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WordPress tips & tricks

WordPress tips & tricks. Be more efficient, have more fun and make your life easier. Introductions. Real Quick: Who I Am (and why you should bother listening to anything I have to say). My name is Rachel Been building websites for over 15 years

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WordPress tips & tricks

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  1. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks WordPress tips & tricks Be more efficient, have more fun and make your life easier

  2. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Introductions

  3. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Real Quick: Who I Am (and why you should bother listening to anything I have to say) My name is Rachel Been building websites for over 15 years Worked at a Boston nonprofit (and startups, and corporations) Left last fall to work for myself (yay!) Work with my awesome partner Clare in Chicago to build WordPress websites for B Corps, nonprofits and those with a social or environmental mission I’m a co-organizer for the Boston Girl Geek Dinners Skills (alphabet soup) open source CMS, UX, SEO/SEM, HTML/CSS, OMG! Find me on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelmurray

  4. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Admin features Stuff you might not know about already

  5. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Easily ignored features • At a Glance, Activity, Quick Draft • Screen Options are amazing! • Editing pages/posts/media • Viewing lists of pages/posts/media • Help can actually help • Revisions

  6. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Settings • GENERAL • Changing the name, admin email and URL of your site in one fell swoop • Time zone change • READING • Change your homepage • Change default post #s per page • Search Engine Hiding (useful for dev sites)

  7. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Settings • DISCUSSION • Change default comment settings • Change default pingbacks/trackbacks • PERMALINKS • Critical for when you launch your site

  8. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Making plugins Less scary

  9. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks How to find good plugins • Wordpress.org (popular http://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular/) • Codecanyon • Google

  10. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks WordPress.org • Look at • Last updated • Downloads • Ratings • Compatibility

  11. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks When to use paid, When to use free

  12. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Some of my favorite plugins

  13. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Plugin Love You are playing around with plugins. Awesome. But when you decide you don’t want them anymore, kill ‘em! Update them pretty please! Your website will thank you by not being hacked

  14. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Themes

  15. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks When to use paid, When to use free

  16. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks How to find good themes • Basic free themes – WordPress.org • Premium themes – Themeforest.com • Look at reviews & stars • Look at feedback & support • Play with the demo • Most are around $50 • Don’t limit yourselfto just nonprofit themes!

  17. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Security It’s important and not too scary

  18. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Easy things to do • No admin username • Limit login plugin • Keep your plugins, themes and core updated • Back up your site

  19. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Awesome Resources Some amazing tools that will make your life easier

  20. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Image Resources – Free and good! • You can get beautiful professional images for free. But they’re limited in scope. That said, if you’re an environmental np, you are SET. • www.pickupimage.com • www.littlevisuals.co • www.unsplash.com • www.superfamous.com • Can you shell out a little bit? Go to stocksy.com!

  21. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Hosting Love • Site5 • SiteGround • Media Temple

  22. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Link Love – Some favorite resources (in no particular order)

  23. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Other tools to make your life easier

  24. Green Bee Web Consulting | www.greenbee-web.com | WordPress Tips & Tricks Questions? Let’s do this!

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