slides for wordpress session

1. Building Library Websites with WordPress Internet Librarian 2009 Polly-Alida Farrington Resources at: http://lib20.pbworks.com

6. WordPress as CMS Examples

7. But first…. a blog

11. Writing a WordPress Post

12. PAGES make it more than a blog

13. Pages for Static Content

14. Custom Layout for Static Page

22. Add Content – Web Based Interface

23. Stored in a database the_title the_content

24. Page created when requested

25. Same content on other pages

26. THEMES make it look good!

27. Same Content – Different Design

31. Links

32. Media

33. Comments

34. Hosting WordPress

35. Free Hosted Versions

36. Free Hosted Versions

38. “If you have no idea what to do with this download….” 

41. WordPress Building Blocks Hopefully a live demo!

42. Getting Started

43. Your WordPress Site

45. Admin Dashboard

47. Users  Your Profile

48. Users  Your Profile

49. Users  Add New User

50. Settings  General

51. Settings  Permalinks

52. Editing a Post Permalink

54. Writing a Post

55. Writing a Post

56. Read More…

57. Read the rest of the entry…

58. Make a Post STICKY

59. Sticky post at top.

60. Publish Later

61. Tags vs Categories

62. Adding Images

63. Add Media Button

64. Add Media Button

66. Places image in post

67. Get rid of Caption?

68. ALT text

69. Adding Pages

70. Adding a New Page

71. Create Page Hierarchies

72. Hierarchy Shows on Sidebar

75. Discussion Settings

76. Managing Comments

77. Approve, delete, spam it!

78. Review & Delete Spam

79. Themes

80. Themes

84. Themes – Add new themes

85. Search for a new theme

86. Browse for a new theme

87. Preview

88. Install

89. Installation Confirmed

90. Ready to activate

92. Directory Structure - Themes

93. Sidebar Widgets

94. Widgets on Sidebar

95. Appearance  Widgets

96. Text Widget to Customize

97. Text Widget & 3 rd Party Content

98. Plugins

99. Plugins add functionality & features

100. Plugins Page

104. More great plugins later!

105. Adding New Plugins

106. Adding New - Search

107. Check the plugin first

108. Lots of earlier versions?

109. Lots of downloads?

110. Updating Plugins

111. View Details

112. Upgrade

113. Update Reactivated Successfully!

114. Add Plugins via FTP

115. WordPress Maintenance!

116. Plugins - Deactivate, then Delete

118. WP-DB-BACKUP plugin

120. CMS Tips & Tricks

121. ‘ Pretty’ Permalinks

122. Settings  Permalinks

123. Custom Structure news/gaming-night-for-teens/

124. Making a static front page

125. Create a Main Page

126. Create a Page for Posts No Content for the Page, just a title

127. Settings  Reading Select Front Page & Posts Page

128. News tab shows Posts now

129. But … Home & Welcome both go to the same place. Need to delete HOME

131. Yay, extra tab is gone!

132. More Code! Theme & CSS Editor

134. Example: Editable Theme Files

135. Stylesheet – styles.css

136. Custom 404 page

137. Default 404 – page not found

138. Custom 404

139. Custom 404 page

140. Appearance > Editor > 404.php

141. PHP code & HTML <?php get_header(); ?> <div id=&quot;primary&quot;> <h1 class=&quot;page-title&quot;>Oops! </h1> <p>Visit the <a href=“ <?php bloginfo('url'); ?> &quot;>Home Page</a></p> <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . &quot;/searchform.php&quot;); ?> </div> <?php get_sidebar(); ?> <?php get_footer(); ?>

142. Add Navigation to Footer

144. With WP template tag

145. Or with straight HTML

146. Template Pages

147. Page uses “no sidebar” template

148. Add Page – Select Template

149. Editing a Template

150. Web Developer Firefox Add On

151. Artiseer ($) Theme Designer

152. Handy Plugins

153. My Page Order http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-page-order/

154. My Page Order http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-page-order/

156. WP Contact Form Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-contact-form/

157. Add <!--contact form--> to a page

159. MobilePress

160. Page Links To

161. Page Links To

164. aggr – rss feed tool

165. OpenBook Book Data http://johnmiedema.ca/portfolio/openbook-wordpress-plugin/

169. Thank you! http://lib20.pbworks.com