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- 2. • Love working with WordPress and Social media • Training • Author Who I Am ANGELA SAMUELS WORDPRESS EDUCATOR
- 3. • Associates of science – Henry Ford Community College • Bachelors of Science – Eastern Michigan • Masters of Education – Wayne State Education ANGELA SAMUELS WORDPRESS EDUCATOR
- 4. • Small business owners • Indie Authors One on one and class training via Skype or locally Clients ANGELA SAMUELS WORDPRESS EDUCATOR
- 5. WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR •SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS WHO ARE DEVELOPING THEIR BUSINESS SITE •SOMEONE WHO IS CREATING A WEBSITE FOR A HOBBY •A NEW WORDPRESS DEVELOPER
- 6. WHY THIS COURSE CAN HELP YOU? THIS COURSE CAN HELP YOU LEARN HOW TO •CHOOSE A WORDPRESS THEME •INSTALL A WORDPRESS THEME •UNINSTALL A WORDPRESS THEME •CHOOSE A WORDPRESS PLUGIN
- 7. WHY THIS COURSE CAN HELP YOU? CONT’D THIS COURSE CAN HELP YOU LEARN HOW TO •INSTALL A WORDPRESS PLUGIN •UNINSTALL A WORDPRESS PLUGIN •CREATE A PAGE AND POST •WORDPRESS BASIC SETTINGS
- 8. INTRODUCTION THINK OF BUILDING YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE AS BUILDING A HOUSE
- 9. BUILDING A HOUSE VERSUS BUILDING YOUR WORDPRESS SITE •FIND A LOCATION •HOME DESIGN •ROOMS •FIXTURES • DESIGNS: COLONIAL, CAPE URL (focus keyword or name) Web design Pages –About us, Contact Posts – WordPress for Beginners Plugins – 46,0000 Over 7000 Themes
- 10. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A THEME AND A PLUGIN? •THEME PERTAINS TO THE DESIGN – HEADER & FOOTER DESIGN •PLUGIN PERTAINS TO THE ADDITIONAL FEATURES OUTSIDE OF CORE WORDPRESS – EMAIL SPAM, SECURITY, BACKUP PLUGIN
- 11. WHAT IS A THEME? •A WORDPRESS THEME PROVIDES ALL OF THE FRONT END STYLING OF YOUR WORDPRESS SITE
- 12. WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A THEME • IS IT UPDATED ON A REGULAR BASIS? • LOOK AT THE RATINGS TO SEE IF HAS A HIGH RATING • LOOK AT THE COMMENTS FOR THE MOST RECENT COMMENTS • IS IT RESPONSIVE • DOES IT HAVE GOOD SUPPORT (SEE COMMENTS)
- 13. WORDPRESS THEMES •FREE THEMES – USUALLY GOOD QUALITY IF THEY ARE UPDATED ON A REGULAR BASIS •COMMERCIAL / PREMIUM THEMES – PAID OR PREMIUM THEMES •THEME GENERATORS •OR COULD EVEN CREATE YOUR OWN THEME FROM SCRATCH!
- 14. 2 WAYS TO UPLOAD AND INSTALL A THEME IN WORDPRESS •UPLOAD A THEME THROUGH THE WORDPRESS DASHBOARD •SELECT A THEME THROUGH THE WORDPRESS DEPOSITORY
- 15. UPLOAD A THEME THROUGH THE WORDPRESS DASHBOARD
- 16. SELECT A THEME THROUGH THE WORDPRESS DEPOSITORY
- 17. UNINSTALL AND DELETE A WORDPRESS THEME •CHOOSE ANOTHER THEME (A THEME IS REQUIRED) •APPEARANCE >THEMES> THEME DETAILS AND DELETE
- 18. RESPONSIVE THEMES •A THEME THAT ADJUST BASED ON SCREEN SIZE. (IPAD, ANDROID, KINDLE AND ETC.) •HTTP://MOBILETEST.ME •HTTP://QUIRKTOOLS.COM/SCREENFLY/
- 19. CHILD THEME •USUALLY USED WHEN YOU HAVE CUSTOM UPDATES •THE MAIN THEME WILL OVERRIDE ANY CUSTOM CHANGES •HTTPS://CODEX.WORDPRESS.ORG/CHILD_THEMES
- 20. PURCHASING THEMES •BEWARE THAT YOU MAY NOT GET A REFUND BACK. •USUALLY INCLUDES 6 MONTHS OF SUPPORT OR MORE
- 21. PLUGINS
- 22. WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A PLUGIN •HOW LONG AGO WAS IT UPDATED •RATINGS •COMMENTS ON THE WORDPRESS.ORG WEBSITE
- 23. OVERVIEW OF THE USE OF PLUGINS •PLUGINS ARE SMALL “PROGRAMS” GIVING YOU THE POSSIBILITY TO EXTEND THE FUNCTIONALITIES OF A BASIC WORDPRESS INSTALLATION. MOST PLUGINS CAN BE DOWNLOADED AND INSTALLED FOR FREE. •THE SEARCH FOR PLUGINS CAN BE DONE BEST THROUGH WORDPRESS.ORG/PLUGINS OR WITHIN THE DASHBOARD.
- 24. HOW TO INSTALL A PLUGIN? (MOST USED)
- 25. HOW TO INSTALL A PLUGIN? (MOST USED)
- 26. HOW TO DELETE A PLUGIN •DEACTIVATE •DELETE THE PLUGIN
- 29. COUNT PER DAY PLUGIN
- 30. PRETTY LINK
- 31. CUSTOMIZE WORDPRESS SETTINGS •GENERAL SETTINGS •WRITING SETTINGS
- 32. CUSTOMIZE WORDPRESS SETTINGS •DISCUSSION SETTINGS •ADD USERS •CHANGING PERMALINKS
- 33. GENERAL SETTINGS
- 34. WRITING SETTINGS Standard – The default post format Aside – A note like post, usually styled without title. Gallery – A gallery of images. Link – A link to another site. Image – An image or photograph Quote – A quotation. Status – Twitter like short status update Video – A post containing video Audio – An audio file. Chat – A chat transcript
- 36. PAGE VS POST IN WORDPRESS • POSTS ARE ENTRIES LISTED IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER ON THE BLOG HOME PAGE OR ON THE POSTS PAGE • PAGES ARESTATIC AND ARE NOT LISTED BY DATE PUBLICLY.
- 37. HOW TO CREATE POSTS AND PAGES
- 38. CREATING PAGES IN WORDPRESS
- 39. CREATING PAGES IN WORDPRESS
- 40. LEARN HOW TO CREATE, EDIT AND DELETE A POST IN WORDPRESS
- 41. CREATING POSTS IN WORDPRESS
- 42. CREATING POSTS IN WORDPRESS
- 43. CATEGORIES
- 44. THANK YOU AND QUESTIONS DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION & FREE COUPON • FREE COUPON TO MY ONLINE WORDPRESS COURSE ON UDEMY • HTTP://ANGELASAMUELS.COM/NEWSLETTER/ • WEBSITE: ANGELASAMUELS.COM • EMAIL: INFO@ANGELASAMUELS.COM • TWITTER.COM/ANGELAMSAMUELS • FACEBOOK.COM/ANGELAMSAMUELS
Editor's Notes
- My name is Angela Samuels and I’m your host. I have my own small business marketing online for authors. I’ve been in marketing and web design for over 10 years. I’ve helped many businesses with their marketing strategies. Whether you have written a book many years ago and want to start promoting it again or you’re a new writer that is just starting out on a limited budget. Don’t overwhelm yourself to the point that you end up quitting before you achieve your goal.
- Think of building your website as building a house
- a theme controls the presentation of content; whereas a plugin is used to control the behavior and features of your WordPress site.
- WooThemes, elegant themes, StudioPress, Themeforest Premium themes usually have better support and have more options. Most commercial themes cost around $35, which is much cheaper then designing your own theme.
- Download a theme to your computer Select “Appearance” > “Themes” (1) Click the “Install themes” tab (2) click the “Upload” link (3) Select a Zip file on your computer and click the “Install Now” button (4) After the theme has installed, click on the “Activate” link: Visit the home page of your blog or site to see the result
- When you choose another theme sometime you have to start over in designing your website.
- Select “Plugins” > “Add New” in the left menu. You’ll see the following screen: In the search box, fill in (a part of) the name of the plugin and click the “Search Plugins” button. You will then receive a list of search results: Install Activate Don’t forget to configure the plugin.
- Select “Plugins” > “Add New” in the left menu. You’ll see the following screen: In the search box, fill in (a part of) the name of the plugin and click the “Search Plugins” button. You will then receive a list of search results: Install Activate Don’t forget to configure the plugin.
- Downloads 12,966,835 This plugin is written from the ground up by Joost de Valk and his team at Yoast to improve your site's SEO on all needed aspects. It first and foremost helps you write better content. WordPress SEO forces you to choose a focus keyword when you're writing your articles, and then makes sure you use that focus keyword everywhere.
- Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet Web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog's "Comments" admin screen.
- count reads and visitors shows reads per page shows visitors today, yesterday, last week, last months and other statistics on dashboard shows country of your visitors you can show these statistics on frontend per widget or shortcodes too
- Pretty Link enables you to shorten links using your own domain name (as opposed to using tinyurl.com, bit.ly, or any other link shrinking service)! In addition to creating clean links, Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host. Pretty Link is a killer plugin for people who want to clean up their affiliate links, track clicks from emails, their links on Twitter to come from their own domain, or generally increase the reach of their website by spreading these links on forums or comments on other blogs.