things that make wordpress cool
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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 presentationTRANSCRIPT
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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