Word press as your company website

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Using WordPress as Your Company’s Website

Kelli  Wise  

Agenda  

•  Background  •  Configuring  WordPress  

•  Theme  Selec:on  

•  Plugins  •  Employee  access  

•  Security  •  Maintenance  

Why  Use  WordPress?  

•  Great  CMS  •  Easy  to  edit  contents  •  No  need  for  html  or  css  knowledge  

•  SEO  is  much  easier  

•  Open  Source  •  Almost  any  feature  you  might  need  –  there’s  a  plugin  

Installing  WordPress  

•  Famous  5  minute  install  •  Script  installers  – Fantas:co  – SoLaculous  

•  Linux  hos:ng  •  Lp  access  

Configuring  WordPress  

•  Out  of  the  box:  Blog  Index  as  landing  page  •  You  want  a  sta:c  page  as  Home  

Add  Pages  

Home  Page  

Blog  Page  

Setup  WordPress  

SeSngs  -­‐  General  

SeSngs  -­‐  Reading  

Change    From:  “Your  latest  posts”  

To:  “A  Sta:c  Page”  

SeSngs  -­‐  Permalinks  

Change    From:  “Default”  

Theme  Selec:on  

•  It’s  your  Business  •  Vet  any  sources  of  FREE  themes  – Some  have  malware  

– WordPress.org  is  a  safe  source  

Premium  Themes  

•  Great  graphic  design  •  Func5onality  •  Have  limita5ons  

– Size  of  logo  – Layouts,  fonts,  colors  may  be  limited  

•  Developer  support  level  

Theme  Frameworks  

•  Most  customizability  •  Brandable  •  Require  more  work  &  :me    

•  More  expensive  

Cost  Difficulty  

Customizability  

Plugins  

•  Bare  minimum  plugins:  – Backup,  configured  for  weekly  backups  of  database  

– XML  sitemap  generator,  configured  for  updates  

– Spam  filter  – SEO  

Installing  Plugins  

•  Ac:vate  them  one  at  a  :me  •  Test  the  site  •  If  one  of  them  causes  an  error  and  you  can’t  delete  it  in  WordPress  admin:  – Lp  into  your  site  – Delete  the  plugin  folder  – The  site  should  come  back  up  

Administrator  

All  Access  

Most  Risk  

Most  Damage  

Do  you  want  to  let  your  employees  edit?  

Author   Subscriber  Contributor  

Editor  

Subscriber  Contributor  Editor  

Author  

Editor   Author   Subscriber  

Contributor  

Editor   Author   Contributor  

Subscriber  

Security  

•  Don’t  use  Admin  as  username  •  Use  strong  passwords  •  Secure  your  internet  connec:on  •  Keep  WordPress,  theme  &  plugins  updated  

•  Delete  unused  plugins  •  Scan  site  for  malware  

Maintenance  

•  Backup  –  Backup  –  Backup!  – Store  copies  offsite    

•  On  your  PC  •  On  a  cloud  server  

•  Keep  things  updated  •  Test  new  plugins  and  themes  on  a  copy  – Use  a  subdomain  for  this  

Summary  

•  Configuring  WordPress  •  Theme  Selec:on  

•  Plugins  •  Employee  access  

•  Security  •  Maintenance