Presentation from WordCamp Victoria.

1. WordPress
101
"Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons for you
are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
Unknown 2005
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2. WordPress
started in 2003
with a single bit
of code to
enhance the
typography of
everyday writing
and with fewer
users than you
can count on
your fingers and
toes.

3. Public Area of Blog

4. Admin Dashboard

5. Admin Dashboard

6. Main Tools

7. General Settings

8. Add/Edit Pages

9. Add/Edit Posts

10. Add Custom Menus

11. Add New Plugins

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13. Top 9 WordPress Website enhancing plugins
These plugins are sure to help your site out
WP-Touch
WordBooker & Twitter Blog
CheckOut by tribulant
Twitter Blog
Gravity Forms
Mail Press
Blubrry Power Press
XML Sitemaps
iRobots.txt
Headspace2

14. Create any type of form you want.
With Gravity Forms creating
Forms is an easy task
Easy create any type of form.
Has built in form fields ready
to go
Yes it is a premium plugin.

15. Every site needs a few forms
Gravity Forms make the job easy.

16. Easy Publishing for you Podcasts…
Podcasting made easy
Instant placement of a player w/download link.
Automatically sends notices to iTunes about new
episodes.
Can do multiple podcast
channels so you can have
more than one podcast
running on your website.

17. Add a Podcast to your site in a few easy steps

18. setting your site up for mobile viewing
Mobile web surfing is doing nothing
but increasing
Prepare your site for all the differing
mobile devices
WP-Touch makes it easy
A few simple settings and your all set

19. WPtouch makes your site
mobile ready in a few easy steps.

20. Easily connect your site to Facebook
With Wordbooker Facebook
is automated
Automatically update your
status
Pull comments from
Facebook to your site
If you update an old post you
can republish it
Easily add a Facebook like
button or widget to your site.

21. WordBooker connects your site
To Facebook in a few easy steps.

22. Easily connect your site to Twitter
With Twitter Blog your
Twitter is automated
Automatically update your
status
Pull comments from Twitter
to your site

23. Twitter Blog connects your site
To Twitter in a few easy steps.

24. set your site up for e-commerce
With Checkout it becomes
very easy to setup your
own ecommerce store
Sell any Product you like
from digital downloads to
affiliate products
Import Product lists &
convert from older
shopping cart systems

25. Making E-Commerce easy.

26. Manage you own email list and more…
Choose the list and sections
available for subscription.
Make any section of your site
available to be subscribed to.
Automatically sends out
emails on a per post, weekly
and monthly basis to your
users.
Sends responses for
comments to both you and
the commentator and allows
subscriptions to that
comment line.

27. Easily manage your own email list and
subscriptions to your site.

28. Quick Easy Sitemaps…
Sitemaps SEO Ready
Instant auto creation of your
sitemap.
Automatically sends notices to
Google, Bing, Yahoo & Ask.
Creates a search engine ready
gzip file.

29. Make sure your site always has
a valid up to date site map

30. Quick Easy Robots.txt file…
Search Engine Ready
Block bad robots from your
site.
Stop Google and other from
indexing your images.
Stop the wayback machine
from indexing your site.

31. Easily setup and keep up to date your
robots.txt file

32. Easy SEO for Your Site…
Control The SEO on Your Site
Customize most sections of
your site.
Use tags to automate the
tasks.
Cab be applied globally or
just locally.

33. Simple easy settings for controlling the SEO in
differing sections of your website

34. Well you decide…
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