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Tonight’s discussion

• Let’s get this done tonight >>  blog posts with your self-hosted WP sites
  • Who has already installed WP?
    • IN LAB … those folks will install WordPress on your web host
  • WordPress best practices: the “more” tag (and using the KitchenSink)
    • Where is “more”? What is “more”? Why do we use “more”?
    • What is the “kitchen sink”? Why do we use it?
    • Go to your theme post on WP.com and add “more” tag at an appropriate place
  • WordPress best practices: editing / deleting / scheduling publishing
    • The best part about a CMS: scheduling
  • WordPress best practices: permalinks
    • What are they?
    • Where are they in settings?
• Last week’s posts on themes:
  • 3 visually appealing themes
  • My three themes I enjoyed
  • Put on everything you want to wear, then take one thing off. (Less is more!)
  • Joe?
    • Read everyone else’s posts — comment on their choices.
    • We’ll discuss … what makes a good theme? how can you decide if you should buy a theme?
    • What are the parts of a theme?
    • The themes: BookRev Lite //  Hatch // Lawyeria Lite // MixFolio // Pure // Snaps // Snapshot
      Not WP Themes: Galley // Wells (SquareSpace)
      Theme farms represented here > GraphPaperPress, GT3Themes, ThemeIsle

Lab / WP

• WP 5-minute installation!
• We will upload a theme. On Wednesday, we will begin modifying the CSS. We’ll talk about best practices and child themes on Wednesday.
• We may about plugins and site security

Lab / HTML

• Review HTML 5 and how it’s different
  > Getting Started with HTML
  > Tags, Attributes and Elements
  > Page Titles 
  > Paragraphs
  > Headings
• Read WP WQSG, CH 9, CH 10 and Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
  Reading prompt – what is the purpose of CSS? What does “cascading” mean? Post to class WP site before 5 pm on Monday you leave tonight
  • Read and comment on your classmate posts before Wednesday’s class

Next session assignments

• Read/resources: (see main page)
• Log in to CodeAcademy (Kathy will give you your auto-generated login and the class pswd)
• Complete Code Academy: Introduction to HTML (two modules) and HTML Basics II
• In class Wednesday >> CodeAcademy / intro to CSS (Kathy will demo)