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WordPress Advanced TopicsCT01756 Intro to WordPress
By Adrian Mikeliunas
http://learnwp.us/week6
SESSION# 6 of 6
WordPress design considerations
Growing a Community
Backups, Legal & Security!
Misc. Topics
Week 6 Agenda
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Where do you start?
What to do next?
Rollup your sleeves?
Hire a Genius?
www.wordpressguru.net
72 steps checklist: www.wpmentor.net/checklist/
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WordPress Design
Steps Stage Contents
1 - 26 Install Setup your basic WordPress installation
27 - 40 Secure Secure your WordPress installation against spam,hacking & hardware failure.
41 - 51 Configure Configure WordPress options & theme
52 - 61 Connect Connect WordPress to services & social networks
62 - 72 Optimize Improve the performance of your WordPress
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WordPress Setup Checklist
http://www.wpmentor.net
People: Define Roles Authors, Editor, Admin/Programmers Internal or External resources?
Content You provide, solicit or procure Text and multimedia
Theme Your brand look and feel Example: http://www.studiopress.com
Plugins User registration, email follow up Slide shows, other
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Main Ingredients
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Support WordPress…
Join Local events:
Meetup.com
DC Bloggers
WordPress DC
WordPress Nova
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Growing a Community
http://codex.wordpress.org/Codex:Community_Portal
Provide Value, Cross-Links, Provide Feedback!
Weed-out stale content, spammers, other…
BOOKS:
Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read
Social Media for WordPress
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Blog Community
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Languages
Fonts [accents]
Cultural Issues
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Internationalization
Google Language Translatorhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/google-language-translator/
Backups
Legal Notices
Security Basics
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Security Section
How often should you back up?
How many backups should I keep?
Can backups be automated? Online or Offline?
Check your Hosting provider
http://www.wplist5.com/5-of-the-best-free-backup-wordpress-plugins
https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus
https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup
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Backups
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With a PAID monthly subscription ($15 or 40/month):
1. The VaultPress plugin will backup: Your site’s content
Themes & plugins in real time
2. Perform regular security scans for common threats and attacks ($40/month)
http://vaultpress.com/jetpack
http://wordpress.org/plugins/vaultpress
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VaultPress
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Legal
A privacy policy is a must for every websiteor online business, normally included in the footer. several paragraphs long explaining to the site users & customers exactly
how their information will be used It also details what information is tracked & how it is tabulated [cookies,
IP or email addresses]
Many Federal, State laws & European nations require it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy The privacy policy page is really about keeping web businesses honest
Example: https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-terms-of-service-and-privacy-policy/
Don’t use the “Admin” username to administer your site
Use a new, separate account…
Don’t use the default login URL!
Login plugin! wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=login
Two factor: Clef https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpclef
Install a security plugin… or two
WordFence https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence
Ithemes https://ithemes.com/security/ $$
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Security
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Misc. Topics
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Premium WordPress Themes:
http://www.studiopress.com
http://www.woothemes.com, http://themeforest.net
https://templatic.com/,
http://www.mojo-themes.com
Site Builder: http://www.optimizepress.com
Social Focus: https://buddypress.org
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Advanced Designs
Codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
Basics of WordPress Theme Design http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout
Theme Development http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
Advanced edit & Layouts https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugnedit
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Site Design and Layout
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In Admin dashboard “Appearance” select “Edit CSS” if you have Jectpack installed [or if your theme supports it] or install plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css
Then add the last 3 lines to make the footer disappear!
/*
Welcome to Custom CSS!
To learn how this works, see http://wp.me/PEmnE-Bt
*/
#site-info {
display: none;
}
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Removing Footer NoticesCSS Way
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From “Appearance”, “Editor” select “Footer.php” from the list of files [in some themes, the footer is included in Functions.php]
ALWAYS make a backup copy BEFORE you make any change! [Copy contents to local file via notepad]
Look for “Proudly powered by” string or whichever string you would like to remove
Remove the entire line “<a … </a>”
Save and done!
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Removing Footer NoticesProgramming Way
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Backup Your Site:
Content
Theme & Plugins
Media
Clean Spam
Monitor Statistics
Monitor Security
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Weekly Administration
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WordPress design considerations
Growing a Community
Backups, Legal & Security!
Misc. Topics
Week 6 Summary
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