covers the current standard WordPress roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Subscriber

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Permalinks are one of the least understood WordPress features. And yet, they can have a big impact on the success of your blog or website. Unfortunately, WordPress’s default permalink settings are far from optimal. In fact, they’re downright bad.

This screencast demystifies permalinks by explaining what they are, why they’re so important, and finally, how you can improve the permalinks on your WordPress website. After viewing this video you’ll know exactly what to do to make your permalinks both human-friendly and search engine friendly. Read More…

The WordPress discussion Settings allow you to take control of the quality of comments that appear on your blog. You’ll use these settings to determine which comments require moderation, and to minimize SPAM.
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The legendary WordPress five minute installation is no myth. Provided you’ve got all the tools you need to get started, you can easily have WordPress up and running on your web hosting account in five minutes or less.

This screencast demonstrates a couple of ways to install WordPress — from your webhost’s control panel (both DreamHost and cPanel are shown) as well as the manual installation method. Read More…

The first thing you see when you login to WordPress is the Dashboard. In fact, you see so much of the Dashboard, that most users tend to take it for granted. There’s actually quite a bit of useful information contained in the Dashboard. This video gives users a complete overview of the WordPress Dashboard. Read More…

WordPress privacy settings are minimalist at best. They can be used to turn off update notifications (pings) and block search engines from indexing your website. As noted in the video, this is far from a fool-proof solution for keeping your site out of search engines, but it can be a useful feature in certain situations.

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This screencast provides an overview of the WordPress reading settings. These settings control a number of display options that have an impact over how your site appears to visitor. Use these settings to set an alternate home and blog page, limit the number of posts that appear on a page, and control your RSS feed.
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The writing settings allow you to customize and control the WordPress authoring environment. You can use these settings to set your default category, setup posting by email, and to enable WordPress authoring from desktop applications like MarsEdit.
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WordPress is an incredibly flexible and powerful content management system. A lot of that flexibility can be configured through the various Settings pages in the WordPress administrator. This is the first in a series of videos detailing each of the various WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on General Settings.

General Settings include blog title, tagline, blog URL, and time settings, among other things.
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