Blogging, the wordpress way

Blogging, The Wordpress wayM A Hossain Tonu

Inside scoop!• All about blogging (Anatomy, Engines, Why WP?)

• Setting up Wordpress (Installation & Configs.)

• Explore the dashboard

• Working with Wordpress (Posts, Gravatar, Pages, Categories, Links, Media)

• Widgets (Twitter, RSS, Meta, Subscribers), Plugins (Sharing, Publicizing)

• Themes

• Become a famous blogger

• Community blogging (User accounts and roles)

Who am i ?• Tech Blogger http://mahtonu.wordpress.com

• Hacker, Community activist, FOSS advocate

• Worked with pioneer Bengali blogging culture at somewhereinblog

• @mahtonu

• Authored the title “PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide” http://link.packtpub.com/6HaElo

Blog! thinking with

• Blog = Web + Log

• Open diary

• A social media

Blog can be a media of expressing your thoughts to Netizens

• 156!million public blogs (Feb, 2011)

• more than 172 million (Sep, 2011)

• 3 million new blogs, every month

• more than 1 million new posts, each day

Blogosphere

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogosphere#Proliferation

Political Gossip News Food Fashion Tech Health Scientific Business Education Music Entertainment Travel Photography

Culture Book Movie Lifestyle Art Sports

Product Human Rights Marketing Social Work

Genre

Election2012!

Anatomy of a Blog

Engines! Meet the Giants

Wordpress!

• Open source Blog engine

• Wordpress.com

• Self hosted Wordpress from wordpress.org

Why?

• Cause its freaking awesome!

Right now!

Wordpress.com

• Over 349 million people view more than 2.5 billion pages each!month.

• Wordpress.com users produce about 500,000 new posts and 400,000 new comments on an average!day.

Among leading platforms!

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=blogger,+drupal,+sharepoint,+wordpress&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Kickass features!

Take control, Doesn’t Cost a Dime, Get Social, Track Your Popularity, Express Yourself in Style, Go Mobile, Multilingual, Your Content is Your Own, Safe and Secure, Say Goodbye to Spam, Blog with Your Friends and Coworkers, Add Images, Audio, and Video, Follow Your Favorites, Awesome Support!

Got any big examples?

Repository

• 1,600 Themes, 55,167,509 Downloads

• 21,312 Plugins, 348,124,025 Downloads

& COUNTING

Beyond!

• WordPress powers 22% of new web sites.

• Used as a CMS in 92% on those sites.

Alright!

I am impressed, now show me how.

I tell you better set your Focus1. What’s your goal?

• To document your travels? To share your passion? To inform? To entertain?

2. What topics are you most interested in?

• Travel? Technology? Pop culture? Politics? Renewable energy!

3. What’s your perspective?

• Are you a movie critic? A clothing designer? A pastry chef?

4. Who’s your target audience?

• Film buffs? Fashionistas? Foodies?

Wanna host your own?

• Find a web host

http://wordpress.org/hosting/

• Download & install from wordpress.org

http://wordpress.org/download/

• Read the documentation

http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

How do I look like?

Don’t like Coding stuffs?

Q: I want it live fastest way, show me the way

A: Give a try with wordpress.com

Get signed up with wordpress.com

• It takes some seconds

https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/

Working with WordpressIt happens at Dashboard

• Themes

• Posts { Categories, Tags }

• Media

• Pages

• Gravatar

• Links

The Dashboard

The Dashboard

• behind-the-scene control panel

Changing Themes

Themes & Plugins DepotDownload and Install

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

Spice up your sidebar with widgets

Spice up your sidebar with widgets

Dashboard | Appearance | Widgets

Dashboard | Appearance | Widgets

• Drag-n-Drop does it all

GravatarDashboard | Users | My Profile

http://www.gravatar.com

Gravatar

Get yourself publishedPosts vs Pages

Posts = Blog posts, listed in reverse chronological order, use tags, categories

Pages = Like About Me or Contact pages, may contain blog posts

No limit on the number of posts or pages you can have.

Publish your first post

Adding imagesFind copyright-cleared images quickly with Zemanta

Adding imagesAdd your own images to posts or pages

Embed videos in seconds

I want to be a famous blogger!

Get famous! Publicize

Get famous! Share links

Get famous! Subscribers

Follow Blog Widget

Invite friends

RSS Widget

Get famous! Stats

Monitor your growth

Relax! It takes time

Migrated?

Community Blogging

Add more users as: (Users | Invite new)

• Administrator

• Editor

• Author

• Contributor

• Follower

Take away

• Get Started

• Customize My Site

• Create Content

• Add a Domain

• Go Mobile

• Manage Your Profile

• Add Media

• Get Social

Questions?

Resources

• Installation: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

• Learning: http://learn.wordpress.com/

• Themes, Plugins, Widgets: http://wordpress.org/

• Tips & Tools: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/popular-posts/

• Professional WP development: http://wp.tutsplus.com/series/professional-wordpress-development/

• Getting more views & traffic: http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/

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