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Program Titles
“Wiki Roundtripping? Structured Authoring? How Do They Co-Exist?”
24 Ways to Shut Down The Application and Other Apocryphal Stories
A Comparison of Three Visual Help Authoring Tools
Beyond L10N and G11N—Communicating with Everybody
Breathing Life into your Technical Documents using Adobe AIR and the Technical Communication Suite
Bringing the Video Revolution to Technical Communication
Changing the Rules of the Game for the Benefit of the User
Document Engineering in User Experience Design
Documentation Planning and Library Design in a Web 2.0 World
Extending the Value of Content in Enterprise Systems with Web Content Management
How an Author and Editor Used a Wiki to Write a Book
Living Multiple Lives: The New Technical Communicator
Making XML Technology Accessible
Manage Your Messaging with Machine-Assisted Editing and Large Scale Sentence-level Reuse
Mapping the Entire Global Content Supply Chain
On the Road to Modular Training Content
Once Content is in XML. Now what?
Putting Everything Back Together Again
See Dynamic Publishing in Action!
Taking Our Information Assets to the Next Level
The In.vision DITA Enterprise Suite for Microsoft Word and SharePoint
Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML and DITA
Understanding Component Content Management
Using Collaborative Tools for Virtual Team Management
Using Task Modeler to Streamline DITA Content Development
What Technical Communicators Need to Know about Flash
Wikis Are Wonderful, or Are They? A Real World Story of Using Wikis For User Information
Writing Reusable Content to Support Content Models
[Workshop] Moving from Unstructured Documents to Structured XML
[Workshop] An Overview of RoboHelp 7
[Workshop] Content Engineering
[Workshop] DITA Authoring and Publishing with XMetaL
[Workshop] Introduction to XSL
[Workshop] Making DITA Work For Your Data
[Workshop] Simplified Technical English
[Workshop] Single Sourcing with the Technical Communication Suite
Session Details
From Novice to Geek: Getting Started with WordPress
Speaker: Tom JohnsonTime: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Date: May 7
Track: Blogs and Wikis
Experience level: All levels
Room: Dundarave Room
Laptop computer required for this session If you’re thinking of starting a blog, or are transitioning from another platform, such as Blogger, this session will help you move from WordPress novice to quasi-geek in about an hour. You’ll learn how to get up and running, not only writing posts, but categorizing and tagging them, customizing their display on your site, and styling your theme in prime Web 2.0 fashion.
WordPress gives you the most flexibility, control, and style for publishing your blog content. With a passionate developer community, WordPress has enthusiasts worldwide writing WordPress plugins and themes and helping each other in forums. The open architecture of WordPress allows you to completely dissect the code, and rearrange and manipulate (and often break) your blog’s content in dozens of ways.
This session focuses on the technical aspects of using WordPress. You’ll learn how to install WordPress on a web host, add plugins (and what plugins to add), apply themes, write posts and pages, style your sidebar, create categories and tags, integrate multimedia (such as videos, podcasts, and screencasts), and syndicate your feed.
Additionally, you’ll learn best practices for setting up your WordPress site, such as how to choose a theme, grow your reader base, make your blog more usable, create search-engine-optimized content, and write appealing posts.
Finally, you’ll be exposed to more advanced techniques, such as adjusting your theme’s style through CSS, how the theme files interact, and how to alter PHP tags to control the display of your database content.
All participants will receive access to their own, individual test site they can explore and play around in, as well as some step-by-step help materials and videos.
