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- 1. WordPress 101 A Starter Guide for Schools
- 2. William Stites Director of Technology The Montclair Kimberley Academy wstites@mka.org Blogger in Chief edSocialMedia.com william.stites@edsocialmedia.com williamstites.net @wstites
- 3. What is WordPress? http://aboutblog.net/Images/Tips/blog_logo.jpg
- 7. Dashboard
- 12. Settings - Media
- 17. Appearance - the rest...
- 18. Plugins
- 19. Plugins - Add New & Edit
- 20. Users
- 21. Users - Add New User(s)
- 22. Users - Profile
- 23. Posts
- 24. Posts - Add New
- 26. Posts - Tags
- 27. WordPress 3.x http://www.staenzwebsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/wordpress-mu.png
- 29. Getting the word out... http://foodblogalliance.com/images/twitter-logo-cute-bird.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Inp2a8e7_-o/SnVQcsgQOxI/AAAAAAAADkI/sziCPgoYOco/s400/rss_logo2sm.png
- 31. William Stites Director of Technology The Montclair Kimberley Academy wstites@mka.org Blogger in Chief edSocialMedia.com william.stites@edsocialmedia.com williamstites.net @wstites
Editor's Notes
- Goals:\nBasic technical overview of key areas and things to configure\n\n
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- Open source, blogging tool\n\n
- Schools - Gould Academy & Think Global\nSchool Magazines - WA Mash\nForeign Studies - Irish Studies\n\n
- (dot)com\nFree\nPlayground\n- themes, plugins, widgets, “Proof of Concept(s)”\nAPI key - plugin\n(dot)org\ndownloadable\ndeveloper area\nactive community\n
- Under the hood\nCurrent version 3.1.1\n\n
- Where you access it all - \nQuick overview: Dashboard, Media, Links, Pages, Comments, Tools\n\nMore on this: Posts, Appearance, Plugins, Users, Settings \n
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- Post Category\n
- What displays on the "home page"\n\nHow much of the post do you want displayed - requires user to click into the post\n
- How to manage discusisons/comments - open vs moderated\n
- Defauts for images - relevant when adding into posts\n
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- By including the name of the post in the URL can help SEO\n
- “The Look & Feel” of the site\nFind & test on WordPress.com\n\n
- “The Look & Feel” of the site\nFind & test on WordPress.com\n\n
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- Users are defined by their role:\n• Super Admin - 3.x - Network wide control\n• Admin - blog specific control\n• Editor - publish & manage post, pages & others posts\n• Author - publish & manage their own\n• Contributor - write & manage, but not post\n• Subscriber - manage profile\n
- Display name - consider when having students post... what policies do you have in place regarding the level of student exposure\n\nBio is good to fill in as it gives the reader some background on the author(s)\n
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- Simple as sending an email\n\nTitle\n\nText\n\nPublish - draft, schedule\n\nCategories & tags\n
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- Merger of WP & WP Mu\nAdmin bar\nCustom Menus\n\nDeveloper Level’ish\nCustom Headers & Background API\nCustom Post Types & Taxonomies\n
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