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This is from the Workshop on WordPress for Small Businesses at WordCamp Ottawa on May 4, 2014. We crowdsourced the resulting menu that I've added at the end of the slides. To follow the conversation, follow @WPOttawa and #WCOttawa. See you next time!
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WordPress for Small
BusinessesSHANTA R. NATHWANI
Introduction
How To Find Me:
Tweet Me:
@TantienHime
My Web Site:
http://shanta.ca
My Test Site:
http://tantienhime.com
About Me
• Graduate of Ryerson’s ITM program
(Co-op and Exchange) 2009
• Currently an Instructor in Web Design
at Sheridan College in the joint CCIT
program with UTM
• Alumni Advisor for Women in ITM
• Founder, Women in Information
Technology Hamilton (WITHamOnt)
• Applying for Masters in Educational
Technologies at UBC
What Is This Workshop?
It is NOT:
About designing the look and feel.
Laurie Rauch is doing the Child Themes
session in the other track right now. ;)
About Code or Plugins specifically.
It is:
About the Content Architecture,
including Categories, Tags, Posts,
Pages, and Menus.
To see my talk on Data Architecture,
check it out on WordPress.TV:
http://wordpress.tv/2013/11/30/shanta-
nathwani-data-architecture-in-
wordpress/
What Are We Going To Do?
Given examples from the audience, we are going to construct the
categories and tags, posts and pages, then a menu.
Answer Questions! Please feel free to jump in and ask questions as we go
along, rather than at the end if you need to.
Assumptions
This Workshop assumes that you have a WordPress site up and running.
That could be in a test module or live site.
What I’m showing today on my own site is WordPress.org, but most is
applicable to WordPress.com sites also.
Pages
Static information for the most part
“About Us” is a great example
Does not use Categories
Can have sub-pages
Posts
Dynamic information
Time sensitive
Uses Categories & Tags
“Upcoming Events” or “Events Attended” are good examples
Categories vs. Tags
Tags
Describes the content using keywords
WordPress recommends 5-7 on a post
Categories
Major classifications for information
“Events” is a great example
Can have sub-categories (much like pages)
Menus
Menus can contain:
Categories (sometimes called “Category Archives”)
Pages
External Links
The number of menus that are supported depend on the theme you
choose, so do that first!
Since 3.6, you can now choose what menu goes where (main, sidebars).
Again, dependant on the theme.
Post-it Notes Are Your Friends!
An Example
3-5-7 Rule
Three clicks to where you need to be
No more than five to seven items in your menus/lists.
Let’s Go!
Who has an example that we want to look at?
After the slides… THE END RESULT
The Finished Product
This is the resulting menu setup for The
Grateful Griller that we crowdsourced
through the session
The regular post its are the pages. The
yellow highlighted items are the
categories.
Hope it works out!