A Tour of Your Guide: Oleg Kagan, okagan@library.lacounty.gov

5 Things About WP1. Wordpress is a Content Management System

2. It started as a blogging platform, and grew

3. Creating your own is easy (and can be free)

4. Plugins & themes make it highly customizable

5. The interface is, generally-speaking, intuitive

A regular website

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A CMS...

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WP Levels of InvolvementC

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TINKERING SKILLS / COURAGE / TIME

just blogging

wordpress.com

small changes to siteyour own host & domain

coding up your own plugins

designing your own theme

installing/using pluginschoosing different themes

e-commercemessing with the code

It started with blogging...

...and now: Lamps

http://kartellstorela.com/

Universities

http://www.gsu.edu/

Shoes

http://www.bata.com/

Even Libraries!

http://thegrovelibrary.net/

Wordpress.com

Hosted options

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Plugins and Themes

The Control Center

Posts and Pages

Let's go explore!➔ Editing Posts & Pages

➔ Digging into the Settings

➔ Messing with Media

➔ Moderating Comments

➔ Appearance Options(cc) randomesquephoto via Flickr

A Tour of Your Guide: Oleg Kagan, okagan@library.lacounty.gov

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