Creating and Editing Content in WordPress Planning and Setting Up a Website

Creating a Website – Planning Stage BEFORE you start writing content -- you need to do some planning AUDIENCE -- who do you think will visit your site? GOALS -- what do you want to accomplish with this site? FLOWCHART -- map out a logical layout of pages to guide visitors through your site SITE ORGANIZATION CHART – map out the links and sections you’ll have in your site

Example: Creating a Recipe Site Audience: Friends and family (and other interested parties) who might want to try my favorite recipes. Goal: To make it easy for people to try out my recipes and to comment on them.

Example: Flowchart Home Steak Recipes Dessert Recipes Veggie Recipes

Example: Site Organization Chart Pages Home – where I’ll talk about my cooking philosophy and the types of food I want to share Steak – where I’ll share my favorite steak recipes Dessert – where I’ll share my favorite dessert recipes Veggies – where I’ll share my favorite vegetable recipes Posts Each individual recipe will be a post Categories will be “Steak”, “Dessert”, and “Vegetarian” Plugins I’ll need Disable Comments Display Posts Shortcode