WordPress for Artists School

About the Tutorials

The Tutorials at WordPress for Artists is a member’s site for Artbiz clients to learn WordPress. Inside you will find detailed step by step instructions for adding, managing and modifying content and image portfolios for your website and/or blog with WordPress.

File Organization

The tutorials cover the basics in each section, taking a progressive approach so that each section builds on knowledge and skill acquired earlier in the tutorials. That said, you can access any section of the school as needed to accomplish specific tasks or simply to refresh your memory.

Objectives

It is the objective of Artbiz and the WordPress for Artists Tutorials to introduce artists to a community of like minded individuals that share a common goal: website self sufficiency through the use of WordPress.

Read the full WordPress for Artists Syllabus

“I’m delighted to recommend Kim Bruce’s WordPress expertise. Kim has written high-qualitly guest posts about WordPress for the Art Biz Blog and was kind enough to let me interview her for members of the Artist Conspiracy. I have been extremely happy with her content and the generous way she shares it with artists.”
Alyson Stanfield – Artbizblog.com

Artbiz Clients that currently host with Artbiz will be automatically registered for the WordPress for Artists Tutorials. Once you sign up for any of Artbiz website packages you will have free access to the tutorials which includes the ability to ask questions and get answers. Find out how to become an Artbiz Client and have your WordPress site set up Artbiz style.

List of Tutorials

Start Here: Using WordPress for Websites

WordPress Admin – From Login to Backing up your website, the WordPress Admin topics provide step by step instructions on everything you need to know to administer your WordPress website.

Appearance Options – The WordPress Appearance options tutorials cover how to edit your site’s background and header, manage site navigation with menus and add widgets to the sidebar or other widget areas.

Content Management – With the Content Management tutorials, learn how to insert content and images on pages or posts, add hyperlinks and what you need to know about SEO

NextGen Gallery Management – Before you start uploading your images to NextGen Gallery there are a few things you need to do first. Firstly; title your images with your name and title of the piece and resizing your images for the web. After that you are set to go with NextGen Gallery Management. This section covers everything you ever wanted to know about managing your online portfolio.

Also on this site you will find a growing list of resources to help you with WordPress and with your art marketing. The Members Area, exclusive to School Members, offers free downloads from art marketing courses and discounts on instructional art videos.