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Introduction to WordPress for Beginners
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r3df.com Rick Radko Miriam
Goldman @r3designforge @mirigoldman Introduction to WordPress for Beginners July 20th, 2017
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© 2017 Rick
Radko, r3df.com We are: Rick Radko – R-Cubed Design Forge Software, web and app designer/developer, trainer, speaker. Creating custom web sites since 1996, and WordPress sites since 2008. Miriam Goldman Web Developer for Pondstone Digital Marketing Full stack web developer since 2005, and have worked with WordPress since 2010 We're: Co-organizers of: WordCamp Ottawa 2017. Slides are posted at: slideshare.net/r3df 1
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© 2017 Rick
Radko, r3df.com Learning about WordPress WordPress is feature rich: Ask questions. Everyone was new to WordPress at one time. WordPress is the easiest CMS to use. Goals for this session: Familiarization for WordCamp Terms Features Concepts Visual aspects 2
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Radko, r3df.com Contents - Part 1 1. About WordPress 2. WordPress site orientation 3. Posts and pages 4. The settings panel 5. Menus Break 3
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Radko, r3df.com Contents - Part 2 6. Widgets 7. Resources 8. Plugins 9. Themes 10. Users 11. Maintenance 4
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Radko, r3df.com About WordPress 5
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Radko, r3df.com What is WordPress? WordPress: Is a Content Management System. (CMS) A tool to help you build a website. Like Google Docs, Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, LibreOffice or Pages, which help you create documents. Displays web pages (HTML) dynamically. Users need no knowledge of: HTML, PHP, JavaScript etc. (for basic content) WYSIWYG editor to help create content easily. 6
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Radko, r3df.com Looks similar to a lot of word processing applications. This image shows the WordPress post editor with an extended editor plugin added (TinyMCE Advanced) WordPress is WYSIWYG 7
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Radko, r3df.com What is WordPress continued… WordPress: The first version of WordPress was released May 27, 2003 Is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet. Runs millions of websites. Stats suggest that WordPress sites represent: Around 25% of the worlds websites. Almost 60% of CMS based websites. 8
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Radko, r3df.com WordPress versions 3 different WordPress versions: 1. Hosted on wordpress.com Often referred to as “.com” WordPress. 2. Self Hosted – Single site (default version) Get from wordpress.org, or your website host. 3. Self Hosted – Network or Multisite Extra steps to setup. Need to be aware of which one we are using, as there are some differences. 9
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Radko, r3df.com wordpress.com Wordpress.com is a service (by Automattic) They provide: WordPress and hosting. WordPress needs a web server, with PHP and MySQL to run. Free service restricted to URL's: <somename>.wordpress.com Has limitations compared to self hosted: Added costs for customizing. Limited ability to customize. Many things covered in this presentation you can’t do on wordpress.com – like add plugins. 10
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Radko, r3df.com wordpress.org Home of the open source version of WordPress. Free! Just download it. Needs a web server with PHPand MySQL to run. Hosting service for public sites. Local server to run it on your pc/ laptop 11
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Radko, r3df.com WordPress - Is it really free? WordPress is free to download ! Costs! - Some things that may not be free: Web hosting (sever) A domain (your website address) Some WordPress / Web design knowledge Add-on themes and plugins Limitations: None! 12
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Radko, r3df.com wordpress.org customizing You can add plugins to make your site: Multilingual. (numerous techniques & plugins) Asocial site like Facebook. (BuddyPress) You can add plugins to add: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr connections. Aforum. (bbpress + others) Much, much, more. (1000’s of plugins available) Add themes to change the look and sometimes add function. (1000’s of themes available) 13
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© 2017 Rick
Radko, r3df.com wordpress.org customizing Caveat: The more extensive the customization, the more WordPress knowledge that is required. Many free resources to help: wordpress.org (more later) Other online resources. Some low cost resources: WordPress meet-ups. WordCamps. Books. More costly: Hiring a WordPress expert. 14
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© 2017 Rick
Radko, r3df.com wordpress.org networks or multisite The third version of WordPress is multisite (network). Was once a separate version known as WPMU. May still see references to WPMU Even a few websites with WPMU in their names. (not official WordPress sites) Allows multiple websites on one install. It is not obvious to users that it is one install. What wordpress.com runs. Needs some knowledge to set-up. 15
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© 2017 Rick
Radko, r3df.com Installing WordPress WordPress needs to be installed on a web server in order to use it: Lots of install guides – not going to cover installing here, it’s a whole session in itself. codex.wordpress.org/ Installing_WordPress This presentation is based on a .org install. Much of it will work on wordpress.com but many things may look/be different. Things like installing plugins and themes will not work. 16
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Radko, r3df.com WordPress site orientation 17
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Radko, r3df.com WordPress front-end The "public" part of the site that your site visitors see. Showing: The Twenty Sixteen theme. 18 WordPress has 2 interfaces for users: 1) The front-end
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Radko, r3df.com WordPress back-end, admin or “dashboard” 2) WordPress back-end or “dashboard” This is private space where you manage the site. To see the dashboard: login at: <your-domain>/login OR <your-domain>/wp-login.php 19
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Radko, r3df.com Welcome message After logging in you will arrive at the dashboard. On a new site, you will see the welcome box. 20
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Radko, r3df.com Screen options tab Many pages have options for what is shown. Click on the “screen options” tab (upper right). 21
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Radko, r3df.com Screen options Select what you want to see, un-tick the rest. In the case of the main Dashboard page, you can even bring back the welcome screen here. Look for screen options on each admin page: Options change for each page. 22
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Radko, r3df.com Help tab Beside the screen options tab there is a “help” tab. As with screen options, it is context sensitive. 23
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Radko, r3df.com The help tab The drop down help tab has: On the left side: General WordPress help. May have added help from plugins and/or themes. On the right side: links to the official WordPress documentation and support areas. 24
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Radko, r3df.com Main navigation On the left side of the admin screen is the main navigation menu: Access all your content. Control WordPress settings. 25
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Radko, r3df.com The tool bar The admin tool bar: 26
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Radko, r3df.com The tool bar Front end tool bar Very similar to admin tool bar, some items are the same. Only shows if you are logged in. 27
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Radko, r3df.com Posts and pages 28
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Radko, r3df.com Posts and pages Posts and pages are the basic content holders for a WordPress site. Posts: Individual pieces of a collection of content. Usually used for blogs or similar types of content. Each content piece is associated with a date: URL: your-domain/2008/11/30/post-title. Posts have categories and tags. 29
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Radko, r3df.com Posts Can be displayed many ways (dynamic): Usually listed in reverse chronological order. Sticky posts. (show at the top, need theme support) Archives, by date, by author. Categories and tags. Many different sidebar widgets can be used to create lists and indices to posts, or collections of posts indexed in various manners. 30
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Radko, r3df.com Post display 31
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Radko, r3df.com Single post display Sidebar here is the same as the posts listing page, but it could be different. Comments are shown with box to add a new comment 32
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Radko, r3df.com Pages Pages: Are individual static stand alone content blocks. Good for things like an About page. (any web site pages) Usually in site menus. Do not use tags or categories. Not tied to date. URL: domainname.com/page-title/ 33
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Radko, r3df.com Page display Only one way to display the page. May have sidebar. No date, tags or category information on page. May have comments section. 34
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Radko, r3df.com Creating a post (or a page) is really easy In the dashboard -> select “Add New” from the Posts menu item. 35
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Radko, r3df.com Create a new post: 1, 2, 3! 36
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Radko, r3df.com A new post! 37
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Radko, r3df.com Other post related items We can also: Add categories and tags to the posts. 38
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© 2017 Rick
Radko, r3df.com More post related items (and pages too) We can also change publishing options: 39 Published/Review/Draft Publishing dates and future publishing. Visibility and passwords.
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Radko, r3df.com Pictures and videos We can also: Add images and other media including videos. Click the add media button to upload images OR, you can simply drag an image onto the editor area and the image uploader will launch. 40
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Radko, r3df.com Insert Media Screen If you dragged an image onto the editor: It will be noted as selected at the bottom. You can add more images… 41
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Radko, r3df.com Image options The image up-loader has a few options: Add or change the title, alt text and captions. Change what it links to. Change the image size and the alignment. 42
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Radko, r3df.com The added image Uploaded image is now in editor 43
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Radko, r3df.com Add a YouTube video Go to YouTube: Get the share link. 44
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© 2017 Rick
Radko, r3df.com Add a YouTube video Paste the share link in your post or page and the video should automagically appear! 45
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Radko, r3df.com A post with videos and images 46 If you want more control over the video display, you can add the embed code in the TEXT view. The bottom video was added by using the embed code.
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Radko, r3df.com TEXTview Use TEXTview to: Embed HTML code like YouTube snippets. Change the HTML directly, sometimes needed to get things just right. 47
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Radko, r3df.com The Toolbar Toggle “Toolbar Toggle” shows second row for editor: A few more editing options. 48
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Radko, r3df.com Pasting from Word/ Excel You can compose in MSWord or Excel and paste into WordPress, but: There can be issues with formatting Word adds a lot of junk to it’s HTML. Use the paste as text mode. You may loose formatting, tables, lists etc do final layout/formatting in WordPress. 49
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Radko, r3df.com Editing pages Editing pages is almost the same as for a post. Some options on right side are different. 50
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© 2017 Rick
Radko, r3df.com Pages can have hierarchy To change hierarchy, you change the page parent. Can be important for URL structure. (permalinks) 51
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Radko, r3df.com The "All posts" or "All pages" list Displays a list of your pages or posts. Pages listing shows hierarchy. 52
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© 2017 Rick
Radko, r3df.com The "All posts" or "All pages" list Posts listing shows categories, tags and comment count columns. 53
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Radko, r3df.com Change the number of items shown 54
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Radko, r3df.com Quick editor The "Quick Editor" is a feature on the listing pages. 55
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© 2017 Rick
Radko, r3df.com Quick editor You can change many of the page (and posts) settings using the "Quick Editor". Can be much faster! 56
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Radko, r3df.com WordPress settings panel 57
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Radko, r3df.com Site title and tagline How do we change the site title or tagline? 58
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Radko, r3df.com General settings Change the title and tagline Settings -> General page. 59
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Radko, r3df.com General settings There are quite a few other important options here. 60
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Radko, r3df.com Settings - Font Page Display Reading Settings have a section for setting the front page display: "Home" page. 61
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Radko, r3df.com Permalinks Permalinks settings change the way the URL is displayed. Default sample page permalink: http://your-domain/?page_id=2 Default child page permalink: http:// your-domain/?page_id=36 Default post permalink: http:// your-domain/?p=4 Not very “pretty” or readable, Google does not like them either! No hierarchy for child page. 62
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Radko, r3df.com Settings - permalinks Here, month and name is set - common choice. There is also a custom box where you can edit the permalink if you need something unusual. 63
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Radko, r3df.com The URL’s with permalinks The sample page is now: http://your-domain/sample-page The child page is now: http://your-domain/sample-page/sample-child-page It shows the hierarchy (if a page parent was set) Our post is now: http://your-domain/2012/05/hello-wpottawa 64
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Radko, r3df.com Permalink also shows in editor You can override permalinks – use edit If you change your title, you should consider updating the permalink. Note: if you change the permalink, you may want to add a redirect for the old url. 65
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Radko, r3df.com Menus For some themes, default menus are created from the page list. Hierarchy and order are taken from the page list, with home added at the start. 67
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Radko, r3df.com The menu system - the easier way to menus Under Appearance there is a Menus tab Need admin privileges. Need a theme support. 68
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Radko, r3df.com Rearrange the menu Drag and drop items to change order and hierarchy 70
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Radko, r3df.com Setting the theme location There may be several choices for menu location. 71
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Radko, r3df.com The new menu The new menu Independent of the page order and hierarchy. Dropdown for the child page 72
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Radko, r3df.com Widgets Widgets are tools or content items that you can add, arrange, and remove from the widgetized areas of your theme. The most common widgetized area is the sidebars. 74
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Radko, r3df.com Widgets can be anywhere a theme defines them Widgets started in sidebars… Now themes can have many areas for them: Sidebars Headers, footers Special page spaces. 75
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Radko, r3df.com Widget locations Twenty Ten had 6 widget areas. 4 in the footer 2 in the sidebar Empty areas are usually hidden 76
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Radko, r3df.com Managing widgets The Widgets admin is under the Appearance menu. 77
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Radko, r3df.com Add a widget Add a social links widget to the sidebar. A plugin (Follow Us Badges) was added to add this widget to WordPress. 78
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Radko, r3df.com wordpress.org wordpress.org, the official source for all things WordPress. (wordpress.org) Theme repository – get free and commercial themes. Plugin repository – get plugins. Support forums – get help. The “codex”. (documentation) Also WordPress TV: WordCamp and other videos wordpress.tv 81
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Radko, r3df.com WordPress Help WordPress icon on top left of the admin bar has several links to useful WordPress help resources. 82
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Radko, r3df.com wordpress.org – theme repository 1000’s of themes available. Themes are reviewed before release. 83
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Radko, r3df.com wordpress.org – plugin repository 1000’s of plugins. Currently plugins are not reviewed. 84
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Radko, r3df.com wordpress.org – forums The “support” forums. Seek help with WordPress, theme and plugin issues. 85
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Radko, r3df.com wordpress.org – documentation The “codex”: from basics to code documentation. 86
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Radko, r3df.com Other help Google WordPress + some topic Caution, many articles are out of date and may no longer be relevant. Books: Lots of books, make sure it’s current. Print editions are usually not current. Tao of WordPress is a great ebook for beginners. Digging into WordPress is a also great ebook, but may not be for absolute beginners. 87
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Radko, r3df.com Other help WordCamps: “WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress.” – WordCamp Central Montreal: Aug 12-13, 2017. Toronto: Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2017. All sorts of WordCamps world wide: central.wordcamp.org WordPress Meetup Groups: Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, and other cities. 88
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Radko, r3df.com Plugins Page The plugins page shows plugins installed on the site. Can't add plugins on wordpress.com. You can only enable/disable which ones you are using, and change settings. 90
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Radko, r3df.com Adding plugins Search wordpress.org for plugins based on keywords, or name. Example: TinyMCEAdvanced 91
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Radko, r3df.com Add plugins search results The search results: Plugins matching the keywords are shown. Descriptions, ratings, last updates and compatibility are shown for each plugin. 92
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Radko, r3df.com Install Install TinyMCEadvanced. A good idea to back up the site first! Click the install. 93
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Radko, r3df.com Install status Ascreen showing the install status will appear. Some plugins will auto-activate, most you need to activate. 94
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Radko, r3df.com Plugin listing TinyMCEAdvanced installed and active 95
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Radko, r3df.com TinyMCEsettings Anew menu item has been created for the settings page for TinyMCEadvanced. 96
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Radko, r3df.com Plugin Settings Plugins usually (and are supposed to) create option pages under the Settings menu item. Some plugins create menu items in almost any other section. Tools, Dashboard, and sometimes Plugins are common spots for hiding settings pages. 97
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Radko, r3df.com Updating plugins ALWAYSBACKUPFIRST!!! Updates are easy, just click the link. Updates can break your site, back-ups make it easy to undo. 98
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Radko, r3df.com Update plugins in the WordPress updater Can update plugins using the WordPress updater Again BACKUP FIRST! 99
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Radko, r3df.com Finding/ Choosing plugins Choose plugins with: good download volume. recent updates. responses in the forums. high ratings. Where do you find this information? Some of it was on the plugin search listing. 100
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Radko, r3df.com Details view The details view gives more of it. 101
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Radko, r3df.com Details display Details view Some more plugin info, but still not everything - use the link to the repository for full listing. 102
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Radko, r3df.com Choosing plugins All of the information is in the plugin repository. Look at the last updated date. Is it popular? (active installs) User ratings? Is the support forum active? 103
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Radko, r3df.com A good plugin Awell respected and rated and popular plugin. Note there are still issues… Look at over-all, not absolutes when evaluating. 104
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Radko, r3df.com Suggested plugins Backup: Good ones automate off-server backups. Google Analytics: Add options like excluding admin traffic from stats. Some have dashboard summaries of stats. Some add advanced tracking and tagging features. Security: Block brute force login, and other attacks. Scan for malware. 105
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Radko, r3df.com Beware of unknown plugins There are many plugins not on the wordpress.org repository. Many of those plugins are very good. Most good plugins not on the repository are commercial ($). Many are not good, and may even contain malware. blog.sucuri.net/2012/02/new-wordpress-toolspack- plugin.html * plugins on the repository are not guaranteed to be clean, but malware is usually spotted quickly by users. 106
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Radko, r3df.com Plugin final notes Remove all unused plugins from your site, they can be a security issue. The Timthumb vulnerability did not need to have the plugin be active in order to be exploited. Keep plugins, even inactive ones up to date! Install a backup plugin AND USEIT!!! 107
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Radko, r3df.com Themes Atheme defines the look and feel of your site. Sets the graphics, colors. Sets the widget locations. Defines column layout. Can be changed relatively easily. Beware lock-in. Cannot add themes when using wordpress.com. You can: Choose one of the installed themes. Change settings. 109
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Radko, r3df.com Theme: Travel Blogger (no longer available) Note that the while the site looks different, the content and widgets are the same. 113
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Radko, r3df.com Theme driven front page Some themes have very sophisticated home pages. Neither posts or pages are shown. All content is in options for the theme. 114
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Radko, r3df.com Adding/ managing themes The theme admin page: (Appearance -> Themes) Click the add new button to add themes. 115
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Radko, r3df.com Adding/ managing themes Add Themes Page: Featured themes. 116
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Radko, r3df.com Adding/ managing themes Finding a new theme: Feature filter Select some search parameters. Searches all themes on wordpress.org 117
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Radko, r3df.com Results 118
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Radko, r3df.com Adding/ managing themes Keyword search results 119
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Radko, r3df.com Details view Gives some information about the theme, and a preview of what it looks like. 120
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Radko, r3df.com Details view Many themes now need setup to look as expected, and don't work out of the box. 121
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Radko, r3df.com Theme repository As with plugins: You get more detail on wordpress.org. But there is still less info than for plugins. 122
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Radko, r3df.com Adding/ managing themes Choosing themes is less clear than plugins. You need it: to look good for you. have the features you want. have support: check the forums. check the last update date. be good/reliable: check the ratings. 123
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Radko, r3df.com Adding/ managing themes Install a theme 124
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Radko, r3df.com Installing the theme Success 125
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Radko, r3df.com Live Preview Live Preview See the theme before activating on site. Change settings for theme. 126
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Radko, r3df.com Theme Options Customize option on the current theme Goes to same place as "Live Preview". Change theme, and other settings. 127
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Radko, r3df.com Themes not on wordpress.org Many good commercial themes are not on wordpress.org. iThemes WooThemes Studiopress Elegant Themes Freelance themes on Theme Forest and more…. Beware free themes not from wordpress.org Google “Free WordPress Themes” and you are guaranteed to find yourself some malware. 129
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Radko, r3df.com Upload theme For a theme that is not on wordpress.org Use the upload theme button. Upload a .zip of the theme to be installed. 130
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Radko, r3df.com Final notes for themes If you need to modify a theme's code: You should use a child theme to modify themes. If you alter the theme files without a child theme: You will loose your changes if the theme is updated. Can't update to get security fixes. Not too hard to create a child theme: Write your own from examples. codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes OR Add a plugin - there are several on wordpress.org. 131
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Radko, r3df.com User levels Standard WordPress User Levels Least to most powerful: Subscriber Can not edit or change anything Comment only Contributor Author Editor Admin - can do anything! Super Admin – Networks (multisite) only 133
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Radko, r3df.com User roles Subscriber Can only manage their profile and comment. Contributor Can write and manage their posts but not publish them + all Subscriber capabilities. Author Can publish and manage their own posts + all Contributor capabilities. 134
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Radko, r3df.com User roles Editor Can publish and manage posts and pages as well as manage other users' posts, etc. + all Author capabilities. Administrator Access to all the administration features + all Editor capabilities. Super Admin Access to the blog network administration features controlling the entire network + all Administrator capabilities. 135
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Radko, r3df.com User security issues Remove any user called "admin" if you have one. Subject to brute force attacks Do not use your administrator account on public wifi if possible. Use a lower level account 136
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Radko, r3df.com Maintenance Keep your site up to date WordPress, Plugins and Themes All have bug updates, security patches and new feature releases. Not keeping up to date increases the risk of hacking substantially. Before you update anything – make a backup! Can’t emphasize this enough. Often neglected. 138
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Radko, r3df.com Contact Rick Radko email: wpinfo@r3df.com twitter: @r3designforge Miriam Goldman email: sensei.miriam@gmail.com twitter: @mirigoldman Slides at: slideshare.net/ r3df 140
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