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Learn blogging using the famous blogging platform Wordpress. Target audience of this presentation is primitive level users.
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Blogging, The Wordpress wayM A Hossain Tonu
Inside scoop!• All about blogging (Anatomy, Engines, Why WP?)
• Setting up Wordpress (Installation & Configs.)
• Explore the dashboard
• Working with Wordpress (Posts, Gravatar, Pages, Categories, Links, Media)
• Widgets (Twitter, RSS, Meta, Subscribers), Plugins (Sharing, Publicizing)
• Themes
• Become a famous blogger
• Community blogging (User accounts and roles)
Who am i ?• Tech Blogger http://mahtonu.wordpress.com
• Hacker, Community activist, FOSS advocate
• Worked with pioneer Bengali blogging culture at somewhereinblog
• @mahtonu
• Authored the title “PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide” http://link.packtpub.com/6HaElo
Blog! thinking with
• Blog = Web + Log
• Open diary
• A social media
Blog can be a media of expressing your thoughts to Netizens
• 156!million public blogs (Feb, 2011)
• more than 172 million (Sep, 2011)
• 3 million new blogs, every month
• more than 1 million new posts, each day
Blogosphere
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogosphere#Proliferation
Political Gossip News Food Fashion Tech Health Scientific Business Education Music Entertainment Travel Photography
Culture Book Movie Lifestyle Art Sports
Product Human Rights Marketing Social Work
Genre
Election2012!
Anatomy of a Blog
Engines! Meet the Giants
Wordpress!
• Open source Blog engine
• Wordpress.com
• Self hosted Wordpress from wordpress.org
Why?
• Cause its freaking awesome!
Right now!
Wordpress.com
• Over 349 million people view more than 2.5 billion pages each!month.
• Wordpress.com users produce about 500,000 new posts and 400,000 new comments on an average!day.
Among leading platforms!
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=blogger,+drupal,+sharepoint,+wordpress&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
Kickass features!
Take control, Doesn’t Cost a Dime, Get Social, Track Your Popularity, Express Yourself in Style, Go Mobile, Multilingual, Your Content is Your Own, Safe and Secure, Say Goodbye to Spam, Blog with Your Friends and Coworkers, Add Images, Audio, and Video, Follow Your Favorites, Awesome Support!
Got any big examples?
Repository
• 1,600 Themes, 55,167,509 Downloads
• 21,312 Plugins, 348,124,025 Downloads
& COUNTING
Beyond!
• WordPress powers 22% of new web sites.
• Used as a CMS in 92% on those sites.
Alright!
I am impressed, now show me how.
I tell you better set your Focus1. What’s your goal?
• To document your travels? To share your passion? To inform? To entertain?
2. What topics are you most interested in?
• Travel? Technology? Pop culture? Politics? Renewable energy!
3. What’s your perspective?
• Are you a movie critic? A clothing designer? A pastry chef?
4. Who’s your target audience?
• Film buffs? Fashionistas? Foodies?
Wanna host your own?
• Find a web host
http://wordpress.org/hosting/
• Download & install from wordpress.org
http://wordpress.org/download/
• Read the documentation
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
How do I look like?
Don’t like Coding stuffs?
Q: I want it live fastest way, show me the way
A: Give a try with wordpress.com
Get signed up with wordpress.com
• It takes some seconds
https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/
Working with WordpressIt happens at Dashboard
• Themes
• Posts { Categories, Tags }
• Media
• Pages
• Gravatar
• Links
The Dashboard
The Dashboard
• behind-the-scene control panel
Changing Themes
Themes & Plugins DepotDownload and Install
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
Spice up your sidebar with widgets
Spice up your sidebar with widgets
Dashboard | Appearance | Widgets
Dashboard | Appearance | Widgets
• Drag-n-Drop does it all
GravatarDashboard | Users | My Profile
http://www.gravatar.com
Gravatar
Get yourself publishedPosts vs Pages
Posts = Blog posts, listed in reverse chronological order, use tags, categories
Pages = Like About Me or Contact pages, may contain blog posts
No limit on the number of posts or pages you can have.
Publish your first post
Adding imagesFind copyright-cleared images quickly with Zemanta
Adding imagesAdd your own images to posts or pages
Embed videos in seconds
I want to be a famous blogger!
Get famous! Publicize
Get famous! Share links
Get famous! Subscribers
Follow Blog Widget
Invite friends
RSS Widget
Get famous! Stats
Monitor your growth
Relax! It takes time
Migrated?
Community Blogging
Add more users as: (Users | Invite new)
• Administrator
• Editor
• Author
• Contributor
• Follower
Take away
• Get Started
• Customize My Site
• Create Content
• Add a Domain
• Go Mobile
• Manage Your Profile
• Add Media
• Get Social
Questions?
Resources
• Installation: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
• Learning: http://learn.wordpress.com/
• Themes, Plugins, Widgets: http://wordpress.org/
• Tips & Tools: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/popular-posts/
• Professional WP development: http://wp.tutsplus.com/series/professional-wordpress-development/
• Getting more views & traffic: http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
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