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Rick Radko WPOTTAWA, Ottawa
r3df.com June 13th, 2012
2. Who am I?
Rick Radko – R-Cubed Design Forge
Software, web and app designer/developer.
Creating web sites since 1996.
Artistic and creative engineer.
WordPress enthusiast.
Co-organizer of: The Ottawa WordPress Group.
http://wpottawa.org
Slides are posted at:
http://www.slideshare.net/r3df
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4. Learning about WordPress
WordPress is BIG, lots of features
Take small bites!
and keep chewing…
Ask questions
Everyone was new to WordPress at one time
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5. Side Note
During the part one presentation the question of
how old WordPress is came up:
The first version of WordPress was released May
27, 2003
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6. Contents - Part 1
1. About WordPress
2. The dashboard
3. Intro to the settings panel
4. Posts and Pages
For part 1, see: http://www.slideshare.net/r3df/how-to-
wordpress-the-basics-part-1
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7. Contents - Part 2
5. Menus
6. Widgets
7. Resources
8. Plugins
9. Themes
10. More WordPress settings
11. Users
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9. Menus
The menu currently on our test site
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10. Menus – based on page order
The menus on the test site right now are created
from the page list.
WordPress takes hierarchy and order from the
page list, with home added at the start.
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11. Menus – based on page order
Menus
If we add “Another Page”, it appears in position
alphabetically.
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13. Ordering menus – based on page order
Changing the menu order requires numerically
ordering the pages at each level.
To change hierarchy, change the page parent.
You can edit these settings in the page editor.
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14. Quick editor
Or you can use the quick editor, which is faster for
reorganizing pages.
Hover on the page title and select “Quick Edit”.
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15. Quick Editor
Change the order and parent for each page as
needed.
Note: the display order in the page list does not
update immediately, you need to reload the page.
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16. Quick editor
You can also change many of the settings that we
looked at previously in the full editor.
The same is true of posts, in the post list.
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17. Ordering menus the better way
This ordering process works to organize your
menus, but it is cumbersome. If you need to insert
a new page, you often need to re-order a lot of
pages.
Even if you don’t organize menus this way, you will
still need to be familiar with the concept to add
hierarchy to your URL’s.
Since version 3.0, we’ve had a new way to do
menus, the “Navigation Menu” system, or “Nav
Menus”
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18. The nav menu system
Under Appearance there is a Menus tab…
Need admin privileges.
Need a theme the supports nav menus.
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19. Nav menus
Nav menus lets you build menus that are
independent of the page order and hierarchy
The menu builder is drag and drop
It’s a bit more work, but I recommend that the
page hierarchy matches the menu hierarchy to get
nice matching URL’s. You only need to do the
hierarchy (parent setting), you don’t need to order
your pages to match the menu.
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20. Create a new nav menu
Create a new menu
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25. Setting the theme location
Some themes may have many locations for
placing menus.
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26. The new menu
The test site now has a new menu, independent of
the page order and hierarchy.
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28. Widgets
Widgets are tools or content items that you can
add, arrange, and remove from the widgetized
areas of your theme.
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29. Widgets can be anywhere a theme defines
Originally widgets were only in sidebars, but now
themes can have many areas for them including
headers, footers, sidebars and special front page
spaces.
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34. A twitter widget
A twitter widget added to the sidebar.
A plugin was added to get this widget.
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36. WordPress.org
WordPress.org, the official source for all things
WordPress.
Theme repository – get free and commercial
themes.
Plugin repository – get plugins.
The “codex” – find documentation.
Support forums – get help.
WordPress TV: WordCamp and other videos.
http://wordpress.tv/
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37. WordPress.org
WordPress icon menu on top left of the admin bar
will take you there.
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39. WordPress.org – theme repository
Search for themes.
1000’s of themes.
Themes are reviewed before release.
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40. WordPress.org – plugin repository
Search for plugins.
1000’s of plugins.
Currently plugins are not reviewed.
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42. WordPress.org – forums
“support” forums
Can seek help with WordPress issues, including
themes and plugins from the repositories.
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43. Other help
Google “WordPress + some topic”
Caution, many articles are out of date and may no
longer be relevant.
Books
Lots of books, make sure it’s current.
Digging into WordPress is a great book, covers
WordPress in depth.
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44. Other help
WordCamps
“WordCamp is a conference that focuses on
everything WordPress.” – WordCamp Central
Montreal: WordCamp Aug, 18/19, 2012.
Toronto:
Has a user WordCamp scheduled for Sept 29/30,
2012.
Has a developer WordCamp scheduled for Nov 3/4,
2012.
All sorts of WordCamps world wide
http://central.wordcamp.org/
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46. Adding and managing plugins
Cannot add plugins to a site on WordPress.com.
You can enable which ones you are using, and
change settings.
Go to Plugins in the main nav menu
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47. Updating plugins
ALWAYS BACKUP FIRST!!!
Updates are easy, just click the link.
Updates can break your site, back-ups make it
easy to undo.
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49. Update plugins in the WordPress updater
Can also update plugins using the WordPress
updater – BACKUP FIRST!
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50. Adding plugins
Add plugins from the Add New item under the
Plugins menu item.
Search for plugins based on keywords, or name.
I entered TinyMCE Advanced.
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51. Add plugins search results
The search results.
Several similar and/or related plugins may be
shown.
Descriptions, ratings and version are shown.
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53. Install status
A screen similar to the update page, showing the
install status.
Some plugins will auto-activate, most you need to
activate.
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56. Plugin Settings
Plugins usually (and are supposed to) create
option pages under the “Settings” menu item.
Some plugins create menu items in almost any
other section.
Tools, Dashboard, and sometimes Plugins are
common menu locations for hiding settings pages.
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57. Finding/Choosing plugins
Choose plugins with:
good download volume
recent updates
responses in the forums
high ratings
good compatibility ratings
Where do you find this information?
Some of it was on the plugin search listing.
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61. Finding/Choosing plugins
All of the details
for a plugin are
on the plugin
repository.
Look at the last
updated date.
Check
compatibility.
Is it popular?
(downloads)
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62. A plugin with issues
Signs there may be problems:
Poor support? 5 weeks no
answers, although some
plugins have their own
forums and don’t answer
here.
There will always be some
broken reports, but more
broken than works is not
good.
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63. An example of a good plugin
One of the top rated
Google analytics
plugins.
Note, even though this
is a good plugin there
are complaints about
it. (it’s almost
impossible to be
compatible with
everything)
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64. Choosing plugins
Good, popular plugins will have complaints about
them – lots of users under different conditions,
plus some users with unreasonable expectations.
Need to look at the total picture, not absolute
values when evaluating plugins or you will
eliminate good plugins.
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65. Google analytics plugin
Using a Google Analytics plugin is highly
recommended:
Get features like excluding admin traffic from
stats.
Some have dashboard stats summaries.
Some add advanced tracking and tagging
features.
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66. Beware of unknown plugins
There are many plugins not on the WordPress.org
repository.
Many of these plugins are very good – most good
plugins not on the repository cost to use.
(“commercial” plugins are not allowed on the
repository)
Many are not good, and may contain malware:
http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/02/new-wordpress-
toolspack-plugin.html
*plugins on the repository are not guaranteed to be
clean, but malware is usually spotted quickly by users
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67. Plugin final notes
Remove unused plugins, they can be a security
issue.
The Timthumb vulnerability did not need to have the
plugin be active in order to be exploited.
Keep plugins, even inactive ones up to date!
Install a backup plugin AND USE IT!!!
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69. Themes
A theme defines the look and feel of your site.
Sets the graphics, colors.
Sets the widget locations.
Defines page and column layout.
Can be changed relatively easily.
Beware lock-in.
Cannot add themes on WordPress.com.
You can enable which one you want to use, and you
can change settings.
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74. Page layouts
Some themes
have layout options
have templates for layouts
will need a child theme to modify layouts
Not too hard to do, but does require some coding.
DO NOT ALTER THEME FILES!!!
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86. Adding/managing themes
Choosing themes is less clear than plugins.
You need it
to look good for you
have the features you want
And still
have support
check the forums
check the last update date
be good/reliable
check the ratings
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89. The new theme
Note that the
while the site
looks different,
the content and
widgets are the
same.
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90. Final notes for themes
Test on a trial site
Local install or
Subdomain on hosting
Beware free themes not from WordPress.org
Many good commercial themes not on
WordPress.org
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92. Reading settings
Front page settings
Set blog (latest posts) or static (any page) front
page (Home page)
Some post display settings
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93. Reading settings
Front page settings
blog (latest posts)
on front page
Reverse
chronological
display of posts
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94. Reading settings
Front page settings
Set static front page
Set-up Blog page, and Home page first
Blog page is an empty page – title of your blog
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98. Theme driven front page
Some themes have
very sophisticated
home pages, which
may have no
“content”.
Neither posts or
pages are shown
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99. Writing settings
Editor Size
I usually find the default editor size of 20 lines is
to small and up it to 30-40.
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100. Permalinks
Change off of the default permalink setting
Anything other than default is good
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101. Settings - permalinks
Permalink settings change the way the URL is
displayed.
Default sample page URL:
http://wordpress.dev1/?page_id=2
The sample page is now:
http://wordpress.dev1/sample-page
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103. User levels
Standard User Levels
Most to least powerful
Super Admin – Networks (multisite) only
Admin - can do anything!
Editor
Author
Contributor
Subscriber – can do nothing, comment only
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104. User roles
Super Admin
Someone with access to the blog network
administration features controlling the entire
network.
Administrator
Somebody who has access to all the
administration features
Editor
Somebody who can publish and manage posts and
pages as well as manage other users' posts, etc.
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105. User roles
Author
Somebody who can publish and manage their own
posts
Contributor
Somebody who can write and manage their posts
but not publish them
Subscriber
Somebody who can only manage their profile and
comment
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106. User security issues
“admin” user -> remove if you have one
Subject to brute force attacks
Do not use your admin account for posting blog
items if possible
Use a lower level account
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107. Contact
Rick Radko
email: wpinfo@r3df.com
twitter: @r3designforge
Slides at:
www.slideshare.net/r3df
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Notas do Editor I’m Rick RadkoI design & develop software, websites, web applications -> at my company R-Cubed Design Forge -> I started building websites and web apps in 1996.something that is different about me, -> I was originally a hardware design engineer -> But now you will find me mostly with my head buried in computer code -> I’m also equally comfortable doing graphic design workI’ve been using WordPress for over 4 years now: - it’s been my main website platform for the last 2 years - I’m also a co-organizer of The Ottawa WordPress GroupSlides are posted on slideshare -> link will be at the end too My contact infoSlides are posted on slideshareI will be at the happiness bar tomorrow morning from 10 until noon