Jan's Starter Blog

Directly inserting the same flv2mp3 sound file via wordpress music icon

Jan M. Lewis — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:59:36 +0000

Boogie Woogie 114

Directly linking to a converted flv2mp3 sound file

Jan M. Lewis — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:58:24 +0000

Click here for boogie woogie 14.

Actually, since this is directly on flv2mp3′s host, I want to see how long this link stays good.

How to Strike Out Language

Jan M. Lewis — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:27:50 +0000

What does the ~~strike~~ tag do? I guess that ~~solves~~ answers the questions.

How to Add a Block Quote

Jan M. Lewis — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:26:19 +0000

I got a very stange error message while using my new computer:

“No keyboard attached. Press F1 to continue.”

That seemed to work.

Insert Video in a Post Using WordPress Add Video

Jan M. Lewis — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:09:15 +0000

I will try adding it from wordpress instead of going to YouTube. Didn’tfind it there, so here is a video using wordpress to insert it instead of the YouTube embed code.

But, just to see what happens, click here to view the same video a different way.

Link to Another Blogger’s Post

Jan M. Lewis — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:57:48 +0000

I just viewed this post from another blogger. Let’s see whether this works to link to that blog post.

How to Link to a Prior Blog Post

Jan M. Lewis — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:35:56 +0000

We previously discussed how to include a link to an external site. Click here to see that post. Now we will try to add a link to a prior blog post.

How did I do that? I found the permalink url of the post I wanted to link to, then used that as the link.

How to Add a Category

Jan M. Lewis — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:37:43 +0000

How to add a new category: Dashboard > Posts > Categories. That will take you to the appropriate screen as illustrated here:

How to add a category

Inserting a Graphic in a Post 2

Jan M. Lewis — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:44:31 +0000

picture at keyboard

Here is a picture of a jpg I’ve inserted

Alignment is different in this one. What will happen to this line of text?

Well, this is not what I wanted it to do. How do I make it go AFTER the picture?

On the positive side, next time I want to put text wrapping on the right of the picture, I’ll have to see how I did this and emulate it. This time it was unintended, but now I’ll know.

Embed a YouTube Video

Jan M. Lewis — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:20:33 +0000

Here is one of CommonCraft’s videos: