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jerrysarcastic 5:50 pm on June 16, 2015
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Do you screencast or make video tutorials of how to use WordPress? WordPress.tv wants you!

WordPress.tv is a great place to go to catch up on your favorite WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. sessions, or perhaps virtually attend a Camp you could not make in person. These videos are a great way to up your game and learn about WordPress, especially if you are an aspiring developer, or established user.

However, for new users to WordPress, one thing we don’t have on WordPress.tv is videos of how to do things directly in the dashboard of their site. These are more “just getting started” kinds of videos, centered around common tasks or goals, such as:

  • How to configure widgets
  • Setting up a custom menu
  • Managing comments
  • How to insert an image gallery

These kinds of videos would do a lot to help teach WordPress to a new generation of users, and are just the kind of videos we want to host on WordPress.tv! How do we get there? That’s where you come in… 🙂

Submit your WordPress screencasts and video tutorials to WordPress.tv!

Are you a proud member of the WordPress community, who creates (or would like to create) videos that are focused on helping others learn how to use WordPress? If you answered “yes” then we would love your help in submitting your videos to WordPress.tv, so we can share them with the world in our “how to” section here: http://wordpress.tv/category/how-to/

Ready to go? You can use this handy upload form to send your video for review: http://wordpress.tv/submit-video/

What makes a good screencast or video tutorial?

We find that the following guidelines are all important to keep in mind when creating effective training videos for others to learn from:

  • Shorter videos are better – 3 minutes or less is a good guideline.
  • Focus on a single topic or task for your videos
  • Clear audio – Make sure your voice is easy to hear and understand
  • Focus on the browser window
  • No self-promotion or logos in the video

That last bit bears some explaining. While we want you to be able to benefit from your work, WordPress.tv is a non-commercial community-run website; we can’t accept videos with watermarks, logos, or self-promotion of any kind. We do have a place for you to enter your WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profile name as a producer credit, so you will get noticed!

Here is an example of an existing (slightly out of date) screencast that meets all the above guidelines: http://wordpress.tv/2013/06/22/how-to-use-the-image-galleries/

So why not share the love, and help train a new generation the joys of using WordPress. Good karma (and a free copy of WordPress) will be your reward for helping out! Thanks!

– Your WordPress.tv Community Moderators (aka “The Mod Squad”)

#public-submission, #screencasting, #screencasts, #video-tutorials, #wordpress-tv, #wptv-mods

jerrysarcastic 12:23 pm on February 23, 2013
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@andreamiddleton Was there any discussion of adding a…

@andreamiddleton Was there any discussion of adding a WordPress version metaboxMetabox A post metabox is a draggable box shown on the post editing screen. Its purpose is to allow the user to select or enter information in addition to the main post content. This information should be related to the post in some way. to the site? I think it would be good to have, and something the mods can add to (current version at time of upload?) or if we add a form field is something that the submitter themselves can add when uploading a video?

Is this outside of scope? 🙂

#public-submission, #wordpress-tv

Andrea Middleton 6:36 pm on February 21, 2013
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Get Involved

Big news! On Monday, we’ll be launching a new top-level menu item called Get Involved, which will include options to Submit a Video, Caption a Video, and Apply to be a WordPress.tv Moderator.

Captioning on WordPress.tv is soon to become a reality. For details, please see https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2013/02/21/hello-docs-folks-theres-a-new-project-set/

The Docs group will be heading up the captioning effort, as you see there, so this won’t add much to the current mod workload. If someone reports any issues with a caption, though – if it’s reported to be inaccurate, profane, spam, or problematic in any way – please unattach the caption file from the video, but don’t delete it. On Monday you’ll see a new metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. field for captions in the Edit Post screen.

Caption files will be uploaded via a form similar to the video upload form, so there’s nothing you’ll have to do to connect them.

Submit a Video: On Monday, we’ll quietly take off the password protection and then announce it within the Events contributor group. I’ll be sure to set very low expectations for moderation time. 🙂

Apply to be a WordPress.tv Moderator: I’ve created a draft application, which I’d love you guys to look over: http://wordcampcentral.polldaddy.com/s/wordpress-tv-moderator-application

Please let me know what edits you’d suggest. It’s loosely based on the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. organizer application. We’re obviously going to need to continue to grow, especially now that we’re going to be taking submissions from the general public, and I think this is a good way to start the vetting process for new mods.

Please share any concerns you have here. Yay! WordPress.tv is Taking Off, and the work you guys do so carefully and reliably is SO much of why we can grow. Thank you, thank you, thank you – from the bottom of my heart.

#captions, #public-submission