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Building Library Websites with WordPress Internet Librarian 2009 Polly-Alida Farrington Resources at: http://lib20.pbworks.com

Agenda What’s a Content Management System Wordpress as CMS – examples Hosting your site WordPress Building Blocks CMS features

Slides, notes, resources, etc. http://lib20.pbworks.com links to additional resources and these slids http://libraryblogs.net your test blogs are on this server. NOTE: your libraryblogs.net accounts won’t have all the options we’re going to cover today.

WordPress is a Content Management System Create site without writing code Web based interface Contributors can focus on CONTENT! Update “look & feel” easily Content stored in a database Flexible

WordPress is Open Source Free! You can access the source code. And modify it. And develop tools to enhance it! Be part of the community that supports it. Other familiar open source software: Firefox Open Office

PAGES make it more than a blog

How it works You create content Content stored in a database Pages don’t ‘exist’ until requested User clicks on a link PHP code retrieves content from database. CSS used to style page Page is displayed

Add Content – Web Based Interface

Stored in a database the_title the_content

Same Content – Different Design

Types of Content Posts – news articles, timely, up to date, frequently changing. Pages – Static pages, timeless info, about, contact, policies, services, etc. Links – lists of links on a sidebar (aka: blogroll) Media – photos and images Comments – from your readers

Posts News & updates Timely Most recent first Comments!

Pages Static content eg: About Us Contact Info Services etc.

Self Hosted – Your Own Server Cost? Storage capacity? Bandwidth? Tech Support? Install software yourself PHP version 4.3 or greater MySQL version 4.1.2 or greater Recommended: Linux & Apache

“If you have no idea what to do with this download….” 

Self Hosted – Commercial Services Often under $10/month Tech support One Click Install! For more hosts: http://wordpress.org/hosting/

Technical Requirements For version 2.9 (coming soon) PHP version 4.3 or greater MySQL version 4.1.2 or greater http://codex.wordpress.org/Hosting_WordPress

WordPress Building Blocks Hopefully a live demo!

Logging In Your site address with /wp-admin on the end http://ca001.libraryblogs.net/wp-admin

Users  Authors & Users For security reasons, don’t use ADMIN as your login name.

Writing a Post News & events & updates Most recent appears at the top Older posts get bumped off the page Stored in Archives Special page for posts

Links to Sub-Pages Format for creating a link to another page: <a href="index.php?page_id=42">Page title</a > Get page ID from Pages  Edit panel.

Discussion - Comments Settings  Discussion Set options for handling comments Comments Approve, edit & delete comments Manage spam

Adding Themes via FTP Download the theme to your computer Unzip it ftp to your server Copy the new theme folder to : /wp-content/themes It will appear in list of themes Activate it

Text Widget & 3 rd Party Content

Plugins add functionality & features

WordPress.com Stats Requires API code from wordpress.com http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/

Google Analytics Sign up with GA Enter ID in WP Settings panel http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/

Akismet Requires API code from wordpress.com http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/

Update Reactivated Successfully!

Plugins - Deactivate, then Delete

Backup! Backup your database: Via web host control panel Or wp-db-backup plugin (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/) FTP to server and copy: wp-content/themes wp-content/plugins wp-content/uploads (images, files, etc

Tools  Upgrade Automatic upgrade plugin is so handy. BACKUP first!!!

Custom Structure news/gaming-night-for-teens/

Create a Page for Posts No Content for the Page, just a title

Settings  Reading Select Front Page & Posts Page

But … Home & Welcome both go to the same place. Need to delete HOME

Edit header.php file Delete the line of code that creates the default HOME link

A quick look at the Theme Editor Modify existing themes Change fonts, colors, graphics Create your own themes NOTE: Can’t do this with class test blogs Wordpress.com – $$ extra

Default 404 – page not found

PHP code & HTML <?php get_header(); ?> <div id="primary"> <h1 class="page-title">Oops! </h1> <p>Visit the <a href=“ <?php bloginfo('url'); ?> ">Home Page</a></p> <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?> </div> <?php get_sidebar(); ?> <?php get_footer(); ?>

Custom Footer Navigation Bar added Customize the credits too!

Page uses “no sidebar” template

My Page Order http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-page-order/

AWS Easy Page Link Adds list of pages to the Insert Link dialog box VERY handy! (note: doesn’t work with WP MU) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/aws-easy-page-link/

WP Contact Form Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-contact-form/

Add  to a page

MobilePress Detects mobile device Displays mobile version of page http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobilepress/

Flexi Pages Many options for PAGES Widget List subpages only on the relevant pages Easily exclude pages http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flexi-pages-widget/

aggr – rss feed tool Place this code on page  http://perassi.org/p/aggr/

OpenBook Book Data http://johnmiedema.ca/portfolio/openbook-wordpress-plugin/

More Plugins… There are more plugins on your test site! And still more listed at: http://delicious.com/grdnldy/wordpress+plugins http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

Some books WordPress For Dummies 2 nd edition by Lisa Sabin Wilson WordPress 2.7 Cookbook by Jean-Baptiste Jung WordPress 2.7 Complete by April Hodge Silver & Hasin Hayder

More Help! WordPress Codex - http://codex.wordpress.org/ WordPress Forums - http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress FAQ’s - http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ New to WordPress? –tips http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_New_To_WordPress

Thank you! http://lib20.pbworks.com

Photo Credits Jamison Judd, Server Rack , April 21, 2008, Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamisonjudd/2433102356/ Joe Popp, 'THAT WAS EASY!' , January 24, 2006, Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/spackletoe/90811910/. Open Source Graphic: www.lumaxart.com

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