How Does all this Open Source Stuff Work? An Intro to the Wonderful WordPress Community

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1 How Does all this Open Source Stuff Work? An Intro to the Wonderful WordPress Community Jim Echter YouTube: SpindleJim My Journey from Expensive Proprietary Software To Using Open Source WordPress WordCamp Rochester 2018

2 Have You Ever Used

3 Welcome to the world of

4 Open Source Origin Open Source Initiative

5 My Journey From Lots of Zeros Early 1980s Cad/Cam Industry Average Seat Cost $250,000 4 to 6 Seats per System

6 Late 1980s Networked Computing A Little Company named Sun Microsystems My first entry into the world of UNIX Started to learn about SCO, Linux, etc. Sun came out with OpenOffice to compete with Microsoft $50K to $500K

7 Big Data InformationView developed custom analytical databases for telephone companies Multi Terabyte Databases $1 - $6,000,000 per License Very Proprietary 1.6 Terabyte Cygnet Optical Jukebox

8 Start-ups in the 2000s SaaS solutions Times are a changing Open Source software for Not-for-Profits Took the plunge into starting our own businesses

9 Our real jobs not web design Woodturning Quilting

10 2008 My First Web Site SiteBuilder a Free CMS from Yahoo Hard to keep up to date Microsoft FrontPage $100 to $200/License Macromedia FrontPage $400 to $500/License

11 Defining the purpose and goals of our NEW web sites Replace our old Yahoo site Ability to edit E-commerce A system that was easier to maintain

12 Finding WordPress Kathy attends a WordPress Meet-up Starts talking about this software called WordPress She attends another meeting and hears about this thing called a WordCamp in Buffalo in two weeks Jim, I thing you should go to this.

13 I Responded Free is good however I don t know about this Open Source stuff Is it stable? Who develops it? How do we get support?

14 My Journey Into WordPress Begins WordCamp Buffalo 2014 Best $20 I Ever Spent 6 Great Presentations Food Swag Started Networking Passion Everywhere Interesting Community

15 Getting Started with WordPress Took a Class Books Rochester Meetup and Facebook Group YouTube Google Learn, implement and improve

16 The WP Basics The WP Dashboard

17 The WP Basics WooCommerce

18 Themes Your site s appearance WordPress.org is the repository Free themes 2015, 2016 and 2017 Paid themes Elegant Themes, Theme Forest, ithemes, StudioPress

19 My YouTube Teachers ecommerce site Mystile theme Josh Jackson, wpsculptor.com General site Virtue theme Katrinah, katrinah.com

20 My YouTube Guru Kori Ashton 200+ YouTube WordPress videos

21 Plugins and Tools Plugins Add functionality Adds a specific set of features or services to a WordPress site. (from codex.wordpress.org) WordPress.org is the repository Paid Plug-ins Tools Jetpack the toys Jetpack is a popular WordPress plugin created by Automattic, the people behind WordPress.com.

22 Language Barriers Terminology Basic page layout Menu bar Sidebar Header & Footer Image Slider Image Gallery Forms

23 Media Files Take Work Media Picture Video Sound Pdf Word docs

24 Where to get Information wp.org wordpress.tv Google YouTube Books Local Meetup Groups WordCamps

25 Hosting Your WordPress Site Register your domain name Self-hosting companies bluehost SiteGround DreamHost GoDaddy Costs WP is free Free tools Paid tools

26 E-Commerce Image editing takes the most time Get a photo booth 72 dpi 500 x 500 dpi

27 Keep a Journal Notes from meetings Tips Good Plug-ins Corporate standards Log-ins, vendors, renewal dates How you did something

28 Best Practices Child Themes Back-up, back-up, back-up Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall firewall against hackers Akismet - spam eliminator

29 My Questions Answered Free is good. however I don t know about this Open Source stuff Is it stable? Who develops it? How do we get support? Yes it is really Free Open Source is Great Yes Automattic and contributors Everywhere

30 Join the Community ROC WP Facebook Group Co-working days Classes WordCamps Have fun Meet new people

31 The WordPress Ecosystem Wonderful community Meet-ups Word Camps Vendors Happiness Bar After Party Twitter - #WCROC YouTube Google

32 The Survey Says What s Under the Hood Everything! ie: Plugins You can do anything It s all documented Community Thinking about new ways to do things Always something new to learn Multiple people (with permission) can add content Easy for novices Community Great for Professionals Focus on site development Offload content to customers 7 x 24 help on Facebook Community Helpfulness

33 In Summary It s a Wonderful Community if you participate WordPress is affordable and works! In 2018, there are many Open Source solutions that can help you develop your web site Free is GOOD!

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