How To Install And Update Your Custom Blog
Below is a series of videos that will show you how to install and setup your custom blog as well as how to use the plugins and features. Each video is only a minute or two long, so don’t let the amount of videos scare you! This is really easy and should take you under 15 minutes to get the whole install done.
First of all, you need to install wordpress on your domain – if you already know how to do that, then skip this first video. If you don’t know how, the video below is a short tutorial on how to use Fantastico to setup wordpress:
Upload And Activate Your Theme And Plugins
Next, you want to unzip and upload the files and activate your theme and plugins:
Change Your Ebook Sales Page
If your blog comes with an ebook and sales page, you’ll need to add your own payment/download link (either a paypal link or a link from a download service like Digital Product Delivery).
Usually this entails mucking around in a lot of HTML code, but I’ve made a custom script that allows you to edit one file and change a variety of things on your sales page. The script is located in your …/ebook directory and is called config.php – the video below explains how to use it:
Add Your Affiliate ID’s
Next, you want to add your banners and adsense code as well as a video. Your blog has an options panel that makes this super easy – here’s how to use it:
The Plugins
Setting Up Your Plugins – watch the videos below to find out how to setup and use each of the plugins:
All-In-One-SEO – improves the SEO of your site
Tube Press – adds youtube videos to your site
Privacy Policy – This privacy policy generates a page that complies with Googles TOS
Featured Content Gallery – if you have the photo gallery on the site you purchased, then this video will show you how to set it up (if you don’t have the photo gallery, then just skip this video).
How To Add Thumbnail Pictures To Your Posts
If you make new posts that will be shown on the homepage and want to have thumbnail photos show up beside them then you need to simply make a custom filed called “thumbnail” and add the image location to it in your post. This video shows you how:
Congratulations – You’re done setting up the blog!