Building a Library Website in WordPress (2019)
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The document discusses building a library website using WordPress and includes information on hosting options, theme and plugin resources, and shortcodes that can be used. It recommends Dreamhost, Wpengine, or Asmallorange for hosting and lists plugins like Gravity Forms, Akismet, and Google Analytics Dashboard that could be useful. It also provides links to the WordPress theme and plugin directories for finding additional options and emphasizes reading documentation for themes and plugins.
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Building a Library Website in WordPress (2019)
- 1. Building a Library Website in WordPress Chad Haefele Head of User Experience UNC Chapel Hill Libraries [email protected] HiddenPeanuts.com
- 9. Hosting options Dreamhost.com - $16.95/month Wpengine.com - $115/month Asmallorange.com - $15/month, includes domain
- 12. Theme Resources • WordPress.org/themes/ • ThemeForest.net/ • Read the theme’s documentation!
- 14. Gravity Forms - $59/year
- 15. Akismet
- 17. bit.ly/UNCHOO
- 18. Plugin Resources • WordPress.org/plugins/ • codecanyon.net/category/wordpress • Read the plugin’s documentation!
- 19. Demo!
- 24. Resources • Hosting • Dreamhost.com • Wpengine.com • Asmallorange.com • Plugins & Themes • Gravity Forms: https://www.gravityforms.com/pricing/ • Formidable: https://wordpress.org/plugins/formidable/ • Akismet: https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/ • Google Analytics Dashboard: https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics- dashboard-for-wp/ • Shortcodes UI: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ui/ • Responsive theme: https://wordpress.org/themes/responsive/ • The Post Grid: https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-post-grid/
Editor's Notes
- #5: My history with WP
- #6: This is where we used to be, pre-CMS We can do better, why WP? broad community It’s been around since 2003ish You don’t have to know HTML Get the code out of the way so you can write
- #7: What do I like about WP? It’s so flexible – beginners can use it, advanced users can do really really cool stuff. Also the community, more than a decade old.
- #8: .com – good first playground
- #9: .org – the real deal
- #11: Here’s what it looks like out of the box, with default theme applied. I hate this. It looks broken. Clearly designed with mobile-first in mind, but that probably isn’t what we want.
- #12: Responsive themes! This is what you want. Define Responsive.
- #13: I’ll show you how to implement this in a sec. But now you know what a theme is, and you know not to panic when WP looks weird right away.
- #14: Plugins – what are they?
- #15: Gravity Forms
- #16: Akismet
- #17: GA by Yoast, etc.
- #18: Future of WP
- #19: 42,120+ plugins
- #21: Shortcodes put the content management in content management system. Text between brackets automatically displays a pre-set chunk of content. Plugin: shortcodes UI bainternet
- #22: Shortcodes put the content management in content management system. Text between brackets automatically displays a pre-set chunk of content.