1. WordPress Hampton
WordCamp Baltimore Tidbits and More
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

2. Melodie Laylor
Presenter, WPHR Meetup Organizer

3. Connect with
Melodie
• Email: melodie@melodielaylor.com
• Twitter: @melodielaylor
• Web: http://www.melodielaylor.com

4. WordPress HR
Resources
• WPHR Meetup website: http://www.meetup.com/
wordpresshr
• WPHR FB Page: http://www.facebook.com/wordpresshr
• WordPress: http://www.wordpress.org
• WP Documentation - the Codex: http://
codex.wordpress.org
• WordCamp Central: http://central.wordcamp.org

5. Upcoming WordCamps
Close By
• WordCamp Philadelphia October 20-21: http://
2012.philly.wordcamp.org
• WordCamp Raleigh November 3-4: http://
2012.raleigh.wordcamp.org

6. Now For the Tidbits...

7. WordPress Security
Panel
• Held by owners of WebDev Studios (Brad
Williams) and Sucuri Security (Tony Perez, Dre
Armeda)
• Sucuri has a free website malware scanner:
http://sitecheck.sucuri.net
• Sucuri provides website security consulting
and services

8. WordPress Security Tips
• Manually install WordPress
• When you create your MySQL database, Set custom
prefix (otherwise WP makes it "wp_" )
• Make default admin user name other than "admin"
• STRONG PASSWORDS - at least ten characters with
CAPS, lowercase, and numbers (and a special
character for good measure)
• Keep WP, themes and plugins up-to-date

9. WordPress Security Tips
• File transfer - use SFTP over SSH
• Hardening .htaccess file
• Last, but certainly not least, CHOOSE YOUR HOST
WISELY!
• Codex - Hardening WordPress: http://
codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
• Sucuri blog article: http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/06/how-
to-stop-the-hacker-by-hardening-wordpress.html

10. Crash Course in Theme
Surgery
• Presented by Matthew DeVille
• Biggest tip I gleaned and already follow: USE
A CHILD THEME!

11. Child Theme Basics
• Pick your parent theme - Twenty Ten, Twenty
Eleven and Twenty Twelve (coming very soon)
are good starter themes to customize
• Genesis Framework from StudioPress and it's
many child themes - or make your own child
theme based on it - my personal favorite
http://www.studiopress.com

12. Child Theme Basics
• Create another directory under /wp-content/
themes
• Edit the style.css header to reference parent
theme, give child theme name
• Copy to the new theme folder
• That's all you really need! Now you can customize
the child stylesheet to your heart's content!

13. Child Theme Header
Example

14. /*
Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child (required)
Theme URI: http://example.com/
Description: Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme
Author: Your name here
Author URI: http://example.com/about/
Template: twentyeleven (required, must be same as
folder name)
Version: 0.1.0
*/

15. Child Theme Basics
• To customize other template files
(functions.php, page.php, single-post.php,
etc.), put copies from the parent theme in the
child directory
• Add an /images subdirectory to the child to
add additional images to your theme
• Codex article - http://codex.wordpress.org/
Child_Themes

16. Podcasting
• My talk was "Beef Up You Website with Audio
and Video - It's Easy!"
• Slides on Slideshare - http://
www.slideshare.net/melodieshouse/
untitled-14228958
• Blubrry PowerPress - the only podcasting
plugin you'll ever need

17. Podcasting with
Blubrry PowerPress
• Blubrry has several built-in audio and video
players, both Flash and HTML5
• NOTE: HTML5 essential for iOS and mobile visitors
• Blubrry includes iTunes feed configuraton, custom
feeds, custom channels, basic traffic stats if you
register on website
• Paid services - podcast hosting, advanced stats
and tools

18. Podcasting with
Blubrry PowerPress
• Get it at the WP Plugin repository - http://
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/powerpress/
• Blubrry website - http://www.blubrry.com
• Plugin page - http://www.blubrry.com/
powerpress

19. SEO
• There was a great presentation given on SEO
but I missed it
• Presenter: Webmechanix based in Baltimore
• The slides will be made available to people
who sign up on the mailing list
• Sign up here: http://
2012.wordcamp.webmechanix.co/

20. WordCamp Baltimore
• http://2012.baltimore.wordcamp.org
• Twitter: @wordcampbalt
• Twitter hashtag: #wcbalt for attendee and
speaker tweets, links to slides

21. Thank You for Coming!