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USTREAM Streaming Video on Your WordPress Blog

Posted: by Karl Kranich from Media for Ministry
Tags: blog, chat, how to, screencast, training videos, ustream, virtual meeting, virtual meeting help, wordpress, wordpress help

Using a USTREAM live video feed on your blog is easy, and it makes finding your streaming feed easy for your target audience! This screencast tutorial will help you embed both video and chat on your WordPress blog. NOTE: If you scroll down this page, you’ll see I have pasted some code that I refer to in this video. You can cut and paste it when you go through the setup.

This is #2 in a series. Click here for #1.

HTML code for your blog:

<html>

<body>

<tr>

////Your video embed here////

</td>

////Your chat embed here////

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</body>

</html>

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WordPress Permalinks Issue on Bluehost

Posted: by Karl Kranich from Media for Ministry
Tags: blog, blogging, bluehost, how to, howto, permalinks, tutorial, wordpress, wordpress help

There is a known bug with WordPress blogs hosted on Bluehost that will crash your site and prevent you from logging into your WordPress dashboard. The bug occurs if you change the permalink settings on your site. This tutorial will show you what triggers the bug, and how to fix it.

If you’re not comfortable using an FTP client and plain text editor, which you’ll need to get your site working again, don’t trigger the bug without some help first.

Setting Permalinks – This Triggers the Bug

Login to your WordPress dashboard.

Expand the Settings menu and select Permalinks

Select either the Day and Name or Month and Name option, and then select the Save Changes button

From this point forward, if you try to load any part of your blog, you will receive a 404 error. You will receive this error until you fix the htaccess file.

Fixing the Bug: How to Fix the .htaccess File

Download the .htaccess file that is generated after saving the permalink options from the previous step. The .htaccess...

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WordPress Blog Tutorial: Installing a Google Calendar

Posted: by Karl Kranich from Media for Ministry
Tags: blog, blogging, calendar, google, google doc help, how to, howto, online training, screencast, tutorial, widget, wordpress, wordpress help

Google Calendars are a great tool for any ministry. Multiple people can have access to updating them, and they can be easily installed onto your blog so that everyone who visits your site can be kept up to date on your ministry’s schedule of events. Managing the calendar is extremely easy since you only have to update it in one place. Every time you make a change to the calendar in Google, your blog is automatically updated.

Here’s a quick tutorial to get you started. This tutorial assumes you’ve got a self-hosted WordPress blog and are using version 2.9.

1. Go to www.google.com/calendar

2. Click on the Create an account button, or if you already have a Google Account, enter your email and password to login.

3. Enter all of the required information and agree to the terms and conditions
4. Once completed, you should see your new calendar

5. Click on the arrow by My Calendars, and select Calendar Settings

6. Select Customize the color, size, and other options from the Embed This Calendar section.

7. Use...

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Installing WordPress Plugins

Posted: by Karl Kranich from Media for Ministry
Tags: blogging, howto, online training, plugins, wordpress, wordpress help

Plugins are a great way to customize the look and functionality of any WordPress blog. They’re an easy way to do things like add Facebook functionality to your blog, block spam from your comments, and embed fill-in forms into your pages, just to name a few. WordPress makes it really easy to search for and add plugins. Here’s a step by step guide to installing plugins.

1. Select Plugins from the left-hand menu of your Admin Dashboard, and then select Add New

2. Use the search box to search for the plugin you’re looking for. In this example, we’re looking for a specific plugin – the “youtuber” plugin.

3. Find the plugin you want from the menu, and click on Install

4. When the popup window comes up, click on the various tabs to get more information about that specific plugin. Before you actually install the plugin, you’ll want to make sure it is compatible with the version of WordPress that you’re using.

5. Click on Install Now to install the plugin. If you’re feeling adventurous, you could also f...

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Free Web Building Tutorials at W3Schools

Posted: by Karl Kranich from Media for Ministry
Tags: blogging, howto, online training, wordpress, wordpress help

W3Schools is an amazing website featuring tons of free web building tutorials. If you’re looking for a handy reference for html, css, and all things computer code, W3Schools is a good one. Check it out – w3schools.com

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