Zero to WordPress in 45 Minutes:
A Beginner’s Guide To Building Your First WordPress?.Com Website
with Peter Fleck and Toby Cryns
WordCamp MSP – Nov. 13, 2010
Goal
At the end of this session, you will:
- Be the proud owner of a WordPress.com website
- Choose a design (“theme”) for your website
- Upload a photo and display it on your website
- Add text and a link to your website
- Create a new page for your website
- Edit your site’s main navigation menu
Agenda
- Introductions
- Set up your own WordPress.com account. Email confirmation can take up to 30 minutes. If you already have an account, help someone who does not.
- What do you hope to get out of this class? Each person will answer individually.
- What is WordPress? What is WordPress.com?
- What can WordPress.com do (and not do) for you?
- Creating Content
– Create your first web page
– Create your first blog post
– Add a photo and a photo gallery
– Text edit - Configuring Your Website
– Set home page to either a static page or your blog/news via Settings –> Reading
– Change the theme - Questions?
Additional topics outside of the scope of our session:
- WordPress for iPhone & iPad
- Hosting options
- GeoTagging on WordPress.com
- Polls
- WordPress for iPad
- Typekit Fonts
- Multiple blogs in one installation
- Webhooks
- Register your domain (addons)
- Ratings
- Add a Twitter feed to sidebar
- Privacy
- Audio
- Create a blog page within your site
- Add a blogroll to sidebar
- Add an RSS feed to sidebar
- Embed a YouTube video
- Custom Menus
- Change header image
- Change page background
Additional Resources:
- Local WordPress developers, users, and designers at MSP WordPress (MSP WordPress Google Group)
- Google: Ask your question in the search box and see what happens
- YouTube has many demos of how to do things in WordPress
Instructor Contact Information
Toby Cryns: 612-293-8629; [email protected]
Peter Fleck: 612-424-5107; [email protected]
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