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WordPress 101Social Media Camp 2011

Social Media Camp 2011

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes.

Public Area of Blog

Admin Dashboard

Admin Dashboard

Main Tools

General Settings

Add/Edit Pages

Add/Edit Posts

Add Custom Menus

Add New Plugins

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Top 9 WordPress Website enhancing plugins

These plugins are sure to help your site outWP-Touch

WordBooker & Twitter Blog

CheckOut by tribulant

Twitter Blog

Gravity Forms

Mail Press

Blubrry Power Press

XML Sitemaps

iRobots.txt

Headspace2

setting your site up for mobile viewing

Mobile web surfing is doing nothing but increasing

Prepare your site for all the differing mobile devices

WP-Touch makes it easy

A few simple settings and your all set

WPtouch makes your site mobile ready in a few easy steps.

Easily connect your site to Facebook

With Wordbooker Facebook is automated

Automatically update your status

Pull comments from Facebook to your site

If you update an old post you can republish it

Easily add a Facebook like button or widget to your site.

WordBooker connects your site To Facebook in a few easy steps.

Easily connect your site to Twitter

With Twitter Blog your Twitter is automated

Automatically update your status

Pull comments from Twitter to your site

Twitter Blog connects your site To Twitter in a few easy steps.

set your site up for e-commerce

With Checkout it becomes very easy to setup your own ecommerce store

Sell any Product you like from digital downloads to affiliate products

Import Product lists & convert from older shopping cart systems

Making E-Commerce easy.

Create any type of form you want.

With Gravity Forms creating Forms is an easy task

Easy create any type of form.

Has built in form fields ready to go

Yes it is a premium plugin.

Every site needs a few formsGravity Forms make the job easy.

Manage you own email list and more…Choose the list and sections available for subscription.

Make any section of your site available to be subscribed to.

Automatically sends out emails on a per post, weekly and monthly basis to your users.

Sends responses for comments to both you and the commentator and allows subscriptions to that comment line.

Easily manage your own email list and subscriptions to your site.

Easy Publishing for you Podcasts…Podcasting made easy

Instant placement of a player w/download link.

Automatically sends notices to iTunes about new episodes.

Can do multiple podcast channels so you can have more than one podcast running on your website.

Add a Podcast to your site in a few easy steps

Quick Easy Sitemaps…Sitemaps SEO Ready

Instant auto creation of your sitemap.

Automatically sends notices to Google, Bing, Yahoo & Ask.

Creates a search engine ready gzip file.

Make sure your site always has a valid up to date site map

Quick Easy Robots.txt file…Search Engine Ready

Block bad robots from your site.

Stop Google and other from indexing your images.

Stop the wayback machine from indexing your site.

Easily setup and keep up to date your robots.txt file

Easy SEO for Your Site…Control The SEO on Your Site

Customize most sections of your site.

Use tags to automate the tasks.

Cab be applied globally or just locally.

Simple easy settings for controlling the SEO in differing sections of your website

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