WordPress.TV Blog

I have been spending some time working on ideas for the blog. Please comment and let me know what you think.

Publish biweekly ??

Have multiple contributors

Multilingual – make it international!!

TagTag Tag is one of the pre-defined taxonomies in WordPress. Users can add tags to their WordPress posts along with categories. However, while a category may cover a broad range of topics, tags are smaller in scope and focused to specific topics. Think of them as keywords used for topics discussed in a particular post. more videos FEATURE ME (if warranted) For non English videos, contact 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 for recommendations.

Mention and embed FEATURED videos in blog

What about video interviews? Give Matt Mullenweg first shot?

See an example interview video – what do you think?

YouTube has royalty free audio files

https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music

Sometimes you will see the following statement when you download a music file:

“You’re free to use this song in any of your videos, but you must include the following in your video description:
Brookers Blues by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Artist: http://audionautix.com/”

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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, #wptv-mods

WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.”
Buddha

Just finished a very enjoyable two days at 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. San Francisco (the last WCSF) and then an intense three days at the Community Summit. We were able to publish The State of the WordState of the Word This is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/. and the Town Hall Meeting videos within hours after they happened.

At the Community Summit we were able to put the finishing touches on some documents for adding new mods, for the buddy system for new mods and a rewriting of the Moderator handbook. And we were able to get nice drafts for some other needed documents. We were also able to do a lot of clean-up in categorizes, video tags, language tags, authors and moderators. And we also ended up with a list of issues that we can address later.

And if that wasn’t enough we have a new way to communicate – SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. This will improve our ability to communicate both with each other and as a team.

The Last 7 Days

We published 16 videos from 6 WordCamps around the world. Videos from WordCamp Dallas/Fort Worth are being uploaded and videos from WordCamp New York will be uploaded soon.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCamp Videos This Week

Matt Mullenweg: The State of the Word 2014

Matt Mullenweg: Town Hall at WordCamp San Francisco 2014

Chris Lema: Professional WordPress

In Process:

A list generated at the Community Summit.

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WordPress.tv moderator chat moved to next week

Howdy WPTV mods, as may have heard, it was announced recently that we will be moving our chats from IRC to SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. As a result of this (plus the fact that @roseapplemedia and I are still at the Community Summit) it seemed best to reschedule our chat which was to be held today.

So let’s plan on meeting on Slack in the #community channel next week. I’ll be on vacation starting Wednesday the 5th (our normal day to chat) so how about we meet on Tuesday November 4th at 09:00 PDT (17:00 UTC) on Slack. Convert to your time zone

If you are not on Slack yet, please try to get signed up before our meeting. If you have a 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/ account, you are already invited to join. To sign up, just follow the steps here: chat.wordpress.org

If you have any trouble, please drop a comment and I’ll get you fixed up! 🙂

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It’s been a lively and busy week for…

It’s been a lively and busy week for the WordPress.tv mod team.

New Moderators Added

In addition to the mods added last week, we have added three new mods to the team this week. Welcome!
Joan (@joanboluda)
Chantal (@chantalcoolsma)
Ben (@ubernaut)

Non-English Videos

Non-English videos got a nice boost this week. With the revised guidelines for non-English videos, this week we published 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. videos in
Swedish
Slovak
Danish
Romanian
German
Japanese
and Hebrew

And one of the three most viewed videos this week one was in Slovak.
Martin Viceník: Video a WordPress (Slovak)

Facts from the Last 7 Days

In the last 7 days we published 21 videos from 8 different WordCamps around the world.

The three most viewed for the that 7 day period were:
Dan Beil: How NOT to Develop (With WordPress)
Martin Viceník: Video a WordPress (Slovak)
Zac Gordon: Why Setting Up Themes Is a Niche in Itself, What to Know

We are currently busy moderating and scheduling the remaining WordCamp Chicago and the WordCamp Hamburg (German) videos and we are starting to get new videos from WordCamp St Louis.

Central Post-Production Moves Forward

And to top it all off the central post-production process to help WordCamp organizers with video processing is moving from a “pre-alpha” stage to an “alpha” stage.

Exciting times ahead!

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