Posting Your Film on your Free Filmmakers Channel Site:Â Although the process for posting your film on your site is mostly the same as it is for posting your film on The Filmmakers Channel, channel, there are some very, very important differences. Here’s the highlights. Your free site is a WordPress site as is The Filmmakers Channel and you’ll create a WordPress post for your film just like on The Filmmakers Channel the key difference is how you set up your categories. For The Filmmakers Channel, channel site categories are somewhat obvious; documentaries, comedies, etc. However since your site will likely not have an aggregation of films (though we hope you have lots of them at some point) you will need to put some thought into how you categorize. You’ll want to be more creative then just creating a category called ‘ movie ‘ as that is not very Google friendly. So be prepared to put some creative energy into what you think your categories for your entire blog ought to be including for your film.
Picking Your WordPress Theme
Once your site is setup you can login and pick a Word Press theme. This video will demonstrate how to access your site in a way that conveniently also puts you in a place where you can manage your site and your film. Cool! Huh? Well I digress. Anyway, picking and activating a theme is easy. Now you’re going to be wondering (maybe) why we don’t have more themes available and the reason is that we want to produce videos to help you customize each without suffering technical consternation (sounds like a medical condition). Anyway, what we really recommend if you have the budget is to let us customize for you our Film Theme which is what this site is based and built especially for film and video. The great thing about this theme is that we put it together so it can be customized easily and for very little cost (about $250).
Website Setup
Fill out the form below once you have registered your domain and you have configured your “A” record. If you haven’t configured your “A” record then your website will reside at a third level, or what is known as a sub domain. This means your site will be at http://yoursite.thefilmmakerschannel.com. Once you’ve set your “A” record we’ll map your domain for you so your site resides at http://yoursite.com. So, in the interest of efficiency set up your “A” record first. If you haven’t done so or need a refresher, here’s a link to the video about how to set up your “A” record.
Adding a WordPress Photo Gallery To Your Posts
How To Add A Photo Gallery To Your Word Press Posts
Word Press comes with a built in photo gallery. Once you figure it out it’s really quite easy to use. The trick is getting the images you want attached to a post properly attached. This video walks you through the two different ways for attaching images to posts and then how to insert the image gallery into your post.
This short video will demonstrate exactly how to use the built in capability in Word Press to add as many photos as you want and when you hook up the Word Press Photo Gallery with the Light Box plug in you can create a really nice experience for your users.
One other tip to help you create a great user experience is to size your pictures properly before adding them to your post.
About Custom Menus in Word Press
Word Press 3.0 introduced the concept of custom menus. This gives you a tremendous amount of control and flexibility when configuring your top navigation bar as well as your side bar since custom menus can be included in your side bar as well. This short video provides an overview of custom menus, their function and their configuration. [Read more...]
Adding Hyper-links to Pages, or Posts
For many who are new to Word Press, the simple things such as hyper-linking can be confusing. Especially if their background is with an HTML editor such as Front Page, or Dream Weaver. Hyper-linking in Word Press is actually pretty easy. This short video will teach you how to add a hyper-link to your page or post using the permalink, or the short code.
If you have any questions about hyperlinking in Word Press just leave a comment below.
Word Press Categories and Planning Content
This video talks about the importance of planning out your content in terms of posts and pages in advance of actually writing it as well as how categories are created and the unique advantage of the Genesis Theme Framework for creating a navigation that is unique to a category.
The Word Press Dashboard
The Word Press Dashbaord: This video will give you an overview of the Word Press Dashboard in general and more specifically for the Filmmakers Channel Theme which has expanded capability that is derived from the Genesis Framework. In a Word Press multi-site environment the dashboard even for administrators may have restricted capability such as plug in installation and activiation. [Read more...]
How To Write a Word Press Post
This video will show you the basics of how to create a Word Press Post and more specifically how to take advantage of some of the unique features of the Filmmakers Channel Word Press Theme using Custom Document Title and such for maximum SEO effects.
As well if you’re using our Wish List membership plug in there will also be instruction regarding how to protect a post so that it is only available to your websites members.
