YVOD Support

WordPress is a flexible publishing engine behind your website. Much of it’s power comes from the many plugins written for it. PodPress is the plugin YVOD recommends clients use to publish their videos. Once you install the plugin, use the quick steps below to publish your video on your website.

1) Shoot your video
2) Open the video in Quicktime
4) Scroll through your video until you find a scene you want to represent the video [this is called a Poster Frame]
5) Export for the web (Shift-Command-E)

6) Select ONLY the iPhone option [the iPhone (Cellular) and Computer options can be ignored]
7) Name your file without capitals and without spaces or special characters. Hyphens (-) and underscores (_) are fine.
8) Upload
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[Update:] This issue has been fixed with WordPress 3.0.

WordPress has this nice feature where you can automatically upgrade your plugins from within the Administration area. Unfortunately, this feature was broken on a site I recently upgraded. I found this cool work around. Simply put the following two lines in the wp-config.php file:

//Automatic Upgrade fix – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/238738
putenv(’TMPDIR=’ . ini_get(’upload_tmp_dir’));

In Write A Post we showed you how to easily write a new blog post. Just below the Publish button you will see the Upload section.

1) Click the “Choose File” button
2) Navigate around your computer to find the file you want to upload and double click it (or click it once and select “Choose”)
3) Enter some descriptive text (important for online marketing!)
4) Click the “Upload” button
5) Wait for a bit while your file gets uploaded

6) Select the correct options and then click the “Send to editor” button

That’s it =)

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The “Browse Options” are kind of interesting. You can choose to
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Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of blogs! YVOD has put together this every expanding “How-To Blog” section to help you as you blog. Please feel free to write comments or email use directly at support@yvod.com.

Your blog can be viewed here: http://your-domain/wp/

Wordpress official documentation

Blogging is all about writing. Writing in a blog is real easy.

1) Login to your blog

Blog Admin: http://your-domain/wp/wp-admin
Username: admin
Password: <password>

2) In the upper left corner, click the “Write” tab

3) Write a new post

4) Click the “Publish” button

That’s it! You have now updated your website with a new post.

In Write A Post we showed you how to easily write a new blog post. While that was very easy, you may have noticed two additional buttons next to the Publish button.

The first one is Save and Continue Editing. This one allows you to save your post periodically. You should click this button if you spending more than a few minutes composing a post as you would not want to lose any information should your browser crash.

The next button is the Save button and it simply saves your post as a draft for you to work on later.

Both of these buttons do NOT publish your post onto your website. They only save your information in draft for for
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In Save A Post we showed you how to save a post for later editing.

Once a post has been saved, you can preview it by clicking the Preview link in the top right of your screen, just above the area where you write your post content. This link opens up a new window to show you what your post will look like when it is published.

In Save A Post we showed you how to save a post for later editing. You can always go back and manage what you have written in your blog.

Click on the Manage tab in the top left of your administration window. This will present you with a screen to manage your work.

You can easily search for text, both published and non-published (draft) content, by using the search box at the top left of this screen. You can also browse by category or manualy review your work by date.

Once you have found the post you are interested in, click the Edit button on the right to edit your post.

1) What is HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is the programming language used to display “web pages”. In it’s simplest form, it is nothing more than a bunch of “tags” that are paired together to tell your browser what to do with text.

2) What applications do I need to manipulate it?

Any text editor can be used to write HTML code. Simpletext on the Macintosh or Notepad on Windows or Vim on UNIX all work fine. HTML is just text. You can use fancy editors like BBEdit, Dreamweaver, or GoLive but they are not needed. To manipulate pages created by yvod.com we suggest you use whatever word processor you currently use to create text files… and just save the pages as
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Most folks who connect you to the internet (called Internet Service Providers or ISP’s) allow you to send and receive mail at will. YVOD offers a simple set up for all email accounts:

Username: <full email address> (eg: ulan@yvod.com)
Password: <password>

POP3 Server: mail.yourdomain (eg: mail.yvod.com)
SMTP Server: mail.yourdomain (eg: mail.yvod.com)

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The internet is still a wild place and this set-up will not always work. Unfortunately, some folks choose to limit what email servers you can use to SEND your email. Why? I have heard that it is to better monitor what folks send (scary). Another argument is that they place filters on your account to cut down on spam. This is bogus since that is our job if you use our mail
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