This document outlines a hands-on WordPress training course for beginners. The course covers 10 lessons on topics like the anatomy of WordPress, themes, plugins, content creation and management, media, and more advanced features. It provides learning objectives for each lesson along with relevant information about WordPress like its open source nature, benefits for business use, and importance of search engine optimization through blogging.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERECongratulations for taking the first step in learning how to manage your own website.Tell story of how you got into WordPress
Art Institute of Dallas – Mike Pratt – core developer for Buddy Press just moved to Dallas from NYC. WordCamp = Community-organized conferences // Casual users & core developers WordCamp Austin is Sold out // For the past 3 years we have had Camps here in Dallas. 2008 & 2009 = WordCamp Dallas, 2010 OpenCamp Dallas
Before installing WordPress, you need to check that your web hosting provider fulfills the necessary conditions (don't panic! most do).
Fine for purchasing URL’s but NOT for hosting.
>360,000 bloggershttp://yourBLOGname.wordpress.com (totally free); premium features: map toyourown URL ($17 per year)WordPress.com the hosting and managing of the software is taken care of by the team here at Automattic. Give trailer and trailer park example
WordPress is written in XHTMLThemes are written in CSS = allow web site designers to create formatting and layout for a web site independently of its content.
SEO – plugins, prompts you to optimize as you go.CONTENT – you don’t have to be a programmerEXTENSION - thriving ecosystem of developers creating SUPPORT – Tutorials, anytime I have a problem I post a question on a forumEMPOWERMENT! – who in here is tired of waiting for someone else to add content and make minor changesEmpowerment is what this class is all about – we will be spending most of today doing just thatBut 1st I want to give you a brief tutorial on Google.----- Meeting Notes (11/18/10 13:06) -----Click for Spider - I've put this spider on several pages to remind you that we are looking at an "SEO opportunity"
I’ve boiled it down to the top 5 = While I wouldn’t call this “the magic sauce”These are the items Google recommends we concentrate on - From their “Google Webmaster Guidelines”{explain each item}