These were the slides that sat alongside Bronson Quick's demonstration at Brisbane's second WordPress meetup.

1. WordPress Fundamentals:
Part 2 – Taking control of your content
By Bronson Quick
sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

2. Housekeeping
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Sponsors:
Superior Web Hosting Services An amazing video and online
manual WordPress plugin
http://matlib.com.au/ http://www.videousermanuals.com/
Resources:
WordPress Brisbane Message Board

3. Recap
A brief intro into the following:
• What is WordPress?
• Why choose WordPress?
• Requirements
• The famous 5 minute install
• Posts and Pages
• Custom headers with Twenty Ten
• Links
• Q & A
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We covered: We covered:
At the last WordPress Meetup on September 2,
2010 WordPress 3.0 had 13,801,694
downloads.
A quick check today showed that WordPress 3.0
has now been downloaded 21,295,187 times
and it’s still climbing!
http://wordpress.org/download/counter/

4. What we’ll cover
Tonight we’ll cover:
• The Dashboard & Screen Options
• The Sidebar
• The WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor Buttons
• Pasting content in from Microsoft Word
• Formatting content using headings, paragraphs and lists
• Inserting an image, mp3 or pdf
•The [embed] shortcode
• Q & A
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Taking control of your content

5. The Dashboard
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Where all your dreams come true

6. The Dashboard
• Screen Options
• Layout
• Alter and configure RSS Feeds
• Collapsing, expanding, drag & drop sections
• QuickPress
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Demo

7. The Sidebar
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Your new best friend

8. The WYSIWYG
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Your HTML slave

9. The WYSIWYG
• Bold, italics, strikethrough
• Lists and block quotes
• Aligning text
• Links
• Read more
• Spellchecker & Full screen mode
• Kitchen Sink
• Headings, Paragraphs
• Paste from Microsoft Word
• Insert image, mp3 & pdf
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Demo

10. Embed
• YouTube
• Vimeo
• DailyMotion
• blip.tv
• Flickr (both videos and images)
• Viddler
• Hulu
• Qik
• Revision3
• Scribd
• Photobucket
• PollDaddy
• Google Video
• WordPress.tv (only VideoPress-type videos for the time being)
• SmugMug (WordPress 3.0+)
• FunnyOrDie.com (WordPress 3.0+)
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Supported Types – Make sure your link is on a new line! 

11. Thanks & Questions
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Our Next WordPress Meetup
WordPress Brisbane
http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Brisbane/
Thursday, December 2, 6:30pm
Speakers & Topics
Lachlan MacPherson: SEO with WordPress
Dion Hulse (dd32): On WordPress
Got Friends in Sydney?
WordPress Sydney
http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Sydney/

12. bronson@sennza.com.au
http://www.sennza.com.au/
Twitter: @sennza
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