Building your own WordPress knowledge base
With just a few clicks of your mouse you can gather WordPress tutorials, tips and tricks from the Internet and file them in PageSnip. You can do this without saving any banners, navigation menus, advertisements or meaningless blog comments. Then you can use the PageSnip Manager to easily find, view, print or create a PDF of these snips whenever you need them.
Why create a WordPress knowledge base?
So you can keep the WordPress tutorials and articles that are of interest to you and easily find them again when you need them!
WordPress is a fantastic tool that has enabled countless people around the globe to voice their opinions. It is well documented and there are a multitude of plug-ins and websites that provide useful information on how to make it do just about anything you need.
That in itself is a large part of the problem!
A Google search on “WordPress” (as of this writing) returned 103 MILLION results!
Even a search for “WordPress Tutorials” still returned 1.34 MILLION results!
You can see that it is easy to get “information overload” when you are searching for the WordPress help that you really need.
The WordPress codex (where the online documentation resides) is a good place to start, but even there you will find that the topics and linked pages seem to go on forever.
You start looking at one subject, see a link to another interesting item and before you kow it you are either hopelessly lost, or have two dozen browser windows opened.
PageSnipwon’t help you narrow your search grid. However, it will make it easy for you to quickly snip and file the useful tutorials or articles. Then PageSnip can help you find them when you need them.
Learning to use PageSnip effectively enables you to see some item of interest, quicky snip it and continue your search without getting side tracked.
This tutorial shows a complete sequence on using PageSnip (first snipping, then filing and finally locating the snip again). In reality you will often snip an item into the PageSnip Assistant (which serves as a sort of “in box”), then continue surfing and snipping. Later, when your research is complete, you can quickly file your snips into the PageSnip Manager. They will then be organized and fully indexed so that you can easily find the information you just saved.
About this tutorial
This is the first of a series of real world tutorials designed to show you how to use PageSnip in your daily web surfing routine. The snipping techniques illustrated in this tutorial are not specific to creating a WordPress knowledge base. In fact they can be applied to any web page with a similar layout.
There are plenty of screen shots and explanations to show you what is happening and what it means to you. Don’t be discouraged by the depth of details, or think that it takes a lot of work to snip and file a page like the tutorial uses. After you see the process and try it for yourself, you should be able to snip a tutorial or article from a similar web page and file it in just a couple of minutes!
Enjoy the tutorial!
The Big Snipper
Team PageSnip
Tags: Knowledge base, PageSnip, Tutorial, WordPress
February 12th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Great article Charles! This really helps getting up to speed. PageSnip is a fantastic product, it’s rapidly becoming one of my “second nature” tools. Looking forward to more articles..
Cheers,
Gary.