Good Morning!!!!

My name isJohn Parkinson

I live in Eastern OhioFather and Grandfather

Twitter - @jwparkinson

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WordPress user for 5 years

I am a ‘user’ not an expert!

Personal, work and a club websites. Also, helped setup 2 other websites for a 911 center and an Emergency Management

Agency (EMA).

How many WordPress beginners?

Find WordPress Help

Holy WP Batman!

Let’s start close to home at first

wordpress.org

codex.wordpress.org

In Fact…..

make.wordpress.org

http://automattic.com/

central.wordcamp.org

WordCamps are approved by WordCamp Central

Core group of organizers

Planning process takes several months

Venue, refreshments, t-shirts, speakers, volunteers, sponsors, swag, name tags, after party, speaker dinner, etc.

WordCamps in Ohio

AND….Don’t forget,

WordCamps offer the HAPPINESS bar!

The Happiness bar is a live help desk, where WordPress professionals sit, and wait, for you to

ask them a question. Often populated with WordCamp speakers, organizers or volunteers, a

group of WordPress professionals are always around to HELP YOU WITH WHATEVER YOU

NEED.

http://wordpress.tv/WordPress can / will send 3 or 4 camcorders to record sessions at

WordCamps.

Podcast

Social Media Sites

WordCampsand

Twitter

Lots of tweets!!!

Miss a session?No worries!

A lot of speakers post slides for download.

http://www.slideshare.net/

Fun FactSlideshare is owned by LinkedIn

Slideshare has been called the most under used resource on the internet today.

Facebook Groups

http://www.meetup.com/

Favorite Websites

http://blondish.net/

http://wptavern.com/

http://www.wpbeginner.com/

http://yourwebsiteengineer.com/

Don’t get stagnant!

It may seem overwhelming!

Explore new and different websites.

Branch out and

CONNECT!!!

Chris Lema - chrislema.com Great tips

Post Status – poststat.us WP News

bobwp.com

ottoprress.com Sam Woods WP guru

JT Pratt - jtpratt.com/

What is….

the loop?

the dashboard?

GPL?

www.wpbeginner.com/glossaryOver 100 definitions

http://ithemes.com/publishing/

http://torquemag.io/

Beginner Tip

Before you ask a question about WordPress on a forum, Twitter or Facebook group, do a search about your issue.

There is a very good chance that your issue has been addressed and answered somewhere.

And a warning!

Be careful when downloading free themes, plugins or widgets that are not in the WordPress repository.

Check the reputation of the developers and website.

Questionsor

comments

Make sure to thankthe organizers, sponsors

and volunteers

Thanks for suffering sitting throughmy presentation.

Please leave feedback!!

Enjoy the rest of the sessions!John