12/5/10 Fourth Meeting
Nickolus Cunningham – WordPress and SEO
- Basic SEO setup of your site
- set up your All in one SEO plugin
- robots.txt & sitemap.xml
- appropriate set up of h1 and title tags
- best practices for site meta tags and keywords
- importance of inbound links
- other SEO determinants: pagespeed,
- How to blog for search traffic
- start with keyword research
- proper use of keywords in blog posts
- best use of layout and h tags
- content is king – using text, links, and multimedia
- more about inbound links
- tracking your results
- Tools I’ll be introducing:
- SEO book toolbar (firefox extension)
- Firebug (firefox extension)
- Pagespeed (firefox extension for firebug)
- FireFTP (firefox extension)
- Google keyword tools: adwords keyword tool external, wonder wheel, related search
- Google developer tools: submit sitemap.xml, claim your site
- online sitemap.xml and robots.txt generator
- All-in-one SEO (wordpress plugin)
- Wassup (wordpress plugin)
- Extras Notes
Stuart Runyan – wp_login_form
Template Tags Cheat Sheet (pdf)
Anne Dorko – Custom Taxonomies & Custom Post Types
Anne said that this is probably one of the best custom post type tutorials out there.
Dan Robert – WordPress Themes Presentation
9/12/10 Third Meeting
Melissa Presentation – WordPress 101: All Meat, No Filler
- Install WP
- Themes
- Codex theme directory
- Modify/Build your own theme
- Template files
- The Loop
- Functions
- Glossary
- Melissa’s custom theme
Angela Presentation – BuddyPress Intro
Jenna critique follow-up
7/18/10 Second Meeting
Open Forum Discussions
- Shopp
- WP-eCommerce – free
- Magento
- Most recent posts on homepage
- custom page template
Jenna critique
- Google font API
- Font Squirrel
- Cufon
Melissa Presentation
6/13/10 First Meeting
1pm-2pm: Angela went over wordpress.com
2pm: Regular meeting
Melissa
wordpress.myplatt.com – sign up if you haven’t
wordpress.tv
WordCamp vids
Presentation: What’s New in WordPress 3.0?
Stuart
Demoed site he’s working on
Discussed contact forms
Favorite Plugins
- Contact Forms 7
- cforms II (deliciousdays.com)
- All-in-One SEO Pack
- SEO Smart Links – related links @ bottom of post
- wp-Typography
- NextGen Gallery
- Guestbook Generator
- Google Sitemap
- W3 Total Cache
- WPtouch (iPhone style)
- Theme Switch
- WP-DBManager
- Ultimate Google Analytics
- Shopp
- Regenerate Thumbnails
- FAlbum
- flickrRSS
- slickr
- VaultPress
- BackupBuddy
- BuddyPress
Next meeting: We decided that we will have meetings once a month for about an hour. Let us know if you would like to present something at the next meeting. Check back here and/or the Platt College Web Designers Facebook group for more info and event invites.
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