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Using WordPress as Your Company’s Website
Kelli Wise
Agenda
• Background • Configuring WordPress
• Theme Selec:on
• Plugins • Employee access
• Security • Maintenance
Why Use WordPress?
• Great CMS • Easy to edit contents • No need for html or css knowledge
• SEO is much easier
• Open Source • Almost any feature you might need – there’s a plugin
Installing WordPress
• Famous 5 minute install • Script installers – Fantas:co – SoLaculous
• Linux hos:ng • Lp access
Configuring WordPress
• Out of the box: Blog Index as landing page • You want a sta:c page as Home
Add Pages
Home Page
Blog Page
Setup WordPress
SeSngs -‐ General
SeSngs -‐ Reading
Change From: “Your latest posts”
To: “A Sta:c Page”
SeSngs -‐ Permalinks
Change From: “Default”
Theme Selec:on
• It’s your Business • Vet any sources of FREE themes – Some have malware
– WordPress.org is a safe source
Premium Themes
• Great graphic design • Func5onality • Have limita5ons
– Size of logo – Layouts, fonts, colors may be limited
• Developer support level
Theme Frameworks
• Most customizability • Brandable • Require more work & :me
• More expensive
Cost Difficulty
Customizability
Plugins
• Bare minimum plugins: – Backup, configured for weekly backups of database
– XML sitemap generator, configured for updates
– Spam filter – SEO
Installing Plugins
• Ac:vate them one at a :me • Test the site • If one of them causes an error and you can’t delete it in WordPress admin: – Lp into your site – Delete the plugin folder – The site should come back up
Administrator
All Access
Most Risk
Most Damage
Do you want to let your employees edit?
Author Subscriber Contributor
Editor
Subscriber Contributor Editor
Author
Editor Author Subscriber
Contributor
Editor Author Contributor
Subscriber
Security
• Don’t use Admin as username • Use strong passwords • Secure your internet connec:on • Keep WordPress, theme & plugins updated
• Delete unused plugins • Scan site for malware
Maintenance
• Backup – Backup – Backup! – Store copies offsite
• On your PC • On a cloud server
• Keep things updated • Test new plugins and themes on a copy – Use a subdomain for this
Summary
• Configuring WordPress • Theme Selec:on
• Plugins • Employee access
• Security • Maintenance