WordPress Site DesignACE #CT01756 Intro to WordPress

By Adrian Mikeliunashttp://learnwp.us/week-4

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* Comments & Pingbacks* Plugins: find & install plugins* Popular and useful plugins* Adding Functionality & 3rd party services

Week 4 Agenda

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* Do you want an interactive website? * Wouldn't it be nice if the readers of a website could

leave comments, tips or impressions about the site or a specific article?

* WP allows visitors or registered users to leave comments on pages or posts…* Posting comments is one of the most exciting features

of blogs, allowing 1 to 1 or 1 to group conversations…

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WordPress Comments

* Discussion Settings * Affects NEW pages or posts from that POINT ON…* IT does NOT CHANGE ALL PREVIOUS pages or posts!!!

* Individual Pages or Post Settings * Affect only those pages or posts [manual process!]* They can BYPASS the DEFAULT Discussion Settings!

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Discussion vs. Post Settings

* Dashboard * Settings* Discussion

* Allow people to post comments

* Or in each page or post!

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Comments Configuration

* Comment Approval

* Manual or Automatic?

* If you have time or low comments, manual may be OK…

* If not, Automate!

* Why? to filter spammers!

* How? with Plugins!

* Plugins

* Use this plugin if you don't want comments at all on your site:http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments

* Bulk deletion: http://wordpress.org/plugins/bulk-comments-management

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Comments Management

NOT REAL PEOPLE!

* There are also nifty ways for authors of other blogs to leave “comments” without even visiting the blog! * A way of remote communication between bloggers* Called "pingbacks" or "trackbacks", they can inform

other bloggers whenever they cite an article from another site in their own articles.

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WordPress Pingbacks

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Pingbacks Example

* Dashboard * Settings* Discussion

* Allow pingbacks and trackbacks

* Or in each page or post!

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Pingbacks Configuration

* Add interactivity* Slides [images or text/overlays]* Popup when going away…* Newsletter subscription

* Support or Chat boxes

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Interaction Plugins

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Plugins

* Plugins are like mini-programs that do lots of things, from adding social buttons to your post to installing a media player so that you can play your own photo gallery, podcasts, or videos on your blog

* Plugins can serve ads, play a slide showsuggest how to increase your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or visibility, backup your site, protect from intruders, point out frequent commenters, …

* They can filter SPAMMERS!

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Plugins for Everything

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* Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine! * In this directory of more than 40,000 plugins you can find, download,

rate, and comment on all the best plugins the WordPress community has to offer: http://wordpress.org/plugins

* Recommendations on which plugin to install:* Rated 3+ stars out of 5 stars

* Version 1.0 or higher

* Less than 1 year old to be compatible with your version of WordPress!

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Plugin Installation

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Plugins Spam

* Akismet* Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the

world to protect your blog from comment & trackback spam

* It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep

* Needs an activation key! http://akismet.com

ALTERNATIVES:* Search for “spam” 1000+ results!

http://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=spam

The All-in-One Anti-Spam Plugin for WordPress - Without CAPTCHAs

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spamshield

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WordPress Statistics

* How many visitors does my blog get? * Which pages they read the most? * Two major analytics services [both free!]:

* Google Analytics * WordPress Jetpack Site Stats

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WordPress Plugin Families

* Elegant Themes subscription $* http://www.elegantthemes.com/plugins

* Jetpack by WordPress.com * http://jetpack.me/* Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a

WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users

* Mostly FREE, 30+plugins

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* Statistics & Central Management* Publicize - Free Connect your site to popular social networks and

automatically share new posts with your friends* Simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server* Email subscriptions for your blog's posts and your post's comments* Social networking enabled comment system* Monitor and manage your site's activity with Notifications in your

Toolbar and on WordPress.com* Simple, Akismet-backed contact forms

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WP JetPack Components-1

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* Hovercard popups for your commenters via Gravatar* Easily embedded media from popular sites like YouTube, Digg, and

Vimeo* The ability to post to your blog from any email client* Integration with social networks including Twitter, Facebook,

Tumblr, and LinkedIn* For the Math geeks, a simple way to include beautiful mathematical

expressions on your site

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WP JetPack Components-2

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* A widget for displaying recent tweets* Your readers can easily share your posts via email or their favorite

social networks * An artificial intelligence based spell, style, and grammar checker * Full-screen photo browsing experience (Carousel)* A mobile theme that automatically streamlines your site for visitors

on mobile devices* Mobile push notifications for new comments via WordPress mobile

apps* Creative formats for your image galleries: mosaic, circles, squares,

and a slideshow view

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WP JetPack Components-3

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* SPEED, one stop shop!* CONVENIENCE* REVIEWS:

* websynthesis.com/jetpack-plugin/* www.shariff.org/wordpress-jetpack-plugin-review.html

* Too many OPTIONS? Try the Lite version:* Jetpack Lite http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack-lite

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JetPack Benefits

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* Akismet – register it & say goodbye to spam!http://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet

* Content Aware Sidebars * Display sidebars according to the content being viewed

http://wordpress.org/plugins/content-aware-sidebars

* Enhanced Text Widget * enables a more feature-rich text widget

http://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-text-widget

* Digg Digg http://wordpress.org/plugins/digg-digg* adds a floating box on your website that enables your users to

quickly and easily share the page* WordPress SEO by Yoast - best SEO plugin

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo

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Top 5 FREE WordPress Plugins

* Backup Buddy ($80-$150)

* http://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy

* Visual Composer for WordPress ($25)

* feature-rich editor that allows you to add columns, image galleries, accordions, tour sections, videos: http://vc.wpbakery.com

* Gravity Forms ($39-$199) forms & directories

https://katz.co/plugins/

* Atlas Directory & Listings – $55

* the best directory and listings theme for WordPress

http://themeforest.net/item/atlas-directory-listings-premium-wordpress-theme/5736374

* WP Security $80/year

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Top 5 PAID WordPress Plugins

* Ecommercewordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=ecommerce

* Membership wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=Membership

* Marketing wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=marketing

* Media Site https://wordpress.org/plugins/meteor-slideshttps://wordpress.org/plugins/contus-video-gallery

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Other Functionality

YOUR IMAGINATION!!!

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Woothemes.com

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Plugins Directory

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* Elementor #1 https://elementor.com* https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor

* Page Builder by SiteOrigin* https://wordpress.org/plugins/siteorigin-panels

* Visual Composer* https://visualcomposer.io/download

* Live Composer* https://wordpress.org/plugins/live-composer-page-builder

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Page Editors--Free

* Divi Page builder* https://www.elegantthemes.com/plugins/divi-builder

* Live Composer* https://visualcomposer.io/premium

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Page Editors--Paid

* Comments & Pingbacks* Plugins: find & install plugins* Popular and useful plugins* Adding Functionality & 3rd party services

Week 4 Review

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