Learn blogging using the famous blogging platform Wordpress. Target audience of this presentation is primitive level users.

1. Blogging, The Wordpress way
M A Hossain Tonu

2. Inside scoop!
• All about blogging (Anatomy, Engines, Why WP?)
• Setting up Wordpress (Installation & Configs.)
• Explore the dashboard
• Working with Wordpress (Posts, Gravatar, Pages, Categories,
Links, Media)
• Widgets (Twitter, RSS, Meta, Subscribers), Plugins (Sharing,
Publicizing)
• Themes
• Become a famous blogger
• Community blogging (User accounts and roles)

3. Who am i ?
• Tech Blogger http://mahtonu.wordpress.com
• Hacker, Community activist, FOSS advocate
• Worked with pioneer Bengali blogging culture
at somewhereinblog
• @mahtonu
• Authored the title “PHP Application
Development with NetBeans: Beginner's
Guide” http://link.packtpub.com/6HaElo

9. Blog! thinking with
• Blog = Web + Log
• Open diary
• A social media

10. Blog can be a media of expressing your
thoughts to Netizens

11. Blogosphere
• 156!million public blogs (Feb, 2011)
• more than 172 million (Sep, 2011)
• 3 million new blogs, every month
• more than 1 million new posts, each day
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogosphere#Proliferation

12. Genre
Political Gossip News Food Fashion
Tech Health Scientific Business Education
Music Entertainment Travel Photography
Culture Book Movie Lifestyle Art Sports
Product Human Rights Marketing Social Work
Election2012!

13. Anatomy of a Blog

14. Engines! Meet the Giants

15. Wordpress!
• Open source Blog engine
• Wordpress.com
• Self hosted Wordpress from wordpress.org

16. Why?
• Cause its freaking awesome!

17. Right now!

18. Wordpress.com
• Over 349 million people view more than
2.5 billion pages each!month.
• Wordpress.com users produce about
500,000 new posts and 400,000 new
comments on an average!day.

19. Among leading platforms!
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=blogger,+drupal,+sharepoint,+wordpress&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

20. Kickass features!
Take control, Doesn’t Cost a Dime, Get Social,
Track Your Popularity, Express Yourself in Style, Go
Mobile, Multilingual,Your Content is Your Own, Safe
and Secure, Say Goodbye to Spam, Blog with Your
Friends and Coworkers, Add Images, Audio, and
Video, Follow Your Favorites, Awesome Support!

21. Got any big examples?

22. Repository
• 1,600 Themes, 55,167,509 Downloads
• 21,312 Plugins, 348,124,025 Downloads
& COUNTING

23. Beyond!
• WordPress powers 22% of new web sites.
• Used as a CMS in 92% on those sites.

24. Alright!
I am impressed, now show me how.

25. I tell you better set your Focus
1. What’s your goal?
• To document your travels? To share your passion? To
inform? To entertain?
2. What topics are you most interested in?
• Travel? Technology? Pop culture? Politics? Renewable
energy!
3. What’s your perspective?
• Are you a movie critic? A clothing designer? A pastry chef?
4. Who’s your target audience?
• Film buffs? Fashionistas? Foodies?

26. Wanna host your own?
• Find a web host
http://wordpress.org/hosting/
• Download & install from wordpress.org
http://wordpress.org/download/
• Read the documentation
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

27. How do I look like?

28. Don’t like Coding stuffs?
Q: I want it live fastest way, show me the way
A: Give a try with wordpress.com

29. Get signed up with wordpress.com
• It takes some seconds
https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/

30. Working with Wordpress
It happens at Dashboard
• Themes
• Posts { Categories, Tags }
• Media
• Pages
• Gravatar
• Links

31. The Dashboard

32. The Dashboard
• behind-the-scene control panel

33. Changing Themes

34. Themes & Plugins Depot
Download and Install
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

35. Spice up your sidebar with widgets

36. Spice up your sidebar with widgets

37. Dashboard | Appearance | Widgets

38. Dashboard | Appearance | Widgets
• Drag-n-Drop does it all

39. Gravatar
Dashboard | Users | My Profile
http://www.gravatar.com

40. Gravatar

41. Get yourself published
Posts vs Pages
Posts = Blog posts, listed in reverse
chronological order, use tags, categories
Pages = Like About Me or Contact pages,
may contain blog posts
No limit on the number of posts or pages
you can have.

42. Publish your first post

43. Adding images
Find copyright-cleared images quickly with Zemanta

44. Adding images
Add your own images to posts or pages

45. Embed videos in seconds

46. I want to be a
famous blogger!

47. Get famous! Publicize

48. Get famous! Share links

49. Get famous! Subscribers
Follow Blog Widget
Invite friends
RSS Widget

50. Get famous! Stats
Monitor your growth

51. Relax! It takes time

52. Migrated?

53. Community Blogging
Add more users as: (Users | Invite new)
• Administrator
• Editor
• Author
• Contributor
• Follower

54. Take away
• Get Started
• Customize My Site
• Create Content
• Add a Domain
• Go Mobile
• Manage Your Profile
• Add Media
• Get Social

55. Questions?

56. Resources
• Installation: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
• Learning: http://learn.wordpress.com/
• Themes, Plugins, Widgets: http://wordpress.org/
• Tips & Tools: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/popular-posts/
• Professional WP development: http://wp.tutsplus.com/series/
professional-wordpress-development/
• Getting more views & traffic: http://en.support.wordpress.com/
getting-more-views-and-traffic/

57. Shameless Promotion