1.  View in high quality
   Youtube gives you the option to switch to high quality videos for some of the videos.  To check if a video is available in high quality:
   append ‘&fmt=18′(stereo, 480 x 270 resolution)
   or
   ‘&fmt=22′(stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) for even higher quality
2. Embed Higher Quality Videos
   The above trick works for playback.  To embed high quality videos:
   append “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″
   and
   “&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″
   to the embed url
3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part
   Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck.
   All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.
4. Hide the search box
   
   The search box appears when you hover over an embedded video. To hide the search box add ‘&showsearch=0′ to the embed url.
5. Embed only a part of Video
   
   append ‘&start=30′ to skip first 30s of the video
   where any number can be substituted for 30\
6. Autoplay an embedded video
   add ‘&autoplay=1′ to the url part of the embed code
7. Loop an embedded video
   Append ‘&loop=1′ to make the video start again automatically after reaches the end.
8. Disable Related Videos
   Remove other people’s content:
   add ‘&rel=0′ to the end of the url part of the embed code
9. Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering
   Some videos are only available in certain parts of the world. Your IP Address is used to determine your location and then allow or deny access to the video. Change the url from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<somecode> to http://www.youtube.com/v/<somecode>
10. Download Video
    Although not inherently a youtube trick but useful all the same for downloading videos. Just change youtube to kickyoutube in the url of the video and it will take you to kickyoutube.com with all the options for downloading the video you were watching.

1. Right-click on page
2. View Page Source
3. Ctrl-F (to find in page)
4. Search for the word “wp-content”
5. If it is a wordpress site you will see wp-content throughout the source

How to find out the Theme:

1. Searching the source (as above)
2. search for
   <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://phylliserck.net/wp-content/themes/twenty-ten/style.css“
3. changing phylliserck.net domain to the domain name of the site you’re looking at
4. the style name is between /themes/ and /style.css

   e.g.
   twenty-ten

W12-030.2:  WordPress – Web Development for the Right Side of Your Brain

This class focuses on using the free open-source software called WordPress.  WordPress makes it easy to create and deploy your own professional webstie.  The user interface is designed to let you present your business or ideas in an attractive format to the public without having to know complex programs.  Learn setup, common uses, how to add plugins and design themes and search engine optimization as well as integration with common free social networking tools like Youtube, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook.  No prior knowledge of HTML, web publishing or ownership of an existing website required.  But, you should be familiar with web browsers such as Internet Explorer and programs to format text such as Word.

Fridays, Jan 20-March 2 (no class Feb 24)
9am – noon
$81

taught throughThe Lifelong Learning Center 310 South Curtis Street Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 549-8765

Adding alternative domain name for your website using a domain alias.

1. Plesk Control Panel
2. Websites & Domains tab
3. Show Advanced Operations (gray link in middle of the page)
4. Domain Aliases link
5. [manage] link next to desired domain
6. Add Domain Alias
7. type new domain name
8. leave default checkboxes
9. OK
10. Logon to domain registrar and set nameservers.

1. Ednor aka Bob Wire – had copies of his new Christmas CDs Off-white Christmas for everyone. His cool CD website done in WordPress of course, is at offwhitechristmas.com
2. Krista has been doing some cool reusable Theme customizations and demoed her cool photography site.
3. Rebecca recommended Cafe Press for jit merchandising
4. Bridget is implementing SEO techniques she learned in Rebecca’s class on the Solor Flashlights site.
5. Jamie is keeping busy working on his wife’s Bette Boomer site and his New Zealand vacation home site.
6. Nora is teaching an advanced wordpress class Beyond the WordPress Dashboard starting Jan 18
7. Phyllis compared and contrasted contact form plugins Contact Form 7 and Custom Contact Forms.
8. Stephanie has been working with plugins mailpress and Blog-in-Blog.

This class focuses on using the free open-source software called WordPress. WordPress makes it easy to create and deploy your own professional website. The user interface is designed let you present your business or ideas in an attractive format to the public without having to know complex programs. Learn set up, common uses, how to add plugins and design themes and search engine optimization as well as integration with common free social networking tools like Youtube, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook. No prior knowledge of HTML, web publishing or ownership of an existing website required but you should be familiar with web browsers such as Internet Explorer and programs to format text such as Word.

Fridays, Jan 9-Feb 13
9am – noon
$81 (early bird $76)

taught throughThe Lifelong Learning Center 310 South Curtis Street Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 549-8765

For example, I have the following:

• singlesite
• multisite
• plugintest
• themetest
• plugintest-multisite
• themetest-multisite

Here are the steps for setting this up on your PC.

1. Download XamppXampp is an Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. This makes it awesome for WordPress.You can download it from here. There are a number of different distributions so make sure you select the distribution that’s correct for your operating system. For the purposes of this tutorial we want the Windows distribution.

   Click on the distribution.

   Click on the installer

2. Install Xampp
   Double click on the installer and choose your language.

   Decide where you want to install xampp.

   Click install.

   

   Take a break and plant some flowers in your garden while it installs.

3. Fire up Xampp
   Start Xampp. Start Apache and MySQL.

   You may get a warning from Windows. You want to make sure that Windows allows access.
   You can check to see if your new local server is installed by visiting http://localhost

4. Set up MySQL DatabaseOn your Xampp control panel click the admin button beside MySQL.In your browser you’ll be taken to the MySQL dashboard.Fill in the details for your new database:

   

   • Set your MySQL connection collation: to utf8_unicode_ci
   • Choose the name for your database. I’m naming this one singlesite – you can call it whatever you want.Note: if you are doing a live installation on a server you must add a username and password. Do not use “root” ever on a live site. This isn’t necessary on a local installation.
5. Download and unzip WordPress
   Download WordPress.
   Unzip to folder under htdocs
   Find the Xampp folder and navigate to xampp>htdocs
   create a folder name for your site and unzip into that folder
   e.g. xampp/htdocs/singlesite
6. Configure WordPress
   Open up wp-config-sample.php and find the MySQL settings.

   

   Here is what you need to update the settings to:

   /** The name of the database for WordPress */ define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘singlesite‘);

   /** MySQL database username */ define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root‘);

   /** MySQL database password */ define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”);

   /** MySQL hostname */ define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

   Save the file in your root WordPress folder renaming it wp-config.php
   

   

7. Install WordPressOpen up your browser and navigate to http://localhost/singlesite/The familiar WordPress installation screen will appear.

   

   Fill in your details and click “Install WordPress.”
   

   There you go – WordPress is installed locally on your computer.

Credits:  Content for this post was adapted from Install WordPress Locally on Windows with xampp by Siobhan McKeown

The popular zenCart store software can be integrated with WordPress site by using the Fantastico installation module.

WP Robot plugin (not free) – great for autoblogging.  The most powerful affliate marketing tool Rebecca knows about.  She uses it on her Compare Treadmills site.

Once you get your site up there you can sell your site through flippa.com.  Like Rebecca did with GoGreenerTips.com.

Free screencapture program jing.  It has a 5 min limit.

Member champ plugin (not free) for subscriptions along with a purchase.  You need an Aweber account.

Socializer Plugin – same as what you get with JetPack

Sexy Bookmarks – another social links plugin (sexier)

Tubepress – autogenerating youtube video page

Using Amazon S3 to host content like videos – GoTo