Slides on a base presentation for the basics of WordPress.com and the self hosted WordPress application which can be downloaded at wordpress.org.
This presentation was meant to be a discussion not a tutorial at the Social Media Club of Salt Lake City. Please contact me at http://thomallen.com or Twitter.com/ThomAllen with questions.
Introduction to using WordPress for business sites. Includes coverage of scenarios, themes, plugins, hosting and gotchas. Plus a case study of the www.GetOrganizedWizard.com site.
A presentation from 4/8/09 for my graduate Industrial Training class at University of Memphis. Covers the basics of Wordpress, installation, plugins, themes, and video.
How to Create WordPress Website in Easy StepsSingsys Pte Ltd
E-Commerce business is on heat now a days and without a good website you can't survive long. Choosing CMS like wordpress you can be a step ahead of your competitors in the market. So, learn how to make a simple wordpress site in simple steps.
Slides on a base presentation for the basics of WordPress.com and the self hosted WordPress application which can be downloaded at wordpress.org.
This presentation was meant to be a discussion not a tutorial at the Social Media Club of Salt Lake City. Please contact me at http://thomallen.com or Twitter.com/ThomAllen with questions.
Introduction to using WordPress for business sites. Includes coverage of scenarios, themes, plugins, hosting and gotchas. Plus a case study of the www.GetOrganizedWizard.com site.
A presentation from 4/8/09 for my graduate Industrial Training class at University of Memphis. Covers the basics of Wordpress, installation, plugins, themes, and video.
How to Create WordPress Website in Easy StepsSingsys Pte Ltd
E-Commerce business is on heat now a days and without a good website you can't survive long. Choosing CMS like wordpress you can be a step ahead of your competitors in the market. So, learn how to make a simple wordpress site in simple steps.
I used this presentation to my first Basic WordPress Presentation last February 05, 2017. To learn more about WordPress, I will share some more tips on my blog at http://www.realbloggingadvice.com
The basics of WordPress, what is the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org Facts about WordPress. What you need to build a WordPress site. Lead up to a live demonstration of installing WordPress
Basic Wordpress ppt talks about the basic wordpress session. It includes an overview on wordpress, themes in wordpress, finding the right host, use of plugins and all about basics in Wordpress.
In this presentation we cover the details of installing WordPress, go over common problems and talk about the importance of maintaining your website and basic website security.
Tony Zeoli's presentation deck, "Getting Started With Wordpress" for the Wordpress Westchester Meetup Group. Install, Themes, Plugins and other resources.
I used this presentation to my first Basic WordPress Presentation last February 05, 2017. To learn more about WordPress, I will share some more tips on my blog at http://www.realbloggingadvice.com
The basics of WordPress, what is the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org Facts about WordPress. What you need to build a WordPress site. Lead up to a live demonstration of installing WordPress
Basic Wordpress ppt talks about the basic wordpress session. It includes an overview on wordpress, themes in wordpress, finding the right host, use of plugins and all about basics in Wordpress.
In this presentation we cover the details of installing WordPress, go over common problems and talk about the importance of maintaining your website and basic website security.
Tony Zeoli's presentation deck, "Getting Started With Wordpress" for the Wordpress Westchester Meetup Group. Install, Themes, Plugins and other resources.
Keeping Your Themes and Plugins Organized.Jacob Martella
Plugins and themes are the backbone of WordPress, but many people, including developers and general users, get confused about what each is supposed to do. Most of the time, this isn’t an issue, but when it does become an issue, it can cause confusion, “loss” of data and a headache for users. This talk will go over what a theme should be, what a plugin should be, why they are that way, what users should look for in a plugin or theme and finally we’ll quickly discuss child themes and custom functionality plugins.
“A Full day of WordPress2.5, focused on design and development. We’ll cover the essentials of setup, installation, and management. We’ll learn how to build custom themes using CSS, PHP, and image
architecture. We’ll also jump into custom code and template files, best practices for design and management, integrating Flash, and how to build and install WP and custom plug-ins.”
In this workshop, we will show the process of taking an HTML & CSS designs and PhotoShop templates and converting them into a fully working WordPress theme. Along the way, we’ll look at the main aspects of WordPress theming, some best practices and a few tricks. WordPress 2.6 and 2.7 makes the whole process easier than ever, so get started making your WordPress site look not like a WordPress site!
An exploration into what a WordPress theme is. How does it work and what is it made up of?
If you're interested in getting into theme development this presentation will help you get started on that journey.
This presentation was used on a five half-day course on basic web design. The goal of this workshop is to enable participants to create their own Wordpress site by the end of the course. The agenda adjust according to the pace of the participants.
Stepping into theme development can be daunting. Sure anyone with a little PHP skill and a basic understanding of the loop can create theme templates, but there are a number of things you can learn which can take your theme development to the next level. We’ll discuss the skills that can take you from a beginner theme developer to a master.
Similar to Newbies guide to customizing word press themes 25 (20)
Second webinar in the 3 webinar master class, Secrets of a WordPress Web Designer Revealed. One of the reasons aspiring web designers stay swirling around feeling less than competent is that they never stay with a theme and learn to customize it. Of course, they do need to start with the right theme framework for their skills.
These slides demonstrate a storyboard for a presentation of how to create a Promo video using iPad and iMovie for iPad.
The entire presentation will be available July 29th 2015 at http://newtricks.com/making-promo-videos-with-imovie-for- ipad-the-easy-way/
Creating a Promo Video using Your iPad and Editing with iMovie for iPadNew Tricks
How to create a promo video for your website using your iPad and editing the footage with iMovie for iPad. This technique can be used to promote your business or a product. It is an easy way to get the job done for you or your clients.
WordPress Goodness for Food Bloggers: Food and Wine Conference 2014New Tricks
Food Bloggers need to be using the best CMS and know how to take care of their sites. Find out which plugins to use for recipes, social media and security.
WordCamp Asheville Keynote: How did we get here? WordPress in 11 years.New Tricks
A Short history of WordPress.org and WordPress.com and why so many people contribute to this Open Source community. It is more than a software platform, it is a life changing movement.
Content Marketing, Social Media and SEO Build Online Expertise and Attract yo...New Tricks
Content Marketing is creating and sharing valuable free content of interest to your “Right Clients” which serves the purpose of attracting a larger prospect base, that will bring in leads, who you can nurture and educate and convert into customers. These customers will become repeat buyers and good sources for on-going referrals.
Why use WordPress, the difference in WordPress.com and .org. The difference in posts and pages, the importance posts and categories, how to choose a theme. How to find hlep with WOrdPress
A beginners guide to choosing a WordPress theme. Learn about factors that matter in choosing a theme. Get recommendations for different themes for different purposes taking into account your skills and background.
Creative freelancers are passionate about what we do and spend a lot of time making other people's businesses look great, but sometimes we are not as good about focusing on our own businesses.
- Learn my secrets of attracting plenty of the exact kind of clients that I want to work with and how you can do this too.
-Find out why a WordPress website is the most important thing you can have for social media marketing.
-Three strategies to migrate your existing site to a WordPress site.
-Why blogging is not what you think it is.
-The three most important things on your site for converting visitors into clients.
-How to have free and easy Search Engine Optimization to increase your traffic.
-How to make it easy for people to hire you.
I am passionate about helping you discover how to get your businesses rocking. I hope you can join us on Thursday night.
It may be that you know what to do and are not doing those things, but with all the new technology and the way the Internet is changing the way people find people to do work for them, it may be that you need to cut through all of the haze and hype, and have someone tell you how all of this technology actually works together to help you powerfully connect with the people seeking your services.
Welcome to the Program Your Destiny course. In this course, we will be learning the technology of personal transformation, neuroassociative conditioning (NAC) as pioneered by Tony Robbins. NAC is used to deprogram negative neuroassociations that are causing approach avoidance and instead reprogram yourself with positive neuroassociations that lead to being approach automatic. In doing so, you change your destiny, moving towards unlocking the hypersocial self within, the true self free from fear and operating from a place of personal power and love.
5. Tools You Will Need:
Filezilla
Firebug
Programmers NotePad
6. Tools You Will Need:
•FTP Program: Filezilla
Free from:
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Tutorial on New Tricks Website:
http://www.newtricks.me/
uploading-wordpress-themes-and-
plugins-through-ftp-with-filezilla/
7. Tools You Will Need:
•Firebug: Code Examiner
Free Firefox Add-on
Tutorial on New Tricks Website:
http://www.newtricks.me/
customizing-wordpress-themes
-with-firebug/
8. Tools You Will Need:
•Programmers Notepad
Free at: http://www.pnotepad
.org/
Tutorial on New Tricks Website:
http://www.newtricks.me/using-
programmers-notepad-to-edit-
wordpress-files/
9. WordPress Themes
How Do WordPress Site Files differ
from Static Website Files?
10. WordPress Themes
Static Website Files vs WordPress Files?
• Static Site Page Files are created Page by Page.
One Page, One File.
• The page is marked up into all of the sections
with html ( hyper text markup language).
• All Text and Images are inserted into the
divisions of the page when the page is created.
• The files all end in page_name.html.
• CSS file(s)applied to the site for the styling.
11. WordPress Themes
Static Website Files vs WordPress Files?
• WordPress is a database program made up of
core program files and theme files.
• You need at least one set of theme files to have
WordPress show up.
• WordPress themes are made up of a group of
files that combine html and php scripts. The
html provides the structure and the PHP calls
content from the data base rather than having
it all hardcoded into each page.
12. WordPress Themes
Static Website Files vs WordPress Files?
• WordPress is a database program made up of
core program files and theme files.
• You need at least one set of theme files to have
WordPress show up.
• WordPress themes are made up of a group of
files that combine html and php scripts. The
html provides the structure and the PHP calls
content from the data base rather than having
it all hardcoded into each page.
13. WordPress Themes
Static Website Files vs WordPress Files?
• WordPress Theme Files end in filename.php
• Rather than one file per page, WordPress files
tend to be separated into functions. Such as:
header.php, index.php, sidebar.php, footer.php,
custom functions.php
• WordPress themes also have css stlye sheets
applied to them to create the styling of the site.
14. WordPress Themes
How to Choose a WordPress Theme?
• Open-Source creates 1000’s of great themes.
• Some free some “premium” 25 – 85 dollars.
• Google search “WordPress Themes” or go to
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
15. WordPress Themes
How Beginners should Choose a Theme?
Most important to customization is to choose a
theme that has the “bones” that you want. For
example: If you want a site with a custom
header that you can create with your logo and
tag line in it, then find a theme that already has
a header and not just a text title and
description.
16. WordPress Themes
How Beginners should Choose a Theme?
Another example: If you want a site with a large
scale graphic image behind the content box,
then find a site that already has that built in.
Like: http://www.amypink.com/en/
themes/city-dreams-wordpress-theme/
17. Modifying WordPress Themes
Twenty Ten Theme
Before you start:
1. Add Content or Install Dummy Content Plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/
plugins/wp-dummy-content/
2. Add Page Titles
3. Add Categories and assign one post to each.
18. Modifying the Header Twenty-Ten
1. Check the size of the Header with Firebug. 940 x198
2. Create a Header the same width. 940 x226
3. If it is higher find the file that determines ht and
width of header.
4. Go to Appearances, Header and Upload the Header.
Whoops it is too tall. Find the file for Ht of Header.
5. In this theme it is not in header.php where you would
expect it. It is in functions.php since there are user
options that are in this file.
6. Open the Editor and Change the height to 226 px.
7. Go back to Appearance Header and Upload.
19. Modifying the Background in Twenty-Ten
1. Go to Appearances, Background and Upload the
Background image.
2. Configure it as to whether it is tiling and in which
way.
3. You can also just change the background color by
adding a color to the hex box. If you add both
background image and color, then the colored
background will come up when the image takes
longer to load.
20. Removing Title and Description
1. Firebug the Title and see if you can remove the
title with css, display: none;
2. Go to the css file and find that ID and Attribute
and make the change.
#site-title a {
3. Repeat with Description. color:#000000;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration:none;
display: none;}
21. Removing the excess padding in above header
1. Firebug to find the ID and attribute that needs
to change.
#header {
padding:30px 0 0;
2. Change the padding to 10 or 0 in the css style
sheet.
22. Add Your Plugins
• Plugins extend WordPress Functionality.
• Some Plugins Create Sitewide Functionality.
• Some Plugins create Widgets for sidebars.
• Ten Must Have Plugins on New Tricks:
http://www.newtricks.me/ten-
must-have-wordpress-plugins-
for-every-wordpress-websites/
23. Creating an “About Me” Sidebar Widget
1. Go to Appearance Widget.
2. Select Text Box and drag it into position.
3. Give it a Title.
4. Go to Post, Add New and add the photo and
text to the post box as if it were a little post.
5. Select html view and copy the contents of the
post edit box.
6. Go to Widgets, open the text box and add the
text. Check it out.
24. Creating an “Follow Me” Icon for Sidebar
1. Go to Plugins, Add New, Search for “Follow Me”
2. Add the Plugin and Activate it.
3. Go to Settings and find the Follow Me Plugin
and configure it.
4. Add the various social media addresses.
5. Choose “Old Style” and Choose Size.
6. Go to Widgets, Find Follow Me and Drag it to
Sidebar. Under the About Me Text Box.
25. Styling the Sticky Post Box in Twenty-Ten
1. Go to a post and make it “Sticky”. It will have a
blue background.
2. Use Firebug to find the code for the Sticky Post
Box Color, .home .sticky {
3. Make the change to another color in CSS.
26. I hope this wet your appetite for customizing
WordPress Themes. Get Yourself a good cheat
sheet for CSS and HTML you will learn a lot and
most of all have Fun!
Judi Knight
Our motto is, “It’s Never too Late”