About a year ago, WordPress added a feature that made it ridiculously easy to embed content from various sites (like YouTube, Slideshare, Vimeo) into WordPress sites. How to embed media in WordPress in a second If you want to embed, for example, a YouTube video in a post, all you do is paste the URL of the video into the editor, unlink it and save/publish. See our ultimate guide to embedding HTML and iframes in WordPress on WPGarage for more info on how this works. The problem is that it doesn't seem to work 100% of the time. Luckily, there's ...

illuminea college is offering an amazing course through which you'll learn all the basics you need to know in order to get a website up and running using WordPress. Why Wordpress? WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS). Basically this means that regular people like you and me can, relatively very easily, build and tweak websites that are cool, clear, professional and unique. What is the course exactly? When: Starts Feb. 15, 2011. 9:30am-1:30pm Tuesdays for 8 weeks. Where: Our office in Jerusalem What: Here is the course outline: HTML CSS How do websites and internet work? (And how to get mine to work) Familiarizing yourself with WordPress part 1 Familiarizing yourself with ...

Automattic, the company behind WordPress and WordPress.com has taken a new direction in its activity with the announcement of a new website called FoodPress.com. FoodPress features blog posts aggregated from food blogs sitting on WordPress.com, and that's what makes it so interesting. It's a new venture into the world of verticals, sites that concentrate on a certain topic, with posts sucked in from other sources. The potential for these sites is huge and almost limitless: sites could be about fashion, dating, parenthood, startups, web development, etc. etc. But one of the things that makes this source interesting is that it's not machine-made: ...

It's a month since WordCamp Jerusalem which is basically how long it took us to organize the whole thing. And it's taken about a month to regroup, between the aftermath and all the holidays. But all the hard work was worth it since we've gotten great feedback on the event which took place on September 5, 2010. Thanks so much guys - you motivate me to think about the next event......

After a two year break, WordCamp is coming back to Israel, this time as WordCamp Jerusalem. And we’ve got an awesome lineup of speakers and topics in three tracks: Beginning WordPress Developers, Advanced WordPress Developers, and WordPress Tips and Ideas. What is WordCamp? WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike. Tell me more about WordCamp Jerusalem ...