2. Who am I?
Bart Dabek
Bart@WebCultured.com
WebCultured.com
ITSocialTraining.com
AMPBlogs.com
3. What is WordPress?
• Website Management Made Easy
• Open Source
• But Known For Blogging
• Flexible to YOUR needs
• Amazing Community
4. What is WordPress?
• Website Management Made Easy
• Flexible to YOUR needs
• Simple To Install
• Full CMS If Used The Right Way
• Amazing Community
5. What is WordPress?
• Website Management Made Easy
• Flexible to YOUR needs
• Amazing Community
• People Donate Time
• Big Community & Someone Attempted to Solve Your Problem
14. Why so Popular?
• Easy Installation (5 min)
• Very Extensible (Themes / Plugins)
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15. Why so Popular?
• Easy Installation (5 min)
• Very Extensible (Themes / Plugins)
• Great Community & Support
• Tutorials, Plugins, Documentation, Themes
• New Companies Focusing on WordPress
16. How to get started?
• Feature Requirements
• Gather Requirements
• Theme Selection / Development
• Tweak Existing or Design New Theme
• Homepage, Post Page, Landing Page, Contact Us
• Plugin Research & Installation /
Development
• Plugin Selection / Extension / Give Back
22. Plugins / Modules
• Add Features and Functionality To Your
Website
• Select The RIGHT Plugin
• Can Be Administrative and/or User Facing
• Plugin Update Cycle (Updates)
28. Fits YOUR needs
• Rich Text Page / Post Editing / Categorization
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Akismet
• Security & Permissions / Multi Users
• Multi-Language
• Many More...
29. Fits YOUR needs
• Rich Text Page / Post Editing / Categorization
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Akismet
• Security & Permissions
• Multi-Language
• Many More...
and YES.... it does Blogging
31. WordPress MU
• Multiple Websites
• Easier Management & Updates
• Grow Your Community
• Merged into WordPress 3.0
32. Integration
• Twitter - Bi Directional
• Facebook Connect
• RSS
• Paypal - Credit Card / Paypal Payments
• ...any API available
33. Support & Community
• PHP Based
• Well Established Language
• Lots of Developers
• Easy To Find Developers
• Great Community & Support
• Lots Of Discussion & Problem Solving
34. Books
• WordPress for Dummies
• WordPress Bible
• WordPress for Business Bloggers
• http://wordpress.org/about/books/
35. Websites
• WordPress.com - Get a Free Online
Account
• WordPress.org - Setup WordPress on Your
Server
• WordPress.org/extend/ - Plugins / Themes
36. Should You Blog?
• Valuable Content
• More Doors for Search Engines
• Social Value and Brand Awareness
What WordPress isn't... well it's not just a blogging tool... far too many times now people make the assumption that it's all WordPress is good for, and it's just not the case. WordPress can manage a site that looks like any other it's just a matter of knowing how to properly use WordPress to your needs.
For many of my our own clients we've implemented the blogging tool as a news section on their blogs or just disabled it. This way they were still able to take advantage of WordPress as a CMS for their website needs.