everything about wordpress ever!

A broad, shallow overview of Wordpress

Dave Mee, TANDOT

dave@tandot.co.uk

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• Identify what Wordpress is

• How to get going with it

• What you can do with it

• A brief look under the hood

What is Wordpress?

wordpress.com Self-hosting

Cost Free Hosting costs

Up-to-speed Instant Some work

Headache None Little to large

wordpress.com Self-hosting

Cost Free Hosting costs

Up-to-speed Instant Some work

Headache None Little to large

Customisability Limited Total

Flexibility Capped Contortionistic!

• Added value!

• Updated content says “we‟re still here!”

• Immediate

• Removal of technical barriers of communication

• Standardised

• All the back-ends are the same.

• Getting more than you expect

• You‟ll find neat features for weeks.

• A webserver – preferably Apache on a Unix

• PHP4 installed and enabled

• MySQL

• A means to upload files

• We want a „cooking‟ and an „eating out‟

section.

• It better be easy!

Homepage

Category

Archive

Date Archive

Post

• Publish a regular or non-regular audio file

• Or maybe a video file

• Perhaps it‟s about rocket science or brain

surgery.

The kids say „pimp my blog‟.

• Customise post types

• Metadata customisation

• Item-specific layouts

„pimp my discourse‟

• Intra-blog communication

• Drives awareness, traffic

• Poor vision of Ted Nelson‟s hypertext

pathways

• But a great way to find out who‟s talking

about your content

• 9/11 for online discourse!

• Get your warcraft gold cheap!

• Maybe you have downstairs dysfunction, or

are facing foreclosure?

• AKISMET!

Do

Anything!

Publish

other‟s

posts

Manage

other‟s

posts

Publish

own

posts

Write own

posts

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