How to use to build a website using WordPress: For normal people

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  • + maguay Matthew Guay 7 months ago
    Thanks ... Slide 10’s tip on Permalinks was very helpful! I had been frustrated by the strange /?123 type endings on pages in a wordpress site I have been helping with. This fixed that problem! Thanks!
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  1. How to use WordPress as a basic CMS for your website Or “How non-geeks can use WP to make a website in a day”
  2. It’s more than a blog engine
    • We’ve known WP can do cool stuff
    • Since 2.1 setting a Page as the “home page” has been built in.
    • Do you use it?
    • Why not?
  3. Why is this good?
    • When the design & the content are together in the code
    • Updating can be less than fun
    • Result:
      • Websites aren’t updated
      • Agencies charge arms, legs, first-born children, to make simple changes
      • A “simple change” breaks links and several pages
  4. Is this the right solution?
    • Need easily updated content
    • User control
    • Flexible design
    • Static info & a blog
    • SEO tuned
    • Fast initial build out
  5. First steps to your first site
    • Decide that it’s the right way to do it.
    • Make two static pages
    • Go to the Reading section under Settings
    • Make two changes from pull-down menus
    • Save
    • Done!
    • Well almost
  6. Step one: Make two pages
    • Home page:
      • Call it what you want
      • Use Lorem ipsum text if needed
    • Blog page
      • Static page
      • I like to call it “Blog” it’s really up to you
      • No content, just a title
  7. Step Two: Reading Settings
  8. Step Three: Menus
  9. That’s pretty much it, for the basics
    • Yeah, but that’s boring
    • What’s next?
    • Tweaks, Themes, and plugins
  10. Tweaks
    • Make those Permalinks pretty!
      • Settings -> Permalinks
      • I like /%postname%/ for websites
      • .htaccess will have to be updated
    • Not “Just another WordPress blog”
      • Don’t forget a good title and tag line!
  11. Plugins
    • All in one SEO
    • WP Supercache
    • WP Backup
    • Google Sitemaps XML
    • Akismet
    • Cform
    • WPTouch & WP Mobile
  12. Picking a template
    • This is the hardest part
    • Finding a non-bloggy template important
    • Newspaper style
    • Magazine
    • Navigation
  13. Navigation sometimes presents a problem…
    • Templates build the navigation by listing all the static pages…
    • And sometimes they also hard code in a “Home”
  14. Here’s the trick
    • Exclude listing some pages:
    • <div id=&quot;navigation&quot;>
    • <!-- Begin navigation 
    • <ul>
    • <li><a href=&quot;<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/&quot;>Home</a></li>
    • <li><a href=&quot;http://ces.blogm2o.com/blog/&quot;>Blog</a></li>
    • <?php wp_list_pages('exclude=2,10&title_li=&depth=1'); ?>
    • </ul>
    • </div><!--End navigation -->
  15. iNove
  16. Azul
  17. deCoder
  18. DeepBlue
  19. Layers
  20. Monochrome Demo
  21. Modicus Remix
  22. Digital Remix
  23. And now the prizes…
    • When it comes down to it
    • Free is great, but paid …
    • 1 license for Thesis
    • 2 licenses for Revolution2
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