Using Wordpress for Internet Publishing--TechConnections version

Slide 1: Laura Solomon Library Services Manager OPLIN solomola@oplin.org www.oplin.org Using For Internet Publishing

Slide 2: The agenda today: • What is WordPress & some stuff about it • Why OPLIN chose it • Comparison to Blogger • How OPLIN uses WordPress • Some examples of Wordpress installs • Installing and working with WordPress

Slide 3: What is WordPress?

Slide 4: What constitutes a blog? • Ongoing chronicle of information • Frequently updated • Pieces/parts: – Main content area with posts – Archive of older posts – A way for people to leave posts – Links to other sites – One or more RSS feeds

Slide 5: Wordpress is not… Content Management System (CMS)

Slide 6: What CAN’T Wordpress do (probably)? Replace your entire web site

Slide 7: What can WordPress do? • Act as a supplemental section or blog • Provide additional functionality

Slide 8: Wordpress is…

Slide 9: A little background • The largest self-hosting blogging tool in the world • Open source • Can download and customize it

Slide 10: Why WordPress?

Slide 11: Different flavors of Wordpress Hosted Local Photo courtesty of iShot71 (Flickr)

Slide 12: Hosted: “No worries, mate!” www.wordpress.com

Slide 13: DIY: Calling Bob Vila..(Local) www.wordpress.org

Slide 14: How does this compare to Blogger?

Slide 16: What’s a widget?

Slide 17: Some example widgets • Active Discussions - Display posts with currently active discussion threads • Contact - Adds a contact form to the sidebar • del.icio.us cached++ - Create a list of the latest bookmarks on a del.icio.us account, from its RSS feed • Flickr Badge Widget - display your flickr photos in the sidebar • Now Reading scroll down on that page to see the widget version • WP Polls - a widget for WP Polls plugin

Slide 18: Plugins

Slide 19: WP-PDA

Slide 20: PodPress

Slide 21: Akismet

Slide 22: BRAND NEW!

Slide 23: Themes

Slide 24: Before

Slide 25: After

Slide 26: How OPLIN uses WordPress

Slide 27: How OPLIN uses WordPress

Slide 28: Other libraries • Dartmouth Public Libraries • West Palm Beach Public Library • Phoenix Public Library • Library Web Chic

Slide 29: Actually installing WordPress

Slide 30: “Famous 5-Minute Install”

Slide 31: Your new best friend! http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Slide 32: What to do • Install XAMPP • Go to the XAMPP admin panel and open up the admin interface for Apache • Click on phpMyAdmin on the left and create a new database • Unzip WordPress. Put actual wordpress directory in the htdocs directory of Apache (most likely C:xampphtdocs) so that you end up with C:xampphtdocswordpress.

Slide 33: Take a deep breath, the hard parts are over! • You’re now ready to install WordPress! – Go to http://your_domain_and_path_here/wordpress – Follow the wizard – Remember, if you have (properly!!) locked down MySQL, the username and password are not “root/no password”

Slide 34: Something else to know…

Slide 35: WordPress Resources • Full list of widgets ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/WordPress_Widgets ) • WordPress Lessons ( http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons ) • “Famous 5-Minute install” ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install )

Slide 36: Video Tutorials • WordPress.com - Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Blog (http://youtube.com/watch?v=MWYi4_COZMU) • WordPress Tutorial - How to Edit a WordPress Page (http://youtube.com/watch?v=rnMnpt6u5uo) • Wordpress tutorial--installing on a local server ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=OD4nh5A5up4) • Wordpress Tutorial (http://youtube.com/watch?v ) =H1ImndT0fC8

Slide 37: Other ways to keep up with OPLIN: • Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/OPLIN ) • MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/ohoplin ) • Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/people/Oplin_Slo/773479389)

Slide 38: Where is this presentation? http://www.slideshare.net/OPLIN Questions? solomola@oplin.org