Adding Users to Your WordPress Site

Want to get some help with your site or have plans to work on another site as a group, WordPress makes it easy to invite others in.

Creating a Photo Gallery with WordPress and an iPad

The following video uses an iPad, but the iPhone/iPod Touch app is nearly identical. The WordPress app also exists for Android but it works a little different. [videojs mp4=”http://isite.lps.org/bfitz/site_assets/wordpress_ipad_gallery/ipad_wp_gallery.mp4″ webm=”http://isite.lps.org/bfitz/site_assets/wordpress_ipad_gallery/ipad_wp_gallery.webm” poster=”http://isite.lps.org/bfitz/site_assets/wordpress_ipad_gallery/ipad_wp_gallery.png” width=”720″ height=”450″]

WordPress Mobile App Setup

LPS uses WordPress for teacher websites, many school building websites and in a growing list of other situations. The folks at WordPress work hard to produce quality mobile applications for every mobile operating system (iOS, Android, etc.) so that you can easily add posts and pictures, or manage comments from your phone or tablet. Learn […]

Embedding Videos in LPS Web Pages

Sometimes, a video is the best way to communicate a thought or idea. Unfortunately, a video’s file size is often much, much larger than you would ever want to directly upload to a web page. Don’t worry, if you have a video, LPS offers tools that can make it easy to add it to your […]

WordPress for LPS

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Using the Link Widget

The link widget is a great way to give folks easy access to related and important resources from nearly any page of your WordPress web site.

WordPress and Your Mobile

WordPress has applications available for iOS, Android and Blackberry. If your phone/handheld uses one of these operating systems, you could have a site management tool right in your pocket! To start using WordPress on your mobile device, do the following: Go to your site admin on a standard computer browser and select “Settings” > “Writing”. […]

Editing the WordPress Sidebar

Most WordPress sites come with a large section on the right side of the page for small bits of information to be shown using “Widgets”. If you’ve been frustrated with this section and wanted to know how to get rid of the default “Categories” and “Archives” widgets, how to add your own widgets or even […]

Feeling Squeezed by the WordPress Upload Quota? Optimize!

The upload quota on WordPress at LPS is currently set at 40 MB. A typical photo directly off of a digital camera is between 1 and 2 MB, and with newer cameras even larger. Given these two things, you could use up your whole quota in a single photo gallery! Bummer! So how can you […]

Tips to speed up your WordPress site

I was working on my wordpress site this morning and lamenting how slow it was loading. My first thought was, “What is going on with the server?!” Sometimes the server does slow down and we are always looking for ways to optimize and deliver better performance to our web sites, but very often there are […]

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