building a website with wordpress

Content and LayoutThemes, Plugins + Widgets, and Creative Commons

Pt 1: Hosting Set Up

Finding a Host/ RegistrarChoosing a Domain NameOne-button WordPress Set up

WWWD? What Would Wordpress Do?

WordPress Recommendshttp://wordpress.org/hosting/

Blue Host ($5.95/ $6.95)http://www.bluehost.com/

DreamHost ($8.12 +)http://www.dreamhost.com/

Google: “Best Hosting for Wordpress”

< $20 Get-It-Done Option:Go Daddy Month2Month, No set-up fee

Dream Host:Two Week Trial

Dream Host: Do You Need a New Domain Name?

Dream Host: Careful!!!

Dream Host: Enter Your Info

Dream Host: Enter Your Info

Dream Host: Credit Card Info

Dream Host: Continue to Web Panel

Dream Host: Log in

Dream Host: Getting Started

Dream Host: Web Hosting

Dream Host: Add a Domain

Dream Host: Delete CC info first

Dream Host: Set Up Domain

Dream Host:

Dream Host: One Click Installs

Dream Host: Wordpress

Dream Host: Custom Installation

Dream Host: Enter Info

Dream Host: Check your email

Dream Host: Install Window

Default Wordpress Site

Pt 2: Website Set Up

Basic Settings Pages vs Posts MenusSetting up a BlogComments and

Pingbacks

Basic Settings: Dashboard

Basic Settings: One-click

Basic Settings: Auto

Basic Settings: General

Basic Settings: Privacy

Basic Settings: Permalinks

Decide on Your Pages

Home

About

Packages

Portfolio

Contact

Blog

Pages vs Posts:

Creating New Pages +Posts

Editing Pages and Posts

Setting Home Page

Setting Blog Page

Creating Menus

Linking within/without

Creating New Users

Uploading Images

Creating Galleries

Comments (Turning on/off and moderating)

For How-to Videos, Visit: YouTube.comRocketFrameWebDev

Part 3: Customization

Finding ThemesFinding Plug-insUsing Widgets

In Wordpress

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Development Blogs

• Noupe (http://www.noupe.com)

• Smashing Magazine (http://www.smashingmagazine.com)

• Six Revisions (http://sixrevisions.com)

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Noupe (www.noupe.com)

Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com)

Six Revisions (http://sixrevisions.com)

Development Blogs

Smashing Mag

Six Revisions

Premium Themes

Elegant Themes

Theme Forest

Woo Themes

Search for terms like: “free wordpress themes;” “free wordpress themes for artists;” “free wordpress themes minimal;” etc

Brother Google

Plugins + Widgets

Plugins add over all functionality to your blog

My recommended plugins include: Google Analyticator, All-in-One-SEO pack, Contact Form 7, Google XML Sitemaps, Next Gen Gallery, akismet, wp-db-backup

I also use LinkWithin, WP-touch, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, WP to Twitter, and 1-click Retweet/Share/Like

Widgets help you deliver dynamic content, usually in the sidebar

Widget blogger must haves include: blogroll (you can name it what you want, archives (and or categories and tag cloud)

You can also put feeds, badges, and additional navigation in your sidebar

Plugins

Plugins

Plugins

Plugins

Plugins

Widgets

All in One SEO Pack

Contact Form 7

Google Analyticator

Google XML Site Maps

Akismet

NextGenGallery

WP Super Cache

1-click Retweet/Share/Like

Broken Link Checker

FancyBox for WordPress

Keyword Statistics

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

WPtouch

WP to Twitter

No Self Pings

My Plug-in Favs

Widgets

Caveats• Be sure to back up your database• Check and see if your server has a

revert function• test one plug-in or custom widget

at a time

Re-Cap

Customize your blog with themes, plugins, and widgets

Be sure to back up and do your research before installing anything new

Link back by way of attribution

Google is your friend

Keep your blogs interesting with great content + images