Half-Day Seminar “WordPress 102: Beyond the Basics”

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Do you already have WordPress installed? Got it running? Super. Now take your site to the next level. On May 19 spend a morning learning how to add more functionality to your WordPress site. This seminar is for people with a good foundation in WordPress and are ready to take their site beyond the basic default theme and plugins.

Extend WordPress. Choose and install the best plugins, optimize your settings and links, and other details you need to know.

  • Setting up your Analytics
  • Optimizing sign up forms and other response forms
  • Adding Social Media and other sharing links.
  • Affiliate Marketing with WordPress.
  • Simple eCommerce with WordPress.

Delicious hot lunch (Domino’s Pizza) and snacks (chips/cookies) will be served.
Also, includes admission to afternoon WordPress Meetup

Presented by Tony Cecala, Ph.D. WordPress consultant, meetup organizer, and web developer.

Admission includes free ticket to the WordPress Meetup at 2PM, featuring a WordPress Theme Frameworks Presentation.

When: May 19, 2012
Seminar Runs: 9:30AM-1PM.

 

10 Essential WordPress Plugins (and How to Configure Them)

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A. Introduction to WordPress Plugins

WordPress Plugins are like candy. Once you taste one, you want more. I like to use WordPress plugins to make my clients WordPress sites more functional, more capable, and more connected. Plugins, of course, habe their downsides, they can slow down your website, they can be incompatible with future versions of WordPress and they can be just plain buggy. Despite these downfalls, I believe that plugins will make your life easier. The trick of course is to just eat…I mean install…only those that you understand and can manage.

Summary:

  • installing plugins is fun and easy
  • it’s easy to go overboard with plugins
  • install only the plugins you trust, understand, and can configure

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