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In WordPress workshops and training programs lately, I’m finding people logging into and accessing the Administration Panels of WordPress from a variety of novel ways instead of traditional. A WordPress Lesson article is wanted to describe traditional access points and untraditional. How does one get from the front end of their site to the back in the least clicks?
Learn WordPress at http://learn.wordpress.com is the guide for WordPress.com users as well as a great guide for new WordPress users. We’re working on expanding topics covered by Learn WordPress in the WordPress Lessons section of the Codex, taking the basics and digging in a little deeper to flesh it out, as is appropriate for our online manual for WordPress.
Take a look and see what they have been covering and pick a topic and let’s see what we can do with it.
Recent examples include: http://codex.wordpress.org/Comments_in_WordPress and http://codex.wordpress.org/How_to_Use_Gravatars_in_WordPress
There are several ways to use feeds in WordPress. The articles we have on the Codex need updating and maybe some additions. In general, feeds are used:
And variations thereof.
Current articles are:
Customizing Feeds
Importing Content
Using FeedBurner
WordPress Feeds
Someone up to date on feeds and WordPress want to take on a WordPress Lessons post to cover some of the missing bits and update the rest?
Article Wanted
There have been a lot of changes to WordPress, but podcasting still remains a challenge to incorporate an audio player automatically and a template for a podcast show. We need an article on how to make this more efficient with WordPress.
Article Wanted
WordPress Lessons needs an article on how to efficiency use WordPress for live blogging events, tips and tricks and techniques for updating a post during an event, fast methods of adding multimedia, live stream video/audio, and tips for live blogging with WordPress in general.
In WordPress Lessons, we need a very simple introduction of the basics of what functions.php is and how it works with WordPress Themes. Assume the person has little expertise on the subject, as well as HTML and CSS or programming. This is just to answer the question “what is it, why is it in my theme and should I do anything with it” kind of article.
here’s a draft:
http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Hearvox/The_Functions_File
now off to figure out how to submit to Codex editors.
Consider it submitted. We’re monitoring this. We’ll start working on this tomorrow, if not sooner. You totally rock!!!!!!
a month ago i posted, for Codex consideration a draft of The Functions File. put a notice here and on wp-docs maillist. have heard nada since.
should i be do something else to further this?
Has anyone looked at it or done any editing?
no edits (but my own). no looks i’m aware of.
I agree. Especially cause all the “how to” searches I’ve had to do so far pull up solutions which require me to find the “functions.php” in the html or CSS text and edit it to remove things like the posted date on my pages.
cmrigaud, that lessons page is up:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Functions_File_Explained
One of the most requested simple things people want to know how to do is change the fonts in a WordPress Theme, to make them different, larger, or smaller (ha!). We need a really simple article in WordPress Lessons on how to do this, using the Theme Editor or FTP to the stylesheet. It can reference Web Fonts and any Plugins that might make this easier that are in the WordPress Plugin Directory.
Anyone up for this?
I can do this. It might take me a little while because life is so busy right now 😦 When would you like it complete by?
I see you have this already: http://codex.wordpress.org/Playing_With_Fonts
Want it more “lessons” style?
Perfect. That is exactly what we need.
That article is really old, and probably includes inline fonts, which we can offer as what I call “blog bling” but we need to either change that or add another called something like “How to Change Theme Fonts” – oh, someone could come up with a better title, I’m sure. We can’t get too creative on titles, but we can be really specific. 😀
You rock! You are our first volunteer and the project hasn’t even started yet. Good for you on jumping in with both feet, and thank you for helping!
Sure, no problem. I’m glad to help. Writing is my thing so it’s great to be able to contribute in that way.
I’ll have a read through the documentation for contributing to the codex and get started 🙂
cmrigaud, 
Siobhan and 
i’d be happy to give this a go. i’ll create a User page draft in the next day or so. should have something worth reading/editing by early next week.