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How to make WordPress your friend
1. Words you may not know
• URL: Universal Resource Locator | The
“street address” of a web page
• Permalinks: The permanent link to a
specific page within your site. Use it to
send people exactly where you want them
to go.
• Cache: Improves how fast a site is opened
by saving a copy somewhere…
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2. How to make WordPress
your friend
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GiveCamp Baltimore, October 19, 2013
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3. The difference between
WordPress.org and WordPress.com
WordPress.org
WordPress.com
Self hosted on
your own domain
… there are some
costs
Hosted at
WordPress.com …
but free
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4. • RSS:
Rich Site Summary
Really Simple Syndication
Automatically delivers new content from your
website to people who want to see it
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5. Choosing a theme
WordPress is not just for blogging anymore.
Someplace between 12% and 20% of the
internet runs on WordPress!
Google results for Free WordPress Themes
About 112,000,000 results (0.15 seconds)
They aren’t all the same!
• Some don’t work
• Some come along with malware
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6. Security
• Remove the “admin” user login
• Pick a good password which is NOT “Password”
• Keep your WordPress installation and plugins
up to date.
• BACK UP YOUR SITE REGULARLY!!
(wp-db-backup)
• Use export function before you back up. (Tools |
Export)
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7. Spend money on
• GravityForms (gravityforms.com)
($39 single site license)
• Akismet plugin (akismet.com)
($5/month)
• Sucuri.net ($89/year)
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8. Removing “admin” user
1. Login as “admin”
2. Create a “new user” with administration
permissions
3. Log out as “admin”
4. Log in as that “new user”
5. Delete the “admin” user
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9. The difference between
a Page and a Post
Posts are arranged in a Pages tend to be more
specific order and a
specific hierarchy
• Posts show up in
archive pages by
month or category
Good uses:
• News updates
• Traditional blog pieces
static.
• Do not show in archive
pages
Good uses:
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Home page
Contact page
About us
Products
Services
10. SEO: Search Engine Optimization
• Make sure your site is set to be accessible to
search engines!
• Use keywords in the title, in headings,
in bold
• Use HEADINGS, not just inline
formatting
• Use “alt” tags for images
• Plugin by Joast: yoast.com/wordpress/
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34. Format mess-ups
DO NOT
COPY AND PASTE DIRECTLY FROM
WORD
• WP is getting better about importing directly
from Word
• But if you’re not totally up to date…. It either
keeps the original formatting or strips it all
• So FORMAT in WordPress!
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35. Other Notes
• WPBeginner.com | Need I really say
more? Videos and other tutorials
• Codex.wordpress.org | Everything
about WordPress.
• Unroll.me | For decreasing the
amount of mail you SEE by rolling into
one email what ever subscriptions you
get regularly, or not so regularly
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36. • Irfanview www.irfanview.com/ Free
image editor
• Responsinator.com | See what your site
looks like on different devices
• How to make PDFs smaller |
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37. Summary of Roles
• Super Admin – somebody with access to the site network
administration features and all other features. See the Create
a Network article.
• Administrator – somebody who has access to all the
administration features within a single site.
• Editor – somebody who can publish and manage posts
including the posts of other users.
• Author – somebody who can publish and manage their own
posts.
• Contributor – somebody who can write and manage their own
posts but cannot publish them.
• Subscriber – somebody who can only manage their profile.
• Upon installing WordPress, an Administrator account is
automatically created.
From codex.wordpress.org
Universal Resource LocatorJust like it sounds. The permanent link to a specific page within your site. Use it to send people exactly where you want them to go.Internet cache improve how fast data is opened each time a web page is opened, it is sent to your browser's temporary cache on your hard drive. If that page is accessed again and has not been modified, the browser will open the page from your cache instead of downloading the page again. can also help save the web page owner on bandwidth.
Self hosted: your domain registration (costs about $10/year) +annual hosting fee ($100/year)WP.com address.wordpress.com