Workshop: WordPress & Blogging 101 by Denise Alicea

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This blog was created by Denise in September 2008 to blog about writing, book reviews, and technology. Slowly, but surely this blog expanded to what it has become now, a central for book reviews of all kinds interviews, contests, and of course promotional venue for authors, etc

WordPress & Blogging 101 by Denise Alicea

WordPress & Blogging 101

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. It’s used on many hosting companies from GoDaddy to Dreamhost. It also has a free option via wordpress.com. Just like all technology it looks like it has a lot of perks, but how do you learn them all? Lots of options become scary and complicated! Who has time to learn for something new? Don’t know all the resources or who to go to? Then this is the perfect class for you!

Day One: Introductions

Day Two: Know Your Resources/Where to Start/hosting/wordpress.com

  • Hosting companies that offer wordpress for a fair price
  • What does wordpress.com offer?

Day Three: The WordPress Dashboard

  • Logging into your account
  • Managing Comments
  • Tracking statistics
  • Customizing the dashboard’s appearance
  • Updating your personal settings and profile
  • Updating general settings

Day Four: Themes & Customization

  • How to I customize my page?
  • What are themes? Where can I get them?
  • Learning how to customize a header.
  • Custom fonts

Day Five: Plugins

  • What are plugins?
  • What plugins can offer and where to get them.

Day Six: Writing a post or a Page.

  • How to add a post and what is quick press?
  • Adding links
  • What are categories and tags?
  • Scheduling a post
  • Copy/pasting a post

Day Seven: Adding and Managing Media

  • How to add a photo
  • How to add a video
  • Adding pdfs, .doc, etc.
  • How to manage your media

 

Day Eight: Working with Link Lists

  • Adding links
  • Managing links

Day Nine & Ten: Questions and Answers

RWA Members $15 Non- Members $25

To register: http://www.scriptscene.org/wordpress-blogging-101-by-denise-alicea/

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