Everything about Wordpress Ever!
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A broad, shallow overview of what Wordpress is, what it can do, and how you can use it. Intended for people considering or evaluating communication and publishing platforms for their organisation.
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• Identify what Wordpress is
• How to get going with it
• What you can do with it
• A brief look under the hood
What is Wordpress?
wordpress.com Self-hosting
Cost Free Hosting costs
Up-to-speed Instant Some work
Headache None Little to large
wordpress.com Self-hosting
Cost Free Hosting costs
Up-to-speed Instant Some work
Headache None Little to large
Customisability Limited Total
Flexibility Capped Contortionistic!
• Added value!
• Updated content says “we‟re still here!”
• Immediate
• Removal of technical barriers of communication
• Standardised
• All the back-ends are the same.
• Getting more than you expect
• You‟ll find neat features for weeks.
• A webserver – preferably Apache on a Unix
• PHP4 installed and enabled
• MySQL
• A means to upload files
• We want a „cooking‟ and an „eating out‟
section.
• It better be easy!
Homepage
Category
Archive
Date Archive
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• Publish a regular or non-regular audio file
• Or maybe a video file
• Perhaps it‟s about rocket science or brain
surgery.
The kids say „pimp my blog‟.
• Customise post types
• Metadata customisation
• Item-specific layouts
„pimp my discourse‟
• Intra-blog communication
• Drives awareness, traffic
• Poor vision of Ted Nelson‟s hypertext
pathways
• But a great way to find out who‟s talking
about your content
• 9/11 for online discourse!
• Get your warcraft gold cheap!
• Maybe you have downstairs dysfunction, or
are facing foreclosure?
• AKISMET!
Do
Anything!
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other‟s
posts
Manage
other‟s
posts
Publish
own
posts
Write own
posts
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• Thanks for your time and interest
• We provide expert Wordpress consultancy
and deployment at tandot.co.uk
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