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Denver topical homepages
This document appears to be a slide deck from a WordPress conference presentation about using WordPress to publish topical homepages. The presentation discusses identifying topics to feature, planning the content and layout for each homepage, collecting and creating content like images, and then building each new homepage as a separate page on the WordPress site. It also briefly mentions using plugins and clearing caches when implementing the homepages.
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- 1. Using WordPress Beyond aBlog WordCamp Denver 2013 Slides at ChristophsBlog.com @ctrappe #wcdenver13
- 2. WordPress Static Page Functionto Publish Topical Homepages Denver 2013 @ctrappe #wcdenver13
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- 7. One site goal Communityconnector around topics of impact. @ctrappe #wcdenver13
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- 12. Workflow • Identify topicsbased on what’s going on. • Make a plan! – – – – – – Outline important topics What can you say about those? Visuals! How long will it take to produce? Can it be done? Is it too timely? Backup plan (Flood example!) @ctrappe #wcdenver13
- 13. Example • • • • • Identify topic Identify content!Map out homepage Collect content (Visuals are important!!!) Buzzword alert: Call to action? “Design” homepage (Basically build a new page) @ctrappe #wcdenver13
- 14. One more thing:Visuals • Design yourself (More difficult: Adobe Edge) • Ask somebody to help! (Map by researcher example) • Take pictures – use them (Front door example) • Creative commons images • Ask others for images @ctrappe #wcdenver13
- 15. Tech stuff (kindof) @ctrappe #wcdenver13
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- 18. Delete cache ifapplicable! @ctrappe #wcdenver13
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- 20. What did wedo with “old” homepages? @ctrappe #wcdenver13
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