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WordPress Feeds Your Social Media Hunger

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Short presentation to social media meetup group in Marietta, GA on using WordPress as part of an integrated social media strategy. Touches on critical settings and a few highly recommended plugins.

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WordPress Feeds Your Social Media

Hunger

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WordPress Feeds Your Social Media Hunger

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org WordPress Hosted vs Self-Hosted Personal vs Business Limited vs Unlimited 110 Themes vs 1,335 Themes No Premium Themes vs Premium Themes Handful of Plugins vs 13,646 Plugins

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Live & Ready to Go in Under 5 Minutes

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Setting the Foundation for SEO Make sure your site title is descriptive.

Make sure you have changed the tagline from “Just Another WordPress Blog” to a description of what your website is about.

Set your permalinks to something that includes %postname%

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Just a Few Minutes More…

Change the name of the default category from “Uncategorized” to something more descriptive.

Delete the first default post (Hello World!) and comment.

Edit your About page (or Sample Page).

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Recommended Plugins – Day One Akismet – pre-installed comment spam filter Google XML Sitemaps Google Analyticator WP Database Backup Fast & Secure Contact Form All in One SEO Pack Social Media Widget

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Sweet Tea Group | Kathy DrewienOur mission is to ease your technology related stress, make you feel like a WordPress genius, increase your profits, get known and attract clients.

Kathy DrewienTechnology Coach · WordPress Trainer / Designer________________________________________ Sweet Tea Group · [email protected] (w) · 404.408.1189 (c) · @kdrewien