Small Business Website DIY pt3

Greenville Chamber of Commerce WordPress class

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2. Week 3 Agenda • Add Users • Themes • Install a theme • Where and how to find more themes • Installing Plugins • SEO • Social Media • Gallery
3. Additional Users • Users -> Add New • Fill in fields (if you want to add a user) • Check Send Password Box • Choose User Type:
5. Additional Users • Select Add New User • Info will be emailed to new user (including password) • The new user will have abilities as defined by the role assigned • FYI - You are an administrator
6. Install a new theme • Appearance -> Theme • Add New • Hover over Baskerville and choose Preview • Examine right side for preview • Click Close (upper left)
7. Install a new theme • Appearance -> Themes • “Add New” • Select Popular Tab • Look for “The Box” hover over and click “Preview” • Click “Install” (upper left corner in blue) • (allow the install to run) • Click “Live Preview” • Click “Save & Activate” (upper left in blue)
8. Find more free themes • Appearance -> Themes • “Add New” • Click “Feature Filter” • Choose features • click “Apply Filters”
9. Non Free Themes • http://elegantThemes.com • http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress
10. Install purchased theme • Appearance -> Themes • “Add New” • “Upload Theme” (at top) • choose zip file of theme that you purchased. There is no reason to unzip the theme file at any point. You will purchase a zip, and then upload a zip using the above steps.
11. After theme Install • Appearance -> Widgets • Based on the theme, the different page parts will have different names. • Drag to add / remove / reorganize widgets
12. Upper left, hover and then click Visit Site
13. Upper left, hover and then click Dashboard
14. Installing Plugins • Plugins -> Add New • Click Popular (at top) • Find “All In One SEO Pack” • Click Install Now • OK to confirm • After install click “Activate Plugin”
15. Plugin #2 • Plugins -> Add New • Click Popular • Find Google XML Sitemaps • Click Install Now • OK to confirm • Click Activate Plugin
16. Manage Plugins • Plugins -> Installed Plugins • Choose “All” or “Active” or “Inactive” to filter
17. Use a plugin • Specifically the All In One SEO • Pages -> All Pages • Notice the new items in the quick view • Click pencil icon next to No Title under SEO Title • Update Page Title and click Green Check mark
18. • Hover over a page and click edit (NOT quick edit) • Scroll down underneath content area to section titled “All in One SEO Pack” • Edit title and description • Notice Preview Snippet updates • Click the “?” icon to the left of “Robots Meta NOFOLLOW” • Generally all the boxes will be Unchecked.
19. Another Plugin • Plugins -> Add New • In the search box type “Share”, click Search Plugins • Scroll to find “Share Buttons by AddToAny” click Details. • Don’t install this by clicking the X in the upper right • Scroll to find “Really simple Facebook Twitter share buttons” • click Details • Click Install Now
20. Manage new plugin • Settings -> Really simple share • (Notice that different plugins configuration options are in different places sometimes) • IE: All In One SEO is by itself near the top, while this new one is under Settings • Scroll down. • Change Position to “only above the post” • Don’t make any changes to checkmarks but understand them. • Click Save Changes
21. Upper left, hover and then click Visit Site
22. Upper left, hover and then click Dashboard
23. Gallery Plugin • Plugins -> Add New • type gallery, then click Search Plugins • find Gallery (it’s generally the first one), it has 4.5 stars and is currently version 4.2.1 • click Details, after reading click Install Now, OK, then Activate plugin
24. Gallery Plugin • Notice location of Gallery settings (near bottom) • And the place to create new galleries between Comments and Appearance • Galleries -> Add a Gallery
25. Gallery Plugin • Title • NORMALLY you would click Upload a File (red button) • Because we don’t have images on the machines we have to do this in a roundabout way.
26. Gallery Plugin the roundabout way • After editing the title, click Add Media • Select Media Library Tab • Select Image (a checkmark should appear) • Click Insert into Page (bottom right) • repeat these steps
27. Gallery Plugin • After you have added 5 or 6 images click Update (right side of page) • The images should now appear in the main content and below the red Upload File button • Fill in Title below each image • click Update • Select image in MAIN CONTENT AREA and click X to remove it from the main content area (this will not remove it from the gallery)
28. Gallery Plugin • Find on the right side of page :
 [print_gllr id=**] and highlight and copy • Posts -> All Posts • Hover and “edit” • somewhere in the content paste the code we copied (make sure it has the brackets!) • Click Update
29. Upper left, hover and then click Visit Site
30. Upper left, hover and then click Dashboard
31. Check on the Sitemap Plugin • Settings -> XML-Sitemap
32. Homework • Preview and activate free themes • Choose one that you like • Appearance - > Widgets • Drag to add / remove / rearrange
33. Homework • Posts -> Categories • Come up with a few categories that you could make posts for (if you have unused categories they don’t show up anywhere, so don’t worry) • Write a few more posts related to different categories • Create a few more galleries, and add to pages and/or posts