WP-Clique | Easy WordPress Websites » Resources http://www.wp-clique.com Easy WordPress Websites Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:00:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Features in WordPress version 3.1 http://www.wp-clique.com/resources/new-features-in-wordpress-version-3-1/ http://www.wp-clique.com/resources/new-features-in-wordpress-version-3-1/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:00:10 +0000 admin http://www.wp-clique.com/?p=541 Related Posts
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]]> Two of the features that I really like that are new to version 3.1 are the admin tool bar and the add link screen.

Admin Toolbar

If you are like me you usually start at your admin login page and then open the public page.You will now notice when you are logged in and viewing your public page you can see the tool bar. Click the image to see a larger version.

You can use the drop down go jump directly to the admin side

Add Link Button

The box is a lot more user friendly!

Enter your URL, Click add link * the title link is optional.

You can now easily link to other pages on your site.

Click on “or link to existing content”

Highlight/Click the page you are looking for and then click add link

 

I look forward to seeing the website you create, send me a email with the link to your site!

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]]> Here is a Quick list to get you started:
  1. WordPress installed
  2. Unique theme installed
  3. In WP Settings —> General make these changes: Site Title, Site Description. Email should be youremail@email.com. Timezone = YourTimezone
  4. In Posts —> Categories, change the default “Uncategorized” category
  5. In WP Settings —> Permalinks change it to Custom Structure, use /%category%/%postname%/
  6. In WP Settings —> Discussion change it so an admin must always approve a comment
  7. In Links —> Change the default and remove all wordpress links
  8. Google Analytics installed & configured w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/
  9. Akismet installed & activated (key is XXXXXX)
  10. Related posts displaying at the bottom of individual post pages w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/
  11. Facebook Share button installed and configured
  12. Twitter Share button installed and configured

There are always a lot of ways to turn your WordPress into something truly UNIQUE!

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]]> I think you will be presently surprised at how easy it is to add Your Twitter Widget and a TwitterShare Button.

First you do need a Twitter account.   Jump over to http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets For this demo I just used the Profile Badge.

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]]> I think you will be presently surprised at how easy it is to add Your Facebook Badge and a Facebook Share Button.

First you do need a Facebook account.   Jump over to http://www.facebook.com/badges/ For this demo I just used the Profile Badge.

The Facebook Share Button allows your reading to easily post your page or post to their Facebook wall.

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]]> There are many times that you would want an information page or a sales page as your main page and then you have your posts on another page.

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Comments are the best way to engage your readers and keep them coming back.

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]]> Having statistics for your website is a high priority if you are a business.  You want to know where people are coming from to track if you advertising dollars are paying off.  You can also see what information people are looking for most often. Statistics answer the big questions, who, when, where, what.

Why would you want to use Google Analytics? or What data can you actually gather?  Check out the Analytics Tour

Once you have your Analytics account created you can now set up your website.

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]]> The team over at Common Craft have an AWESOME way of cutting through all the hype and “web 2.0″ speak and explain things in plain english. :)    Here a couple of videos that are relevant to the class.

Blogs in Plain English

Social Media in Plain English

RSS in Plain English

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]]> Some great resources to find themes. Still use your best judgment and test, test, test.

Speckyboy.com – An online web design magazine with all kind of articles on the topic. Click on the WordPress tabs for lists of themes, useful plugins, free icon sets and more.

Blogohblog.com – These guys provide both free and premium themes. They have some nice-looking themes with a clean design style.

Smashingmagazine.com – This site is a gold mine of information related to web design in general. If you are not a designer, you may find much of the info to be over your head, but in that case, skip straight to the right column and look for their WordPress categories. These guys continue to compile lists of great free WordPress themes and you’ll find some gems. Check out the Freebies section for other graphic eye-candy such as icons and blog headers.

Bestwpthemes.com – This site is a long-standing WP resource. I like that they make it easy to find themes based on the number of columns that you want. Browse around and you’ll find some worthy contenders.

Some More Quick Links

And of course you can head over to WordPress.org and Google.com.

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]]> What is WordPress?

WordPress is a powerful open source publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible.

WordPress is freely distributed, standards-compliant, fast, light and free personal publishing platform, with sensible default settings and features, and an extremely customizable core.

Advantages & disadvantages

1. Cheap or Free
Using WordPress for your website means it’s cheap or free.

2. It’s That Easy
If you’ve got any computer savvy, WordPress is easy to use. If you can send an e-mail, use Microsoft Word or set up a Facebook account, then you can use WordPress. And normal use doesn’t run the risk of mucking up the design. It’s website creation for non-techies.

3. Do It Yourself
With WordPress you enter the Do-It-Yourself world. No more waiting for and paying a programmer to fix a tiny error, saving you time and money.

4. Many Users, Many Places
WordPress is online and offers multiple users, which means you’re not the only one who can fix something in a pinch and you can access it from anywhere. Which means if you’ve got Internet access in Tahiti, you could work from there. That also means your important site is backed up on a secure server with multiple redundancies, not some high school kid’s laptop.

5. Climb the Search Results
WordPress also makes it easier to optimize your search engine results. That means your site is more likely to land on the first page of Google results, which means people are more likely to find you.

One of the biggest disadvantages is that it is open source there are so many choices that it can cause confusion as to what you need.

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