An Introduction to the WordPress Admin

The following videos below will get you off the ground and running with your new WordPress powered website. Writing and publishing a post Adding categories and tags to your posts Using Quick Edit and Bulk Edit to manage your posts… Continue reading

Collecting Data with Gravity Forms

Collecting data from your customers, visitors or users is simple and easy once you learn how to use Gravity Forms. A Video Guide to Gravity Forms including: Create a new form Setting required fields & changing validation messages Adding a… Continue reading

TinyMCE Style Guide

Below you’ll find all the elements that can be output by the rich text editor in WordPress. If you’re designing an FTSCMS blog, feel free to create a style guide against this to match the typography to your design. Lorem… Continue reading

Blog Stories List

Many of the blogs we create at Fresh Tilled Soil have a shared set of user stories that we develop against. This can be used as is, or as an agile starter template to build on. As a reader I… Continue reading

Pointing Your Domain Name to FTSCMS

In order to being hosting your website on FTSCMS.com’s servers’ you’ll need to do the following: Login to your domain name host. Often this is through a service like GoDaddy, Network Solutions or TUCOWS. Find the location of your DNS… Continue reading

Working With Us

At Fresh Tilled Soil we use various hosted tools to manage our code and internal processes. 1. Harvest We track all of our time with Harvest in increments of 15 minutes. If you spend 5 minutes on a quick change… Continue reading

WordPress CMS Training Guidelines

Getting started Logging into WordPress using the Site Manager link Adding and managing users Blog settings and notifications What happens if I forget a password or username? Working with the page editor Setting page titles Setting a page’s web address… Continue reading

Launch Checklist

Before launching and FTSCMS website, or any WordPress website done by Fresh Tilled Soil, be sure to check the following: General Setup Google Analytics (Settings > Google Analytics & Settings > Google Analytics Dashboard) Check footer copyright info. If there’s… Continue reading

Manage SMS Text Message Subscriptions

Using the SMS Text Message plugin we’ve added to the system you can manage a list of SMS subscribers and periodically send them updates, messages or notifications to all the major wireless carriers. A user can submit their phone number… Continue reading

Professional Video Training & Support

We want to make things as easy as possible for you. Part of fulfilling that goal involves providing superior customer service to help support the CMS that drives your website. Video training library We have a built a library of… Continue reading