Watch the talk here:
http://wordpress.tv/2013/07/29/kathryn-presner-how-to-jazz-up-your-wordpress-site-without-a-lick-o-code/
Watch the videos in the presentation here:
http://zoonini.wordpress.com/jazzup/
Plugins included in the presentation:
Custom Post Widget
http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-widget/
Restrict Widgets
http://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-widgets/
Alfie WP Weather
http://wordpress.org/plugins/alfie-wp-weather/
Column Shortcodes
http://wordpress.org/plugins/column-shortcodes/installation/
Social Media Tabs
http://wordpress.org/plugins/social-media-tabs/
YIKES, Inc. Easy MailChimp Extender
http://wordpress.org/plugins/yikes-inc-easy-mailchimp-extender/
Jetpack by WordPress.com
http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/
Post UI Tabs
http://wordpress.org/plugins/put/
74. Plugins Used
Custom Post Widget
http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-
widget/
Restrict Widgets
http://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-widgets/
Alfie WP Weather
http://wordpress.org/plugins/alfie-wp-weather/
Column Shortcodes
http://wordpress.org/plugins/column-
shortcodes/installation/
Social Media Tabs
http://wordpress.org/plugins/social-media-
tabs/
YIKES, Inc. Easy MailChimp
Extender
http://wordpress.org/plugins/yikes-inc-easy-
mailchimp-extender/
Jetpack by WordPress.com
http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/
Post UI Tabs
http://wordpress.org/plugins/put/
75. Credits
Big thanks to everyone who suggested plugins for this
presentation!
Special thanks to Valerie K. for everything
Background pattern: Japanese Art 1 by Tzadkiel &
Northern Dancer | COLOURlovers.com
http://www.colourlovers.com/pattern/1181271/japanese_art_1
Dick & Jane lorem ipsum by Duck Island Greeking
Machine http://www.duckisland.com/GreekMachine.php
All other images: iStockphoto.com
Fonts: Lobster Two & Archivo Narrow
You have a good friend – let’s call her Ruby. Ruby loves strawberries and has decided to organize a festival honouring her favourite fruit, in the town in which you both live called Rosyvale Meadows. Ruby’s even managed to get a feature article about this new festival into your local newspaper – to be published just a few days! This article will be fantastic publicity for the event. But there’s a problem. The festival has no website. The festival has no money yet because it’s brand new and doesn’t have any sponsors. And Ruby knows that you can’t seem to stop talking about this WordPress thing, which must have something to do with the web.And so - (you know what’s coming, don’t you - the email from your friend arrives….
You’re nice. (Maybe you’re Canadian.)
You know you can whip something up fairly quickly and easily. How?
1. Plugins are awesome2.You don’t need to be a coder to make your site do cool things 3. Here are some plugins that are easy to use and do cool things
The list of plugins will be made available at the end, so don’t worry about writing them all down
Clean default theme, easy to make look like whatever you want, not particularly blogging-foccused
How do we get here from there? To get here we’re going to add 8 plugins that add some extra features and visual pizazz
Wholikes strawberries? Talk about goals of the website and how some plugins will help us achieve this. Get the word out about the event through social media, keep people interested in the event up to speed with ongoing news, all the provide info about the event in an easy-to-find way that makes people want to come, make it easy for people to find out where the event is happening, etc.
Two seemingly small things - but they make a huge difference – Background pattern, free from COLOURlovers.com, strawberry graphic from iStockphoto.comRemember that poster? We used elements from it and laid it out as a header graphic.
Different ways to find a plugin – keywords, search, popularity.
How many of you have installed plugins? Basic instructions if needed.IMPORTANT: All of the plugins we’re going to look at have alternatives – if one doesn’t work well for you, test another. That’s what the plugin directory is for!
How many of you have installed widgets? Basic instructions if needed.
CLICK FOR VIDEO Choose our widget- Where do we WANT widget, or where do we want to EXCLUDE widget? Display widget ONLY on blog homepage