using wordpress for digital workflows and more
DESCRIPTION
As digital becomes more central to a book publishers life, the tools must change to keep pace. In this session we look at WordPress as a lightweight digital swiss army knife, a powerful and flexible platform that can be adapted to many publishing needs. We’ll look at using WordPress-based systems for ecommerce, marketing, catalogs and discovery and more. Participants will aslo have a hands-on demo of PressBooks (built on WordPress), a digital book production tool that participants can use to generate an epub and typeset PDFs.TRANSCRIPT
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Using WordPress For Digital Workflowsand more...
@hughmcguireHugh McGuire
@kirkbiglioneKirk Biglione
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First: Setup your PressBooks accountYou’ll need this to make a book later
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Next: download this test doc file ... from which we will make a book later.http://bit.ly/pressbooks-test
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Why WordPress?that’s a blogging system, right?
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WordPress World Domination
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Recipe for World DominationMake People Happy
Continuous Cycle of Improvement
Standards Based
Open Source
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Think of WordPress as
a toolbox
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Inside the ToolboxAPIs
Theme System
Custom Content Types
Custom Taxonomies
Metadata
Localization
Security
Multi-user
User roles
Multi-site
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Tools for solving real world problems
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MARKET BOOKSTIMFERRISS.COM
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SELL BOOKSWWW.WOOTHEMES.COM/WOOCOMMERCE/
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BUILD COMMUNITYTASTYKITCHEN.COM
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BUDDYPRESSBUDDYPRESS.ORG
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PREMIUM WEB CONTENTWPAPPRENTICE.COM
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WISHLIST MEMBERMEMBER.WISHLISTPRODUCTS.COM
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BYOP?
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Build Your Own Pottermore
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Back to workflow
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EDITORIAL WORKFLOWEDITFLOW.ORG
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EBOOK BOOK PRODUCTIONANTHOLOGIZE.ORG
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SCIENTIFIC JOURNALSANNOTUM.ORG
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Remember Google Knol?The “wikipedia killer”
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GOOGLE KNOLKNOL.GOOGLE.COM
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BOOK PRODUCTION: PRINT & DIGITALPRESSBOOKS.COM
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Principle #1:
Making a beautiful book should be no harder than making a beautiful website.
(ie: use a good framework and customizable templates.)
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Principle #2:
If you build your book as structured markup from the start, then you can “get” to any output you like, “easily.”
(ie: make it in HTML ... and go from there.)
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Principle #3:
The distinction between “books” and the “Internet” is going to disappear. All data, even “books,” will be on the web.
(ie: if you build your book on the web, it is already there.)
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Our choice:
Build from an existing platform that is native to the web, structured, and makes it easy to make beautiful websites with customizable templates.
(ie: WordPress)
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Let’s make a book
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Login to PressBooks.com
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If you’re account isn’t active yet, here are a few that are:
austen.pressbooks.comuser: austenpw: austenpw
bronte.pressbooks.comuser: brontepw: brontepw
twain.pressbooks.comuser: twainpw: twainpw
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PressBooks output: ebook
(ibooks)