WordPress:

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WordPress
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• Webmaster's Paradise
• Oleg Kreymer
• Systems Librarian, TJ Watson Library
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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WordPress as a Web Platform?

• Content Management System CMS (forget html!)
• User-friendly admin interface
• WYSIWYG editor (invites contribution)
• Presentation layer (XHTML scripting)
• Simplicity
• Clear functionality (its a blog!)
• Straightforward design posts categories
  pages
• Open Source always in development
• Can be enhanced with plugins
• Familiarity (used it for other projects)

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Keeping It Simple

• Modify a WordPress Theme ONLY
• Preserve core WordPress functionality
• Protection from changes in future upgrades
• Theme of choice Andreas09 (website look)
• Two types of files
• PHP controls WHAT elements are displayed
• CSS controls HOW elements are displayed
• Making changes
• Keep track of changes (annotate)
• Suppressing and rearranging elements

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How to work with PHP
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How to work with PHP
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How to work with PHP
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How to work with CSS
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How to work with CSS
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How to work with CSS
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How to work with CSS
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Widgets Plugins

• Widgets dynamic and static sidebar elements
• Plugins extend Wordpress functionality
• Select carefully (functionally useful plugins
  only)
• Test! Plugins can break WP
• WP upgrade? Test your plugins
• Plugins were using
• Forms cforms II
• Calendar Event Calendar Widget
• User Role Manager

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Thank you!

• DO try this at home
• WordPress.com
• Questions?
• Oleg Kreymer
• Systems Librarian, TJ Watson Library
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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