Everything I Always Wanted to Know About WordPress*

*"but"only"learned"through"experience

Joe"Chellman

www.shooflydesign.org

@shooflydesign

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Where I’m Coming From

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Two Kinds of Stuff

Using

WordPress

1Building"with

WordPress

2

Tuesday, October 22, 13

1. Using WordPress

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Start with WordPress.com

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Media Editing Is Cool!

en.support.wordpress.com/images/image2editing

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Screen Options Are Sneaky!

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Quick Edit Is Neat!

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Stop Discussion Madness

Recommended"Plugins:

•Pingback"Killer

•No"Page"Comment

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Don’t Go Crazy On Plugins

Plugins

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Beware the 80/20 Rule!

2080

Pie is delicious, cleaning up a lame theme isn’t.

PacEMan Pie

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Beware an Overly-Handy Theme!•Custom"post"types

•Custom"widgets

•Switching"themes,"we"expect"to"lose"appearance,

not"data

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Popular? Too Many Emails?

RSS

en.support.wordpress.com/feeds

codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds#Comments

Tuesday, October 22, 13

2. Building with WordPress

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Use Good Hosting•You"get"what"you"pay"for,"blah"blah"blah…

•Web"and"email"hosting

•AutoEupdater"compatible

•Buy"a"domain"and"use"it!

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Practice Safe WordPressing•Don’t"use"admin

•Do"use"a"weird"db"prefix

•Don’t"edit"files"in"the"browser

•Do"use"SFTP"or"FTPESSL"(or"SSH)

•codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Your New Friends

Tuesday, October 22, 13

First Project: Child Theme“I’ll"put"yer"region"right"here!”

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Be Bold — Make Mistakes!

Recommended"Plugins:

•WP"Migrate"DB"[Pro]

•WPEDBEBackup

Tuesday, October 22, 13

Got Nerd?

wpEcli.org

Tuesday, October 22, 13

You: Empowered, Unafraid!WordPress: Empowering!

Ask, Talk, Write, Share.

Tuesday, October 22, 13