neflin: wordpress for libraries
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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
PLAYTIME
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
PLAYTIME!
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
PLAYTIME
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
PLAYTIME
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?
