There's No Crying In Wordpress! (an intro to WP)

T H E R E ’ S N O C R Y I N G I N WORDPRESS

T H E R E ’ S N O C R Y I N G I N WORDPRESS

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S O M U C H W E C A N D O !

L E T ’ S D O T H I S !

N O C R Y I N G , J U S T F I N D I N G S O L U T I O N S

wordpress.com vs

wordpress.org

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• Free for Life option • Updated and Securely Maintained for you • Includes curated themes and plugins • Benefit of wordpress.com's social life • Jetpack stat goodies and subscriber ease • Instant access to start blogging.

You can have multiple sites, and also add

Jetpack functionality to your .org sites.

You can have multiple sites, and also add

Jetpack functionality to your .org sites.

You can have multiple sites, and also add

Jetpack functionality to your .org sites.

You can have multiple sites, and also add

Jetpack functionality to your .org sites.

You can have multiple sites, and also add

Jetpack functionality to your .org sites.

You can have multiple sites, and also add

Jetpack functionality to your .org sites.

• Free for Life- download any time • You Install, Maintain and Update • Huge repository of plugins (the good, the bad and the ugly)

• Find or purchase themes from all over the web • Edit as much or as little as you like • You are in Control of every detail.

.org

.com.org

.com.org

.com.org

.com.org

.com.org

.com.org

Since .com does not allow Plugins, they’ve chosen a select few features you’ll benefit from and built them in. !Further customizations are found in the Store

A L O N EY O U D O N ’ T H A V E T O G O I T

• Codex • Support Forums • Facebook Groups • Meetups • WordCamps • Books • Online Classes

I N S TA L L I N G S E L F H O S T E D

Q U I C K I N T E R M I S S I O N

You’ll need: • Hosting Space • Domain Name • Access to creating a database

& DB user • FTP or CPanel File Manager • Decision on where the

installation will be living. or

• A really great host that offers installation and updating of WP

(like Siteground / WpEngine)

Installing WP in a subfolder= http://mydomainname/wordpress/content

Installing WP in the root= http://mydomainname/content

Meanwhile Wordpress.com= http://yoursitename.wordpress.com

Meanwhile Wordpress.com= http://yoursitename.wordpress.com

What exactly did you just install?

What exactly did you just install?wp-content | wp-admin | wp-includes | wp-config.php | wp-settings.php …

What exactly did you just install?wp-content | wp-admin | wp-includes | wp-config.php | wp-settings.php …

At some point in your experiences you’ll need to be familiar with all the core files, well enough to

be able to spot any file that shouldn’t be there.

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DASHBOARDS

Posts vs Pages

Categories vs Tags

A P O S T

Post TitlePost’s Permalink : http://poochie-pets.net/

live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally

A P O S T

Post TitlePost’s Permalink : http://poochie-pets.net/

live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally

Author and Date

A P O S T

Post TitlePost’s Permalink : http://poochie-pets.net/

live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally

Author and Date

Featured Image

A P O S T

Post TitlePost’s Permalink : http://poochie-pets.net/

live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally

Author and Date

Featured Image

A P O S T

ContentAn excerpt will be created from your content, or you can craft your own.

Post TitlePost’s Permalink : http://poochie-pets.net/

live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally

Author and Date

Featured Image

Social Sharing

A P O S T

ContentAn excerpt will be created from your content, or you can craft your own.

Post TitlePost’s Permalink : http://poochie-pets.net/

live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally

Author and Date

Featured Image

Social Sharing

May also have author bio section

Category and Tags

A P O S T

ContentAn excerpt will be created from your content, or you can craft your own.

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Installing WP Video

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in the presentation recording on Meetup.com

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SECURE ITto

AVOID CRYING

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

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D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

&DON’T

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

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• Keep /wp-admin as your dashboard access point?

DON’T

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

&

• Keep /wp-admin as your dashboard access point?

DON’T

DON’T

wSecure Authentication Plugin

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

&

• Keep /wp-admin as your dashboard access point?

• Backup (off server) religiously?

DON’T

DON’T

wSecure Authentication Plugin

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

&

• Keep /wp-admin as your dashboard access point?

• Backup (off server) religiously?

DON’T

DO

DON’T

wSecure Authentication Plugin

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

&

• Keep /wp-admin as your dashboard access point?

• Backup (off server) religiously?

• Keep your core current / updated?

DON’T

DO

DON’T

wSecure Authentication Plugin

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

&

• Keep /wp-admin as your dashboard access point?

• Backup (off server) religiously?

• Keep your core current / updated?

DON’T

DO

DO

DON’T

wSecure Authentication Plugin

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

&

• Keep /wp-admin as your dashboard access point?

• Backup (off server) religiously?

• Keep your core current / updated?

• Limit the # of admins? (let authors be authors and editors)

DON’T

DO

DO

DON’T

wSecure Authentication Plugin

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

&

• Keep /wp-admin as your dashboard access point?

• Backup (off server) religiously?

• Keep your core current / updated?

• Limit the # of admins? (let authors be authors and editors)

DON’T

DO

DO

DO

DON’T

wSecure Authentication Plugin

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

&

• Keep /wp-admin as your dashboard access point?

• Backup (off server) religiously?

• Keep your core current / updated?

• Limit the # of admins? (let authors be authors and editors)

• Try out new plugins by Activating them on the live site?

DON’T

DO

DO

DO

DON’T

wSecure Authentication Plugin

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

&

• Keep /wp-admin as your dashboard access point?

• Backup (off server) religiously?

• Keep your core current / updated?

• Limit the # of admins? (let authors be authors and editors)

• Try out new plugins by Activating them on the live site?

DON’T

DO

DO

DO

DON’T

DON’T

wSecure Authentication Plugin

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Clean your folders like you’d clean your kitchen?

&

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Clean your folders like you’d clean your kitchen?

&

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Clean your folders like you’d clean your kitchen?

&DO

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Clean your folders like you’d clean your kitchen?

&

• Use the generated passwords?

DO

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Clean your folders like you’d clean your kitchen?

&

• Use the generated passwords?

DO

DO

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Clean your folders like you’d clean your kitchen?

&

• Use the generated passwords?

• Keep or delete the read me.html file?

DO

DO

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Clean your folders like you’d clean your kitchen?

&

• Use the generated passwords?

• Keep or delete the read me.html file?

DO

DO

DELETE

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Clean your folders like you’d clean your kitchen?

&

• Use the generated passwords?

• Keep or delete the read me.html file?

DO

DO

DELETE

• Ditch plugins that don’t update regularly?

D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Clean your folders like you’d clean your kitchen?

&

• Use the generated passwords?

• Keep or delete the read me.html file?

DO

DO

DELETE

• Ditch plugins that don’t update regularly? DO

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TIPS STICKY SITUATIONS

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Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted

T R O U B L E S H O O T:

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

OPEN wp-config.php

php_value memory_limit = 128M memory_limit = 64M

OR php.ini

White Screen of Death

T R O U B L E S H O O T:

Via FTP

Rename your Plugins folder (to anything)

Refresh your site’s dashboard

Then name your plugins folder “plugins” again

Activate your plugins one by one until you find the culprit.

OR via PHPmyAdmin In the Options tableFind the Active Plugins line Delete the entirety of that line.

T I P :

Setup a Gravatar gravatar.com

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Don’t forget Analytics

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Link to Jetpack for easy Blog Follow and Stats too!

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Use a Duplicate Post plugin to make routine blogs easy.

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Take advantage of Quick Edit

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