A presentation that describes some of the basic terms you need to know in order to talk intelligently with your WordPress Consultant and site designer.

1. Brian Layman
North Canton WordCamp
2013-05-04

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Brian Layman
Work from home
Spend all day on the computer
All best my friends are online
Don’t hang out at parties
Spend my day in a cave like room
Yes, I am an eHermit
http://eHermitsInc.com

5. It works for geeks too.

6. Our
Dark
Secret
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tech_support_cheat_sheet.png

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Blog (Personal/Business)
E-Commerce
Portfolio
Vlogs
Marketing
Tumble blog
Custom Built Web Application

11. Admin Bar
Blog Title
Header
Tagline
Header
Menu
Image

13. Content
Widgets

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Post
Page
Custom Post Type
Category
Tag
Terms
Permalinks

15. Things we’ve mentioned
 Theme
 Widget
 Plugin
How they happen
 CSS
 HTML Tags
 Shortcodes
 PHP
 Javascript
 AJAX

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Jetpack – Stats, Subscribe to comments
Spam Control - Akismet
Forms – ContactForm 7, Gravity Forms
Backup/Export - WPDBBackup Backup Buddy
Caching Plugin – W3TotalCache, Super Cache
SEO – AIOSEO, WordPress SEO
SiteMap
Custom Plugin

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Other Hosting Stuff
◦ Host
◦ Registrar
◦ Domain Name Server
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Web Hosting
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Shared Host
Managed Host
Virtual Private Server
Dedicated Server
The Cloud… ooooOOOoooo

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Landing page
Interstitial
Pop-up
Textlinks
Skin
Above/Below the fold
Conversion
PPC
Heat map
SEO

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You
Content Contributer
Front End Developer
◦ Theme Developer
◦ Graphic Artist
◦ Plugin Developer
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SEO Expert
Server Admin/Database Admin

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We’ve spent time talking about what I might
be saying…
But… what should *I* know
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You tell me…
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21. http://eHermitsinc.com
http://thecodecave.com
http://www.slideshare.net/brianlayman
http://twitter.com/brianlayman
@eHermits
My info->your phone, Txt “ehermit” to 50500
Brian@eHermitsInc.com