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WordPress Made Easy MidAtlantic Women in Agriculture
September 9, 2015
Presenter: Catherine Hamrick
Co‐presenter: Michele Walfred
Who should blog?
Type of business
• Small & large farmers
• Wineries & vineyards
• Creameries
• Roadside stands
• Farmers Markets
• Organic
• Venues (barns, tours)
• Ag photography
What do you blog about
• Your story & history
• Your values
• Pictures of vegetables
• Pictures of animals
• Family
• Recipes
• Agriculture in the news
• Advocate for agriculture
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Welcome to WordPress!
Why WordPress?
• Popular Content Management System (CMS)
• No coding!
• Intuitive—simple to use
• Easy‐to‐follow structure
• Hosting—WordPress does it for you!
• Free!
Note: you can opt to sign up for a premium or business account later.
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It’s free—with lots of good stuff
• WordPress address
• 3 GB of storage (images)
• 200+ themes
• Basic customization (e.g., pages, widgets, header, background)
• Statistics
• WordPress support via forums
Get started with a dream theme
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Hemingway Rewritten
KISS: domain name
• Use keywords!
• Easy‐to‐see URL
• Easy to spell
• Logical word order
• Keep it tight
• Avoid hyphens
• Avoid underlines
• Avoid capitalization
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URL for Hamrick Fresh Farmstand
• Free = hamrickfreshfarmstand.wordpress.com
• $$$ = hamrickfreshfarmstand.com
• $$$ = hamrickfreshfarmstand.org
• $$$ = hamrickfreshfarmstand.net
Note: if you already have a domain, WordPress makes it easy to incorporate in their system.
Search! Hamrick Fresh Farmstand
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Plan: free, premium, or business
Fill in account settings
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Grab a Gravatar
Easy‐to‐remember username:hamrickfarm
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Snapshot: who are you?
Reader: where you find community
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Time to make your blog pretty
Dashboard: you’re at the controls!
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Go to my site & click on WP Admin.
Drop down to customize.
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Roadmap to customize
Easy steps to customize
• Site identity
• Colors & backgrounds
• Fonts
• Header
• Widgets
• Static font page
Note: we will review widgets later
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Simplify site title & tagline
Activate your blog!
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Palette: lighten up (left)
Is the default font in the mood?
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Header image: do you want to change the scene?
Static front page = blog
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Go to post & add new
Enter title and body & preview
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Your first post!
Insert your image
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Upload file from computer
First picture in your media library!
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Label image!
• Title: heirloom tomatoes
• Alt text: heirloom tomatoes
• Caption: Heirloom tomatoes—just picked from our field
• Description: heirloom tomatoes
Note: caption was removed in final post.
Try a medium size image
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Picture perfect for a post
Yay! First post
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Enter tags
Go to dashboard to create a category
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“Recipes” is your first category
Widgets!
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What is a widget?
Widget is a fancy word for tools or content that you can add, arrange, and remove from the sidebar(s) of your blog.
Widgets make it easy to customize the content of your sidebar(s).
Widgets
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“Recipes” is your first category
Below tags, enter the category
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Get ready to insert URL
Copy the URL to insert
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Insert URL
Insert URL and link text
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Link is now active!
Lookin’ good
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Now it’s time to make a page!
Scroll down to pages and click “add”
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Create about us in editor
Check it out!
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Three images and text
Check daily stats
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Check months and years
Where do your visitors live?
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Contact Catherine & Michele
This presentation will provide you with the basics to get started. Have fun experimenting!
WordPress provides help through its forum. In addition, you can go to Udemy (www.udemy.com), which offers hundreds of tutorials. Instructors are vetted. Many courses are free.
Please email for assistance! We will set up a time to work with you
Catherine Hamrick: [email protected]
Michele Walfred: [email protected]
See you in 2016 for WordPress Made Easy (Part 2). Thank you!