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Getting the most out of WordPress.com
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I am Mel Choyce
• Design Engineer at Automattic
• WordPress core contributor
• Live in Boston
• @melchoyce | choycedesign.com | melchoyce.com
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Introduction to WordPress.com
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• Open source project
• Need to pay for hosting
• Completely customizable
• Total control
• Great if you know some code or feel comfortable experimenting
• Hosted WordPress service
• Free hosting
• Partially customizable
• Paid upgrades
• Great if you’re new to site building/blogging or want to make something fast
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Lots of blogs. Lots of readers.
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Users produce about 41.0 million new posts and 54.0 million new
comments each month
http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
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Over 409 million people view more than 14.0 billion pages
each month
http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
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Used by big brands
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Used InternationallyPosts written in over 120 languages
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Top 10 Languages
66%English
1.4%French
2%Italian
1.1%Russian
1.8%German
3.5%Indonesian
1%Swedish
1.1%Vietnamese
6.5%Portuguese
8.7%Spanish
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Getting Started
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Setting up Your Site
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Themes
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https://cloudup.com/cyDViQbXK4J
Video Demo:Changing Your Theme
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Tips for picking themes
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Figure out your site’s purpose
PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE
BUSINESSBLOG
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Determine your budget
150+Free Themes 110+
Premium Themes$18
LowestPrice
$70~Average
Price
$125+Higher end
themes
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Pick a theme with the layouts you want
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Customization
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Header Images
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Video Demo:Adding a header image
https://cloudup.com/cuInvKCikzv
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Background Colors or Images
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Video Demo:Changing your background color or image
https://cloudup.com/cyj8B5Faec8
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Design Upgrades
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Custom Colors
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Video Demo:Using custom colors
https://cloudup.com/c0i5gn-Ag71
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Custom Fonts
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Video Demo:Using custom colors
https://cloudup.com/cM6k9PoSV9V
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Custom CSS
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Video Demo:Using custom css
https://cloudup.com/cOj_XhIpzRU
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Widgets
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Text Widgets
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Video Demo:Adding a text widget
https://cloudup.com/cxc9zfAU3So
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Contact Info
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Social Widgets
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Twitter Timeline
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Facebook Like Box
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• About.me
• Bandpage
• Box File Sharing
• del.icio.us
• Eventbrite Event Calendar
• Flickr
• Goodreads
• Gravatar/Gravatar Profile
• tlk.io
...and others!
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Follow Widgets
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Follow Button
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Follow Blog by Email
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Widget Visibility
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Menus
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Creating Content
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Pages vs. Posts
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• Chronological — publish date matters
• A single entry in a blog, can stand on its own
• Can add tags + categories
• Display in a list on your blog page
• “Static” — No sense of time or publish date
• Hierarchical — can nest and relate pages together
• No tags or categories
• Display in your menu
Posts Pages
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Front Page
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Page on frontvs.
Blog homepage
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Posts
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Tags vs. Categories
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• Higher level topics(food, travel)
• Usually only one per post, maybe two
• “Table of Contents” of your blog
• Hierarchical
• Granular topics(burritos, santa cruz)
• As many as you want per post
• Like your blog’s index
• Not hierarchical
Categories Tags
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Featured Images
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Video Demo:Adding a featured image
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Post Formats
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Video Demo:Different colors/icons for different post formats
https://cloudup.com/codFplB2TiY
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Excerpts
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Scheduling Posts
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Video Demo:Scheduling a post
https://cloudup.com/cw2HYRJRNGn
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Copy a Post
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Writing Help
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Pages
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Page Templates
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Password Protected Pages
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Video Demo:Password protecting a page
https://cloudup.com/cS-N_xoUurl
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Display Posts Shortcode
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Copy a Page
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Custom Content Types
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Portfolios
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http://en.support.wordpress.com/portfolios/
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Testimonials
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http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/motif/
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Recipes
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[recipe title="Simple Steak Marinade" servings="1lb of steak" time="5 minutes" difficulty="easy"]
(your recipe)
[/recipe]
http://en.support.wordpress.com/shortcodes/recipes/
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Media
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Video Demo:Your media library
https://cloudup.com/cq2C84_QkMi
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Images
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Video Demo:Adding an image to a post
https://cloudup.com/c6ZlaMWF-WV
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Galleries
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Video Demo:Adding galleries to a post
https://cloudup.com/cDB7y96ewp3
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Audio
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Video Demo:Embedding audio into a post
https://cloudup.com/ceOYPkHeURO
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Video
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Video Demo:Embedding video into a post
https://cloudup.com/c-4-yGcTWsN
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Playlists
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Interactive Content
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Contact Forms
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Polls
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Presentations
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Video Demo:What a presentation looks like
https://cloudup.com/cezyl_TBxhx
http://en.support.wordpress.com/presentations/
Documentation
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Sharing Content
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Publicize
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Sharing Buttons
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Likes & Reblogs
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Settings > Sharing
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Tracking Content
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Stats
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Notifications
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Fine-tune your Settings
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Screen Options
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• Reading
• Writing
• Discussion
• Media
• Privacy
The only settings you need to worry about
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Tools
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Import
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Export
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Getting Serious
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Domains
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mysite.wordpress.commysite.com
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Domains
1. Register a new domain on WordPress.com(through your site’s “store” section)
or
2. Point a domain you already own to your WordPress.com site
or
3. Point a subdomain you already own to your WordPress.com site (blog.mysite.com)
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Emails
1. Forward to an existing email address(like [email protected])
or
2. Connect your domain to another email provider(http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/add-email/)
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Connecting with Other WordPress.com Users
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Follow Blogs
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Follow Tags
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Likes
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Reblogs
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Comments
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