Recipes for your Digital Media Kitchen

Category: WordPress

  • A (Quick) Test Post Using the Write Plugin

    I’ve previously demonstrated writing a post in the Classic block for WordPress, but i’ve recently discovered a plugin written by Jamie Marsland called Write. It is truly distraction free! WordPress.com sites will have this available by going to https://wordpress.com/write-editor. I’ve downloaded the plugin and installed it on this site. The plugin doesn’t work quite like…

  • How To Write a Quick WordPress Classic Post

    Video Ingredients 1 – Computer (Mac or Windows) 1 – Web Browser (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Brave, etc. ) 1 – A self-hosted WordPress installation (more about that from our friends at Reclaim Hosting) – see note at the end of the directions. Directions Note: You may get different behavior with the classic editor depending on…

  • Sign Up for a WordPress.com Account

    Directions UPDATE 2025 – The original article and video are now out of date. Follow the link for Creating your domain on WordPress.com , then you can begin a short course for setting up your site.

  • Using If This Then That (IFTTT)

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    Ingredients 1 – Computer running a modern web browser. 1 – An If This Then That account (available at https://ifttt.com/) 1 – For this example a YouTube account. 1 – For this example a WordPress self-hosted account. Directions Go to https://ifttt.com/ and sign in, or click Join if you do not have an account. From the Menu bar…