Tutorials

Hello! So you’re looking to add, edit, remix, and otherwise do exciting things with our website, are you? Fantastic! Let’s begin with a few tutorial videos:


Start here.Watch this general introduction to posting and editing our new site, and you’ll probably know everything you need – all in only 8 minutes.

HTML for beginners. Turning off the “visual editor” means we won’t be able to accidentally turn a page upside down, but if you’ve never used small bits of HTML to style text before, this 5m28s movie will teach you the few, simple things you’ll need to feel peachy.


Just for administrators. Everything else you might need to know to keep the site chugging along and fresh on a regular basis. This video assumes you feel competent with the skills from the first two, but doesn’t require much else. It’s 16m12s, but originally was twice that!

Good to know

An ever-growing list of other important bits of housekeeping that may not be self-evident:

  • Our site is automatically backing up all its content weekly (via the WordPress Data Backup plugin) and emailing the backup file to our firstchurchsomerville [at] gmail account.