This document provides an overview of WordPress, including what it is, how it works, updating WordPress, and modifying a WordPress website. Some key points covered include that WordPress is a free content management system powered by PHP and MySQL, it allows updating a site from any computer, and modifying a site involves adding users, writing posts and pages, formatting text, adding posts and titles, and including photos and PDFs.

1. Dive to Wordpress by
Daniel Bongomin
Presented by: Bongomin Daniel
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2. Overview
• What is WordPress
• How it Works
• Updating WordPress
• Modifying Your Website
— Admin Overview
— Adding Users
— Posts-vs-Pages
— Editing Posts and Pages
— Formatting Text
— Adding Posts
— Writing Titles
— Adding Photos and PDFs
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3. WordPres
s
• WordPress is an open source, free blogging
tool and content management system (CMS)
powered by PHP and MySQL
• Installed in your hosting space
• You can update your site from any computer
that has internet access
The number of Websites
(as of June 2019) using WordPress.
That is 60% of ALL websites!
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4. How Your Website Works
The Internet
• The Internet is made up of inter-connected servers, fancy computers,
that act like file cabinets.
• Domain names are labels used to tell Internet browsers which hosting
space on the servers, or the location of your website, to look at.
• Each hosting space contains files, folders and documents.
These files make up a website.
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5. How Your
Website Works
Viewing Your Site
• A URL (domain name) is
typed into an address
bar of an internet
browser.
• Code is retrieved from a
hosting
space, translated by the
server, paired with
information from a
database.
• Displayed on an internet
browser
server+
code
database
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6. Your WordPress
• You have a custom WordPress theme
• We built it to do the things you need it to
• Your site will be updated using the same
software tools as other sites but it will look
different on your site
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7. Updating WordPress
• Really smart people improve
WordPress each day
• Occasionally you need to
update the software or the
plug-ins to keep the site
secure and enable new
features
• Quarterly or upon each new
release is recommended
• You can call us for this so if
something breaks we can fix
it right away
• The more often you update
the less likely things are to
break
• Updates take us between
15-30 min and cost $25-$50
if all works correctly
When you see this bar
you need to upgrade.
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8. Updating WordPress
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9. Ways to Modify Your Site
Create
users
Edit
Menus
Add
Posts
Edit
text
Add
Pages
Place
Images
Upload
Files
Embed
Videos
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10. http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
Let’s Get Started
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11. Admin Anatomy /Panel
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12. Admin Anatomy
Main Menu
• Only present when on an admin page
• Allows you to navigate from one admin page to
another
• Most of what you want to do lives here
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13. Admin Anatomy
Shortcut Menu
• Present when you’re logged in
• Displays on every page
• Allows you to navigate quickly to do common tasks
• Allows you to navigate from public to admin sides of site
Clicking on your site
name will take you
to the home page
of your website
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14. Admin Anatomy
Page Header
• Changes based on which page you’re on
• Allows you to change page settings
• Displays notifications about updates and uncompleted tasks
• Shares the page you’re on
For example we’re currently on the “Dashboard” page
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15. Admin Anatomy
Page Body
• Displays editing options on each page or section
• Contains additional navigational elements
• Each page has different editing options
Blue buttons are
action buttons
allowing you to
permanentlysave
or publish
Action Panel
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16. Efficiently Yours
Each screen is modifiable
• Check the fields you would like to see in your editing screen
• Uncheck the fields you would like to ignore
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17. Adding Users
Types of WordPress users
• Administrator - Somebody who has access to all the
administration features
• Editor - Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as
well as manage other people's posts, etc
• Author - Somebody who can publish and manage their own
posts
• Contributor - Somebody who can write and manage their
posts but not publish posts
• Subscriber - Somebody who can read
comments/comment/receive newsletters, etc
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18. Add a user
Choose a user level
Investigate Screen Options
Add a User
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19. Posts -vs- Pages
Text
Image
File
Link
Video
PPOAGSTE
Information on your site
is displayed on pages
or posts for the public
to view
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20. Posts -vs- Pages
Posts
• Timely information
• Modular format can be
displayed on multiple pages
• Divided into categories
• Can not display a page
within a post
• Longer URL
• Think blog entry or
Facebook status update
Pages
• Static information
• Confined format can only
be displayed on a page
• Divided by parent pages
• Can display one or multiple
posts
• Short URL
• Think Word Document or
PowerPoint slide
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21. Pages
• Most places on
navigation link to a
page
• To edit posts on a
page you edit the
posts
• Organized by parent
pages
• Home
• About
• Contact
• Services/Programs/Products
• History
• Location
• Hours
• Menu
• Areas of Practice
• Staff/Board
• Sponsors
PAGE
PAGE
PAGE
Parent Pages
PAGE
PAGE
PAGEPAGE
Sub Pages
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22. Page Example
Navigation
Links to other main pages
• One large entry
• No “read more” links
• Listed on and highlighted in main navigation
• Straight forward URL:
http://www.mayecreate.com/contact/
Page Specific Content
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23. PAGE
Posts
POSTPOST
• Grouped into
categories and
displayed on a page
• Can be displayed
on more than one
page or in more
than one category
POST
• Staff or board members
• Products
• News and press releases
• Blog entries
• FAQ
• Resources
• Terminology
• Job listings
• Testimonials
• Announcements
• Events
• Portfolio
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24. Post Example
• Multiple short entries
• Read more links
Post
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25. Page Specific Content
• Not list in main navigation
• Longer URL, usually with dates:
http://www.mayecreate.com/2010/02/trackbacks
-and-pingbacks/
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26. Still not sure about posts and pages?
That’s OK we can talk about it one-on-one.
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27. Page/Post Anatomy
Content
Title
URL
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28. Quick Edit and Sorting Features
Editing Pages/Posts
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29. Editing a Page/Post
Visual vs HTML
Kitchen sink
Preview changes
Change to draft
Autosave!
Revisions
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30. Editing a Page/Post: Text Styles
• H1 is used for the title of the page and already
applied for you
• Use the other styles in order of hierarchy to add
organization and structure to your page
• H2, H3, H4, H5
• Search engines read the styles this way when
reading your page, surprisingly people do too!
• Maintains consistency and professionalism
• Saves time!
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31. Applying Styles
Removing Styles
Pasting From Microsoft Word
Shift + Enter
Formatting Text
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32. Editing a Page/Post
• It won’t look
the same from
front to back
• Check early and
check often
• If everything
is bold, nothing
is bold
• Don’t underline
it looks like a
link
• Shift+Enter
• Pasting from
Microsoft Word
• Unformatting
Routine Checks Rules of Thumb Tricks
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33. How to get there (or anywhere really )
Look, Think, Click
Efficient Workspace Layouts, the art of drag and drop
Adding a Post
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34. Write a title that applies to your page or post so browsers and
viewers can learn what’s on your page
Adding a Post: Writing Titles
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35. Adding a Post: Writing Titles
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36. Adding a Post: Writing Titles
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37. Adding a Post
• Choose a category
– If you don’t it will choose the default
• Scheduling
– By scheduling posts to release in the future you
can make your site appear regularly updated
– Lets Google know you’re actively adding to the
site on a regular basis
• Read more link
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38. Adding Links
• How to add a link
• Opening a link in a new window
– PDF
– Other websites
• Photos can be used as links also
• What words to link
– Stay away from “click here”
– Link words that represent the page you’re linking to
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39. Write a title
Choosing a category
Publishing
Viewing on website
Add a link
Adding a Post in Action
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40. Adding a Photo
• Can always make it smaller but making it bigger
will make it blurry
• Add titles but don’t start with a number
• Add alt tags to describe the image
• Add captions to assist skimming, give meaning
• Use real photos when possible
• Can upload photos:
– In Media Library
– In the page or post (gallery)
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41. Upload a photo
Name and add alt tags and captions
Linking
Alignment
Sizing
Cropping
Uploading PDFs
Modifying link target on PDFs
Adding Photos and PDFs
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42. Overview
• What is WordPress
• How it Works
• Updating WordPress
• Modifying Your Website
— Admin Overview
— Adding Users
— Posts-vs-Pages
— Editing Posts and Pages
— Formatting Text
— Adding Posts
— Writing Titles
— Adding Photos and PDFs
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