Wordcamp Atlanta Presentation: What The Heck is WordPress?

By Adria Richards on January 9, 2010 in General

Below you will find the presentation and links from my January 10th, 2010 Wordcamp Atlanta presentation.

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All attendees get 50% off February’s Live WordPress training. It is a 4 week workshop that give you time to learn.

Many people are not sure what WordPress is. They think it’s a blog while others think it’s something you install onto your computer.

WordPress is an open source application to run blog and websites. You install WordPress to a hosting account and connect a domain name so you have a unique presence online.

Getting Started

Setting Up Your WordPress Site

How To Install WordPress On Your Site – WPBeginner
Installing WordPress – WordPress.org

Plugins

WordPress.org Resources

Unofficial resources

WordPress Tools

Filezilla – FTP Client for PC and Mac OSX
Edit Pad Lite – Text Editor PC
Text Wrangler – Text Editor for Mac OSX

Domain Name Registration

GoDaddy.com

Hosting

Themes Free

Themes Premium and Commercial

Maintaining WordPress

Development

Think Outside the Blogging Box

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