WordPress started out as a blogging platform but become a full blown Content Management System allowing you to create and publish your entire website with it. But, by default, WordPress home pages display your blog articles, and often times you might want something different for your home page, some static content perhaps.
There’s a pretty simple way to create static content on your WordPress site and the cool folks at WordPress.tv created a nice little screencast to show how to do it. Problem is, that, depending on the theme you use, there are some quirks with this method that put some oddities in your menu bar.
Well, it turns out there are work-arounds for this too. Here’s a quick little screencast I made to show how to make a static home page in WordPress and get around a couple of little issues.
Just playing around with adding a form here. CForms is a great tool for adding a form to your WordPress site. And, to learn how to use it, watch this video below.
Online videos on your website can be very effective way to increase traffic, improve conversion rates and explain your concepts or products better. Online video services such as YouTube and Vimeo make it super easy to embed a video on your website or blog. Here’s an example using an online video explanation I made to explain the basics of digital photos.
Here’s an example of embedding a SlideShare presentation into a WordPress blog. The presentation below is one that I developed for my SaveTheOcean blog to educate people about plastics and ocean pollution.
Plastic is poisoning our oceans and a lot of that plastic comes from plastic beverage bottles. Stop using disposable plastic water bottles and switch to using filtered tap water in reusable water bottles. It’s easy to do. It will help save the ocean. It will save you money. Final version of my Plastic Bottles & Ocean Pollution presentation. If you have trouble viewing the embedded version below, you can view it on SlideShare.
