neflin: wordpress for libraries

WORDPRESS FOR LIBRARIES

Presenter: Diana Silveira

AGENDA

• Introduction to WordPress• Tour of WordPress• Themes• Plugins• Images• Creating Pages/Posts• Child Themes• Recommended Plugins• Examples/Trends• Security• Discussion of Custom Solutions• UX• Where to learn more

• Introduction to WordPress• Tour of WordPress• Themes• Plugins• Images• Creating Pages/Posts• Child Themes• Recommended Plugins• Examples/Trends• Security & Maintenance • Discussion of Custom Solutions• UX• Where to learn more

WORDPRESS 101

• What is WordPress?• What are themes?• What are plugins?• What are widgets?• Dashboard

TOUR OF WORDPRESS

LOGIN TO WORDPRESS

THEMES

Where do you find them? What should you look for?

SELECT PLUGINS

Where do you find them? What should you look for?

EVALUATING THEMES AND PLUGINS

• Pay, Free and Freemium• Check out WordPress.org• Evaluation Points:• Number of Installs• Last Update• Author• Support Forums

CHANGE APPEARANCE

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PAGES AND POSTS

IMAGES

MEDIA LIBRARY

IMAGES

Sizing Compressing & Editing Photos:

picmonkey.com/ Image Sources:  CC, Pixabay, Canva Pics: for class: http://bit.ly/1TYaoEd https://placeit.net/ GiPHY

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TOP PLUGINS TO CONSIDER

https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-meter/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tiny-compress-images/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp/http://mailchimp.com/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-everything/

ADDITIONAL PLUGINS?

• Gravity forms

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CREATING AND CUSTOMIZING MENUS

USERS AND PERMISSIONS

TYPES OF USERS

• Administrator: access to all the administration features

• Editor: publish and manage posts including the posts of other users.

• Author: publish and manage their own posts

• Contributor: can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them

• Subscriber: manage their profile

More: https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

USER ROLE EDITOR

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CHILD THEMES

• Customize CSS• Safe Updates• More flexibility• style.css• Create your own• Need help: Use a plugin• When is it not necessary• Learn more

ADDING GOOGLE ANALYTICS

• Yoast SEO• Some themes will have space for UA or script• Add to Child Theme• Other Plugins to consider:• Monster Insights• Google Analytics Insights

CUSTOMIZING CSS

BACKING IT UP

• Backup Buddy• WPDB Migrate Pro• Other Options• Evaluating a method: Automatic, back-ups to an outside

service

FINDING CUSTOM CODE

INSPECT ELEMENT

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• http://www.w3schools.com/• Code Academy• http://www.csstutorial.net/• WordPress Support • whatwpthemeisthat.com• Google!

KEEP YOUR PAGE FAST

• Keep Images Optimized• Limit the Number of Plugins

/Actions• http://www.webpagetest.org/• https://testmysite.thinkwithgoogl

e.com/

• WP-Cache

SECURITY

• Secure passwords• Security Plugins: isecurity, Anti-Malware Security and Brute-

Force Firewall, WordFence, antivirus, Wangguard• Regular Plugin audits• Lockdown the back-end as much as possible

CUSTOM SOLUTIONS

• Events• Catalogs

WHAT DO YOU WANT ON YOUR

PAGE?

EXAMPLES OF WORDPRESS

• Boulder Library• UNC- Chapel Hill• Reading Public Library• NEFLIN• UNC-G LIS• More libraries and more

UPDATING AND MAINTAINING WORDPRESS

UX

USER INPUT

• Watch users (pro, average and non-users) navigate website• Surveys• https://www.optimalworkshop.com/• Google Analytics• Continual Testing. Your site is not done when it launches

SUPPORT IS OUT THERE

• WordPress Facebook Groups• WordPress and Libraries• WordPress

• Theme and Plugin Support Pages and Social Media Sites

QUESTIONS?

CONTACT INFO

Diana Silveiradiana@novarelibrary.comSlideshare.com/dee987