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Wordpress Workshop
Keith FeigheryDirector of Digital Strategy
Contact Details
www.linkedin.com/in/keithfeighery
www.twitter.com/kfeighery
www.faceboook.com/keith.feighery
086 6070274
Agenda
• Introduction to Wordpress– Wordpress.com Vs Wordpress.org
• Wordpress Case Studies and Examples• Setting up Site on Wordpress.com• Walk through of Wordpress Features– Administration, Themes, Plugins, Post & Pages, Adding Images,
Audio & Video– Embedding Content from Youtube and Flickr
Wordpress Overview
• Excellent low barrier to entry publishing platform• Open source platform• Easy to use CMS system to produce and distribute all forms of
digital media – text, Images, audio, video, RSS• Easy to Connect Wordpress site with other social media sites– Twitter, Facebook etc…
• Very extensible platform where further functionality can be added
• Search Engine Friendly infrastructure along with SEO plugins
Wordpress.com Vs Wordpress.org
Wordpress.com
• Wordpress.com– A managed environment to set up Websites and blogs
provided for free (basic set-up)– Basic version will have wordpress in the url – e.g.
http://www.website.wordpress.com– Can map an existing domain (www.website.com) to a
wordpress.com website– Limited functionality on wordpress.com in comparison to
wordpress.org• No plugin functionality• Limited Theme Customisation
Wordpress.org
• Wordpress.org– Open source version of wordpress– Self-Managed system where users have to download the
software from wordpress.org– Users have to have domain name registered and hosting
package– Users have to upload wordpress on to webserver and set up
database– Once deployed, users have complete control over the
customisation and functionality of the wordpress.org site– Users respoonsible for security, back-ups, maintenance and
support of their own site
Wordpress.com
Wordpress.org
Blogs
Icecream Ireland Blog
Puddleducks
IIA Blog
Peter Lonegan
Donal Skehan
Make Up and Beauty
Using Wordpress.com
Wordpress.com
Dashboard
Add Post
Add New Page
Add Media
Change Themes
Use Widgets
Sharing Buttons
Add Menus
Add Polls
General Settings
Reading Settings
Site Tools
Export Data
Privacy Settings
Domain Mapping
Front End
Thank You