I first started using the wordpress classroom back in early 2009 when it was first conceived and when I needed to know how to learn wordpress and  I can honestly say that without the knowledge it provided, this and my other wordpress blogs would not exist.

Matt Wolfe, the creator of the WordPress Classroom is one of the nice guys and his expertise in using and teaching wordpress is next to none.
While many say that wordpress is a cinch to use, for novice users it can become extremely frustrating in just not knowing what to do.

You have to know how to learn wordpress!

The WordPress Classroom takes away all that frustration by delivering easy to understand precise walk through FREE wordpress training videos which provide step by step instructions on exactly how and where to start, right through to getting your wordpress blog online and indexed by the major search engines such as Google.

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Advanced users of wordpress can also glean a lot of information from the WordPress Classroom particularly if HTML is not their strong point. Although  it was not completely necessary for me to learn HTML, I found that a basic understanding of some html is necessary in creating some links and particularly when creating widgets.

See more about  using widgets in the WordPress Classroom here.

Below is a list of the Free Videos found in the WordPress Classroom.

For the Novice

• How and where to buy a Domain.
• How and where to buy a hosting account.
• How to link your domain to your Host.
• How to install WordPress using fantastico from your Hosting Control Panel
• How to install wordpress manually
• How to Install a Free Theme
• How to add email to your Blog
• How to install plugins such as Google Analytics automatically and manually.
• How to manage threaded comments
• How to learn wordpress

Intermediate Level.

• How to install a Twitter Widget.
• How to hide Affilaite Links.
• How to install an opt-in box in the side bar.
• How to add an Avatar beside your comments.
• How to add a contact me form to your blog.
• How to make money using the WordPress Classroom

See an Example Free Video Below

While the wordpress training  videos above are free,  the WordPress Classroom also offers a paid version which includes all of the above plus over seventy additional videos with  new monthly instructional videos for advanced users.

It also provides a great  members forum where members help each other  with all sorts of issues and offer tips on Marketing, html, themes, Traffic exchange, plus several fantastic bonuses many of which are not found anywhere else.

Just a Few Of the Additional WordPress Classroom Pro Videos.

• How to edit Permalinks For SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
• How to install The “All In One” Seo Plugin.
• How to guard your blog against content theft.
• How to create a static home page
• How to back up your blog
• How to remove pages from the menu.
• How to add images to your blog and how to add an affiliate link to them.
• 3 In-depth videos on How to Create a Membership Site for your blog
• How to add a forum to your membership site
• How to create a full width page eliminating the side bar from your blog.
• How to install a multi-site using WordPress 3.0 and above.

The site you are looking at now was created using the WordPress Classroom and I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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As a result of the feedback and comments I received about the “Older than dirt” post I thought I’d reserve a special page just for nostalgia.

Since this blog is really from a baby boomer for the benefit of other baby boomers, we should see some amusing and maybe “lump in throat” memories emerge.

The whole idea is to just go to the nostalgia page above and write about a nostalgic memory. Preferably your post should be about things that no longer exist such as the way things were done “back in the olden days when WE were kids”

However you don’t have to be a baby boomer to post on the nostalgia page.

Any interesting stories you might have about the past are welcome. Maybe you heard something from your parents or grandparents which will be fine.

I’ll start it off with a few and hopefully others will add to it as time goes by.

Just click on the nostalgia page at the top of this page or click here to start.

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I stuffed up, but more about that a little later.

The weather here has been playing havoc on my satellite internet connection with heavy rain blanketing out the satellite signal at the most inopportune times. For example when I’m halfway through a particularly large download or when trying to update my blog with a new widget, I see the little revolving circle which defines a loading, spinning merrily around while in fact nothing is happening.

On checking my modem, I can see only 1 or 2 bars lit signifying a signal too weak to effectively carry out the task at hand. (It needs a minimum of 4.) Such is one of the prices that need to be paid to live in a remote region of Australia. Beautiful and serene as it may be it does have its drawbacks.

However that’s only one of the things that have slowed me down over the past week or so.

I mentioned earlier that I’d made an error but not just any ol’ error. In fact I almost lost my complete blog through a chain of events which I initially instigated by making a typical newbie mistake.

I had simply loaded some files to the wrong directory with my FTP software and in trying to rectify the problem had deleted many of the core files needed by my blog in order to function.
(I don’t know why it is that when using FTP client software, folders are called directories, while when they are sitting on your computers hard drive, they are called folders. Just more confusion for the ill informed newbie!)

What happened next scared the livin’ sh** out of me!

I had submitted a ticket to my hosting provider to try to find out what was happening with the files I’d lost and in so doing had to converse with at least 4 different people depending on who happened to pick up the ticket for that shift.

Now this is where human error takes on extra significance because they asked for my control panel user name and password.

Although I was reluctant to provide it, I did, with the result being what could have been catastrophic consequences.

After several tid bits of correspondence all to no avail, someone on the other end in their wisdom or stupidity, deleted all the other files which in effect left me with a blank blog template of the type you start with when you fist begin your blog.

Fortunately however, the files were backed up and were able to be reloaded, giving me my site back. However I still had to reload all my images and add-ons including the images in the widgets.

The lesson learned here is obvious but so many people fail to learn it at their own peril.

Back up completely and back up often

Backing up is easy and can be done from the WordPress dashboard or more completely from the hosting control panel. Just look for the back up icon and follow the prompts.
We all make mistakes but if we don’t learn from them, we are making yet another one.

Considering the topic of my blog I thought I’d include it here as part of a post for those old enough to remember:

“Someone asked the other day, ‘What was your favorite ‘fast food’ when you were growing up?’
‘We didn’t have fast food when I was growing up,’ I informed him.
‘All the food was slow.’

‘C’mon, seriously. Where did you eat?’
‘It was a place called ‘home,” I explained !

‘Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn’t like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.’

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn’t tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I’d figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).

We didn’t have a television in our house until I was 10.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 p.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people…

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn’t know weren’t already using the line.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home… But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers –My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week.  He had to get up at 6AM every morning.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don’t blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn’t what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother’s house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it… I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to ‘sprinkle’ clothes with because we didn’t have steam irons. Man, I am old.

How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.

Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (There were only 2 channels [if you were   fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi’s
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = You’re still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don’t tell your age,
If you remembered 11-14 =You’re older than dirt!

I must be ‘older than dirt’ but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

Don’t forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends….I just did!!!!!!!!!

(I used a large type face so you could read it easily)”

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