3. Who Are You?
• Josh Guffey
• @jguffey (twitter)
• Lead Developer, The Pancake Movement (Mmm pancakes!)
• thepancakemovement.com
• agencynet (WordPress & Drupal development)
• Taught me (almost) everything I know
4. What are we doing?
• Making a Portfolio site
• Famous 5 minute WP install
• Find and install a useful theme
• Make some Widgets, Pages, Posts
• Turn this thing into a portfolio site (Add some Portfolio Pieces)
5. Why WordPress? Why Themes?
• We want a free portfolio site!
• Shows us how WordPress can be used as a CMS (Content Management
System), without using any code.
6. How are we going to pull that off?
• What do you need?
• Hosting
• patients (This may take awhile the first time)
• WordPress
• A Good Theme
7. 1) Install WP
• 5 minute install, super easy.
• Local environment, but FTP would work pretty much the same way.
• Create a database (this is the hard part)
• Follow the WP install process
8. 2) Find and install a good portfolio theme.
• Portfolio Press 0.5.4 (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/portfolio-
press)
• Tons of others available at (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
search.php?q=portfolio)
13. That was fun
• Looks Generic?
• You can download other WordPress themes, it doesn’t have to be a
portfolio, some allow custom colors and imagery.
• For a unique and custom theme, hire a developer or agency. Once
you already have a WP up and running, Theme development isn’t too
expensive.
• Pro Tip
• Make sure you are settled on a theme before you create your Pages,
Posts, ect.
• WordPress Support
• Forums (http://wordpress.org/support/)
• FAQ (http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ)
• Troubleshooting (http://codex.wordpress.org/Troubleshooting)
- Hi,\n- Welcome\n- Beginner track - so if you’re wondering why there hasn’t been much code yet, you’ve been in the wrong room.\n- CMS? Definition. \n- “Doing” presentation, I’ll post the slides so you can follow along at home.\n
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- My name\n- Twitter I’m @jguffey\n- Now I’m lead dev at Pancakes, I make pancakes.\n- Full service agency\n- I worked at ANet for 2.5 years, learned a lot, Did WP and Drupal Dev, for sites like howard TV, Fuse, empowerMe2B.\n
- Make a Portfolio site\n- Install\n- find and install a theme\n- make some widgets, pages, posts, ect.\n- turn a regular WP into a portfolio site.\n- I’m going to demo this process, in 40 minutes we should have a portfolio site.\n
Why are we doing this?\n- It’s free, it’ll save you money if all you need is a simple portfolio site.\n- Good for photographers,\n- Designers,\n- Illustrators\n- any creative that needs a web presence and has a couple hours to spare.\n- Thanks open source!\n- Shows us how we can leverage WP to create a website.\n- doesn’t have to be a portfolio site, other themes are available.\n
- Hosting isn’t free, but it’s cheap! $15/month should do the trick\n- May take a couple hours the first time\n- You need to grab the latest WordPress, visit wordpress.org!\n- We need to find a good theme for our goals, we’ll use a portfolio theme.\n- Legitimate Place! Avoid Virius\n
- Go to WordPress.org!\n- Upload to your server, follow instructions.\n
- We download and install Portfolio Press.\n- WordPress.org, so it’s trustworthy\n- Activate the theme\n
- Make a Free Websites sidebar,\n- Make a copyright footer,\n- Enable recent posts\n
- Change the title of the Sample Page to “About”\n- Make a test Blog Post\n- Notice the difference between pages and posts.\n
- Set up permalinks\n- Add a few port pieces\n- Where is our Portfolio page?\n- We need a page called /portfolio/, so we make a page.\n- Go to /portfolio, look at the landing page, test the inside pages.\n- Show how to make alt portfolio pages with templates\n
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- ProTip:\n- Example, this theme, once you disable this theme, your port posts will disappear.\n- WP Support is great, the best part of open source is the free (and hopefully friendly) support.\n
