# WordPress Presentation #

**Introduction**

- Who I am
   - http://chrisburbridge.com/
   - Started in tech pubs (Autodesk), with Scott
   - Began making websites in 1998, formally in 2005
   - Chose WordPress in 2005, as easiest thing to use
- About WordPress
   - Celebrated its 10th anniversary in May of last year
   - 19% of the web (http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/27/19-percent-of-the-web-runs-on-wordpress/)
   - 74,630,276 WordPress sites in the world - http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
   - WordPress VIP starts at $3,750 per month - http://vip.wordpress.com/
   - Stats compared to other CMS's — http://trends.builtwith.com/cms
   - Community
      - Lots of support
      - 346 WordCamps around the world - http://central.wordcamp.org/about/
      - WordPress Meetups
   - WordPress.com
      - 60 million WordPress.com sites, which receive more than 100 million pageviews per day
      - http://wordpress.com/
   - WordPress.org
      - http://wordpress.org/
   - Mobile-friendliness
      - Ever growing
      - Responsive themes
      - Mobile apps
   - All over the world - http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/wordpress-10.jpg
   - Healthy and growing cottage industries
      - Premium themes
      - Premium plugins
- Questions

**Part 1.** Basics - We've all heard how easy it is to set up a website with WordPress, but what's really involved and what are the fundamental pieces?

- Pages and posts
   - WYSIWYG editing
   - Show how (relatively) easy it is
- Menus
- Sidebars + Widgets
- Plugins
- Themes
   - Examples
      - http://wp.dev/wp-admin/themes.php?action=activate&stylesheet=bigbangwp&_wpnonce=98e78370d8
      - http://wp.dev/wp-admin/themes.php?action=activate&stylesheet=twentythirteen&_wpnonce=94a21fd0d8
- Updating
   - Core WordPress major releases now auto-updatable
   - Themes
   - Plugins
- Questions

**Part 2.** Plugins/themes - Once you're up and running, how do you add more functionality and customize the appearance?

- Themes
   - Twenty Thirteen
   - http://wp.dev/wp-admin/themes.php?action=activate&stylesheet=twentythirteen&_wpnonce=94a21fd0d8
   - Free
   - Premium
      - http://www.slideshare.net/chrisburbridge/theme-selection-stragegy-how-to-pick-the-right-wordpress-theme-for-your-project
   - OptimizePress - http://optimizepress2.com/
- Plugins
   - Security
      - Better WP Security
   - eCommerce
      - WooCommerce
   - WordPress SEO by Yoast
   - Jetpack
      - Stats
      - Social blast
      - Contact Form
   - GravityForms
   - BackupBuddy
   - Events Calendar Pro - http://tri.be/shop/wordpress-events-calendar-pro/

Questions

**Part 3.** Where is it used and how can you use it - Not all WordPress websites "look" like WordPress websites. What are some of the different ways the WordPress technology can be used?

- Unusual uses
   - Classified ads - http://demos.appthemes.com/?theme=classipress
   - Ticketing system - http://demos.appthemes.com/?theme=qualitycontrol
   - Company intranet
   - Prototype a web app
   - http://tri.be/
- High-profile
   - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/blogs/directory.html?_r=0
   - http://www.pepsi.com/en-us/d/
   - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
   - http://techcrunch.com/
   - http://mashable.com/
   - http://www.gereports.com/
   - http://www.time.com/time/blogs
   - http://www.forbes.com/
   - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

**Closing**