RPC Wordpress Session - Week 3

1. Wordpress Workshop

2. Keith Feighery Director of Digital Strategy

3. Summary Director of Digital Strategy with Digital Insights 14 Years experience developing and marketing web and digital applications Lecturer with DIT on MA in Digital Media Technologies Lecturer with Dublin Business School, Griffith College, Champlain College & IBAT in Online Marketing and Digital Strategy

4. Contact Details 086 6070274 www.linkedin.com/in/keithfeighery www.twitter.com/kfeighery www.faceboook.com/keith.feighery keith.feighery@digitalinsights.ie

5. Agenda Introduction to Wordpress Wordpress.com Vs Wordpress.org Wordpress Case Studies and Examples Setting up Site on Wordpress.com Walk through of Wordpress Features Administration, Themes, Plugins, Post & Pages, Adding Images, Audio & Video Embedding Content from Youtube and Flickr

6. Wordpress Overview Excellent low barrier to entry publishing platform Open source platform Easy to use CMS system to produce and distribute all forms of digital media – text, Images, audio, video, RSS Easy to Connect Wordpress site with other social media sites Twitter, Facebook etc… Very extensible platform where further functionality can be added Search Engine Friendly infrastructure along with SEO plugins

7. Wordpress.com Vs Wordpress.org

8. Wordpress.com Wordpress.com A managed environment to set up Websites and blogs provided for free (basic set-up) Basic version will have wordpress in the url – e.g. http://www.website.wordpress.com Can map an existing domain (www.website.com) to a wordpress.com website Limited functionality on wordpress.com in comparison to wordpress.org No plugin functionality Limited Theme Customisation

9. Wordpress.org Wordpress.org Open source version of wordpress Self-Managed system where users have to download the software from wordpress.org Users have to have domain name registered and hosting package Users have to upload wordpress on to webserver and set up database Once deployed, users have complete control over the customisation and functionality of the wordpress.org site Users respoonsible for security, back-ups, maintenance and support of their own site

10. Wordpress.com

11. Wordpress.org

12. Blogs

13. Icecream Ireland Blog

14. Puddleducks

15. IIA Blog

16. Peter Lonegan

17. DonalSkehan

18. Make Up and Beauty

19. Using Wordpress.com

20. Wordpress.com

21. Dashboard

22. Add Post

23. Add New Page

24. Add Media

25. Change Themes

26. Use Widgets

27. Sharing Buttons

28. Add Menus

29. Add Polls

30. General Settings

31. Reading Settings

32. Site Tools

33. Export Data

34. Privacy Settings

35. Domain Mapping

36. Front End

37. Thank You