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WORDPRESS 4.0 IS OUT! “Benny”

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WHO IS THIS GUY? Derek Springer
 Code Wrangler, Automattic
 @derekspringer Used to build satellite plugins, now I build WordPress plugins

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Check it out at: http://wordpress.org/plugins/beerxml-shortcode/

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WHY IS HE HERE? • Did you know: WordPress is good at blogging! • There are a lot of simple tricks folks haven’t heard about that really supercharge blog posts. • I want folks to know there’s a lot of powerful built- in features as well as dead-simple plugins

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QUESTIONS!

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CONTENT

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ADDING MEDIA TO POSTS • Adding images, video, and audio stimulates your readers’ minds, giving them something more than text to dig through, and a reason to come back. • Media breaks up the text, improves the flow, and makes a long post seem much shorter and more enjoyable to read. • “Show don’t tell.”
 “A picture is worth 1,000 words.”
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MEDIA IN WORDPRESS • “An agency by which something is accomplished, conveyed, or transferred.” • In WordPress this includes any rich way of displaying information in your posts. • Text • Images • Audio • Video • Tweets • Calendars • Polls • Embeds Rich Media

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IMAGES • You’ve probably got lots of experience with this. But! Since WordPress 3.9: • Drop directly into the editor, no need to open media manager. • Resize the image in-editor. • See galleries live in-editor.

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UPDATED MEDIA GALLERY New in 4.0!

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AUDIO • Since WordPress 3.6 we’ve had built-in support for MediaElement.js audio and video. • Consistent HTML5 *and* Flash fallback player. • Backfills support for IE6-8 and adds extra media types for Firefox, Opera, & Safari. • Just pop in a link to your audio. • I recommend you embed!

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VIDEO Just embed!

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A CAVEAT

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EMBEDS • Super-easy to embed videos, images, audio, and other content into your WordPress site. • Just paste a supported URL is on its own line. • For instance:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsXm5RqBztE
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 https://twitter.com/WordCampLAX/status/507666828923904000

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VISUAL EMBEDS New in 4.0!

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SUPPORTED EMBEDS
 (AN AMUSING HISTORY OF POPULAR WEB APPS) • Blip • CollegeHumor • DailyMotion • Flickr • FunnyOrDie.com • Hulu • Imgur • Instagram • Issuu • Meetup.com • Mixcloud • Photobucket • PollDaddy • Rdio • Revision3 • Scribd • SlideShare • SmugMug • SoundCloud • Spotify • TED • Twitter • Viddler • Vimeo • YouTube • WordPress.tv

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THEMES

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NEW TRENDS IN THEMES

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RESPONSIVE

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YOUR BLOG WITH RETINA

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YOUR BLOG W/O RETINA

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INFINITE SCROLL

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THE CUSTOMIZER

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FINDING A THEME

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WORDPRESS.ORG/THEMES

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WORTHWHILE PREMIUM THEME SHOPS

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WHAT TO LOOK FOR •A design you like. •Responsive. •Functionality. •Regular updates. •Documentation.

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WATCH OUT FOR 
 “KITCHEN SINK” THEMES

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DISTRIBUTION

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THE DEATH OF RSS

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THE NEW SOURCES WordPress has two great options to share your content

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PUBLICIZE • Share your posts on several networks automatically. • Just Publish the post and it’ll show up in your enabled services. • You can opt-out for any specific post you’d like. • Multiple authors can configure their settings individually on your site.

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SHARING • Give your readers the ability to easily share your content with Twitter, Facebook, and a host of other services. • Adding to your Sharing Enabled Services is as simple as dragging the button from the Available Services area.You can configure services to appear as icons, text, or both. • Some services have an additional option letting you display ‘Official’ buttons that show the number of times the post has been shared in real time.

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SHARING

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INFRASTRUCTURE

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http://jetpack.me/

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THAT’S A LOT OF STUFF!

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TILED GALLERIES

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RELATED POSTS • Keep your readers engaged by showing them more of *your* posts they will be interested in. • Related content is automatically generated based on the content of the post and any tags or categories if they exist.
 (Must have at least 10 published posts for related content to appear.) • A post’s featured image will appear as the thumbnail.

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PHOTON • Load your images from the WordPress.com CDN. • Acts on images in posts, pages, and featured images. • Your images will load fast wherever your readers are!

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GET A SITEMAP PLUGIN! http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

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UPDATED PLUGIN SEARCH New in 4.0!

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SOME PLUGINS I RECOMMEND

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SOME PLUGINS BY AUTOMATTIC Full disclosure: I work for Automattic. But! I still think these are great plugins!

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MORE QUESTIONS? All Knowledge: http://codex.wordpress.org/ ! Super-nice volunteers: http://wordpress.org/support/ ! Third Party Companies ! http://www.wpbeginner.com/ http://www.wpuniversity.com/ http://www.lynda.com/ http://teamtreehouse.com/

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FIND YOUR LOCAL MEETUP! http://wordpress.meetup.com/

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QUESTIONS?

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THANKS! ! ! ! Slides available at:
 https://speakerdeck.com/dbspringer/wclax14