WordPress Fundamentals:Part 2 – Taking control of your content

By Bronson Quick

sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

Housekeeping

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Sponsors:

Superior Web Hosting Services An amazing video and online

manual WordPress plugin

http://matlib.com.au/ http://www.videousermanuals.com/

Resources:

WordPress Brisbane Message Board

Recap

A brief intro into the following:

• What is WordPress?

• Why choose WordPress?

• Requirements

• The famous 5 minute install

• Posts and Pages

• Custom headers with Twenty Ten

• Links

• Q & A

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We covered: We covered:

At the last WordPress Meetup on September 2, 2010 WordPress 3.0 had 13,801,694 downloads.

A quick check today showed that WordPress 3.0 has now been downloaded 21,295,187 times and it’s still climbing!

http://wordpress.org/download/counter/

What we’ll cover

Tonight we’ll cover:

• The Dashboard & Screen Options

• The Sidebar

• The WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor Buttons

• Pasting content in from Microsoft Word

• Formatting content using headings, paragraphs and lists

• Inserting an image, mp3 or pdf

•The [embed] shortcode

• Q & A

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Taking control of your content

The Dashboard

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Where all your dreams come true

The Dashboard• Screen Options

• Layout

• Alter and configure RSS Feeds

• Collapsing, expanding, drag & drop sections

• QuickPress

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Demo

The Sidebar

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Your new best friend

The WYSIWYG

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Your HTML slave

The WYSIWYG• Bold, italics, strikethrough

• Lists and block quotes

• Aligning text

• Links

• Read more

• Spellchecker & Full screen mode

• Kitchen Sink

• Headings, Paragraphs

• Paste from Microsoft Word

• Insert image, mp3 & pdf

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Demo

Embed• YouTube• Vimeo• DailyMotion• blip.tv• Flickr (both videos and images)• Viddler• Hulu• Qik• Revision3• Scribd• Photobucket• PollDaddy• Google Video• WordPress.tv (only VideoPress-type videos for the time being)• SmugMug (WordPress 3.0+)• FunnyOrDie.com (WordPress 3.0+)

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Supported Types – Make sure your link is on a new line!

Thanks & Questions

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Our Next WordPress Meetup

WordPress Brisbane

http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Brisbane/

Thursday, December 2, 6:30pm

Speakers & Topics

Lachlan MacPherson: SEO with WordPressDion Hulse (dd32): On WordPress

Got Friends in Sydney?

WordPress Sydney

http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Sydney/

bronson@sennza.com.auhttp://www.sennza.com.au/Twitter: @sennza

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