This is where we used to be, pre-CMS
We can do better, why WP?
broad community
It’s been around since 2003ish
You don’t have to know HTML
Get the code out of the way so you can write
What do I like about WP? It’s so flexible – beginners can use it, advanced users can do really really cool stuff. Also the community, more than a decade old.
.com – good first playground
.org – the real deal
Here’s what it looks like out of the box, with default theme applied.
I hate this. It looks broken. Clearly designed with mobile-first in mind, but that probably isn’t what we want.
Responsive themes! This is what you want. Define Responsive.
I’ll show you how to implement this in a sec. But now you know what a theme is, and you know not to panic when WP looks weird right away.
Plugins – what are they?
Gravity Forms
Akismet
GA by Yoast, etc.
Future of WP
42,120+ plugins
Shortcodes put the content management in content management system. Text between brackets automatically displays a pre-set chunk of content.
Plugin: shortcodes UI bainternet
Shortcodes put the content management in content management system. Text between brackets automatically displays a pre-set chunk of content.