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THERE’S NO CRYING IN WORDPRESS

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

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

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

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Squeeze Pages, OptimizePress Membership Site, Wishlist Member Review Site Video Blog Portfolio Forum, bbPress e-Commerce Store, WooCommerce Wiki, WordPress-Wiki Social Network, BuddyPress Business Directory Job Board Daily Deal Site, Group Buying Site Facebook Page

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

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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

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wordpress.com vs

wordpress.org

FIR

ST

UP

1

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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.

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You can have multiple sites, and also add

Jetpack functionality to your .org sites.

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You can have multiple sites, and also add

Jetpack functionality to your .org sites.

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You can have multiple sites, and also add

Jetpack functionality to your .org sites.

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You can have multiple sites, and also add

Jetpack functionality to your .org sites.

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You can have multiple sites, and also add

Jetpack functionality to your .org sites.

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You can have multiple sites, and also add

Jetpack functionality to your .org sites.

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• 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.

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.org

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.com.org

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.com.org

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.com.org

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.com.org

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.com.org

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.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

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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

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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)

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

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

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

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

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What exactly did you just install?

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

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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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SE

CO

ND

2

USINGthe

DASHBOARDS

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Posts vs Pages

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Categories vs Tags

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A P O S T

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

live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally

A P O S T

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

live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally

Author and Date

A P O S T

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

live-in-dog-years-love-uncoditionally

Author and Date

Featured Image

A P O S T

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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.

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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.

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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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A PA G E

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A PA G E

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A PA G E

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A PA G E

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A PA G E

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A PA G E

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A PA G E

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A PA G E

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A PA G E

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Installing WP Video

This video clip has been removed from public sharing of this presentation. It can be viewed

in the presentation recording on Meetup.com

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3

TH

IRD

SECURE ITto

AVOID CRYING

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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

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D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

• Use “Admin” as your ID?

&

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

DON’T

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

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

&

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D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

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

&

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D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

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

&DO

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D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

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

&

• Use the generated passwords?

DO

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D O ’ S D O N ’ T S

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

&

• Use the generated passwords?

DO

DO

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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

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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

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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?

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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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FO

UR

TH

4

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:

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define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

OPEN wp-config.php

php_value memory_limit = 128M memory_limit = 64M

OR php.ini

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White Screen of Death

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

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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.

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

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T I P :

Setup a Gravatar gravatar.com

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T I P :

Don’t forget Analytics

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T I P :

Link to Jetpack for easy Blog Follow and Stats too!

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T I P :

Use a Duplicate Post plugin to make routine blogs easy.

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T I P :

Take advantage of Quick Edit

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G E T I N V O LV E Dhttp://make.wordpress.org

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WordPress Trivia GameShow