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    I specialise in SEO web design for owners of holiday rental properties, including gites, villas, B&Bs and hotels using Wordpress.

    I write articles here to help those in this sector to get more bookings. I also run a free French gite directory called Rent a Gite in France.

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Wordpress Tutorial 6: Using Next Gen gallery

The video below is a beginners guide to how to use NextGen Gallery in your Wordpress website. It’s a bit of a biggie at nearly 15 minutes, but there’s quite a bit to cover!

Use the controls at the bottom of the video player to watch full screen, and you’ll need your volume right up! If I go too fast, simply pause the video whilst you catch up!

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Wordpress Tutorial 5: Using Widgets

The video below is a beginners guide to how to use widgets in your Wordpress theme.

Use the controls at the bottom of the video player to watch full screen, and you’ll need your volume right up! If I go too fast, simply pause the video whilst you catch up!

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Wordpress training videos on Gite Guru

A while back I did a couple of training videos showing people how to get Wordpress set up on their servers.

Recently I’ve noticed that, particularly with new customers, it’s sometimes difficult to talk someone through the basic functionality of Wordpress when you’re not in the same room looking at the same screen (which we’re inevitably not!).

With that in mind, I’ve started producing some really simple training videos and sticking them up on the site for clients and non-clients alike. So far I’ve covered writing a Wordpress post, writing a Wordpress page, Adding Images to a post or Page, and changing your Wordpress page order. All these videos can be found in the Wordpress Tutorials category of the site.

Coming up are using the widgets area of your theme, and some of the more advanced plugins such as next gen gallery. Done.

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Wordpress Tutorial 4: Changing your page order

The video below is a beginners guide to how to add images to a Wordpress website.

Important: first you should watch ‘Adding a Page‘ as some basics covered in that apply here.

Use the controls at the bottom of the video player to watch full screen, and you’ll need your volume right up! If I go too fast, simply pause the video whilst you catch up!

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