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WordCamp Los Angeles – Sept 11 – Recap

The 2nd WordCamp LA took place this past weekend and it was a blast. There was much to be learned, and lots of friendly WordPress geeks and fans to mingle with. I wrote a recap for WPCandy.com which you can find here. Looking forward to 2011! BTW, the delicious header image is courtesy Austin Passy …

Set Up Your WordPress Site For Success – Online Webinar

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The next online training webinar is scheduled for : Wednesday, August 25, 2010 from 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (PT)
Fee: $10
The topic is: “Set Up Your WordPress Site For Success”.

If you’ve got your WordPress site up and running, the fun is just beginning! This webinar will help you make sure your site is an effective marketing platform for your business. Do you have all the right plugins and features in place to capture email addresses and encourage social sharing? How do you know who’s visiting and where traffic is coming from?
Learn how to get all the business features you need on your WordPress site.

How To Use The WordPress Gallery Shortcode

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WordPress has an in-built image gallery feature which does not yet seem to be common knowledge even though it’s incredibly simple to use.

So let’s say you are writing a post that you want to include an image gallery in.

1) Using the usual upload/insert image button, upload any images you want to include in the gallery BUT make sure to just click “Save All Changes” instead of “Insert Into Post.”

2) If you want your gallery to have captions, make sure to fill in the Caption field when uploading your images.

3) To display the images you just uploaded, simply use the shortcode:

using the WordPress image gallery shortcode

Free Webinar – Introduction to WordPress

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My online workshop series is launching July 14th with a free introduction to WordPress. If you’ve been shy to get WordPress set up on your site, this is your chance to have a guided tour to installation, plugins, themes, widgets, publishing content and more. Or perhaps you’ve been considering WordPress for your site and want …

WordPress 3.0 New Features – ‘Twenty Ten’ New Default Theme

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WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” has now been officially released (as you may have noticed from the upgrade prompt at the top of your WP dashboard).

I’ll be doing a couple of posts about the new features – in this one I’ll be discussing the brand new default theme that you’ll find if you upgrade.

New Default Theme – Twenty Ten

Twenty Ten is the new default theme and it’s infinitely better than tired ole’ Kubrick. Twenty Ten serves as a demonstration of many of the new WP 3.0 features, making it much more functional and customizable right out of the box, but also making it a great framework on which to build child themes. Some of the new WordPress features aren’t obvious to the non-developer because they require adding some code in order to activate the features – Twenty Ten makes many of them visible to the ordinary user and provides a nice guideline for theme developers to understand and expand upon what’s now possible. See the theme in action.

Here are some of the main new features that Twenty Ten demonstrates:

Notes and Resources from OC Wordcamp Marketing Presentation

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This past weekend I gave a presentation at OC Wordcamp, discussing using a WordPress site for marketing your business, service or product. As promised, here are the some of the key points, along with links and tools that were mentioned. If anything is missing, leave a comment!

When developing a strategy for your site, the first and most important question to ask is:

Who do you want to come to your site? Who is your target audience?

Thou shall not answer “everybody”!

Get specific since the answer will provide the basis for all aspects of your online marketing strategy.

For more on this topic, also read:
Recharge and Refine Your Marketing Strategy
What Is An Online Marketing Strategy?

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