Girl Develop It Philadelphia

January 17, 2012 7:00 PM - 16 attended

WordPress 101

Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law - Room 440 (map)

This class is for beginners who want to use WordPress as an easy, fast way to set up a blog or a website. We’ll guide you step-by-step through all the basic aspects of WordPress development including:

How you can work on your site before you spend money on hosting
Understanding the administration area and manage your site easily with Wordpress' friendly user interface
Installing themes to change your site's design quickly and easily
Using widgets & plugins to extend the functionality of your site
Learning how a theme 'works' and how you can update it on your own to customize the look and feel of your site

This WordPress course runs for four classes on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 7pm to 9pm. The class dates are as follows:

Class 1, Intro to Wordpress and Installation: Tuesday, January 17th
Class 2, Administration and Managment: Thursday, January 19th
Class 3, Widgets, Plugins, Themes: Tuesday, January 24th
Class 4, Customizing Themes and Publishing Your Site: Thursday, January 26th

Prerequisites: A basic understanding of HTML/CSS and PHP is helpful but NOT necessary.

A little about Pam Selle, our Instructor: When I was younger, I thought the internet was basically the coolest thing ever. I’ve been working in the web world for approximately 3 years and build websites with Wordpress in my day job. I’m getting involved in GDI because I think others should experience the fun of seeing something YOU made appear on the web. In my spare time, I practice/teach yoga, ride my bicycle, and am involved with the Girl Geek Dinner Social Committee. You can find me on Twitter at @pamasaur.

Transportation: Drexel is right by the Market-Frankford line. Alternatively, parking is available at the Drexel Garage on 34th and Market for $7. For more options & directions, please see http://earlemacklaw.drexel.edu/about/directions.

Tracy Levesque
Hey y'all. Here is a nice what is WordPress infographic. It briefly covers WordPress.org vs. WordPress.com http://pagelyblog.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08...

See you all tonight!
-Tracy

Posted January 19 at 11:11 AM | 1 like
Leslie Blau-Berlin
Hi I was the one girl geek who didn't get it all installed 1st class. Since then successfully installed and running XAMPP after uninstalling Skype. Now having a problem with Wordpress installation. (error message w/PHP) Coming in early 2nd class so a geek guide can assist me so I don't fall behind in class!

Posted January 19 at 4:30 PM
Pam
Awesome, Leslie! I plan on being there at 6:30, and the most of the TAs tend to arrive early as well. See you soon!

Posted January 19 at 4:41 PM
Maryann Helferty
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Posted January 24 at 11:56 AM
Tracy Levesque
Thanks for reminding me! The coupon code for 30% off CanvasDreams.com is "yikesinc"

Posted January 24 at 12:17 PM
Maryann Helferty
Hi - Can anyone remind me how to start using our local site? I can't remember the name of the .php file we open in htdocs to get started.
Yes, I procrastinated on practicing :-}

Posted January 24 at 2:27 PM
Maryann Helferty
Never mind, I googled and found my answer. Go to XAMP and http://local host if anyone else forgot.

Posted January 24 at 2:58 PM
Leslie Blau-Berlin
DUH - How do we log into our wordpress site? When I go to https://wordpress.org/wp-login.php it does not accept my info.

Posted January 24 at 4:43 PM
Pam
go to YOURURLHERE/wp-admin. it's probably localhost/wp-admin, unless you have your site inside a folder in your htdocs, then it's localhost/FOLDERNAME/wp-admin

Posted January 24 at 4:46 PM
Tracy Levesque
The WordPress sites we are working on in class we installed locally on our computers. You would open up a browser and type in "localhost/foldername" "foldername" meaning the name of the folder you installed WordPress in. You also need to have XAMPP service running.

The Wordpress.org login is if you want to post to the Wordpress.org forums

Posted January 24 at 4:47 PM
Olivia Rabe
Hi ladies - I'll be there tonight, but I have a prior commitment to a board meeting so I will be late. Olivia

Posted January 24 at 5:27 PM
Allison
I am not going to be able to make it tonight due to appendicitis. Hopefully I will be well enough to make it thursday.

Posted January 24 at 6:30 PM
Pam
Holy smokes! Good luck, Allison!

Posted January 24 at 11:24 PM
Ketki
I wont be able to make it to the class tonight, as I have the flu. Can I get the slides for this class.

Posted January 26 at 6:55 PM
Yasmine Mustafa
Hey Ketki, I hope you feel better asap! Pam is posting the slides on our Fb group. Make sure to join if you haven't already - https://www.facebook.com/groups/gdiphillywordpress.

Posted January 26 at 10:25 PM
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16 attended

5.002 (2 ratings)

Event Host

Yasmine Mustafa
Co-Organizer
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Pam
Maryann Helferty

What a gift! Class was very hands-on, Instructor was well-prepared, approachable and knowledgable. Thanks to all the volunteer assistants who made things flow. It was a pleasure to meet all these creative women and hear their vision for their web presence.
Leslie Blau-Berlin
Candace
Allison
Julie Martin
Sabina
Liana Dragoman
Liz Knudsen
Lexy
Olivia Rabe
Rebecca
Ketki

Your organizer's refund policy for WordPress 101

Refunds offered if:

you can cancel at least 3 day(s) before the Meetup

Additional notes: If you cannot attend the course, you must notify us at least 3 days before the first class to receive a refund. If you miss a class, we will provide code from the class & any slides, but we do not offer partial refunds based on individual class absences.

Payments you make go to the organizer, not to Meetup. You must make refund requests to the organizer.

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