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WordPress Essentials for Beginners
November 2015 YES Montreal
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Kathryn Presner
Happiness Engineer Automattic Theme Division @zoonini
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What We’ll Cover
Intro to WordPress Resources Hands-on WordPress
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Intro to WordPress
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Blog
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CMS+Blog
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CMS
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Product Showcase/Store
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Video/Image Portfolio
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Diving into WordPress
What is WordPress?
WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
What is it used for?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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WordPress Basics
Database vs. files
PHP vs. HTML
Do I need to know PHP?
Database ➜
Scripting Language ➜
Markup Language ➜
Structure Presentation
Dynamic Functions
Data
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Posts vs. Pages
Page
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Posts vs. Pages
Post
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Posts vs. Pages
Posts
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Introduction to ThemesA WP Theme is a collection of Template files - HTML + PHP + CSS + JS The CSS (aka stylesheet) usually controls the layout and design Only two template files are required: index.php, style.css Some are optional: sidebar.php, comments.php, etc.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templateshttp://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
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Pre-made ThemesWordPress.org Directoryhttp://wordpress.org/themes/
Elmastudiohttp://www.elmastudio.de/en/
Press75http://www.press75.com/ The Theme Foundryhttps://thethemefoundry.com/ Cedarohttp://www.cedaro.com/
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Modifying a Pre-made ThemeDon’t edit original theme files CSS tweaks: custom CSS plugin (standalone or Jetpack module) Beyond CSS tweaks: child theme
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Introduction to PluginsWhat are they?
Where do you get them?
http://wordpress.org/plugins/
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Managing Plugins
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Introduction to Widgets
What are they?
What is a widget area?
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets
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Managing Widgets
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Widgets in the Customizer
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WordPress Resources
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Official
wordpress.org
The Codex (.org) http://codex.wordpress.org/
Support Forum (.org) http://wordpress.org/support Support (.com) http://en.support.wordpress.com
wordpress.tvhttp://wordpress.tv/
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Development ResourcesOfficial Theme Development Checklist & Sample Data http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development_Checklist
Book: Digging Into WordPresshttp://digwp.com/
ThemeShaperhttp://themeshaper.com/
Online Resources Compilation http://kpresner.com/wordpress-resources/
In-Person Resources Compilation http://kpresner.com/wordpress-resources-in-person/
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WordPress Inspiration
WP Showcasehttp://wordpress.org/showcase/ We Love WPhttp://welovewp.com/ WPInspirationhttp://wpinspiration.com/
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Questions?Get the presentation at Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/zoonini
Connect with us Twitter: @molecularcode @zoonini
Join the local community http://wpmtl.org
Thanks to Shannon Smith at Café Noir Design for work on the original version of this presentation: http://www.cafenoirdesign.com
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Let’s go Spelunking!