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What is WP? .com vs .org Setting up WP Power of WP Plugins PHP & CSSBuilt with WP

Steve Bruner: www.SlipFire.com

WordPress Basics

The New York CityWordPress Meetup Group

October 21, 2008

Presented by Steve BrunerSlipFire Business Solutions

http://www.slipfire.com/



What is WordPress?

Traditionally thought of as blogging software Used by individuals Journalists

With the addition of Themes and Plugins, WordPress can be used for almost anything you can think of:

News site e-commerce Photo gallery Standard Website (with integrated blog) Contact Manager Forums Content Management System (CMS)

What is WP?




News: NYTimes.com

Built with WP

Sites Built With WordPress


http://www.nytimes.com/ref/topnews/blog-index.html



Sites Built With WordPress

e-commerce: CarriageCouture.com

Built with WP


http://www.carriagecouture.com/



Sites Built With WordPressBuilt with WP

www.FiscalSanity.com

www.AllThingsD.com


http://www.fiscalsanity.com/

http://allthingsd.com/



What is WordPress?Sites Built With WordPressBuilt with WP

www.HotGhettoMess.com

www.SlipFire.com


http://www.hotghettomess.com/





ShowInABox.tvwww.Wandermelon.com


http://showinabox.tv/

http://wandermelon.com/wordpress/




Contact Manager

Add Posts from the front-end of WPwith “TDO-Mini Forms” Plugin

CRMdemo.Slipfire.compeople.theDesignCanopy.com


http://crmdemo.slipfire.com/

http://people.thedesigncanopy.com/



WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

WordPress.com

BenefitsIt’s free and easy to setupEverything is taken care of: setup, upgrades, security, etcBackups are automatic

ConsLimited themes (currently about 60)You can't add PluginsYou can't hack the code / edit themes

WordPress.org

BenefitsAbility to upload ThemesAbility to upload PluginsGreat communityComplete control to change code

ConsYou need a good web host, which generally costs $7-12 a monthRequires more technical knowledge to set up and runYou have to handle backupsYou must upgrade the software when a new version comes out

.com vs .org




Setting up WordPress.org

Register for a domain name Find a webhost that has one-click WordPress install

(ie Bluehost, Dreamhost, etc)http://wordpress.org/hosting/

Get an FTP application to upload Themes and Plugins

Easy FTP Application:

Use FireFox for your FTP Download FireFox at www.GetFireFox.com Click on TOOLS – ADD-ONS Search for “FireFTP”

Setting up WP


http://www.GetFireFox.com/



Power of WordPress

Create Posts: Articles that get archived Can be categorized and tagged Insert media (images, audio, video) Example: “What I did today”, “My thoughts on the

Presidential Election”

Create Pages: Don't change often Insert Media (images, audio, video) Example: “About”, “Directions”, “Business Hours”

Why Build Your Website with WordPress?

Power of WP




Archives Display a list of articles that have something in

common Examples: by category(s), tag, author, date

RSS Feeds Same as archives, but formatted for RSS Feed

readers Examples: by category(s), tag(s), author(s), date,

all posts

: Use Feedburner for your feeds

Power of WordPress


Power of WP




Themes Change the look of your website Thousands of free themes are available www.wordpress.org/extend/themes Search Google for: WordPress Theme

Plugins Add functionality to WordPress Examples: e-commerce, photo gallery, enhanced

SEO, advertising, spam protection, random posts, better search... almost anything you can think of!

www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins Search Google for: WordPress XX Plugins

Power of WordPress


Power of WP


http://www.wordpress.org/extend/themes

http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins



Essential Plugins

Start with the most popular Plugins:

www.WordPress.org/extend/plugins

Plugins




Steve's Essential Plugins

Comment Spam: Akismet (standard with WP)

SEO: All-In-One-SEO Pack

Contact Form: Cforms II (advanced) or Contact Form 7 (basic)

XML Sitemap: Google XML Sitemaps

Backups: WP-DB-Backup

Google Analytics: Google Analyticator

Add Video: Viper's Video Quicktags

Plugins




PHP and CSS

PHP Defines the content and structure of the website Header, Footer, Sidebars and Body

header.php, footer.php, sidebar.php, index.php,home.php, single.php, page.php

Automatically fills in data: <?php the_title();?> :Post/Page title <?php the_content();?> :Post/Page content <?php the_excerpt();?> :Post excerpt <?php the_author();?> :Post/Page author <?php the_category();?> :Lists Post Categories <?php the_tags();?> :Lists Post Tags

PHP & CSS




PHP and CSS

CSS Controls the presentation of the website Defines: colors, dimensions, typefaces, background File: Style.css

body {font-size: 14px;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;background: #ffffff;color: #000000;text-align: left;}

PHP & CSS




PHP and CSS

style.css

PHP & CSS




PHP and CSSPHP & CSS

index.php




Questions ?

WordPress Basics


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