A short video tutorial to show you how to embed video into WordPress using the embedded media feature within WordPress.

This covers videos you want to embed into a post or page that play with a video player, and that are not uploaded to a video sharing site like YouTube or Vimeo, but stand alone video files.

The release of WordPress version 2.9 revealed a huge oversight, the post scheduling feature does not work. The fix requires editing the cron.php file (wp-includes/cron.php).  In this very short video, I show you where to find the specific line of code to change and what to do to fix this issue.

I’m sure WordPress will soon come out with an updated release to fix this, but until then – here’s how to fix the scheduled post problem.

What is the gallery feature?
A gallery is used to display thumbnail images attached to the current post, or attached to any other posts within your blog.

How to use the gallery feature?
The new gallery uses shortcodes. To display a gallery, place the shortcode into a post or page (using the visual or html tab, it works either way).

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