May 14 Workshop

Social Media

A study by Experian shows that more than 91% of adults who go online, use social networks regularly. The use of social networking can direct traffic to your website which  increases the likelihood of people engaging with you and with each other when they visit.

This workshop will examine how to create your network presence using LinkedIn.

• LinkedIn helps you establish a presence online and build the connections you have to others
• Communicating your message via LinkedIn
• How to create a LinkedIn Company Page and posting compelling content
• The power of LinkedIn groups

WordPress

For our continuing study of WordPress, we will look at the following: 

Adding Audio & Video files to a website

Adding PDF files to a website

Web Applications

We will also examine useful & interesting web apps. This month we will look at Pocket.

Pocket, previously known as Read It Later, is an application for managing a reading list of articles from the Internet. It is available for iOS and Android as well as multiple web browsers. With Pocket, you simply click a button which saves the webpage or the article & you can read it later - even without having an internet connection.

April 9th Workshop

WordPress

Last month's wpcug.org demo while interesting, took more time than we planned, so this month's workshop will attempt to cover more  WordPress subjects than usual.  We will look at the following: 

Adding Audio & Video files to a website

Inserting  & Updating  PDFs

Finding Posts & Pages

Using Quick Edit

Using Bulk Actions

Finding Media Files

Deleting Images Used in Multiple Posts

March 12th Workshop

Updating the club's website

We will start this month's workshop with a demonstration of updating the club's website, wpcug.org.  Our website has a unique and dramatic look and it works well for our members as well as for any new visitor.  It loads very quickly and ranks high in Google search results.  It's only drawback is that it was created almost 15 years ago using the FrontPage website creator and this fact makes updating the site somewhat complicated. If you are interested in how our site is updated, then this workshop is for you.

WordPress

After this demo, we will continue with learning WordPress & will look at the following:

Inserting a gallery of images into a post

Adding Audio & Video files to a website

Adding  large documents to a website

February 12th Workshop

We will continue our examination of  building WordPress websites & how social media & Search Engine Optimization is used to draw visitors to a website.

For WordPress we will look at the following areas regarding the use of images:

• The WordPress built in image editor (14A)
• Sizing images in text editor of the dashboard
• The Edit Image window
• Inserting a gallery of images into a post

Then depending on time we can also cover:

• Optimization of a webpage for high search engine ranking

Last minute addition:

• Migrating an older website to WordPress 

January 15th Workshop

We will be continuing with our examination of  building WordPress websites & how social media & Search Engine Optimization is used to draw visitors to your website.

For WordPress we will look at the following:

• How to edit the title, description & hover text for images (13A)
• Image hyperlinks, alignment & sizing
•  Sizing images specifically for the web
• Using the built-in image editor

We can also cover the image hosting website - Flickr

• how it can be used for social media success
• Flickr provides an unbelievable memory storage of 1 terabyte which is free 
• Unlike Facebook, it does not compress images

December 11th Workshop - cancelled

Sorry Folks,

I'm still under-energized from recent surgery so I'm going to bow out for December. Happy Holidays & see you in January.

December 11th Workshop

We will be continuing with our examination of  building WordPress websites & how social media & Search Engine Optimization is used to draw visitors to your website.

For WordPress we will look at the following:

• How to edit the title, description & hover text for images (13A)
• Image hyperlinks, alignment & sizing
•  Sizing images specifically for the web
• Using the built-in image editor

Then depending on time & interest we can also cover:

• Optimization of a webpage for high search engine ranking