1.
ALL THINGS
WORDPRESS
WITH GIS

2.
ABOUT
MICKEY & ALI

3.
GOOGLE EARTH BLOG

4.
WHERE
IT ALL
BEGAN

5.
WORDPRESS
.COM vs .ORG
Limited themes
No plugins
Limited tweaking
Paid plans
No Google Analytics
Jump to self-hosted
Simplicity
Ads
Choose a theme
Add blog posts
Allow comments
Publish static pages
Push RSS feeds
Widgets
1,700+ themes
23,000+ plug-ins
Jetpack
Third-party hosting
Software updates
Ads

6.
POPULARITY
• A total of 60 million sites •
• 18.9% of the top 10 million websites •
• 409m visitors and 14.4b pageviews each month •

7.
WHAT IS
ALL THE HYPE
ABOUT?

8.
THE COMMUNITY

9.
MOBILE RESPONSIVE

10.
EASILY UPDATED
CONTENT

11.
SEARCH ENGINE
OPTIMIZATION

12.
THEMES VS PLUGINS

13.
1597 lines • 1.6 MB
423 lines • 0.5 MB

14.
FINDING THEMES

15.
FINDING PLUGINS

16.
OUR FAVORITE PLUGINS

17.
GIS IN WORDPRESS

18.
GIS IN WORDPRESS

19.
GIS IN WORDPRESS
Allow special file uploads (KML/KMZ, etc)
In functions.php:
// Added to extend allowed files types in Media upload
add_filter('upload_mimes', 'custom_upload_mimes');
function custom_upload_mimes ( $existing_mimes=array() ) {
$existing_mimes['kml'] = 'application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml';
$existing_mimes['kmz'] = 'application/vnd.google-earth.kmz';
return $existing_mimes;
}

20.
MapPress

21.
Leaflet
Maps
Marker

22.
MapBox

23.
Embedding
Maps

24.
WORDPRESS + GIS

25.
QUESTIONS?
GreenMellen Media | @greenmellen
Ali Green and Mickey Mellen