How to Jazz Up Your WordPress Site – without a lick o’ code
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The document outlines techniques for enhancing a WordPress site without coding, presented by Kathryn Presner at WordCamp San Francisco 2013. It covers various plugins and their functionalities, such as creating custom posts, adding social media feeds, and implementing signup forms. The presentation also includes resources and acknowledgments for plugin developers and contributors.
How to Jazz Up Your WordPress Site – without a lick o’ code
- 1. How To Jazz Up Your WordPress Site Kathryn Presner @zoonini WordCamp San Francisco 2013 #wcsf without a lick o’ code
- 2. Kathryn Presner NOW Automattic Happiness Engineer BEFORE Web Designer/Developer WordPress.org Support Forum Volunteer
- 4. “We need a website!” – your friend “Pretty please?”
- 5. “OK.” – you “You can pay me in strawberries.”
- 6. Your Secret Weapon = +
- 7. Code can be fun …but
- 8. No code was touched <in the making of this website> .no { not even css ! }
- 10. Twenty Twelve Jazzed Up
- 12. Custom header & background
- 13. Let’s go plugin hunting
- 14. Plugin selection & installation
- 16. Let’s create custom posts
- 17. The custom posts are content blocks
- 18. Anything can go in a content block
- 19. Add content block widget
- 20. No control – every page & post
- 22. Choose where to show/hide widget
- 23. Content block widget restricted to blog
- 24. Restrict by user role
- 25. Let’s check the weather
- 26. Configure widget
- 30. Insert columns
- 33. Let’s add social media feeds
- 34. Widget options
- 38. Let’s add a signup form
- 39. API key
- 40. List ID
- 41. Signup shortcode in content block
- 44. Let’s add tabs
- 45. Insert tabs
- 46. First tab
- 47. Second tab
- 48. End tab set
- 49. Finished tabs
- 52. Let’s add Jetpack sharing tools
- 54. Share this post
- 55. Let’s enable infinite scroll
- 58. Let’s add a contact form
- 59. Insert form
- 60. Configure form
- 61. Put it all together
- 62. Form shortcode
- 63. Finished form
- 64. OK, I lied let’s look at a teensy bit of CSS
- 65. Let’s activate Jetpack Custom CSS
- 66. New h2 colour
- 67. You did it!
- 72. Take the next step do something for the plugin developer
- 74. Plugins Used Custom Post Widget http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post- widget/ Restrict Widgets http://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-widgets/ Alfie WP Weather http://wordpress.org/plugins/alfie-wp-weather/ Column Shortcodes http://wordpress.org/plugins/column- shortcodes/installation/ Social Media Tabs http://wordpress.org/plugins/social-media- tabs/ YIKES, Inc. Easy MailChimp Extender http://wordpress.org/plugins/yikes-inc-easy- mailchimp-extender/ Jetpack by WordPress.com http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/ Post UI Tabs http://wordpress.org/plugins/put/
- 75. Credits Big thanks to everyone who suggested plugins for this presentation! Special thanks to Valerie K. for everything Background pattern: Japanese Art 1 by Tzadkiel & Northern Dancer | COLOURlovers.com http://www.colourlovers.com/pattern/1181271/japanese_art_1 Dick & Jane lorem ipsum by Duck Island Greeking Machine http://www.duckisland.com/GreekMachine.php All other images: iStockphoto.com Fonts: Lobster Two & Archivo Narrow
- 76. Where to Find Presentation http://www.slideshare.net/zoonini Screencasts http://zoonini.wordpress.com/jazzup/ Kathryn Presner http://kathrynpresner.com Twitter: @zoonini
Editor's Notes
- #3: Based in Montreal, Canada
- #4: You have a good friend – let’s call her Ruby. Ruby loves strawberries and has decided to organize a festival honouring her favourite fruit, in the town in which you both live called Rosyvale Meadows. Ruby’s even managed to get a feature article about this new festival into your local newspaper – to be published just a few days! This article will be fantastic publicity for the event. But there’s a problem. The festival has no website. The festival has no money yet because it’s brand new and doesn’t have any sponsors. And Ruby knows that you can’t seem to stop talking about this WordPress thing, which must have something to do with the web.And so - (you know what’s coming, don’t you - the email from your friend arrives….
- #6: You’re nice. (Maybe you’re Canadian.)
- #7: You know you can whip something up fairly quickly and easily. How?
- #8: 1. Plugins are awesome2.You don’t need to be a coder to make your site do cool things 3. Here are some plugins that are easy to use and do cool things
- #9: The list of plugins will be made available at the end, so don’t worry about writing them all down
- #10: Clean default theme, easy to make look like whatever you want, not particularly blogging-foccused
- #11: How do we get here from there? To get here we’re going to add 8 plugins that add some extra features and visual pizazz
- #12: Wholikes strawberries? Talk about goals of the website and how some plugins will help us achieve this. Get the word out about the event through social media, keep people interested in the event up to speed with ongoing news, all the provide info about the event in an easy-to-find way that makes people want to come, make it easy for people to find out where the event is happening, etc.
- #13: Two seemingly small things - but they make a huge difference – Background pattern, free from COLOURlovers.com, strawberry graphic from iStockphoto.comRemember that poster? We used elements from it and laid it out as a header graphic.
- #14: Different ways to find a plugin – keywords, search, popularity.
- #15: How many of you have installed plugins? Basic instructions if needed.IMPORTANT: All of the plugins we’re going to look at have alternatives – if one doesn’t work well for you, test another. That’s what the plugin directory is for!
- #16: How many of you have installed widgets? Basic instructions if needed.
- #23: CLICK FOR VIDEO Choose our widget- Where do we WANT widget, or where do we want to EXCLUDE widget? Display widget ONLY on blog homepage
- #38: CLICK FOR VIDEO
- #50: CLICK FOR VIDEO
- #54: CLICK FOR VIDEO
- #58: CLICK FOR VIDEO
- #62: CLICK FOR VIDEO