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WordPress Hampton Roads Meetup 9-18-12
This document summarizes the WordPress Hampton meetup organized by Melodie Laylor. It provides information on upcoming WordCamp events, WordPress security tips, a crash course on theme surgery using child themes, and podcasting with the Blubrry PowerPress plugin. Resources and links are included throughout for WordPress documentation, themes, plugins, and the presenters' websites.
WordPress Hampton Roads Meetup 9-18-12
- 1. WordPress Hampton WordCamp Baltimore Tidbits and More Tuesday, September 18, 2012
- 2. Melodie Laylor Presenter, WPHRMeetup Organizer
- 3. Connect with Melodie • Email: melodie@melodielaylor.com • Twitter: @melodielaylor • Web: http://www.melodielaylor.com
- 4. WordPress HR Resources • WPHR Meetup website: http://www.meetup.com/ wordpresshr • WPHR FB Page: http://www.facebook.com/wordpresshr • WordPress: http://www.wordpress.org • WP Documentation - the Codex: http:// codex.wordpress.org • WordCamp Central: http://central.wordcamp.org
- 5. Upcoming WordCamps Close By • WordCamp Philadelphia October 20-21: http:// 2012.philly.wordcamp.org • WordCamp Raleigh November 3-4: http:// 2012.raleigh.wordcamp.org
- 6. Now For theTidbits...
- 7. WordPress Security Panel • Held by owners of WebDev Studios (Brad Williams) and Sucuri Security (Tony Perez, Dre Armeda) • Sucuri has a free website malware scanner: http://sitecheck.sucuri.net • Sucuri provides website security consulting and services
- 8. WordPress Security Tips •Manually install WordPress • When you create your MySQL database, Set custom prefix (otherwise WP makes it "wp_" ) • Make default admin user name other than "admin" • STRONG PASSWORDS - at least ten characters with CAPS, lowercase, and numbers (and a special character for good measure) • Keep WP, themes and plugins up-to-date
- 9. WordPress Security Tips •File transfer - use SFTP over SSH • Hardening .htaccess file • Last, but certainly not least, CHOOSE YOUR HOST WISELY! • Codex - Hardening WordPress: http:// codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress • Sucuri blog article: http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/06/how- to-stop-the-hacker-by-hardening-wordpress.html
- 10. Crash Course inTheme Surgery • Presented by Matthew DeVille • Biggest tip I gleaned and already follow: USE A CHILD THEME!
- 11. Child Theme Basics •Pick your parent theme - Twenty Ten, Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve (coming very soon) are good starter themes to customize • Genesis Framework from StudioPress and it's many child themes - or make your own child theme based on it - my personal favorite http://www.studiopress.com
- 12. Child Theme Basics •Create another directory under /wp-content/ themes • Edit the style.css header to reference parent theme, give child theme name • Copy to the new theme folder • That's all you really need! Now you can customize the child stylesheet to your heart's content!
- 13. Child Theme Header Example
- 14. /* Theme Name: TwentyEleven Child (required) Theme URI: http://example.com/ Description: Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme Author: Your name here Author URI: http://example.com/about/ Template: twentyeleven (required, must be same as folder name) Version: 0.1.0 */
- 15. Child Theme Basics •To customize other template files (functions.php, page.php, single-post.php, etc.), put copies from the parent theme in the child directory • Add an /images subdirectory to the child to add additional images to your theme • Codex article - http://codex.wordpress.org/ Child_Themes
- 16. Podcasting • My talkwas "Beef Up You Website with Audio and Video - It's Easy!" • Slides on Slideshare - http:// www.slideshare.net/melodieshouse/ untitled-14228958 • Blubrry PowerPress - the only podcasting plugin you'll ever need
- 17. Podcasting with Blubrry PowerPress • Blubrry has several built-in audio and video players, both Flash and HTML5 • NOTE: HTML5 essential for iOS and mobile visitors • Blubrry includes iTunes feed configuraton, custom feeds, custom channels, basic traffic stats if you register on website • Paid services - podcast hosting, advanced stats and tools
- 18. Podcasting with Blubrry PowerPress • Get it at the WP Plugin repository - http:// wordpress.org/extend/plugins/powerpress/ • Blubrry website - http://www.blubrry.com • Plugin page - http://www.blubrry.com/ powerpress
- 19. SEO • There wasa great presentation given on SEO but I missed it • Presenter: Webmechanix based in Baltimore • The slides will be made available to people who sign up on the mailing list • Sign up here: http:// 2012.wordcamp.webmechanix.co/
- 20. WordCamp Baltimore • http://2012.baltimore.wordcamp.org •Twitter: @wordcampbalt • Twitter hashtag: #wcbalt for attendee and speaker tweets, links to slides
- 21. Thank You forComing!