Tag: WordPress techniques
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Creating a Playlist
Hi everyone! In my post Testing “Shortcode” and Other Embedding Methods, I tried adding a playlist, only to realize I need a paid plan with WordPress.com to do that. I then said… This site is on the free plan, so I will come back to that another day. I have an idea, a legitimate workaround……
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Testing “Shortcode” and Other Embedding Methods
Hi again! In my last post (Thank You To My 25 Followers!), I used some WordPress.com shortcode to add excerpts of previous posts on my blog. Today in this post, I’m going to try out some other Shortcodes and see what they can do! Videos WordPress.com offers video embedding for many different services including Vimeo, TED Talks and YouTube. Each…
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Thank You to My 25 Followers!
What an honour! I cannot believe I have 25 people following my posts from all over the world. I am intrigued to know how people have found me on my journey to working at Automattic. But I wanted to thank you all for your support! I took this time to look back at the last…
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My First Post by Email!
Surprise!! A post two days in a row! ?? This is a short post, testing the "Post by Email" feature of WordPress.com. What I have done is I have written this post as an email, sent it to a "secret" email address linked to my blog and that has automatically created a post for me.…
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Linking SNS to My Blog
Hi all! My last post was admittedly an extremely long post. Sorry about that… To make it up, today’s post is going to be super short! I have created and linked some social networking sites to my blog and have it set that whatever I post here is automattically posted over there, too. I wanted…
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Working Through the WP.com Tutorial
In my enquiry and working towards my reapplication, I have been led to the WordPress.com Tutorial page. The site title (as found in the tab) is called Tutorials and Courses for Beginners – Learn WordPress.com. As part of my studies, I decided to work through the tutorials and see what WordPress.com offers as a standard learning…