1.
Using WordPress For
Digital Workflows
and more...
Hugh McGuire Kirk Biglione
@hughmcguire @kirkbiglione

2.
First: Setup your
PressBooks account
You’ll need this to make a book later

3.
Next: download this test
doc file ... from which we
will make a book later.
http://bit.ly/pressbooks-test

4.
Why WordPress?
that’s a blogging system, right?

5.
WordPress
World Domination

6.
Recipe for World
Domination
Make People Happy
Continuous Cycle of Improvement
Standards Based
Open Source

7.
Think of
WordPress as
a toolbox

8.
Inside the Toolbox
APIs Localization
Theme System Security
Custom Content Types Multi-user
Custom Taxonomies User roles
Metadata Multi-site

9.
Tools for solving
real world problems

10.
MARKET BOOKS
TIMFERRISS.COM

11.
SELL BOOKS
WWW.WOOTHEMES.COM/WOOCOMMERCE/

12.
BUILD COMMUNITY
TASTYKITCHEN.COM

13.
BUDDYPRESS
BUDDYPRESS.ORG

14.
PREMIUM WEB CONTENT
WPAPPRENTICE.COM

15.
WISHLIST MEMBER
MEMBER.WISHLISTPRODUCTS.COM

16.
BYOP?

17.
Build Your Own Pottermore

18.
Back to workflow

19.
EDITORIAL WORKFLOW
EDITFLOW.ORG

20.
EBOOK BOOK PRODUCTION
ANTHOLOGIZE.ORG

21.
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
ANNOTUM.ORG

22.
Remember Google Knol?
The “wikipedia killer”

23.
GOOGLE KNOL
KNOL.GOOGLE.COM

24.
BOOK PRODUCTION: PRINT & DIGITAL
PRESSBOOKS.COM

25.
Principle #1:
Making a beautiful book should be no harder
than making a beautiful website.
(ie: use a good framework and customizable templates.)

26.
Principle #2:
If you build your book as structured markup
from the start, then you can “get” to any
output you like, “easily.”
(ie: make it in HTML ... and go from there.)

27.
Principle #3:
The distinction between “books” and the
“Internet” is going to disappear. All data,
even “books,” will be on the web.
(ie: if you build your book on the web, it is already there.)

28.
Our choice:
Build from an existing platform that is native
to the web, structured, and makes it easy to
make beautiful websites with customizable
templates.
(ie: WordPress)

29.
Let’s make a book

30.
Login to
PressBooks.com

31.
If you’re account isn’t active yet, here
are a few that are:
austen.pressbooks.com
user: austen
pw: austenpw
bronte.pressbooks.com
user: bronte
pw: brontepw
twain.pressbooks.com
user: twain
pw: twainpw

32.
PressBooks
output:
ebook
(ibooks)