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<title>Girl Develop It - WordPress 101</title>
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<h1>WordPress 101</h1>
<p>
<small>With <a href="http://twitter.com/aarahkahak">Sarah Kahn</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/roenok">Sylvia Richardson</a></small>
</p>
<p>
Slides located at: <a href="http://www.platypoda.com/wp101">http://www.platypoda.com/wp101</a>
</p>
</section>
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<section>
<section>
<h2>About you</h2>
<h3>Why do you want learn WordPress?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Your name and background</li>
<li>Why you're here</li>
<li>A random fact about you</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>The rules</h2>
<h3>No question is stupid!</h3>
<ul>
<li>Raise your hand or speak up at any point</li>
<li>Grab a TA whenever you need one-on-one help</li>
<li>"Learn and return"</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Schedule</h2>
<h3>This morning you will...</h3>
<ul>
<li>Learn what WordPress is</li>
<li>Learn how to install it</li>
<li>Learn how to keep it secure</li>
<li>Learn administrative backend functionality</li>
<li>Learn how to build out a site</li>
<li>Take a half hour lunch break around 1pm</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<img src="img/here-we-go.jpeg" / alt="Raise your hand, here we go!">
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h2>What is WordPress?</h2>
<img src="img/wordpress-logo-stacked-rgb.png" / alt="WordPress Logo">
</section>
<section>
<h2>Official description from WordPress.org</h2>
<blockquote>
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
</blockquote>
</section>
<section>
<h2>WordPress is</h2>
<h3>Popular</h3>
<p>
WordPress is the <a href="http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all" target="_blank">#1 content management system in the world</a>.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>WordPress is</h2>
<h3>Popular</h3>
<p>
As of Matt Mullenweg's July 2013 "<a href="http://wordpress.tv/2013/07/29/matt-mullenweg-state-of-the-word-2013/" target="_blank">State of the Word</a>"
</p>
<ul>
<li>WordPress powered 18.9% of the Internet, up 2.2% from the previous year (<a href="http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all" target="_blank">Now it is 21.3%</a>).</li>
<li>Over the previous 12 months, WordPress was downloaded a total of 46 million times</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>WordPress is</h2>
<h3>Free, open source, web-based software</h3>
<p>
WordPress core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers. Thousands of people around the word contribute to it by either testing the software, submitting bugfixes or building plugins and themes for it.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>WordPress is</h2>
<h3>A website building framework</h3>
<p>
WordPress is a platform for building and designing a website.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>WordPress is</h2>
<h3>A content management system</h3>
<p>
WordPress allows site owners to manage their site content via an easy-to-use admin.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>WordPress.org vs. WordPress.com</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>WordPress.org</strong> - Web software used to build a website on a hosting account with a domain name. Sites can be built and modified using themes, plugins or custom code</li> <br />
<li><strong>WordPress.com</strong> - A free blogging service that allows people to create a blog hosted on WordPress.com's servers. Hosting is free (although there are some for-pay add-ons), theme choices are limited, plugins can not be installed and code can not be modified</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/self-hosted-wordpress-org-vs-free-wordpress-com-infograph/?display=wide" target="_blank"><img src="img/Sign-Info.png" /></a>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h2>Installing WordPress</h2>
<img src="img/lego-install.jpg" alt="Lego figures holding RAM"/>
<p class="credit">Photo credit: <a href="https://flic.kr/p/5rExsj" target="_blank">mrzeon</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/" target="_blank">cc</a></p>
</section>
<section>
<h3>What WordPress needs to run</h3>
<ul>
<li>A hosting account running PHP version 5.2.4 or greater and MySQL version 5.0 or greater</li>
<li>Software from WordPress.org or a "one-click install" feature through the hosting account control panel</li>
<li>A domain name (or temporary URL provided by your host)</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h3>What Is Needed For a Manual Install</h3>
<ul>
<li>Access to your hosting control panel to create a database and database user</li>
<li>A FTP Program. FTP (or SFTP) is the method used to upload and download files between a computer and a hosting account</li>
<li>A Web browser. Installation is performed step-by-step on a web browser</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h3>Demo Time!</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create the database</li>
<li>Upload files</li>
<li>Run the install</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h2>Security</h2>
<img src="img/security-kitty.png" alt="Security Kitty" />
<h3>Being popular means you're a target</h3>
<p>
It is important that you take security seriously when running a non-static site like WordPress.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Security</h2>
<h3>During install</h3>
<ul>
<li>Make your database table prefix unique. Don't use "wp_" or "wordpress_"</li>
<li>Create a new database user, don't use the default</li>
<li>Make your database user password strong.</li>
<li><strong>Do not use "admin" as a username.</strong> "admin" used to be the default WordPress username. Use a unique username and a very strong Password</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Security</h2>
<h3>Before you start: WordPress hardening</h3>
<ul>
<li>Take some <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress" target="_blank">code-level and sysadmin steps</a> to "harden" WordPress</li>
<ul>
<li>Securing wp-includes</li>
<li>Securing wp-config.php</li>
<li>Disable File Editing</li>
<li>And more</li>
</ul>
<li>Or use a <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/" target="_blank">security plugin</a> that performs "1-click hardening"</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Security</h2>
<h3>After your site's live: Monitoring and protection</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Keep WordPress core, themes and plugins updated!</strong></li>
<li>Use a service that scans and protects your site daily from hackers and malware</li>
<li>Use a firewall service that shields your site from hackers and malware. Some hosts, like WPEngine.com, have this built into their hosting service</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Security</h2>
<h3>If you do get hacked</h3>
<ul>
<li>Use a malware removal service.</li>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="http://sucuri.net/" target="_blank">Sucuri.net</a></strong> Reasonably priced WordPress security experts</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://WPEngine.com/" target="_blank">WPEngine.com</a></strong> WordPress hosting that includes malware cleanup if needed</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h2>Let's Explore!</h2>
<img src="img/bookshelf-cat.jpg" alt="Cat exploring a bookcase"/>
<p class="credit">Photo credit: <a href="https://flic.kr/p/6u9fgZ" target="_blank">bhermans</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/" target="_blank">cc</a></p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>A Tour of the Front End</h2>
<h3>WordPress comes with the default theme Twenty Fourteen activated</h3>
<ul>
<li>A sample post on the home page.</li>
<li>A sample page</li>
<li>A sample comment</li>
<li>A sample tag line "Just another WordPress site"</li>
<li>A set of sidebar widgets</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>A Tour of the Backend Admin</h2>
<h3>Located at: yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ </h3>
<p>
The admin is divided into 3 areas:
<ol>
<li>The top menu bar</li>
<li>The left-hand menu used to navigate to most admin functionality</li>
<li>The main content window where most admin functionality is performed</li>
</ol>
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>A Tour of the Backend Admin</h2>
<h3>Located at: yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ </h3>
<p>
<strong>Tip:</strong> You can change what's displayed on an admin page by clicking on the "screen options" tab in the upper right corner.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Another Tip:</strong> Open the front end of your site in one browser tab and the backend in another so you can easily switch between the 2 as you make changes to your site.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Setting Up Your Site</h2>
<h3>The Settings menu</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>General:</strong> Title, tagline, site address, date format, etc.</li>
<li><strong>Writing:</strong> Post-related settings</li>
<li><strong>Reading:</strong> Set site home page, # of posts, rss settings and search engine visibility</li>
<li><strong>Discussion:</strong> Manage comment settings</li>
<li><strong>Media:</strong> Make default image sizes and other media settings</li>
<li><strong>Permalinks:</strong> Define the structure of site URLs</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Exercise time!</h2>
<h3>Some tasks to get you familiar with the Settings menu and dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>Change the name of your site</li>
<li>Change the "Front page" of your site to the sample page </li>
<li>Require users to register before posting a comment</li>
<li>Require comments to be approved by an administrator before they are posted</li>
<li>Change the dimensions of "Large size" images</li>
<li>Remove the "WordPress News" from the dashboard</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h2>Changing Site Appearance</h2>
<h3>The Appearance menu</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Themes:</strong> Manage the current theme in use and other installed themes</li>
<li><strong>Widgets:</strong> Manage widgets you can add to site sidebars or other "widgetized" areas</li>
<li><strong>Menus:</strong> Manage Custom menus</li>
<li><strong>Header:</strong> Manage header text and image</li>
<li><strong>Background:</strong> Manage background color and image</li>
<li><strong>Editor:</strong> Dangerous way to edit theme and plugin flies. This is disabled if you "harden" WordPress</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Exercise time!</h2>
<h3>Some tasks to get you familiar with the Appearance menu</h3>
<ul>
<li>Remove a few widgets and add some of your own text to the sidebar using a text widget</li>
<li>Add a picture to your header</li>
<li>Change the color of your header text</li>
<li>Change the color of your background</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h2>Adding Content</h2>
<h3>Pages and Posts</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Pages:</strong> Regular static website pages with content</li>
<li><strong>Posts:</strong> Entries (like blog posts) that have a date, categories and tags assigned to them. They can be listed in a particular order (chronologically, alphabetically, etc.) and fed to other sites or blog readers via an RSS feed</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://www.chaostoclarity.com/how-wordpress-works-page-vs-post-infographic/" target="_blank"><img src="img/Sign-Info.png" /></a>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Let's Play</h2>
<h3>Is it a Page or a Post?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Restaurant review</li>
<li>About us</li>
<li>One of multiple press releases</li>
<li>A news announcement</li>
<li>Terms and Conditions</li>
<li>Our Services</li>
<li>One of multiple portfolio pieces</li>
<li>Mission statement</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Adding Content</h2>
<h3>Pages</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Page Title</strong></li>
<li><strong>Permalink:</strong> Manage the name of the page URL</li>
<li><strong>Page Content</strong></li>
<li><strong>Revisions:</strong> View and restore previous versions of the page</li>
<li><strong>Custom Fields:</strong> Additional fields (display requires theme support)</li>
<li><strong>Discussion:</strong> Turn comments on or off for this page</li>
<li><strong>Comments:</strong> Displays current page comments</li>
<li><strong>Slug:</strong> Manage the name of the page slug</li>
<li><strong>Author:</strong> Switch between post authors (display requires theme support)</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Adding Content</h2>
<h3>Pages</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Publish</strong> Change publish status and visibility settings and view revisions</li>
<li><strong>Page Attributes:</strong> Assign a page "parent", choose template and sort order</li>
<li><strong>Featured Image:</strong> Assign an image to page (requires theme support)</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Adding Content</h2>
<h3>Using the content editor</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Visual and Text tabs:</strong> Toggle between WYSIWYG and code view</li>
<li><strong>Add Media</strong> Upload pictures and other files</li>
<li><strong>Button Bar</strong> Use formatting and display options</li>
<li><strong>Embeds</strong> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds" target="_blank">Paste links to popular media services</a> and they will automatically display on the page</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Adding Content</h2>
<h3>Posts</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Excerpt</strong> Determine an excerpt for a post (display requires theme support)</li>
<li><strong>Send Trackbacks:</strong> More <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks" target="_blank">information on trackbacks</a></li>
<li><strong>Format:</strong> Choose between several post formats (display requires theme support)</li>
<li><strong>Categories and Tags:</strong> Assign categories and tags to allow posts to be organized by subject</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Adding Content</h2>
<h3>Tip</h3>
<p>
Use the bulk editor on the page or post list to make edits to multiple pages or posts at a time (like removing comments).
</p>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h1>Lunch break!</h1>
<h3>Grab some food and make a new friend.</h3>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h2>Welcome back!</h2>
<h3>This afternoon you will...</h3>
<ul>
<li>Build out your site with pages and posts</li>
<li>Learn about the remaining admin menu items</li>
<li>Learn about Plugins and how to find, install and activate them</li>
<li>Learn about Themes and how to find, install, preview and activate them</li>
<li>Learn about further options for customizing WordPress</li>
<li>End with resources, questions, one-and-one help and wrap-up</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>But First</h2>
<h3>A review...</h3>
<ul>
<li>What is the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com?</li>
<li>What username should you never EVER use for a WordPress user account?</li>
<li>What is the difference between a Page and a Post?</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Exercise time!</h2>
<h3>Create pages and posts for your site.</h3>
<p>Try to include some of the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add pages with text and pictures</li>
<li>Make a page password-protected</li>
<li>Add posts and use different formats</li>
<li>Make a page a "child" of another page</li>
<li>Add a video to a page using an auto embed</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h2>Managing Menus</h2>
<h3>Appearance > Menus</h3>
<p>
Easily create and manage navigation menus
</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Create menus:</strong> Enter a menu name and click "Create Menu"</li>
<li><strong>Add pages:</strong> Add existing pages, custom links or category pages</li>
<li><strong>Order Pages:</strong> Drag and drop your pages menu items in the desired order. Indent pages to make them children of other pages</li>
<li><strong>Assign Menu to Theme location:</strong> When the menu is ready, assign it to a theme location and click "Save Menu."</li>
<li><strong>Manage Locations Tab:</strong> Assign menus to theme locations</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Managing Comments</h2>
<img src="img/cat-at-keyboard.png" alt="Cat sitting at keyboard" />
<h3>The Comments menu</h3>
<p>
View, approve, delete and mark comments as spam.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Managing Media</h2>
<h3>The Media menu</h3>
<p>
View all files that have been uploaded to the site via the content editor. Add, edit and delete files.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Managing Users</h2>
<h3>The Users menu</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Manage existing users:</strong> Edit all user data or delete users</li>
<li><strong>Add new users:</strong> Assign new users to site</li>
<li><strong>Your Profile:</strong> Edit your own profile settings</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Managing Users</h2>
<h3>User roles</h3>
<p>
Users can be given <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities" target="_blank">certain levels of editing privileges</a>.
</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Administrator:</strong> access to all the administration features within a single site</li>
<li><strong>Editor:</strong> ability to publish and manage posts including the posts of other users</li>
<li><strong>Author:</strong> ability to publish and manage their own posts</li>
<li><strong>Contributor:</strong> ability to write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them</li>
<li><strong>Subscriber:</strong> ability to only manage their profile</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h2>Plugins</h2>
<img src="img/plugin.png" alt="Plugin Cat" />
</section>
<section>
<h2>What are Plugins?</h2>
<h3>Official description from WordPress.org</h3>
<blockquote>
Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine.
</blockquote>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Plugins are</h2>
<h3>Powerful</h3>
<p>
Plugins are used to add functionality to WordPress. Examples include ecommerce, SEO, forms, photo galleries, social media sharing, forums and much more!
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Plugins are</h2>
<h3>Often Free</h3>
<p>
Right now there are 29,265 free plugins in the official <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/" target="_blank">WordPress Plugin Directory</a>.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Plugins</h2>
<h3>Plugins menu</h3>
<p>
WordPress comes with 2 plugins:
<ul>
<li><strong>Akismet:</strong> Protects your blog from comment and trackback spam. This plugin requires an <a href="http://akismet.com/wordpress" target="_blank">Akismet key</a></li>
<li><strong>Hello Dolly:</strong> Adds a random lyric from "Hello Dolly" to the upper right-hand corner of admin screen.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Plugins</h2>
<h3>Managing Plugins</h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Activate/Deactivate:</strong> Turns plugins "on" and "off"</li>
<li><strong>Edit:</strong> Ability to edit plugin files NOT RECOMMENDED</li>
<li><strong>Delete:</strong> Delete deactivated plugins</li>
</ul>
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Plugins</h2>
<h3>Finding plugins</h3>
<ul>
<li>Searching under Plugins > Add New</li>
<li>Browsing the <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/" target="_blank">WordPress Plugin Directory</a></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Plugins</h2>
<h3>3 ways to install plugins</h3>
<ul>
<li>Clicking "Install Now" from "Install Plugins" search results</li>
<li>Download a plugin zip file and install it via the "Upload" link</li>
<li>Unzip the plugin files and upload it via FTP to the<br /> <code>/wp-content/plugins</code> folder</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Plugins</h2>
<h3>Usage tip</h3>
<p>
Plugins often use <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode" target="_blank">shortcodes</a> to add content to a page or post.
</p>
<p>
For example, the plugin <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/" target="_blank">Contact Form 7</a> uses the shortcode <code>[contact-form-7 id="105"]</code> (the ID is the ID of the form) to allow you a form to a page or post.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Plugins</h2>
<h3>Security tip - Vet plugins first</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Ratings</strong> Read the plugin reviews</li>
<li><strong>Maintenance</strong> Check to see it the plugin has regular updates</li>
<li><strong>Support</strong> See if the plugin developers regularly answer support questions</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Top Free Plugins</h2>
<h3>Free plugins we like</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/" target="_blank">Contact Form 7:</a></strong> Used to make simple contact forms </li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/" target="_blank">WordPress SEO by Yoast:</a></strong> SEO plugin for WordPress </li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/" target="_blank">Nextgen Gallery:</a></strong> An image gallery plugin that also has available add-on plugins</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" target="_blank">WooCommerce:</a></strong> Ecommerce plugin</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-fancybox/" target="_blank">Easy Fancybox:</a></strong> Simple image effects</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/" target="_blank">Sucuri Free:</a></strong> Malware scanning and 1-click hardening</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Top Premium Plugins</h2>
<h3>For-pay plugins we like</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.gravityforms.com/" target="_blank">Gravity Forms:</a></strong> A very powerful and feature-rich forms builder</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/" target="_blank">Backup Buddy:</a></strong> Easily backup, restore and migrate a WordPress site</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://sliderpro.net/" target="_blank">Slider Pro:</a></strong> My favorite slider plugin</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Exercise time!</h2>
<h3>Some tasks to get you familiar with installing and activating plugins</h3>
<ul>
<li>Search for plugins via Plugins > Add New and try some</li>
<li>Browse the <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/" target="_blank">WordPress Plugins Directory</a>, download one and install it using the "upload" link</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h2>Themes</h2>
<img src="img/theme.png" alt="Cat dressed as a lion." />
</section>
<section>
<h2>What are Themes?</h2>
<blockquote>
Fundamentally, the WordPress Theme system is a way to 'skin' your weblog. Yet, it is more than just a 'skin.' WordPress Themes can provide much more control over the look and <em>presentation</em> of the material on your website.
</blockquote>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Themes are</h2>
<h3>Powerful</h3>
<p>
A theme not only determines how a site looks, it can also determine its functionality. There are themes that can turn a WordPress site into an online store, an art portfolio, project management system, CRM, bug tracking system and more.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Themes are</h2>
<h3>Often Free</h3>
<p>
Right now there are 2,281 free themes in the official <a href="http://wordpress.org/themes/" target="_blank">WordPress Themes Directory</a>.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Managing Themes</h2>
<h3>Appearance > Themes</h3>
<p>
WordPress currently comes with 3 themes: Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Thirteen and Twenty Twelve.
</p>
<p>
Under <strong>Appearance > Themes</strong> is a list of all installed themes. The theme in use is labeled "Current" and others "Available."
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Themes</h2>
<h3>Appearance > Themes</h3>
<p>
<strong>"Live Preview" before you activate or customize a theme</strong>
</p>
<p>
Click "Customize" under the current theme or "Live Preview" under an available theme to see how a new or modified theme will look before you commit to it.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Themes</h2>
<h3>Finding new themes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Searching under the "Install Themes" tab</li>
<li>Browsing the <a href="http://wordpress.org/themes/" target="_blank">WordPress Themes Directory</a></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Themes</h2>
<h3>3 way to install themes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Install right from the "Install Themes" tab</li>
<li>Download a theme zip file and install it via the "upload" link</li>
<li>Unzip the theme files and upload it via FTP to the<br /> <code>/wp-content/themes</code> folder</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Exercise time!</h2>
<h3>Some tasks to get you familiar with installing, previewing and activating themes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Use the live theme previewer to see how Twenty Thirteen will look on your site and try activating it</li>
<li>Search for themes via the "Install Themes" tab and give one a try</li>
<li>Browse the <a href="http://wordpress.org/themes/" target="_blank">WordPress Themes Directory</a>, download one and install it using the "upload" link</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h2>Where to go from here?</h2>
<h3>Further Customizing WordPress</h3>
<p>
<strong>Power Users</strong> - Use theme frameworks to tweak site design.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Web Designers</strong> - Use HTML, CSS and PHP to build your own themes.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Where to go from here?</h2>
<h3>Power users</h3>
<p>
<strong>Theme Frameworks</strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://my.studiopress.com/themes/genesis/" target="_blank"><strong>Genesis</strong></a> - The Genesis Framework empowers you to quickly and easily build incredible websites with WordPress.</li>
<li><a href="http://diythemes.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Thesis</strong></a> - Web design that you can customize from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard</li>
<li><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/" target="_blank"><strong>WooThemes Canvas</strong></a> - WordPress theme with facilities to change just about every element of the layout and style</li>
<li><a href="http://athemes.com/collections/best-wordpress-theme-frameworks" target="_blank"><strong>And many more!</strong></a></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Where to go from here?</h2>
<h3>Power users</h3>
<p>
<strong>Theme Frameworks</strong>
</p>
<p>
Demo of the WooTheme, Canvas.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Where to go from here?</h2>
<h3>Web designers</h3>
<p>
Folks with HTML/CSS skill set can customize or build their own WordPress themes.
</p>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section>
<h2>Resources</h2>
<h3>Read the Codex</h3>
<p>
The Codex is the official WordPress documentation. It is detailed and user-friendly.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/" target="_blank">codex.wordpress.org</a>
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Resources</h2>
<h3>Join the Triangle WordPress Meetup Group</h3>
<p>
The Triangle WordPress Meetup Group is a group of WordPress enthusiasts in and around the Triangle who love working with WordPress in a variety of different ways.
</p>
<p>
They are having a WordPress Help Desk event this Monday, November 24.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/TriangleWordPress/" target="_blank">www.meetup.com/TriangleWordPress</a>
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Resources</h2>
<h3>Attend a WordCamp</h3>
<p>
WordCamps are affordable, informal, community-organized WordPress conferences held all over the world. They are packed with workshops geared toward WordPress users, designers and developers.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/" target="_blank">central.wordcamp.org</a>
</p>
</section>
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<section>
<section>
<h1>Questions?</h1>
<h4>One-on-one help time</h4>
<p>Feel free to pull us or a TA over to answer questions specific to your projects or regarding any issue not covered in class.</p>
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<h1>THE END</h1>
<p>Thank you!</p>
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