Learn Advanced Wordpress.com strategies. Understand and use Facebook "Like" Widget, Text Widgets with HTML for Hypertext links to other sites. Create additional website pages, add YouTube videos to Posts & Pages. Share posts with LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo. Change theme headers & backgrounds. Get more info at Learn.Wordpress.com

1. Advanced WordPress
Guide to Creating Your Social Media World
Gregory Drejza
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2. Agenda
Advanced WordPress
• Adding Facebook Widgets
• Adding Icon Widgets
• Leverging HTML
• Adding Pages
• Embeding HTML Video Source Code (YouTube
Videos)
• Auto Sharing to other Social Media Sites
• Changing Page Headings and Colors
• Learn More from WordPress (Learn.WordPress.com)
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3. Adding Facebook Widgets
Drag the Widget
to the Sidebar
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4. Adding Facebook Widgets
Fill In Your
Facebook
Details
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5. Facebook Widget
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6. Adding Icon Widgets
1) Go to Google and capture 60 x 60
Twitter Icon
2) Save to Your Computer
3) Upload the image to your Media
Library
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7. Leveraging HTML
Let’s create
this with HTML
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8. Leveraging HTML
HTML Commands:
b is “Bold”
a is “Hypertext” –
creates a link to
another document or
to another segment of
the same document
All commands start
with < > & end </ >
“img” references an
image within a
From the hypertext
Media Library
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9. Adding Pages
Add a New Page
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10. Add Pages
Title goes here
Page Content goes here
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11. Adding Pages
Page Tabs
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12. Adding YouTube Videos
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13. Adding YouTube Videos
1) Insert Media
The YouTube Code
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14. Adding YouTube Videos
The YouTube page URL &
the Video’s title
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15. Auto Sharing to other Social Media Sites
Go to Dashboard, Settings, Sharing
Connect all other Social Media sites
You post on Wordpress, post is shared to other sites
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16. Changing Page Headings
Go to Dashboard, Appearance, Header
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17. Changing Page Headings
Upload an image with the
dimensions as described
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18. Changing Page Colors
Go to Dashboard, Appearance, Background
Choose a Background image or
select a color from the color
wheel to be your background.
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19. Changing Page Colors
Changing Fonts or CSS becomes a
“Custom Design” and costs $30 a year.
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20. Learn More from WordPress
Go to Learn.Wordpress.com
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21. What’s Left?
• Post at least Weekly or more
• Use Pictures, Video, or Audio
• Create All Your Additional Pages
• Manage Your Blog Layout
• Display Links to Other Sites
• Manage Your Widgets
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