Wordpress Tiger Tech 2017

About the presenter Best anime:

Teaching Experience Web Dev Instructor - 2yrs Was good, but… Raspberry pi HTML, CSS, JS Was good, but… Large learning curve (?) Don’t get much made

What is Wordpress? WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) – Software for building Blogs/Websites Not just any CMS The most popular CMS in the world As of February 2017, WordPress was used by more than 27.5% of the top 10 million websites

WordPress is free, Open source software That means you can go look at all the code and even submit changes to it! https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress

Sites Running on WordPress wreg.com techcrunch.com www.newyorker.com And lots more: https://winningwp.com/examples- of-big-name-brands-and-businesses-using- wordpress/

How to tell if a site is running WordPress Right click on a webpage and click on view source Search (ctrl+f) for “wp-” – look for references to files and folders that start with “wp-” Or use builtwith.com

What is WordPress.com? WordPress.com is a way to create WordPress sites quickly and easily for free Pros: Really easy to set up Lots of WordPress.com features out of the box Easy maintenance Cons: Limit to how much you can customize your site Can’t install plugins, themes, or edit code

Beyond WordPress.com (self hosted) If you want more control of your site, you can host it yourself This gives you complete control over your WordPress site so you can: Edit code Add plugins and themes But it also means you have to do more work to set up and maintain it.

Create a WordPress.com account Go to http://www.wordpress.com Click on ‘Get Started’ button Click on ‘Start With a Blog’ button Choose the first theme on the screen Enter ‘tigertech’ and your name (I can’t write this one explicitly) but make sure you pick the free one Select Free Enter: Email address Username Password Now your account is made! Good job 😄 Log in to the email you signed up with, and click on the link they sent you.

Getting around If you ever get lost in WP, look at the top of your screen - this tells you where you are My Site - slide out menu that lets you navigate to different parts of your website Reader - lets you read and discover other people’s Wordpress blogs Write - this allows you to make a new blog post (more into this later) Account - account details Notifications - notifications for the Wordpress blogs you follow

Getting around (pt. 2) Let’s see what the ‘My Site’ selection can do: Look at the left side of the screen, and click ‘My Site’ A menu will pop out: Site Title - this is what your websites name is Stats - gives you a bunch of numbers about your site (clicks, visitors) Plan - says free, because who wants to pay for Wordpress?

Blog Posts What is a blog post? Think of it like a Facebook update - you’re giving the world some kind of status update Can be about anything!

Directions Click on ‘Blog Posts’ shows you all of your blog posts, and lets you edit them click on edit what happens? click on view

First Blog Post Let’s tell the world about ourselves Change the title to your name Write about something you’re interested in.. “I like tiger tech :D” “Goku would beat JoJo in a fight”

Blog Let’s make a new blog post for today: On the side of the screen, beside the ‘blog posts’ item, there is a button that says ‘add’ Click that button For the title, enter ‘Saturday, April 8’ Now we get to have some fun 🙊

Make something Click on Write Click on Title - this will tell people what your blog post is about so they will know if it’s 🔥 or 💩 Click on the blank area below all of the buttons - This is where all of the stuff goes, so take your time here. Bold Italics List Link Quote Aligns Spellcheck Read More

Pages What is a page? You put one type of thing here Maybe TV shows, movies, books Must be similar things

Add a page Close out of pop-up window, now click on ‘Pages’ This will give you a list of all of the pages you currently have Let’s make a new page for our leaders: Click on the ‘Add’ button beside pages For the title, enter ‘Our Mentors’ For the link, enter /mentors This is so we can tell other people how to find this page

Sharing is caring How do you showboat your site? Click on that circle Then click on the rectangle with an arrow coming out of it This will let you send your website to anyone in the world

Explore: How do you change the color of text? Can you link to other websites?