wordpress 101 social media camp 2011
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WordPress 101 presentation made at Social Media Camp Victoria 2011 by John OverallTRANSCRIPT
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WordPress 101Social Media Camp 2011
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Social Media Camp 2011
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes.
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Public Area of Blog
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Admin Dashboard
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Admin Dashboard
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Main Tools
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General Settings
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Add/Edit Pages
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Add/Edit Posts
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Add Custom Menus
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Add New Plugins
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Top 9 WordPress Website enhancing plugins
These plugins are sure to help your site outWP-Touch
WordBooker & Twitter Blog
CheckOut by tribulant
Twitter Blog
Gravity Forms
Mail Press
Blubrry Power Press
XML Sitemaps
iRobots.txt
Headspace2
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setting your site up for mobile viewing
Mobile web surfing is doing nothing but increasing
Prepare your site for all the differing mobile devices
WP-Touch makes it easy
A few simple settings and your all set
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WPtouch makes your site mobile ready in a few easy steps.
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Easily connect your site to Facebook
With Wordbooker Facebook is automated
Automatically update your status
Pull comments from Facebook to your site
If you update an old post you can republish it
Easily add a Facebook like button or widget to your site.
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WordBooker connects your site To Facebook in a few easy steps.
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Easily connect your site to Twitter
With Twitter Blog your Twitter is automated
Automatically update your status
Pull comments from Twitter to your site
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Twitter Blog connects your site To Twitter in a few easy steps.
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set your site up for e-commerce
With Checkout it becomes very easy to setup your own ecommerce store
Sell any Product you like from digital downloads to affiliate products
Import Product lists & convert from older shopping cart systems
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Making E-Commerce easy.
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Create any type of form you want.
With Gravity Forms creating Forms is an easy task
Easy create any type of form.
Has built in form fields ready to go
Yes it is a premium plugin.
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Every site needs a few formsGravity Forms make the job easy.
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Manage you own email list and more…Choose the list and sections available for subscription.
Make any section of your site available to be subscribed to.
Automatically sends out emails on a per post, weekly and monthly basis to your users.
Sends responses for comments to both you and the commentator and allows subscriptions to that comment line.
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Easily manage your own email list and subscriptions to your site.
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Easy Publishing for you Podcasts…Podcasting made easy
Instant placement of a player w/download link.
Automatically sends notices to iTunes about new episodes.
Can do multiple podcast channels so you can have more than one podcast running on your website.
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Add a Podcast to your site in a few easy steps
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Quick Easy Sitemaps…Sitemaps SEO Ready
Instant auto creation of your sitemap.
Automatically sends notices to Google, Bing, Yahoo & Ask.
Creates a search engine ready gzip file.
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Make sure your site always has a valid up to date site map
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Quick Easy Robots.txt file…Search Engine Ready
Block bad robots from your site.
Stop Google and other from indexing your images.
Stop the wayback machine from indexing your site.
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Easily setup and keep up to date your robots.txt file
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Easy SEO for Your Site…Control The SEO on Your Site
Customize most sections of your site.
Use tags to automate the tasks.
Cab be applied globally or just locally.
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Simple easy settings for controlling the SEO in differing sections of your website
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Well you decide…This image of a search from Google taken January 21, 2010
I have the top 4 spots for WordPress Training Victoria BC
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Well you decide…This image of a search from Google taken May 31, 2011
I have the #3 spot for WordPress Training
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