09-10-2012-getting-started-with-word-press

Getting Started with WordPress GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1 Jerome Miller 09.10.2012

GETTING STARTED
WITH WORDPRESS
Jerome Miller
General Assembly San Francisco
09.10.2012

About | Hosting | Styling | Adding Functionality

HELLO.
General Assembly is a global network of campuses
for individuals seeking opportunity and education in
technology, business, and design founded in NYC.

Follow us on Twitter at @GA_SF for the latest news on
classes, courses, and events in San Francisco, and use
the hashtag #GASF to continue the conversation.

Take a look at our course catalog at
generalassemb.ly/sf for a list of classes currently
offered.


WHO AM I?

• Jerome Miller - Kentucky
• Teamsite - Cisco
• MCMS - Ky.gov CMS training
• Enterprise Standards - CA.gov
• Start Up - UI Engineer
• ZURB - Agency Design Manager
• The Desire Mint - My Agency


WHO ARE YOU?

Experience ?
•WordPress
•HTML/CSS
•PHP

Goals ?
•Blog
•Website


WHO IS WORDPRESS?

• B2 cafelog - Michel Valdrighi
• ~2003 Matt Mulwig
• Open Source – YOU and ME
• WordPress Foundation
• Automattic
• WordPress.org
• WordPress.com


MORE THAN A BLOG

(Top 1M Sites)
It’s a CMS!!! http://trends.builtwith.com/cms

•Versioning
•doc Repository
•Workflow
•Enterprise Federation
… and much, much, more.

EXAMPLE SITES

http://social.ford.com/
http://gigaom.com/
http://www.katyperry.com/
http://www.bu.edu/admissions/
http://www.carolinarollergirls.com/
http://www.cutestpaw.com/


WALK-THROUGH

• configurable Dashboard
• Posts vs Pages
• doc/Media library
• Links and Comments


WALK-THROUGH

• Screen Options
• Dashboard
• Rearrange


WALK-THROUGH

• Create a Page
• Page Title – slug
• Visual vs HTML
• Kitchen Sink
• Enter / Shift Enter <p> vs <br>
• Full Screen


WALK-THROUGH

• Create a Post
• Categories vs Tags
• Featured Images


WALK-THROUGH

• Media Library


WALK-THROUGH

Links

•Manage and categorize external links for
your whole site
•Throwback to blogs and old websites
•May still be useful


WALK-THROUGH

• Comments


.COM VS .ORG

• You have a choice to make
WordPress.com vs Self Host
• Fully managed • Any theme or plugin you want
(secure and • Modify everything
stable)
• Free(ish) and
Easy • Stability and Security – up to you $
• Referrals / • Dev up to you - $
Community • Hosting up to you - $

• You cannot
upload a
custom theme
•
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Jerome Miller 09.10.2012

HOSTING .COM VS .ORG

A Plan for Growth
1.Start with wp.com
2.Get a domain
3.Set up self hosting
4.Export Your Content
5.Customize your Theme


.COM PREMIUM SERVICES

Premium Services at wp.com
•No ads $30
•CSS-fonts-images $30
•Domain $13
•Guided migration $129
•Redirect $13


SELF HOSTING

• Fantastico OR • download-upload
• set up db
• modify config file
• initialize


SELF HOSTING – AUTO INSTALLERS

• Fantastico – what’s that?
• Don’t worry about it.
Look for the easy button…


SELF HOSTING - DOWNLOAD

• Download -
http://wordpress.org/download/


SELF HOSTING – UPLOAD FILES

• Upload – to your webserver
• Unpack it in the root
• Or a subfolder


SELF HOSTING – CREATE A DB

• Create a MySQL Database


SELF HOSTING – WP-CONFIG.PHP

• modify wp-config.php


CHOOSING A HOST

• Look for WP logo
• Linux over Windows < $
• Go with specialty

• Or a big player $5 to $15/mo

• You get what you pay for


5 MIN BREAK

• 7:15-7:20


SET UP

• A New Blog or Website?
• blog name, timezone, date format...
• commenting rules
• add widget in sidebar
• set up custom menus – 2011
• CMSerize it! - change front page


IMPORTING CONTENT

• RSS and other options
• Better than nothing


SECURITY

• Hardening WP
http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress


STYLING

• Themes & CSS
• Pick a good theme Framework

* .com – limited themes and CSS for $


STYLING – WITH THEMES

Some Good Providers
•http://www.studiopress.com/
•http://www.woothemes.com/ - canvas
•http://www.elegantthemes.com/


STYLING – WITH THEMES

• Switching a theme
• Demo


STYLING – WITH CSS

• direct edit
• new stylesheet
• child theme


ADDING FUNCTIONALITY

• Widgets, Plugins, Functions and More
• .com vs .org


ADDING FUNCTIONALITY - WIDGETS

• How to add remove


ADDING FUNCTIONALITY - MENUS

• custom menus - how to enable and build


ADDING FUNCTIONALITY - PLUGINS

• Popular Options
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/ my #1 Akismet (Automattic)
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/ Contact Form 7
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/ Yoast SEO
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/ caching


ADDING FUNCTIONALITY -
FUNCTIONS.PHP

• Caution
• Demo simple tricks
• http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/25-extremely-useful-tricks-for-the-wordpress-fun
/

function wpbeginner_remove_version() {
return '';
}
add_filter('the_generator', 'wpbeginner_remove_version');


ADDING FUNCTIONALITY – THEMES

• style and function
• essential files
• theme frameworks
• child themes


ADDING FUNCTIONALITY –
SHORTCODES

• example


FINAL RECCOMENDATION

• start with .com, get a domain, set up self
hosting, export


QUESTIONS

Thanks for taking the class
jerome@desiremint.com

Feedback
http://generalassemb.ly/education/class-feedback/


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