 My name is Brett Burry, we're going to do a presentation today on WordPress. This is actually kind of part of a presentation we've done in Entrepreneur Week, but what I found was that people wanted something that was just at a much more beginner level than what we had presented at Global Entrepreneur Week. So Tyler and our Travis and I spoke and we thought, well, we'll just kind of, all those questions we couldn't get to, we'll put in this step by step. So what I'm going to do here today is that if you were to do a, how many of you have actually used WordPress before and have an installation? So it's a good portion of you guys, but we're going to step through how I might set up an initial site. It's a very beginner level, so you, the people who've already done it before may learn just a few things. If you've never done it before, this will be a lot of new stuff. So I'm just going to start in, with a very clean install of WordPress and then go from there. And I've got kind of a checklist that we're going to go through all these things, but it's the theme selection installations. The first thing we're going to talk about, then we're going to upload some media. We're going to install some plugins. We're going to, we're going to create a custom menu. We're going to set up a few widgets and we're going to create a blog post page and we're going to walk through the elements of a post and then discuss that WordPress taxonomy, which is tags and categories. And then I'll take some questions if you guys have those. You can write them down and have them ready to go and then I'll read through those. And if something's not clear during the presentation, we want me to slow down, just to shout, okay? Thanks. So what this is, is this is a clean install of WordPress. This is what it looks like. And we're going to toggle back and forth between two screens, but primarily this session is about the back end of WordPress, and sorry for a second, when I switched screens it reduced everything on the size of my screen where I can't read it. So I'm going to move this screen around. We're going to go to the dashboard. So regardless of who you have installed your websites or who you're hosting services, they might have different menu configurations. Right now this site that I put up for the purposes of this demo is on WP Engine. It's a hosting platform for WordPress websites. But this is just the clean dashboard. This is a brand new installation of WordPress. This is what it looks like. We're going to kind of walk through these menu steps to see what's in there. The first thing is we want to pick a theme for this. This is the default theme, and that's actually what we're going to select. But I thought I'd show you some tips on how to select other themes as well. So I've been to you guys using custom themes or premium themes, the things that you paid for. There's one person in there and another person. So the way this works is that I'm in this interface. I see the standard theme that WordPress comes with, which is actually you can really tweak it to make it a great looking theme, and I'm going to click on themes. And so it gives me the default ones, and WordPress, the way they run their themes is it's 2017, it's 2015, it's 2016, and then so on down the line for their different default themes. So let's just say we don't want to use any of these, or we want to take a look and see what are our options for maybe picking something else to make our site look like. So what I do is I would click right here, and I want to add a new theme to my blog. So I'm going to click on add a new theme. And what happens is you're still inside of our shell, we're still inside of our installation, but you're having delivered to you all of these options that you can pick for installing a theme in your system. These are kind of slow to redraw. So you can look at the feature themes, you can look at popular themes, latest favorites, you can actually filter themes. So let's say that you wanted to only look at e-commerce themes, or you're going to do a blog about entertainment. You could kind of filter those thousands and thousands of results down to what you wanted to. My recommendation is that you actually probably just only use something that's on the popular list. And this is the reason being a lot of these things are free and it could be a wonderful theme, but if somebody somewhere else in the world who contributed this theme decides to get a new job or no longer supports it or does something else, you may have something that's kind of a nobody's developing that, but if you get a theme that's really popular and somebody's making some money on it, then you can assume that they will actually put the effort in to keep it up and running. So sometimes I run into people who pick something that look beautiful and it just gets abandoned and then you're kind of stuck. You can always switch themes, but I just make a recommendation to spend a little bit of money or pick something that's really popular or just use one of the default WordPress themes that are in here. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to show you how to take a look at one of these themes and we're going to just type in 20 in the search and then that'll kind of filter down just because I know how WordPress sites are named into a prior WordPress installations. So I don't think we have 2014, we didn't have 2012 in our system. So I'm going to click on this 2012 and I'm going to check it out and see what it looks like. And so this is kind of a really good way to see a whole bunch of themes, but honestly WordPress's delivery of the content doesn't do them a really good presentation of what they look like. This theme is not too appealing when you look at it with this default content. So what I'm going to tell you is we're going to install this theme and I'm going to show you a couple other places to go and get ideas about what a theme might really look like. I mean, if I were to see this, I wouldn't say, you know, I'm sold. This is the theme for my blog that I want. It looks pretty plain, but if you see some examples of this populated with content and configured, it's much more appealing. So what I'm going to do is we're going to actually install this one. We're not going to develop this one. I want to just show you, you know, what it looks like. And this little thing right here, I always like to see some stars and some content. So it makes me think people are commenting on it. It can kind of get an idea that it's a living theme. Some of them have, you know, they might be in there, the list, but there are no comments on them. It's no one is actually using it as the inference. And I'm always kind of a little aware, even though it seems this is perfect for what I'm thinking of using. I just don't do that because I think it's too risky. So I'm going to click install. So where we were, we were back at the dashboard. I'm just going to retrace my steps. I went to themes. I went to the themes here. This connection is actually really slow today. So we're going to pretend that loads this page. We're going to pretend we search for 20, and this is my choice, and I'm going to click install. Well, this is waiting. I didn't expect to have internet technical difficult days. But let me show you a couple. We'll cut to the keynote, and well, that's happening. So these are some URLs that I want to just, I'm going to click through these real quick. I wasn't expecting this to take so long to upload my live demo. These are some good sources for themes that you can find. There's a place called Theme Forest. It's an internet marketplace for digital products. You can buy Photoshop templates. You can buy WordPress templates. You can buy little bits of software graphics. But if you go to Theme Forest, I believe it's .NET. There's tons of things to buy, and you can use those to look at the previews. That's also where a lot of premium themes are, and so you can see what someone who's actually making a living, making WordPress themes. They have much better work of themes, meaning that they're populated. They're trying to make some money, so instead of just having the robot there, they have lots of content. So it looks like this thing is actually uploaded now. I'm going to click on activate. OK, so now what you see, we're back to our screen we had before. We had 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2016. So I've installed a new WordPress theme. I haven't customized it yet. I haven't done anything. But I'm going to redraw our sample blog. And now we see that my new theme in here is installed in a different browser window. And this is what that new theme default looks like. Just to show you, sometimes you can toggle back and forth between themes. I can click on 2015. I could activate that. And then that would be our theme. I'm going to jump back here to this particular theme that we were looking at. And I'm going to activate it. We'll get it back on the right location here. So I'm going to go back to my realm. I'm going to reload this again. And here we are. So I've kind of showed you how you go around and shop for themes. We can go to that theme for site real quick. So this is that marketplace. So if I go to WordPress and I go to, let's say, e-commerce themes, they'll just show me tons of options. And what I wanted to show you on this, just because they're in there doesn't mean anybody's making any money on them. Or they're a good theme. It just means they're trying to monetize them. So what I always look for when we're looking for a theme is I like to see someone who is a top seller. Some people can make a phenomenal amount of money selling WordPress themes, maybe $50 a piece. And they're up in the many, many thousands just for one theme. So when you're in here, let's just look at WordPress. And we're going to sort by bestsellers. And we'll just click on this first one that popped up. OK, so this guy is a power elite author. You might look for something like that. You can look at the other things that they've done in the portfolio. This person sold $416,000, looks like $60 bills. It's a pretty lucrative business to be in. So it doesn't look like you're going to go out of business. So I just want to show you, when you're picking these things, just because they're in the theme force does not mean that they have the wherewithal to keep going. So look for somebody who has lots of sales. And that's just my tip. And then you can also look for live previews. And so the reason I like to shop for themes here is that they're populated with content. That 2010 theme that we loaded up, it's hard to visualize what that could possibly look like. But these people have a lot more content and be more appealing. So I think that's what we're going to talk about for the theme installation. And then the next thing we're going to talk about is uploading to media, to your WordPress site. So I'm going to work in at five. So we're back to this particular theme. And the way I like to get organized is that sometimes you don't know exactly what you're going to write or you're not sure what your blogs are going to be populated with. But you can start gathering assets for that blog as you're thinking about it. This is a good image I found. This is a photograph that I've taken. And so what I do is I just set up some folders and it's going to be called Images. And last night I poked around and found some images just using Google Image Search around Kansas City. And so that's kind of the content that we're going to use for this post today. So the way you do this, I'm going to do one at a time. And what I want you to know is that sometimes you find images around the web and they're just a series of numbers and letters. Or if you take pictures on your phone or your desktop, it might be image one, image two, image three, or a snapshot with a date and time, try to name these something that's descriptive because a lot of times if you're blogging, they're not going to find your blog post, but they may find an image in Google Image Search that you've named properly and it probably would help overall just for SEO purposes. And then later on, if you're trying to organize things, it's just kind of tough when you just have a bunch of numbers sitting in a pile of assets. So I'm just going to show you just one of these, we'll do this Western Auto Value. So we're going to upload the Western Auto Value. But this gets uploaded and this becomes part of my media uploading. We're going to talk about the different types of media that you could upload. So I'm going to click on this and it's in my library now. I'm going to click on that and this is the image. And so it gives me a URL. So if I actually type or copy that, I'm going to post that into a different browser. This is behind a little bit of a firewall for this demo and I'll paste it into this browser, which I already got permission to upload things. This is going to load. But what I wanted to show you is that you can do like a little bit of a digital asset management. So let's say you don't have your blog written, but you've taken some pictures of your grandkids or the high school football game. You can actually just upload them to WordPress. You don't have to make a page or post or anything. In all these URLs, you can reach those assets directly just by sharing those. So you don't have to, you can use WordPress and you don't have to write articles. You just use it as your own private image library if you wanted to. So this is a picture of the Western Auto building in Kansas City and I've uploaded that asset to my media library and now I can reach that and I could share this asset if I wanted to with this URL with whoever I wanted to. If I had to do something for a client, I wanted to show them a picture of some project that I'm working on. It doesn't have to be listed on your website as part of an article or a post. It's already in your media library. So that's that. So there's a little bit of information on here when you upload an asset to tell you about Disney the Dimensions, 1983,000, 20. This is a really big file. I think this is maybe the Wikipedia file for the Western Auto building. It tells you what kind of asset it is. It's a JPEG. It gives you a URL, it has a title on it. You can write a caption, an alt text and a description. So every piece of media that you upload, you can actually tag it with some information and the better the description, the more likely it's going to be found somewhere in through a search engine. So just make sure, just don't upload it up there. You've named the image something that's a descriptive image and then you can actually give it the alt text. So when I roll over that image for browsers that enable that, that's the text that's going to pop up and then you can also give it a description and then sometimes people that are, if you do Google image search, you'll show the description. So we're just going to do something real quick here. And then just pause. Okay, so those are the descriptions we put on this particular asset. And another thing I want to show you real quick is that this is kind of a Pullman's Photoshop. If you want to use it for that purpose, but I can edit this image. So let's say you don't have any image editing software inside a WordPress. I could rotate this. I could crop it. I could reduce the size. I could scale it down. So I'm going to actually just make this 2000 instead of that larger image. I'm going to scale it down. Actually, that's larger, so I'm going to make it 1200. And so we'll scale it down to that particular size. So sometimes you upload some photos and they're huge. You can actually use this to do a little bit of photo manipulation. So I'm going to save that and we're just going to close this out. So the next thing we're going to do is remember I showed you that assets folder we had. We're going to upload everything else to this. We're just going to upload them again and I'll drag all these over here and we're going to drop these files in the upload. So what I could have been doing, put my blog together. I don't know what I'm going to write, but I do know some great images that I've taken over the years and whatever project to start saving them. And then you can upload them to your WordPress and do some stuff in the background if you want to. So this is going to take a little while to do. So the next thing I want to do is that you can upload all kinds of assets. I could upload a recording to this website if I wanted to. I could upload a video to the website. I could upload PDFs. And so what I've done is I made some PDFs of these images that we have here. And I'm going to upload those. So again, I'm just going to show you and we uploaded all this stuff. It's part of our library now. Again, it's giving us those things that I would fill in and this just might be some sort of blurb or some sort of graphic I found this last night when I was getting some assets. So the plugins of the themes or the PDFs I made here, I just made two PDFs and I can also upload PDFs to my media file. So I've got my two PDFs that I have in there. And similarly, you can give somebody this URL on this PDF. So it's not on your Dropbox. It's not, you know, it's not in your Google Cloud account. It's just sitting in your WordPress media library. So when these things get up, just plot to this PDF, it has a URL. And so I grab that and I'm going to go over here to my Chrome and open up another tab, paste that in there. And now I've used my WordPress installation as a little bit of a file management system and I've got a PDF that's going to load into this particular system. So I think we've talked about the theme selection installation and we did some media uploading. So now we've got enough stuff to write an article if we want to, but I want to install a couple of plugins first before I write that particular article. So I don't know if you guys have installed any plugins, but the way WordPress works is that plugins add extra functionality. The core WordPress is a free program that there are people all over the world, literally tens of thousands, if not more, writing little enhancements and tweaks to WordPress. And the way you add those to your site is that you go to the plugins tab and I'm just going to click on the install plugins to see what the default is, because that's kind of what we're looking at right now. So as a default, this plugin comes standard with every WordPress. If you have an account with automatic, if you don't have an account with automatic, you probably want to get one because they'll give you a little ID number and this is a spam reduction tool that becomes standard. But when people post things to your blog, this kind of detects that it might be spamming. So that's a default thing, but we're going to actually look for a couple of plugins to add to this website. And one of them here is, this is the thing I'm going to show you. It's advanced image style, look at that. First I'm going to pause on this particular page. Similar to how we shop for themes inside of the WordPress shell, you can also shop for plugins. So you're still inside of your website and these are the plugins that are available and they're literally thousands and thousands of them. So let's say you want to type in a search engine, let me see SEO, we'll just type that in. And it'll give you a list of SEO plugins that type a bit pop up here. And if you look for another data, so it happens. See if you see some different things there. So we're going to look at images. And it'll give us some things that help us manage photo galleries and things like that. So here you could spend hours going through all of these things. We're just going to click on some of these just to start your smush is the name of this one. So I'm just going to give you some tips for installing plugins. Similarly to the themes, these things are free. You can install something that will work or not work. And so this is the box that people have when you get to get some details about that particular plugin you're thinking of using. And again, I look for people that have active installations. It looks like people are using this. They've updated it recently because even though it's described as something that may work perfectly, I always look for something that's been installed by tons of people. If you're going to, it's always fun to experiment with stuff and be the first person to try. But if it's having to do with your business or if you're going to be afraid you're going to lose some time fixing things, you might not want to do it. So you can also look at the reviews for these things. And so I can install this now. I'm not actually going to install it. I like to read the reviews. I like to look at the screen snapshots, the FAQs, those type of things. And it just kind of gives you an idea. It's just like shopping. You're just figuring out what it looks like if legit or not. But this one looks like a very popular active installations, one million. That's a monster amount of installations. I would be comfortable if somebody had like 10, 20, 30,000 installations for what seems like a common plug-in. And if it's really an esoteric thing, if you just see a few hundred or a few thousand, it'd be fine. So I just wanted to show you that. So we're actually looking for this thing called advanced image styles. And I'm going to look for that. And I'm just going to install this in here. So I'm going to install now. So it's installed in my system, but it's not activated. We're going to activate it in a second here. Then the next thing we're going to look for is a tiny MCD advanced. I'll tell you what these are in a second. I just want to show you. So I'm thinking about doing this. I can see from this screen that there's more details that I got one million plus active installations. I'm going to install it now, but I'm not going to activate it. So now, before we just have the single plug-in, and I'm going to click here, now I've got three things. And so if you want to see what the plug-ins are installed in your WordPress blog, this is where you would go. You could see them active or inactive. And then after you install these, every once in a while you'll log into your admin panel and there will be some updates that this particular plug-in manufacturer or the software developer has released an update and they'll update automatically. So what I'm not going to do, I'm just going to click right here and my bulk action could be to update all of these at once. You probably want to make sure your backups are working. You backed everything up because this is a point in your development where things could go wrong. I say that WordPress works amazing. I mean, we use it for all our companies, almost all projects involve some sort of WordPress website that we may customize or do database development on the back end to enhance it. So rarely does anything go wrong. So when I say it's not like this is not a precarious application that you're using, 99.9% of the time, everything works great. But I would always back up my stuff before I did a bulk update. But if you install daily backups, it's not a big deal. You're only going to lose the days, work or work or something goes wrong. You could also delete things if you wanted to remove those things as well. So I just wanted to show you that, that's how you can check all of those things off. So we've got two things installed, but we actually haven't done anything. We haven't activated those. And before I activate those, I wanted to, we're going to create a page and a post. So I want to tell you the difference. Does anybody, I'll tell you the difference between pages and posts. Database-wise, they're virtually exactly the same thing. It's just a document that you're adding, a record you're adding to the WordPress database that is going to be, they're called a page or a post. Maybe the differentiation between the two is a page is something that is going to be there longer. So if I'm going to say I'm a travel blogger and I have an article about myself and my travel business company and those things will be pages. But if it's my trip to China and my trip to Los Angeles and my trip to, you know, Greenland, those are all posts. It's more so your, the things, if you're looking at a magazine that the front pages that cover the magazine but inside that cover it's about the authors, it's about the publication itself. Those are pages. But all of those articles that were changed on a monthly basis, those are more posts. So you can decide and you can actually create either one, but that's technically the difference. Now some themes come automatically that they will, this particular page or aggregation is showing everything that's a post or everything that's a page. And so you might want to, if all your articles are written as posts and you want to make some pages, you can actually do that. You can just toggle them back and forth between those two possibilities. So I just want to tell you to do some pages and posts. So right now we're going to look at all the posts that we have in here. This is a default install. We just got one. WordPress installations come with one article or a post install is called Hello World. And so you can test at that and that's what shows up. So if we look at this particular thing that we're on, this particular site, this is it. I come down here. This is the default post for that particular thing. And so what I like to do is, just as a tip for development is I like to use this as a scratch pad. So I actually say add new and I put a post in here and it's called scratch pad. I can have scratch pad one, two, three, four, five, whatever I want to do. And then I just say that as a draft. I never publish my scratch pad, but I find it workflow-wise. I can get some of my content set inside of the WordPress installation. So it's not really an article that I've written that I'm ready to publish. I just create something called a scratch pad and I can put notes in here and play around with things. So I made some, I grabbed some content from some places. And I just grabbed some content that we're going to use to create some articles today about the city. I'm going to copy all that right now. I'm just going to throw it into my scratch pad, okay? So now it's not really an article. It's just my notes, but I'm saving them inside of my WordPress. So if I ever want to go to that URL and I can save the draft. You could actually give this your own login. Let me click here to add for visibility. So I apologize, but the screen through is that I can password protect this. So it's published. I can look at it at the office even though I'm not logged in. I want to see what my notes are. So I can publish this and I can just make it private password protected. So it's technically it's on the internet, but only I know the password. And then when I want to go to this URL and see what my notes are for something, it's my own private content out on the internet. So I thought I'd show you that. So I'm just going to save this as a graph. And so now I've created the scratch pad. So remember those two plugins that we installed with the advanced image styles and the tiny MC. I'm going to see this dialogue box here. This is the poor man's Microsoft Word in here. This is how I edit the stuff. So I see I've got Western Auto building. I want to select that and I'm going to make it bold. These are the tools that come standard with a default installation WordPress. And you can do a lot of stuff there. If there's a plugin that I like to use and it's called TinyMCE Advanced and it provides a different set of tools that you can customize. So that's one of the plugins that we just installed. So I'm going to go to my plugins and see which ones are installed. And I haven't asked and I'll leave this page. I haven't activated it yet. So let me go back to plugins. So now I'm going to activate this TinyMCE. So it was installed, we did that. And I'm going to activate this and it's going to activate it and it's also going to give me a settings. So some plugins actually give you the settings there. So now I see settings instead of activate. Some of them actually create other menus in your system. So let's say I were to have installed a different type of plugin. So I can go to the settings from this page but you'll notice now I've got something out here called TinyMCE Advanced and that's where I would go to configure that. And so there's not always a default place and it's kind of confusing sometimes for me. I install a new plugin. Sometimes they'll add their own menu item up here and it'll have its own separate thing in the menu bar. Other times they tuck it inside of tools. Other times they tuck it inside of settings. So if you install something you might actually have to look through this entire menu to see where it's at. If it's actually going to be a new header or if it's going to be a subcategory under tools or settings. I just thought to tell you that because I always end up poking around in here. So we're going to click on settings and we're going to reconfigure the tools that we have available to us when we want to write a blog post. So these are the other options that are in there. And so I'm just going to look at these and let's just say I want to put an underline. That seems like a pretty common thing that you might want to have inside of your tools when you're editing stuff. So I'm going to drag the underline thing up there to that toolbar. And let me see what else I'm going to add. I'm going to put, I don't use the emoticons but I'm going to put it up here to see what it looks like when you want to write something drop the emoticons in there. So now what I've done is I've modified this particular list of tools that are going to be available to me when I write a blog post or a blog page. So I saved my changes. And so now we're going to go back to our scrapbook, I believe. I can't remember if we did a page or post, a little fancy. It's a sample page, all posts. So this is our scratch pad. So I'm going to click on edit. I should probably just show you this while we're here is that this is going to keep track of all your articles over time. And if you're actually blogging a bunch of this, use this as a little bit of a dashboard to see what you've got. You've got the author, you've got the category. So we haven't talked about if you want to apply to something and we're going to have the tags that you would actually apply to an article. And it tells you when it's last modified. And you can, all of these things are sortable. So if you want to, so you can look at the content. This is obviously, you're not needing that because there's only one or two here. So I'm going to click on edit, okay? And so what's going to happen now is we're going to see those revised menu from the tiny MC plugin on the head. So now I've got my underlying thing that I put in here. I've got my emoticons that I added there so you can modify this as you work to show whatever tools you want to put in there. So the next thing I'm going to show you is we're going to add some media to this dummy article that we put together. And so let's just add a picture of this 1920s Kansas City city market right here. So I'm going to say, this is the same paragraph I repeated over and over again by the way. So I put my cursor right here in my page and I'm going to click on the add media and remember you can use this to actually add new things but we're going to click on this tab right here that says media library and this shows us all the stuff that we added before. So I've created a page, I've added some text to that page, I've modified my tools available to me and we're going to add something in here. And I think this picture is the 1927 city market photo. So let me see, city market history. I'm going to say it's 1927 city market history. So I'm going to insert this into the post but before I do that, what happens when you upload one of those images to WordPress is it takes, let's say it was a 1000 by 1000 pixel image. And just in case you're not familiar a pixel 72 pixels equals an inch or so approximately. So if you, I think that's how it translates and so you can see what these sizes are. So each theme comes with certain default things. So if I upload a picture that is a certain size, by default it's going to make it into a couple of other sizes just to make it into smaller ones. And so instead of you, instead of you having a page let's say I uploaded a whole bunch of really big images but on my blog or my blog they're only going to be tiny little like thumbnails. Well, I don't want to have to force the user to upload all those huge images when I'm only going to show them thumbnails. So what we're going to do is we're going to insert this in here into the full size is this size and that's whatever I uploaded. But they're going to make some common elements here. So we're going to put this in at 300 by 240 or I could put a thumbnail. So I'm going to put that in there and I'm going to insert that into the post. So I've inserted this into the post and I don't, and so that's what it looks like but you can see the text is not wrapping around and not really happy with how that looks. So what I can do is when I click on an image that I've inserted in here it gives me this little toolbox and I can click on here and edit that particular thing. So I can align it's center. I can link it to things. I have some advanced options. I can say it's center, right, left, none. I can edit the original image. So I can update that I'm not going to do anything. Remember that other plugin that we installed the advanced image styles plugin? I'm going to go back to my plugins and I'm going to activate that. First I'm going to save this before I get out of here. So now I've inserted this image. So I'm going back to my plugins. Okay, so now we're going to activate this advanced image styles. Okay, so that's activated. We're going to go back to our page, or to our post. And so we're going back to our scratch pad where we're editing this stuff. Now we've got an article down here that we'll put together, just cobbling it together, I'll put it. Okay, so now when I click on this image, I've got my advanced image styles and I click on here and you'll see that I've got this padding down here. So now what I want to do is I'm going to put 10 pixels around all of it. And I want to, let's see, So now you see what's happened. As I drop my image in and it's given me some space around there and it's wrapped the text around the thing. So I just, I don't know why they took this out of WordPress but it's almost, I installed almost every site that I have because it used to have something that was built in. So every once in a while, they may take WordPress from one version to the next and you may lose something that you really relied upon before. So I'm going to change these to 20 pixels around because I wasn't happy with the spacing around there. And so now that's what it looks like. So we made a blog post, inserted an image, dropped it in there, put a border around it. And now I'm going to click save. And so now we've got some content that we can use to put in a post that we're going to make. So the next thing we're going to do is we're going to try to customize this site a little bit with some menus and some other items. So a lot of times when you install a theme into the system, we're going to look and see how many posts we have right now and how many pages. So look at those pages. I think I should have, I should have logged in on my phone. I think my phone's internet access is faster. We call you guys probably online at the same time too. So we've got just this one sample page in here and we have a post that we know that we created before. So I'm going to jump down here to appearance. Remember, we installed that theme and we put this default one in here. So I'm going to go to my themes. Okay, so we're back at the themes. Okay, so this is my active theme. I'm going to click customize, okay? So later versions of WordPress come with some like a little bit of previewing tools and so we're going to actually modify this site to add some of the content that we've uploaded here. Okay, so I'm going to click on customize and hopefully it'll load faster. So just by the way, this particular installation I have, it calls every new website, Bretbury blog that comes in here. So these are my options available on this particular theme for customizing this 2017. So I have some site identity here. My site title I can put in here and we'll call this AC, okay? So that's our site title. Then I can put my tagline in here. And we'll just change this a little bit to show you how this works. You're super powered, everything. Okay, so I'm going to save this and you see that those things change in my preview so I can see what they look like and make them longer, shorter, whatever. I can check and see what this looks like on the tablet I wanted to. I can check and see what this looks like on a phone if I wanted to. So I can see my things just by pulling around down there before I publish it. So that's actually a pretty good tool and everybody should know that most people are going to look at almost every site on their phone now. So this actually may be the most important look of your site. It may look spectacular on your desktop but realize that the people are looking at it are going to see this. And so I'm going to click publish. And so now if I go over to my demo over here. So we've got our title that's on the live site now. We just changed that inside of the app and inside of this thing. So next thing I want to do is my customization menu. And yeah, I just published. Published is synonymous with save on this thing. And that's what I like to kind of preview this stuff because I didn't actually have to go over there. I was just showing you for purposes of that's what it's going to look like. This is a really good preview window that they have on over here. So let's look at the colors that we're going to have. We're just going to use, you can, different themes have different things. We're just going to keep what we have but I could actually go in here and select whatever hexadecimal equivalent I wanted to or use this palette to select something different if I wanted to make my background color. See it's changing the colors on those words. And I can say this is really subjected to this theme but it's analogous to lots of things that you find in different themes. So I'm going to go back and we're not going to change the colors. I hope not. Maybe I just, so we're just going to put light here before we apply it again. There's that. We should jump back a little bit more. So let me go here and we're going to go to, just want to get us back on the right path here. Okay, so then I have header media. Right now this particular thing shows up on tons of websites. So we can add a new image to our background right now using this system. There's going to be some default sizes or recommended sizes for this image. Honestly, I don't recall what they are at the top of my head but we're going to add a new image and we're going to replace that cactus I think or that plant or something else. So I click on add a new image and I come to my media library. So I can add something brand new to put on our blog post. So I've grabbed, let's see what I've got. I thought this might be a good thing for our Kansas City blog. We'll see what it looks like. So I'm going to select that and just put it in there, right here. Now this is our, I haven't published yet but we'll just see what this looks like. Is that looking, that's not bad. So we'll publish this. So we took a theme and we're going through the steps to modify that theme to customize it. We load this. Now this is our background for our WordCamp blog that we're putting blog posts for you. I've actually just looked at that. So that's pretty cool. Okay, so that's how you do the header media. You can actually, you know, you go to those websites where they have video that's rolling. You can buy some video online that kind of loops and that could be an animated GIF if you wanted to, you can do lots of stuff. It does tell you the sizes of the video, 2,000 by 1,200 pixels and it has some like a little website and kind of having the same thing loop through. This is where you would add it to have that header video. So the next thing we're going to do is we said we're going to create some menus. That was one of our steps here. So I can, I have a top menu and I've got a social links menu. So let me look and see what's in my top menu right now. So I go to my blog. I've got home about blog and contact in there. So when I configure my website, it'll give me some other options that I can add content. We'll also notice that before we only had that one post in there, that hello. When I, my first published step on this particular theme added a bunch of default posts into the system to kind of guide me along and how to configure this. So before we just had one page, it was Hello World. Now by clicking that one button, they've added this post, a sample, a homepage section and they've added an about article and they've added a blog article which is the one we had before and they've added a contact article. So they kind of do a big favor. It's like almost all sites having a ballot and a contact and those things. So they've kind of configured this homepage automatically to do a lot of work for you. So we can add different images and different contents to that particular thing. But right now I was going to show you how to do a menu. So I can add menu items to this if I wanted to. I could say a homepage section, blog contact. I could add a new page that I'm going to create. So what I'm actually going to do is I'm just going to take out my about page. I'm just going to add something and scratch pad. Okay, it's a page. I'm going to press this. I'm going to scratch pad. So I've added scratch pad. There it is. I didn't add it, it's not, I just put it in there as a placeholder. There should be a page called scratch pad in there now. Not the one we created, the one I just named. So you can modify that. I can take out some of those things. So we created a new menu here. And see this little social media menu at the bottom here? I can add things to that as well if I want to. So trying to figure out what we want to do next. We set up some, we're going to set up a widget. That's something else that's very common. Is that when you customize your WordPress themes, there's a functionality that, you know, you add plugins to systems. Well, widgets are kind of like that because they enhance things and there's certain areas of themes like a footer or a header or a sidebar. Those are all places where you drop in new widgets to help customize things. So we're going to add some widgets to this particular theme. Let's take a look and see what we've got right now. Right here is a place where these are widgets. There's an archive, categories, metadata, login. We're going to change that a little bit. So I'm going to click right here and I'm going to go to widgets. Okay? So I have a blog sidebar. I have a footer and I have a footer two here. So each theme comes with different widget areas. You can have a theme that would have multiple widget areas at the top or the bottom or the side. It's just whatever the developer does. These are pretty common. So your main page of your blog looks like this, but when I actually go to an article, you'll see that my article content's going to be there. But on the side of that is going to be a place for me to customize some widgets. So I'm going to show you what this looks like. We're going to put some new sidebar widgets on here. So we've got text find us, search, and about this site. But we're going to click add a widget. And these are things that come as defaults. There's audio, categories, custom HTML, gallery, images, metadata. And as you add different plugins, they may give you different available widgets that appear in this thing. So we're going to put something in here. And we're just going to put a tag cloud, just to have something in here. And so the tag cloud is going to be just our tags that we put on things. And we're going to show the tag counts on that particular thing. And then we'll click add a widget. Another one. And we're just going to put this in here powered by, let me see here. We can drop an image in here too. We'll do that real quick. We have our image library. We're going to add an image widget on here. And we're going to put plot twist in here. We're just going to put plot twist in as a thumbnail. So we're going to add that to the issue. So I'm going to publish this. Let's see what this looks like. I'm not sure why things aren't moving up in there. So I'll figure out, I think I don't know if it's the connection or what's going on. But we added some widgets to the system. So the next thing is, we wanted to talk about, just briefly, your taxonomy on your articles. So most of the ways that people are going to find you is that you're going to have blog articles or pages that have certain topics. The WordPress comes in with a certain taxonomy on all those pages and posts. So let's go to our pages here. All the pages we have in our system. And over time, we have 9.56. Let me do this one thing quick and then I'll take some questions. Thank you. You're going to edit this. And so the content that you put on the blog is going to have some tags and some categories on it. And so we're running out of time here, but what I want to tell you is that the distinction that you need to make is that anytime you put a category in there, somebody's going to be able to click on that category and find all of the pages or posts that you've put under that particular category. So let's just say this is Kansas City and you might have the crossroads and the river market and the plaza as your three categories, okay? But within those categories, you could have a tag that's called restaurants and a tag that's called shops and a tag that's called streets or something. So if I want to click on streets of Kansas City, it would cross across all of my three river market crossroads and plaza categories. Or if I want to click on restaurants, I would find all the restaurants. So it's just two different ways for you to pluck your content out of the articles that you've written. So I think we're running, we've got three minutes left and I don't know how long before the next session starts. 10, so does anybody have any questions? Yes? Oh, absolutely, yeah. Thanks. Go ahead. Add keywords to the media and image library. Right here where it says alt text. The alt text in the description, you can add those keywords in there if you wanted to. And you can separate them by commas, you can write a full sentence in there if you wanted to. So I've done a plug, I didn't realize. Oh, that was a timekeeper, not the next speaker. So that's where you would add them on that image library. Any other questions? Yep, excuse me. Oh, yeah, I'll be in the back of the room if you have any questions. Thank you very much.