Learning Word Press

You will learn how to Get your own Get hosting for your website Get a design for your website Learn how to create pages, upload pictures, add blog posts Add plugins to your website Promote your website online

Domain name.com - commercial.net - network.org - organization.edu - educational.gov – governmental.ru,.in,.ch,.jp – international

Where can I get own my domain name?

Searching a Domain name

Searching a Domain name

Searching a Domain name

Searching a Domain name

Searching a Domain name

Searching a Domain name

Searching a Domain name

Searching a Domain name

Searching a Domain name

Searching a Domain name

Searching a Domain name

Hosting Hosting is a place where all your online files reside

Hosting Types of files in Internet

Just HTML

Just HTML(lnside Look)

HTML & CSS

HTML+CSS+Images

Domain, Hosting & User

Hosting Hostgator.com – why is it good? –Fast –Cheap $4/month –Reliable –Unlimited Disk Space –Unlimited Bandwidth –Easy to manage websites –Easy to install any software

Hosting

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Godaddy.com

Go to your Login to Hostgator using your login and password

Login to Hostgator Login to Hostgator using your login and password

Hostgator login and password

Hostgator login and password

Hostgator

Let’s take a break

Open your website in Browser

Setting up your website Login to Hostgator Cpanel

Setting up your website Install Wordpress

Setting up your website

Wordpress

What is Wordpress? Why is it best blogging platform? Themes (Design) Free vs Premuim vs Custom Plugins What is RSS –RSS readers

Wordpress Building block of every blog is a Post. Every post has: Title Category Date Content(text, images, video etc) Tags Author Comments

Wordpress To better understand a concept of a post let’s take a look at this page:

Wordpress Basic operations Add a category Create/Edit/Delete posts Postponing a post Inserting an image

Wordpress Add a category

Wordpress Add a category

Wordpress Manage your category

Wordpress Adding a post

Edit your content

Wordpress: Insert image For the sake of experiment: Go to Google.com Search for anything e.g. Grand Canyon Click on image that you like Click on Full Size Image (on right) Save it to your desktop

Wordpress: Insert image

Wordpress Plugins: are small great scripts that extend Wordpress capabilities.

Plugins Post Views: Display number of views

Post Views Sidebar Widget

Post Views Stats

So how to install a plugin?

Configure your plugin

Wordpress Integrating Share button Integrating social media –Twitter/Facebook/Youtube/Flickr

Wordpress Social Plugins Search for plugin: –Trackable Social Share Icons Install it Test run it

Wordpress Feedback Plugin Search for plugin: –Tiny Contact Form Install it Configure it Insert into any page [TINY-CONTACT-FORM] Test run it

Wordpress AntiSpam Plugin

Wordpress Plugins Integrating social media –Twitter/Facebook/Youtube/Flickr I think we should do this in our Social media Workshop

Wordpress What is page? Create a page “about us” and “contact us”.

Wordpress: Settings General settings: you can change blog name, your and date/time view Discussion: You can control who can comment your blog and notifications Permalinks (Custom Structure): /%category%/%postname%/

Wordpress Where to get images for your website? Google Images – NO!! Flickr –YES! Don’t forget to put a link to a source.

Wordpress Where to get images for your website? Stock Photos – –$1 for a high quality photo

Wordpress Choosing a Theme for your website Free: Premium:

Wordpress Themes FREE vs Premium? Go Premium because: –Better designs and great images –Tons of options to tweak –No need to know programming –More secure

Wordpress: Choosing a Theme

It is a same theme!

Buying a Theme mes/personal-blog/ mes/personal-blog/ View-> Demo

Buying a Theme Choose from 3 to 5 themes

Buying a Theme Fill out your information

Downloading a Theme

Installing a Wordpress Theme

Installing a Theme

Wordpress Widgets Customizing Widgets Small blocks of information –Pages(Most viewed) –Categories –Calendar –Twitter stream –Ads –Subscribe form –Any text

Wordpress Widgets

Wordpress Plugins SEO plugins Anti Spam Feedback form Subscribe form Daily Website Backup Security plugins Social media plugins

Wordpress Plugins Page views Analytics Galleries SlideDeck

Analytics How people get to your website –Search engines –From friend’s websites –Direct typing Keywords Which content is popular What is Bounce rate?

Get your own Google.com/a/ How to add address and setup a redirect

Analytics Google Analytics Google Webmaster tools Other paid analytics tools