This is not your momma's blog~ an intro to Wordpress.com and self hosted Wordpress. Presented at Hartford Adobe - August 2014

1. T H E R E ’ S N O C RY I N G
I N W O R D P R E S S

2. T H E R E ’ S N O C RY I N G
I N W O R D P R E S S

3. Squeeze Pages, OptimizePress
Membership Site, Wishlist Member
Review Site
Video Blog
Portfolio
Forum, bbPress
e-Commerce Store, WooCommerce
Wiki, WordPress-Wiki
Social Network, BuddyPress
Business Directory
Job Board
Daily Deal Site, Group Buying Site
Facebook Page
S O M U C H W E C A N D O !

4. L E T ’ S D O T H I S !
N O C RY I N G ,
J U S T F I N D I N G S O L U T I O N S

5. wordpress.com
vs
wordpress.org
FIRSTUP
1

7. • Free for Life option
• Updated and Securely Maintained for you
• Includes curated themes and plugins
• Benefit of wordpress.com's social life
• Jetpack stat goodies and subscriber ease
• Instant access to start blogging.

9. You can have
multiple sites,
and also add
Jetpack
functionality to
your .org sites.

10. You can have
multiple sites,
and also add
Jetpack
functionality to
your .org sites.

11. You can have
multiple sites,
and also add
Jetpack
functionality to
your .org sites.

12. You can have
multiple sites,
and also add
Jetpack
functionality to
your .org sites.

13. You can have
multiple sites,
and also add
Jetpack
functionality to
your .org sites.

14. You can have
multiple sites,
and also add
Jetpack
functionality to
your .org sites.

17. • Free for Life- download any time
• You Install, Maintain and Update
• Huge repository of plugins (the good, the bad and the ugly)
• Find or purchase themes from all over the web
• Edit as much or as little as you like
• You are in Control of every detail.

18. .org

19. .com.org

20. .com.org

21. .com.org

22. .com.org

23. .com.org

24. .com.org
Since .com does not allow
Plugins, they’ve chosen a select
few features you’ll benefit from
and built them in.
!
Further customizations are found
in the Store

25. A L O N E
Y O U D O N ’ T H A V E T O G O I T
• Codex
• Support Forums
• Facebook Groups
• Meetups
• WordCamps
• Books
• Online Classes

26. I N S TA L L I N G
S E L F H O S T E D
Q U I C K I N T E R M I S S I O N
You’ll need:
• Hosting Space
• Domain Name
• Access to creating a database
& DB user
• FTP or CPanel File Manager
• Decision on where the
installation will be living.
or
• A really great host that offers
installation and updating of WP
(like Siteground / WpEngine)

27. Installing WP in a subfolder=
http://mydomainname/wordpress/content

28. Installing WP in the root=
http://mydomainname/content

29. Meanwhile Wordpress.com=
http://yoursitename.wordpress.com

30. Meanwhile Wordpress.com=
http://yoursitename.wordpress.com

31. What exactly did you just install?

32. What exactly did you just install?
wp-content | wp-admin | wp-includes | wp-config.php | wp-settings.php …

33. What exactly did you just install?
wp-content | wp-admin | wp-includes | wp-config.php | wp-settings.php …
At some point in your experiences you’ll need to be
familiar with all the core files, well enough to
be able to spot any file that shouldn’t be there.

34. SECOND
2
USING
the
DASHBOARDS

37. Posts vs Pages

39. Categories vs Tags

41. A P O S T

42. Post Title
Post’s Permalink : http://poochie-pets.net/
live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally
A P O S T

43. Post Title
Post’s Permalink : http://poochie-pets.net/
live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally
Author and Date
A P O S T

44. Post Title
Post’s Permalink : http://poochie-pets.net/
live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally
Author and Date
Featured Image
A P O S T

45. Post Title
Post’s Permalink : http://poochie-pets.net/
live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally
Author and Date
Featured Image
A P O S T
Content
An excerpt will be created from your
content, or you can craft your own.

46. Post Title
Post’s Permalink : http://poochie-pets.net/
live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally
Author and Date
Featured Image
Social Sharing
A P O S T
Content
An excerpt will be created from your
content, or you can craft your own.

47. Post Title
Post’s Permalink : http://poochie-pets.net/
live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally
Author and Date
Featured Image
Social Sharing
May also have author bio section
Category and Tags
A P O S T
Content
An excerpt will be created from your
content, or you can craft your own.

48. A PA G E

49. A PA G E

50. A PA G E

51. A PA G E

52. A PA G E

53. A PA G E

54. A PA G E

55. A PA G E

56. A PA G E

57. Installing WP Video
This video clip has been removed from public
sharing of this presentation. It can be viewed
in the presentation recording on Meetup.com

58. 3THIRD
SECURE IT
to
AVOID CRYING

62. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Use “Admin” as your ID?
&

63. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Use “Admin” as your ID?
&
DON’T

64. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Use “Admin” as your ID?
&
• Keep /wp-admin as your
dashboard access point?
DON’T

65. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Use “Admin” as your ID?
&
• Keep /wp-admin as your
dashboard access point?
DON’T
DON’T
wSecure Authentication Plugin

66. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Use “Admin” as your ID?
&
• Keep /wp-admin as your
dashboard access point?
• Backup (off server) religiously?
DON’T
DON’T
wSecure Authentication Plugin

67. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Use “Admin” as your ID?
&
• Keep /wp-admin as your
dashboard access point?
• Backup (off server) religiously?
DON’T
DO
DON’T
wSecure Authentication Plugin

68. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Use “Admin” as your ID?
&
• Keep /wp-admin as your
dashboard access point?
• Backup (off server) religiously?
• Keep your core current /
updated?
DON’T
DO
DON’T
wSecure Authentication Plugin

69. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Use “Admin” as your ID?
&
• Keep /wp-admin as your
dashboard access point?
• Backup (off server) religiously?
• Keep your core current /
updated?
DON’T
DO
DO
DON’T
wSecure Authentication Plugin

70. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Use “Admin” as your ID?
&
• Keep /wp-admin as your
dashboard access point?
• Backup (off server) religiously?
• Keep your core current /
updated?
• Limit the # of admins?
(let authors be authors and editors)
DON’T
DO
DO
DON’T
wSecure Authentication Plugin

71. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Use “Admin” as your ID?
&
• Keep /wp-admin as your
dashboard access point?
• Backup (off server) religiously?
• Keep your core current /
updated?
• Limit the # of admins?
(let authors be authors and editors)
DON’T
DO
DO
DO
DON’T
wSecure Authentication Plugin

72. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Use “Admin” as your ID?
&
• Keep /wp-admin as your
dashboard access point?
• Backup (off server) religiously?
• Keep your core current /
updated?
• Limit the # of admins?
(let authors be authors and editors)
• Try out new plugins by
Activating them on the live site?
DON’T
DO
DO
DO
DON’T
wSecure Authentication Plugin

73. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Use “Admin” as your ID?
&
• Keep /wp-admin as your
dashboard access point?
• Backup (off server) religiously?
• Keep your core current /
updated?
• Limit the # of admins?
(let authors be authors and editors)
• Try out new plugins by
Activating them on the live site?
DON’T
DO
DO
DO
DON’T
DON’T
wSecure Authentication Plugin

74. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Clean your folders like you’d
clean your kitchen?
&

75. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Clean your folders like you’d
clean your kitchen?
&

76. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Clean your folders like you’d
clean your kitchen?
&
DO

77. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Clean your folders like you’d
clean your kitchen?
&
• Use the generated passwords?
DO

78. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Clean your folders like you’d
clean your kitchen?
&
• Use the generated passwords?
DO
DO

79. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Clean your folders like you’d
clean your kitchen?
&
• Use the generated passwords?
• Keep or delete the read me.html
file?
DO
DO

80. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Clean your folders like you’d
clean your kitchen?
&
• Use the generated passwords?
• Keep or delete the read me.html
file?
DO
DO
DELETE

81. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Clean your folders like you’d
clean your kitchen?
&
• Use the generated passwords?
• Keep or delete the read me.html
file?
DO
DO
DELETE
• Ditch plugins that don’t update
regularly?

82. D O ’ S D O N ’ T S
• Clean your folders like you’d
clean your kitchen?
&
• Use the generated passwords?
• Keep or delete the read me.html
file?
DO
DO
DELETE
• Ditch plugins that don’t update
regularly?
DO

83. FOURTH
4
TIPS
STICKY SITUATIONS
&

84. Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432
bytes exhausted
T R O U B L E S H O O T:

85. define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);
OPEN wp-config.php
php_value memory_limit = 128M
memory_limit = 64M
OR php.ini

86. White Screen of Death
T R O U B L E S H O O T:

87. Via FTP
Rename your Plugins folder (to anything)
Refresh your site’s dashboard
Then name your plugins folder “plugins” again
Activate your plugins one by one until you find
the culprit.

88. OR
via PHPmyAdmin
In the Options table
Find the Active Plugins line
Delete the entirety of that line.

89. T I P :
Setup a Gravatar
gravatar.com

90. T I P :
Don’t forget Analytics

91. T I P :
Link to Jetpack for easy Blog Follow
and Stats too!

92. T I P :
Use a Duplicate Post plugin to
make routine blogs easy.

93. T I P :
Take advantage of Quick Edit

94. G E T I N V O LV E D
http://make.wordpress.org

95. WordPress Trivia GameShow

96. WordPress Trivia GameShow
Free Stock Imagery
freerangestock.com
PicJumbo.com
unsplash.com
gratisography.com
Helpful Stuff
Ban Hammer
Registration Honeypot
Aviary Photo Editor
Wordpress SEO Yoast
Wordfence