WordPress Meetup Jeonju #2 - A Comprehensive Overview of WP Site Owner Roles

https://aaron.kr/content/talks/a-comprehensive-overview-of-wordpress-site-owner-roles/

While this post originated as "A Simple Roadmap to Get Up & Running with WordPress", it gradually morphed into something a tad more complex, so we'll call it "A Comprehensive Overview of WordPress Site Owner Roles."

For starters, here's a list of the different roles you can expect to have when you start and maintain a WordPress (or any other) website and the most basic tasks each will deal with.

In other words, this is what I do in WordPress on a daily basis.

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1. A Comprehensive Overview of WordPress Site Owner Roles
2. Techie Designer Admin (Manager) Content Creator Developer
3. Techie (Installation)
4. Website Building Options
5. Process →
6. Option #1 Option #2
7. Web host * Affiliate
8. Domain name registration: * Affiliate
9. .com .net .edu .gov TLDs .org (Top-Level Domains)
11. Keep It Simple, Silly
12. 5 Top Tips 1. Simple, sweet, easy to remember 2. Tell / stand for what you do (recognizable) 3. Dashes are OK, but add complexity 4. Extra long names are hard to remember 5. Buy ALL the TLDs with your name if you want exclusivity
13. http://www.thelongestdomain nameintheworldandthensomeand thensomemoreandmore.com/ BAD
14. http://ma.tt/ http://nike.com GREAT
15. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Clients:
16. Admin (Setup)
17. username: admin
18. Pick Strong Passwords
19. 5 Top Tips 1. UPPERCASE, lowercase, numb345, &$ymb@!$ 2. Create a pattern that’s easily recognizable / memorable for you (goal? time?) 3. Use a site-specific “pass phrase” rather than password 4. Longer is better - shoot for 10+ characters 5. Avoid dictionary / common words / expressions / strings of numbers
20. 123456, password, qwerty, baseball, dragon, football, monkey, letmein, abc123, 111111, mustang, access, shadow, master, michael, superman, 696969, 123123, batman, trustno1 BAD
21. Quit@smoking4ever Save4trip@thailand MovE@2newPlac3 GREAT
22. 1st Steps /%postname%/
23. Security Backups Plugins Managing Users Advanced Detours (later topics)
24. Designer (Appearance)
25. 1st Steps /%postname%/ Customizer → #1
26. 1st Steps /%postname%/ Menus → #2
27. 1st Steps /%postname%/ Customizer → Widgets → #3
28. Theme Choice Detours (later topics) Custom CSS HTML in Posts Basic Graphic Design 1. Color Theory 2. Typography 3. Layout Branding
29. Content Creator (Blogging)
31. Plan Research Write Edit Publish
33. 1st Steps
34. SEO Blog Templates Social Sharing Content Delivery Serve Your Audience Detours (later topics) 1. Content Types 2. Calendar 3. Email, SNS, RSS, CDNs
35. Developer (Coding)
36. HTML + CSS PHP + MySQL JavaScript + jQuery WordPress Codex Best Practices Detours (later topics) 1. Plugin Dev 2. Theme Dev 3. Core Contributions
37. QA &