At TechStars investor and demo day Tuesday, Tom Keller, CEO of IntenseDebate, went on stage and told the audience that he didn't have any slides, nor was he looking for money. But he did say he had a surprise for everyone. That surprise was Automattic CEO Toni Schneider. Automattic runs the Web blogging service WordPress.

A quick guide to installing the WordPress podcasting plugin known as 1PixelOut.

Chris Abraham walks you through how to join the fastest-growing and most elegant free blogging services, WordPress.com. Go from the simple acts of joining all the way through set up and administration. Become a blogger in few than 45-minutes. Most folks only need the first 15 minutes to get you started. Chris is a professional blogging instructor. Enjoy!

This Intermediate level WordPress tutorial shows how to use a text widget to customize a WordPress sidebar. Widgets are a very useful feature of most new WordPress themes. These are called "widget enabled" or "widgetized" themes or "widget enabled" or "widgetized" sidebars. They allow you to add custom content to your sidebars with little or no knowledge of HTML or other code.