Agenda

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Susan Babb

Agenda:
1. Introductions: who is using WordPress? who wants to use WordPress?

2. Content – Pages, posts, Images, About Page, Contact information
3. Appearance – Themes, Widgets
4. Management – Screen options, comments, spam control
5. Navigation - Categories v. Tags, menus
6. Support
7. Best Practices – passwords, sandbox, backups, child themes
8. Cool tools – briefly
9. And if we have time, backtrack to cover items not covered!

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Library WordPress web sites

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Susan Babb

The November 30th class asked to see current WordPress library sites.

Here are a couple in Massachusetts:

Beverly Public Library
Swampscott Public Library

Take a look at the libraries in the Kansas Library on the web project.Some of these libraries are very small!

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Why have a wordpress.com account?

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Susan Babb

Having a user name with WordPress.com is very useful. It gives you the very handy and necessary API (Application Programming Interface) key you need to activate certain plug ins.

Go to the WordPress.com site to get your user name.

You will be asked to create your user name. Be careful how you select – the user name cannot be changed!

You will need to create a password – this can be changed later.

And finally you need to submit your email!

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Plugins and Widgets – What are they???

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Susan Babb

Plugins and Widgets are both bits of code added to your blog for adding functions.

Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs. They enhance what you can do with your blog beyond what is offered with any particular template.

WordPress Widgets (WPW) are like a plugins, but designed to provide a simple way to arrange the various elements of your sidebar content (known as “widgets”) without having to change any code.
Widgets include Archives, Search, RSS Feeds, Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Tag Clouds, etc.

Installing a plugin often results in a new widget! For example, the plugin for the MiniMeta Widget.

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Recommended plugins

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Susan Babb

As requested by the November 3 class:

BX Page RSS – Simple plugin that adds all static pages to your WordPress Blog RSS feed
Feed Statistics – Feed Statistics is a plugin for WordPress blogs that tracks statistics for your RSS/Atom feeds, including the number of subscribers, which feed readers they’re using, which posts they’re viewing and which links they’re clicking on.
MiniMeta Widget - “Mini” Version of the WP Meta Widget
Print Friendly and PDF - Add the Print Friendly button to your WordPress site. Get beautiful print versions of your site, and help readers save paper and ink.
Social Media Widget – The Social Media Widget is a simple sidebar widget that allows users to input their social media website profile URLs and other subscription options to show an icon on the sidebar to that social media site and more that open up in a separate browser window.
Twenty Ten Header Rotator – rotates the header images
WordPress.com Statistics – Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
Worpress Admin Bar – Creates an admin bar inspired by the one at WordPress.com

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