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WPMayor

WPMayor. The Story, The Works Presented by Jean Galea. Where I come from…. Jean Galea. WordPress developer Blogger Site: www.wpmayor.com Twitter: @ wpmayor. WPMayor.com. The Story. The Story . Started late 2010 A place to post ideas and research Inspired by others WPCandy

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  1. WPMayor The Story, The Works Presented by Jean Galea

  2. Where I come from…

  3. Jean Galea • WordPress developer • Blogger • Site: www.wpmayor.com • Twitter: @wpmayor

  4. WPMayor.com

  5. The Story

  6. The Story • Started late 2010 • A place to post ideas and research • Inspired by others • WPCandy • WPRecipes • WPMU • Built on the ‘Prototype’ theme in a few hours

  7. Growing the site • SEO techniques • Guest writers • Commenting on other blogs • Interviewing other WordPress developers • Social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin) • RSS via Feedburner • Competitions (Rafflecopter)

  8. Planned Improvements • Better branding • New theme (responsive) • More article styles • Better site navigation • Growing the mailing list • Email newsletter

  9. What I learnt about Blogging • Focus on content • Leverage social networks • Engage visitors • Brand your site • Provide good navigation • Innovate constantly

  10. The Works

  11. Themes • The ideal theme • Appropriate design for your content • Well supported and updated • Clean, good code • Free or Premium? • Responsive

  12. Themes – Recommendations • Pagelines theme builder • Genesis theme (used by many big blogs like Yoast) • Woothemes • Elegant Themes • Theme Hybrid • Themeforest (quality can vary)

  13. Hosting • Three major types • Shared • VPS • WordPress managed

  14. Hosting – Recommended Hosts • Shared hosting • Hostnine • Hostgator • Bluehost • Virtual Private Servers • VPS.net • Linode • Slicehost • WordPress Managed Hosting • WP Engine • Page.ly

  15. Plugins - Recommendations • SEO – WordPress SEO (Free)

  16. Plugins - Recommendations • Speed/Caching – W3 Total Cache (Free)

  17. Plugins - Recommendations • Forms – Gravity Forms (Premium)

  18. Plugins - Recommendations • Related Content – nRelate (Free)

  19. Plugins - Recommendations • Capturing Emails – Pippity Popups (Premium)

  20. Plugins - Recommendations • Email Newsletters – WYSIJA (Freemium)

  21. Plugins - Recommendations • News Aggregation – WP RSS Aggregator (Free)

  22. Plugins - Recommendations • Backups - BackupBuddy (Premium)

  23. Plugins - Recommendations • Code Formatting – SyntaxHighlighter Evolved (Free)

  24. Plugins - Recommendations • Analytics – Google Analyticator (Free)

  25. Plugins - Recommendations • Mobile – WP Touch (Freemium)

  26. Plugins - Recommendations • Management – ManageWP (Premium)

  27. Plugins - Recommendations • Multilanguage – WPML (Premium)

  28. Plugins - Recommendations • Spam Filter – Akismet (Free)

  29. Plugins - Recommendations • Facebook - Facebook Page Publish (Free)

  30. Plugins - Recommendations • Twitter – WP to Twitter (Free)

  31. Plugins - Recommendations • Sharing icons & statistics – Jetpack (Free)

  32. Questions? WPMayor www.wpmayor.com @wpmayor

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