WordPress Pages, WYSIWYG Editor and Images Editor

This session, part of WP 101 Friday classes at WordCamp Phoenix 2013, covers adding and editing pages, formatting content in the editor, and inserting images and galleries.

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1. PAGES, WYSIWYG AND IMAGES Betsy Cohen WordCamp Phoenix 2013 twitter: @betsela www: positiveelement.com Friday, January 18, 13
2. PAGES, IMAGES & MORE • What are Pages? • Add a Simple Page • Format Text • Set Attributes • Preview & Publish • Edit a Page • Bulk-Edit Pages • Images • Image Attributes • Galleries • Image Editing • Pages in the Menus Friday, January 18, 13
3. WHAT ARE PAGES? Much like posts in the Database, but for humans, they’re different. Friday, January 18, 13
4. ADD A NEW PAGE Simply Add New, enter title and content, Publish. Friday, January 18, 13
5. WYSIWYG EDITOR All the tools you need to create beautiful content. Friday, January 18, 13
6. PAGE ATTRIBUTES Organize and customize Friday, January 18, 13
7. PREVIEW & PUBLISH Check your work, update status, schedule for future. Friday, January 18, 13
8. EDITING PAGES The ubiquitous WordPress list screen, plus Quick Edit! Friday, January 18, 13
9. ADDING IMAGES New Media Manager in 3.5: Full-screen drag and drop! Friday, January 18, 13
10. MORE IMAGE FUN Media manager, alignment & text wrapping Friday, January 18, 13
11. LINKING IMAGES Images link to themselves by default. Friday, January 18, 13
12. IMAGE GALLERIES WP 3.5: Huge Enhancements for Galleries. Friday, January 18, 13
13. EDITING IMAGES Crop, rotate, resize. What more could you ask for? Friday, January 18, 13
14. MANAGING MENUS if we have time... let’s clean up that menu Friday, January 18, 13
15. RESOURCES TUTORIALS ON WORDPRESS.COM * • Create Content — http://en.support.wordpress.com/create-content/ • Edit Pages — http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/ • Images — http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/ • Image Editing — http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-editing/ • Galleries — http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/ • Menus — http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ * ALTHOUGH THESE TUTORIALS ARE ON WORDPRESS.COM, THE INFO APPLIES TO WORDPRESS.ORG AS WELL. Friday, January 18, 13
16. RESOURCES PLUGINS * • jQuery Lightbox — Use for thumbnail images to link to the larger image in a nice lightbox http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-jquery-lightbox/ • Jetpack — This plugin includes loads of features includes shortcodes to embed videos, a carousel / slider and much more. http://jetpack.me/ and http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/ • Woo Slider — A premium (not free) plugin that provides a slider with lots of options. http://www.woothemes.com/products/wooslider/ • WordPress SEO by Yoast — Tools to optimize site for search engines, including fields to add meta tags on the Page editing screen. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/ • WordPress Plugin Repository — This is accessible from the Plugins page in your WP Admin, but you can also view plugins ion WordPress.org. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ * THESE PLUGINS ARE POPULAR OPTIONS, BUT NOT THE ONLY OPTIONS FOR THE FUNCTIONALITY DESCRIBED. Friday, January 18, 13
17. betsy cohen positive element twitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @betsela PositiveElement.com Betsy@PositiveElement.com Friday, January 18, 13