Offline Wordpress - Introduction to Wordpress for beginners

Slides from the event Offline Wordpress held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/168602160008254/

It introduces Wordpresss to total beginners and covers tips and tricks for more efficient writing, creation of galleries, changing settings of the selected theme and plugin introduction.

Transcript

1. LECTURE and WORKSHOP Offline WordPress Maja Kraljc, M.Sc. facebook.com/princessdesignnet
2. 3 HOURS in a MINUTE LECTURE - History - User interface - Themes - Plugins EXPERIMENTS - Playing with plugin - LGBTQ dictionary - php WORKSHOP - Installation - Tips and tricks - Image editing - Image gallery - Theme settings
3. WordPress 2003 - 2013 ...
4. MATT MULLENWEG
5. 21 XXL updates Ella Fitzgerald & Carmen McRae
6. Plugins Templates Pages Autosave Upload Manager Post Preview Page as Home Page Localization Image Editor Video Embeds Undo/Trash Image/File Uploading Integrated WP MU Default Themes UI http://princessdesign.net/wpsnippets/category/infographics/wordpress-timeline
7. BLOG CMS APP
8. WordPress 1 + 1 + 1
12. WordPress powers 18.9% of all web pages
13. WORDPRESS Blog & CMS (content management system)
20. WORDPRESS Application platform
21. SaaS Software as a Service
28. APLICATIONS++ Restauraweb.com - web page and online reservations for restaurants hellobar.com - call to action top bar faultpress.com - A ticket & bug tracking theme woothemes.com/products/supportpress - support desk theme woothemes.com/products/estate - real estate theme appthemes.com/themes/jobroller - Job board theme
29. WHAT WE NEED? WordPress files + Server (local or online) with php + Database and Database user
31. wordpress.org/download FILES
32. wordpress.org/download FILES
33. SETUP - Install local server (XAMPP, WAMP or MAMP) - Create a new database user and database - Copy the Wordpress files (from wordpress.org) to the server - Edit settings in wp-config.php - Install Wordpress localhost /wp-admin/install.php
34. OR USE Instant WordPress! http://www.instantwp.com/ Instant WordPress 4.3.1 WordPress 3.6 Apache 2.2.15 (Win32) PHP 5.3.2 MySQL 5.1.46-community-nt + content
36. MySQL ADMIN review
38. WordPress is also available in Slovenian language! http://sl.wordpress.org OR Add translations to wp-content/languages/ and in wp-config.php define('WPLANG', 'sl_SI');
41. POSTS & PAGES Chronological order Categories Tags Post formats RSS Static content Hierarhical Page order Templates available COMMON Komentarji, Custom fields, Featured image, Verzije Location in the database!
42. TABLE wp_posts IN THE DATABASE (posts, pages, navigation menu items)
43. TIP: Quick edit
44. TIP: Bulk edit
45. TIP: Distraction Free Writing Mode (Alt + Shift + W)
46. TIP: Kitchen Sink (Alt + Shift + Z)
47. TIP: Symbols (Alt + Shift + Z)
48. TIP: Shortcuts (Alt + Shift + H)
49. TIP: Auto embeds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxlLibzteHs [instagram url=http://instagram. com/p/beLxubxpSf/ width=150px] Youtube, Twitter, Flickr, Scribd, SlideShare, Soundcloud, Vimeo, Wordpress.tv, Qik, Hulu, Viddler ... http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
50. TIP: Next page
51. MEDIA LIBRARY Images, video and files
52. THEMES Folder: wp-content/themes Each folder is a theme. /twentyten/ /twentyeleven/ /twentytwelve/ /twentythirteen/ http://wordpress.org/themes/ Each theme has at least 2 files: index.php in style.css
54. THEME SETTINGS Title Description Colors Banner image First page
55. THEME CAN ALSO HAVE - post formats (image, video, quote, audio, …) - featured image - menu - gravatar - sidebar and widgets - functions.php
56. THEMES Theme can also be custom made. You only need to know HTML, CSS and php.
57. PLUGINS Plugins can enhance Wordpress functionality. Written in php. +27.000 plugins http://wordpress.org/plugins/
58. MOST POPULAR PLUGINS - WordPress SEO by Yoast - Jetpack by WordPress.com - Google XML Sitemaps - Akismet - NextGEN Gallery - Contact Form 7 - All in One SEO Pack - WordPress Importer - Fast Secure Contact Form - WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce - Captcha - Contact Form - Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) - WPtouch Mobile Plugin - Facebook - W3 Total Cache - Ultimate TinyMCE - Share Buttons by AddThis
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