Here are the slides from my presentation at this weekend’s Orange County Wordcamp. I presented on “Fun With Gravity Forms”. Gravity Forms is a premium WordPress plugin that is worth paying for! Since much of my presentation was a live demonstration, the slides don’t cover everything, but there are some good resources included, and links to great examples of a diverse use of Gravity Forms.
If you’re a blogger, you’ve no doubt heard that you want your readers to be ‘engaged’ with your blog. What does that actually mean? Well basically it means you want to keep people on your site longer, you want them to explore your site, find more posts they are interested in and read more than the one post they perhaps initially landed on. ‘Related posts’ plugins can help with this because in various ways, shapes and forms, they create lists of related content at the bottom of any given blog post, to provide the reader relevant recommendations and an easy next click that keeps them on your site.
The problem with some related posts plugins is that they create these recommendations automatically ,on the fly, every time someone is viewing a blog post. In layman’s terms this just means that your database and server are doing way more work than they have to, and this inefficiency can slow down your site.
I discussed my experience at Seattle WordCamp 2012 in a previous post. This one is simply to serve as a collecting point for all the presentation slides from the event, or as many as I could find in any case. Feast below, there’s some great info to be had….
Using WordPress as Your Company’s Website
Kelli Wise
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SEO for Bloggers
Justin Briggs
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WYSI-WHA!?! Taming the WordPress Editor
Mark Root-Wiley & Christine Winckler
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How to Promote Your Blog Without Losing Your Soul
Laura Kimball
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This weekend I had the honor and pleasure of speaking at Seattle’s WordCamp. I have never attended a WordCamp outside of Southern California before and was pleased to experience the same feeling of community there that I have at other events.
My topic was “WordPress – Going Beyond The Basics: An Adventure Behind the Scenes of your WordPress Site!”
The goal was to introduce some key files, concepts and best practices for WordPress users who are not developers but are ready to take their knowledge of WordPress further than the dashboard. The presentation included a quick live demo of how to make a CSS tweak using Chrome Developer Tools, by way of a child theme.
For a presentation I was giving recently, I wanted to find examples of WordPress sites that didn’t look like your typical WordPress sites. I wanted to show the versatility of WordPress, since many people still think it’s just used for blogs and think all WordPress sites look the same.
So here’s a few of my favorite examples of custom WordPress sites that break the mold.
A slick showcase of hair products :: Visit Site
One of the most important factors in off-site Search Engine Optimization (SEO), is backlinks. A backlink is simply a link from another website, to your website. Search engines see links as “votes”, so the more links, and quality, relevant links at that – you have pointing to your site, the better. All else being equal, if you can get better backlinks than your competitors, you can outrank them. Given its importance to SEO, it’s frustrating that there isn’t one solidly reliable (free) tool with which to do backlink research. Backlink research can help you :
