RPC-Wordpress-Session
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The document provides an overview and agenda for a WordPress workshop. It discusses the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, provides examples of WordPress sites, and outlines the key features and functionality that will be covered, including administration, themes, plugins, posts and pages. The workshop leader has 14 years of experience developing and marketing digital applications.
RPC-Wordpress-Session
- 2. Keith Feighery Director of Digital Strategy
- 3. Summary • Director of Digital Strategy with Digital Insights • 14 Years experience developing and marketing web and digital applications • Lecturer with DIT on MA in Digital Media Technologies • Lecturer with Dublin Business School, Griffith College, Champlain College & IBAT in Online Marketing and Digital Strategy
- 5. Agenda • Introduction to Wordpress • Wordpress.com Vs Wordpress.org • Wordpress Case Studies and Examples • Setting up Site on Wordpress.com • Walk through of Wordpress Features – Administration, Themes, Plugins, Post &Pages
- 6. Wordpress Overview • Excellent low barrier to entry publishing platform • Open source platform • Easy to use CMS system to produce and distribute all forms of digital media – text, Images, audio, video, RSS • Easy to Connect Wordpress site with other social media sites – Twitter, Facebook etc… • Very extensible platform where further functionality can be added • Search Engine Friendly infrastructure along with SEO plugins
- 8. Wordpress.com • Wordpress.com – A managed environment to set up Websites and blogs provided for free (basic set-up) – Basic version will have wordpress in the url – e.g. http://www.website.wordpress.com – Can map an existing domain (www.website.com) to a wordpress.com website – Limited functionality on wordpress.com in comparison to wordpress.org • No plugin functionality • Limited Theme Customisation
- 9. Wordpress.org • Wordpress.org – Open source version of wordpress – Self-Managed system where users have to download the software from wordpress.org – Users have to have domain name registered and hosting package – Users have to upload wordpress on to webserver and set up database – Once deployed, users have complete control over the customisation and functionality of the wordpress.org site – Users respoonsible for security, back-ups, maintenance and support of their own site
- 10. Wordpress.com
- 11. Wordpress.org
- 12. Blogs
- 14. Puddleducks
- 15. IIA Blog
- 16. Peter Lonegan
- 17. DonalSkehan
- 18. Make Up and Beauty
- 20. Wordpress.com
- 21. Dashboard
- 22. Add Post
- 23. Add New Page
- 24. Add Media
- 25. Change Themes
- 26. Use Widgets
- 27. Sharing Buttons
- 28. Add Menus
- 29. Add Polls
- 30. General Settings
- 31. Reading Settings
- 32. Site Tools
- 33. Export Data
- 34. Privacy Settings
- 35. Domain Mapping
- 36. Front End
- 37. Thank You