dbs-wordpress-session
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Wordpress Session
Keith Feighery
Agenda
• Overview of Content Management Systems and Blogging Platforms
• Wordpress Case Studies and Examples
• Registering a Domain & Setting up Wordpress self-hosted system
• Walk through of Wordpress Features
– Administration, Themes, Plugins, Post & Pages, SEO etc..
– Class Exercise: Download and CustomiseWordpress.org
• Walk through of Using Wordpress Bought Themes
– Examples using Woo Canvas Theme
Content Management Systems &BloggingPlatforms
Wordpress.org& .com
JOOMLA
Drupal
Tumblr
Blogging Overview
Introduction to Blogging
• Common Blogging Platforms
– WordPress, TypePad, Blogger
• Excellent low barrier to entry publishing platform
• Easy to use CMS system to produce and distribute all forms of digital media –text, audio, video, RSS
• Very effective way of building engaged community and improving SEO
• Provides a channel for businesses to use a more informal style to communicate
• Provides a hub for business to participate in wider conversations and discussion
– Leave comments, interact, generate interest, etc..
• Search Engines
– Love regularly well formatted updated content
– Blogs are designed to be part of a connected eco-system which is at the heart of good SEO
Blogging Tips
• Connect to your most important keywords.
– Important for Search Engine Optimisation
• Grow the number of influential referral sites.
– Critical to get authoritative inbound links to your site
• Create outbound links using relevant anchor text
– Be generous with links to other blogs and websites and others will return the favor and build your traffic for you.
• Understand the location of your audience.
– Comparing the geographical distribution of your blog to your company’s website should give you a sense of whether your blog is hitting with the same areas of the world as your website. It could also reveal potential new areas of focus for your salespeople.
• Measure endurance.
– Measure return visitor and length of time spent on site
Blogging Tips cont.
• Find and nurture your most important readers and constituents
– Make sure you respond to key people – thos who subsribe and comment
• Use Twitter and Facebook to promote blog
– If Twitter isn’t one of your highest-ranking referral sites, you’re not using it properly.
– Monitor conversations on both Facebook and Twitter
• Use URL shorteners to gauge subject interest.
– UseURL shortener like bit.ly within a Tweet, you can track how many people click on the content link you offer in your tweets (Use Vanity Urls)
• Build cross-referencing across social media tools.
– No social media tool is an island. Tools should cross-reference each other – But don’t necessarily re-publish the same content on each platform
• Embed and measure calls to action. If we can get people to a landing page, we should.
Blogs
Digital Marketing Blogs
Some Irish Blogs
Irish Blogs
Irish Blogs
Wordpress Case Studies – CMS &Blogs
Smart Insights
Notary on Call
Sabrina Dent
McGarr Solicitors
Bloom
Web Kitchen
Wordpress.com Sites
Wordpress.com
Dashboard
Add Post
Add New Page
Front End
Process of Registering and Deploying Wordpress.org CMS on hosted server
GoDaddy
GoDaddyRegisteration
Domain Information
Set Name Servers
Blacknight Hosting Plans
Domain Management
Point at Domain Root Folder
Add New Database
Database Details
Wordpress.org Download
Wordpress 5-minute Install Doc
Wordpress Files
Change the WP-Config File
Download FTP Client
FTP Details
FTP Site Login
Upload Wordpress to Web Server
WP-Content Folder
WP-Themes
WP-Themes Folder
Theme Files
WP-Plugins Folder
Run Script: http://www.website.com/wordpress-
folder.com/wp-install
This Installs Wordpress Database and Configures Deployment
Initial Wordpress Screen
Wordpress Backend Administration
Login to Backend – www.website.com/wp-admin
Wordpress Dashboard
General Settings
Writing Sessions
Reading
Permalink Settings
Permalink Tags
Add New Post
Add Page
Create Categories
WordpressPlugins
All in One SEO Pack
All in One Settings
Add To FacebookPlugin
BlubrryPodcastPlugin
Blubrry Settings
Blubrry Audio Player
Podcast Channels
PostiePlugin
Google Analyticator
Google Analyticator Settings
GD LinkedInPlugin
Google XML Sitemaps
ShareThis Settings
WP-Touch Plugin
WP Mobile Settings
ShareThisPlugin
TweetMemePlugin
Google Analytics Plugin
Vipers Video Plugin
Database Backup Plugin
Related Posts Plugin
Security Scan Plugin
Super Edit Plugin
SEO Friendly Images
Appearance
Manage Themes
Manually Editing Themes
Edit Themes – Style.css
Edit Themes – Index.php
Deploying Wordpress Locally using Webserver
XAMPP -http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
WAMP - http://www.wampserver.com/en/
MAMP -http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html
Filezila - http://filezilla-project.org/
Deploying WP Locally
Wordpress.org – Download it
WP Folder (the software)
Make Sure WebServerRunnnig
Create Database
DMI-WordPress DB Created
Add Wordpress folder to htdocs or www folder
Edit Config File
Run Install Script – http: localhost:8888/BlogFolderName
Login to Wordpress
Default Wordpress Theme
Wordpress Back-End
Wordpress Bought Themes and Frameworks
Bought Themes
• Different Licensing and Usage Terms
– Single Use, Developer, Enterprise Editions
– Pricing reflects flexibility of usage and provided functionality
• Provide Out of the Box Design and Functionality
• Enable easy cutomisation of Themes without having to handcraft CSS code
• Provide in-built plugin functionality for SEO, Backups, No-follows, Google Analytics, JQuerySliders, Security etc..
• Provide multiple theme templates to facilitate creation of Content Management Systems
WP Remix Themes
Woo Themes
Woo - Canvas Theme
Woo - Biznizz
Theme Forest
SmallFolio
CMS Theme
DIY Themes
Studio Press
Building WP CMS System from Theme Framework
CANVAS Theme – Woo Themes
Woo Canvas – General Settings
Canvas Layout Plugin
Woo General Styling Plugin
Post Styling
Sliders
SEO Plugin
Other Examples of WOO Themes
Bizznet
Inspire
Thank You