What will I learn at the workshop?
- Building your site
- Brief overview of WordPress
- The basics of setting up WordPress in sixty seconds or less
- Ways the WordPress engine impacts your long-term success on the web
- Modifying your WordPress theme
- Editing WordPress themes to enhance your blog's reach
- Adding elements to your theme
- Turbo-charging your blog with plug-ins and and widgets
- Displaying your latest Tweets
- Showing your Flickr photo stream
- Using plug-ins on your site
- What the most common plug-ins are
- How to use them
- Where to find plug-ins that work for you
- Blogging
- Capitalizing on what makes you both unique and relevant
- Developing your online persona
- Standing out from the crowd
- Crafting your blog posts
- Drawing in visitors
- Promoting your blog
- Leveraging your audience
- Tapping into communities
- Generating consistent traffic to your blog
- Building on your successes