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Things that Make WordPress Cool! 1 Brett Bumeter Softduit.com @brettbum

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http://softduit.comThis quick presentation was prepared for a presentation for the Charlotte Interwebs Meetup group on March 31, 2010 at Lightbulb Coworking. Brett Bumeter of Softduit Media and the Greater Charlotte Area WordPress Group will provide/provided the presentation

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Things that Make WordPress Cool!

Brett Bumeter Softduit.com @brettbum

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What I do

I'm a former corporate whistleblower, turned professional philosopher (blogger).

I provide business development and CMS web design & configuration services.

Brett Bumeter Softduit.com @brettbum

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I work from a WiFi Fishing dock on Lake Wylie near Charlotte, NC

Brett Bumeter Softduit.com @brettbum

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Anyone can design a theme in WordPress!

• What We've Covered• Designing Themes for non-graphic &

Non Coders Designers Point and Click Theme Design that works!

• What we are covering in April!

• Designing Themes for Graphic• Designers Skinning Themes from

Photoshop or Gimp

• Again no PHP Necessary

Brett Bumeter Softduit.com @brettbum

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Anyone can design a theme in WordPress! (2)

• A site can be customized to do almost anything in Wordpress Like the iPhone There is an App for that, but in WordPress they call them Plugins! That means Cheap! Save $$$$

Brett Bumeter Softduit.com @brettbum

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Anyone can get great results pulling traffic to their site from

Google with WordPress

• Plugins for that– Front End

• http://bit.ly/All-in-One-SEO

– Back End• http://bit.ly/SEOWPPlugin

Brett Bumeter Softduit.com @brettbum

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Easy to write, publish, connect and more

• WindowsLiveWriter Manage Multiple sites from one desktop application, – its like Tweetdeck for

the blogosphere

• ScribeFire Firefox addon

Brett Bumeter Softduit.com @brettbum

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What we are doing?

• Weekly Mentored training Classes on WordPress– Thursday is Design and Development Building

the Site Day– Wednesday is Using WordPress on a Day to

Day basis to get results Managing the site

• Where? On Meetup.com– http://bit.ly/CLTWP

Brett Bumeter Softduit.com @brettbum