This is my presentation from the January 9th, 2010 at Wordcamp Atlanta, http://atlantawordcamp.com/

1. What The Heck Is
Wordpress?
Wordcamp Atlanta 2010
Adria Richards
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http://butyoureagirl.com

2. What is it?
• Wordpress is an application
• It’s open source
• It powers blogs and websites
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3. 3 Reasons People Love
Wordpress
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4. Unique

5. Simple

6. Functional

7. Wordpress
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8. Why use it?
• Save time
• Great SEO
• Ongoing development
• Great community support
• Free
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9. 5 Reasons People Surf
The Internet
• Find answer their question
• Research a specific product or service
• Research your company
• Buy
• Entertainment
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10. Getting Started With
Wordpress
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11. Services
• Domain name
• Hosting account
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12. Tools
• FTP Client, Filezilla
• Text Editor, Text Wrangler or Edit
Pad
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13. Strategy
• State your goal
• Identify your market
• Plan content for your audience
• Track your traffic
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14. Design
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15. Create Visually
Appealing Sites
• In the main study, 588 participants
asked to judge the expected
information quality of 12 websites.
• A positive judgment of the visual
appeal was consistently transferred to
a positive expectation of the
information quality of the site
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16. Ready, Set, Build
• Download Wordpress
• Transfer files via FTP
• Run setup
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17. ** LUNCH BREAK **
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18. How To Upgrade
Wordpress
• Use a host that supports cPanel
• Backup files
• Backup database
• Run automatic update
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19. Wordpress Installation
• Copy files via FTP
• Create database
• Create user
• Connect database to user
• Run setup
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20. Tour of Dashboard
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21. Customize Settings
• Settings > General
Permalinks
Clock
• Settings >Writing
XML-RPC
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22. Official Resources
• Wordpress Forums
• Wordpress.tv
• Wordpress Documentation
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23. Unofficial Resources
• Lorelle
• WPBeginner
• Smashing Magazine
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24. Plugins
• All-In-One SEO Pack
• Audit Trail
• Page Links To
• My Link Order
• My Page Order
• WP iPhone Touch
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25. Citations
• What is beautiful is useful
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/
csdl/doi/10.1109/IPCC.
2009.5208678
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26. Wordcamp Atlanta
• Attendees save 50% off
Live Wordpress Training
• Next Training, February 2010
• http://freshworkshops.com/wcatl
Questions?
adria.richards@butyoureagirl.com
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