David A. Cox: Hello everyone and welcome to
the class we are live right now.
We have over 140 people for this class.
We are talking all about Wordpress.
I am joined today live with Mr. Mark Collier
and well, this is his first time in Cape Cod,
Massachusetts.
I am basically going to be manning the chat
window for those people who are here live,
for those of you who have never been to one
of our live classes, you can check them out
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Just go to our website at pcclassesonline.com
we really want to hear your feedback, we are
always trying to get better at what we do.
If you want what you can do is at the end
of this class leave us a comment in the section
below.
Let us know how we did, we want to know how
we can do better, so really constructive feedback
we much, much appreciate.
Mark, take it away… sorry, damn it okay,
see it doesn’t take me along the script.
We have a couple of quick thing we want to
go over really before we begin because this
is one of the most difficult topics for us
to teach.
The first thing we want to talk about is if
you have not yet started building a website.
There’s a couple of things you should know
about and I want to mention there are a ton
of links that are going to be in the not section
of this video.
If you’re watching on Youtube you’re going
to find them where it say “Show more”
just beneath the video that will reveal if
you’re watching on our website it will just
beneath the video.
Getting a domain and hosting, okay there’s
a lot of different companies there out there
and we all have our different opinions.
The one that we tend to recommend and who
use is a company called Bluehost.
You’ll find a link in the description of
this video, we like to be transparent with
all of you, a lot of the links that you’ll
see below we have formed relationships with
these companies but we formed relationships
after we were already using them, okay.
These are legit relationships.
If you do use any of those links, we do usually
get a small commission for that, it’s not
any and really significant but it does help
us keep what we do.
Bluehost is who we recommend for both the
domain and getting the server… hosting,
sorry having a brain fart on my end.
If we need help with setting that up their
support is really, really good I also want
to mention that if you have problems with
Wordpress, we have heard from other people
that Bluehost has offered support with people
who encounter problems with Wordpress.
It’s not unheard of, trust me the other
thing you can always do is you can always
just simply Google if you a problem with Wordpress
Mark’s going to kind of show you that I
think in just a moment.
When it comes to getting graphics for your
website, we want to give you a few different
resources here.
The first one is a really great website, the
photos that you’re about to see in the website
that we’ve built and that we’re going
to be building live for all of you is from
a website called depositphotos.com.
They have really high quality imagery, they’re
a fantastic website, the other is a service,
it’s a web service it’s free for the most
part called canva.com for those of you who
are here live Mark is actually teaching a
class on Canva later on this month and for
those of you who are watching the video right
now, you can look for it on our website by
then it might have already come out.
Canva is a really easy tool to help you design
some really nice looking graphics.
I think I’ve covered everything that we
need to get started here, Mark jump into it.
Mark Collier: All right, all right.
Okay, so before we get started here I’m
going to show you a website that we’re going
to build today but before we jump into that,
I just want to kind of frame today’s class
and make sure you all know what we’re trying
to do.
The main purpose of today’s class is to
teach you the basics about Wordpress.
We intentionally are using the 2015 theme
that comes with your Wordpress installation.
In the future we’re going to probably do
some classes some premium themes but for this
time, we want to just show you how to get
in and out of the basic features of Wordpress.
There are going to be a number of different
things either I’m going to show that this
theme actually can’t do out of the box that
another theme could possibly do and I just
want to make sure that you know the scope
of this class and what we’re trying to cover.
With that in mind let me drag my window down
here so you can see it and I’m going to
show you basically what we’re going to try
to accomplish today.
David: Donuts, by the way I should have probably
mention if you’re hungry you’re going
to hate me.
Mark: Sorry, right so we’re going to build
just a really basic site today called David’s
Donuts and it’s just going to have some
demo pages like a homepage and a product’s
page and maybe a news page and contact.
We’re just going to fill in those pages
as we go today, add some graphics and that
type thing so that you can learn how to generally
get around.
Again, there are a couple of things that this
particular theme cannot accomplish and I’m
going to show that as well because I think
it’s important that you know the difference
between what a free theme can do and possibly
what a premium theme can do.
This is site that we’re going to build today
and we’re going to add some text and some
graphics in there and maybe embedded map perhaps
and also we’re going to add in pages on
the left side.
When you first log in to your website or when
you first log into your Wordpress installation
you’re going to see a dashboard that looks
something like this and depending on how wide
your monitor is, you may have two columns
of widgets here, you may have three, it all
depends on the width of your monitor.
The widgets that are shown here can vary depending
on what you’ve turned on and off, for example
you can reduce the size of these particular
widgets just by clicking the little up or
down arrow right here and making it hide and
you can also drag them around to the two different
columns that are here to put them in the order
that you like to see them in.
Also, if you’d like to just turn some of
them off or not see them you can go up here
to where it says “Screen options” on the
top right and then when you click on that
it’s going to drop down and depending on
what page you’re on it’s going to show
different options here and it says “Show
on screen” and if you don’t want to see
something like for example at a glance you
can just unclick it and goes away and you
can unclick any one of these and they will
all not be shown.
David: If you’re ever on this page and you’re
like “Where did the options go” that’s
the first place to look.
That can be very confusing.
Mark: Absolutely.
That’s a great point, in fact I’m going
to show you that on when we start creating
pages for our new website here in a little
bit because it honestly… it took me a few
months to figure out where that option was
and what was all up there.
You can customize this page to look however
you’d like and let me make another addition,
for example David and I both have our own
log ins to the PC Classes Online page and
when I log in I can see that different dashboard
than him because you could customize this
for each user, so that’s important to know
as well.
Over on the left side you’ve got your navigation
or your menu and I’m not going to go over
every single thing that’s over here because
you’re not going to use all of them today
but I will hit the highlights.
As you can see on the top, on the left we
have our dashboard which is where we are now
and on the next one underneath that, underneath
home is update and I want to stop there for
a just a moment because this is a really important
tab that a lot of my clients have somehow
ignored and it’s really important that you
not do that.
Updates, let me just show you what actually
there, when I click on updates it’s going
to show me what updates I need to install
or update for my site and in this case, it
says I’m using the latest version of Wordpress
and it’s says all of my plug ins are up
to date and my themes are up to date.
However, there will be a time in the future
probably in the next few days where something
is going to come out with an update and it’s
going to have a little number inside a red
circle that shows right here next to update
and you need to pay attention to that because
most of the time the updates are related to
security.
You of course want to keep your website nice
and secure, so you want to update your plug
ins and your themes as often as you can.
There are some exceptions because, you want
to make sure that any updates to plug ins
that come out are compatible with the version
of Wordpress and the theme that you are using
but outside of that, you want to make sure
that you keep things updated, okay.
We’ll jump down here to posts, that is as
it sounds like, that is where you add a new
blog post and well, I have an actual…
I have an entire class dedicated to your first
Wordpress blog post.
If you want to learn that in more detail then
we go over to that, you can check that video
might as well and we’re going to put that
in the description so you are aware of that.
We won’t go very deep into post today because
we already have that resource for you.
Media is where you upload all of the different
pictures and videos and files that you want
to use on your site.
David: Mark, not just photos and videos, also
will that apply to…
I’m asking, will that also apply to like
something like an audio clip?
Mark: Yes.
David: Okay, so really anything that you’re…
any files of any kind that’s where it goes?
Mark: That’s a great addition and you can
also do PDFs or Word docs, any file at all,
you can upload there.
David: Perfect.
Mark: That’s a great question.
I’m so glad David’s here.
David: Gold star for me.
Mark: That’s right.
You can go to recess early.
David: Okay.
Mark: Then we’ve got pages, which is just
what it sounds like.
That’s where you view what pages you currently
have and you add new pages.
Comments are where somebody might leave a
comment on a blog post if you’ve got comments
enabled.
Feedback is where you see what someone has
filled out on the contact form, I’m going
to skip that a little further.
Appearance, is a tab that you’re going to
use a lot as you’re building your site because
when you roll over appearance you’ll a lot
of different options here, your themes, customize,
widgets, menus, header background, Mojo themes
is actually a plug in that comes in if you’re
using Bluehost.
If you’re using another service for your
hosting you may not have that and then edit
CSS and editor.
These are all things that you’ll probably
use of most these you use quite often.
Plug ins, is where you will install plug ins
to add additional functionality to your site
and there are tens of thousands of plug ins
available, so you will probably use that.
In fact I just did a video last or earlier
this week on my top seven plug ins that I
use for every website that I built, so you
might want to check that out to see that ones
that I recommend as well.
Now, I might mention some of those today.
David: We’ll of course post the links to
those in the description of this video.
Like I said we’re going to give you a lot
of resources in that note section.
Mark: Exactly, and then users that’s where
of course what it sounds like, that’s where
you would add users for your website for example
David and I are both users on our website
and you can assign somebody a particular log
in level like they can be an administrator
or an editor or whatever depending on what
you need them to be.
Then there’s tools under the settings and
we’ll talk about settings here in just a
minute.
In fact let’s just go ahead and jump into
settings right now because this is a good
thing to do pretty early on.
If you roll over settings and the fly out
comes out here and this first thing is called
general.
Let’s go ahead and click on general and
what we’re going to be to do… there’s
a number of things we’re going to do here
but we’re only going to focus on a couple
at the moment.
You can put in the site title and the title
is what shows up right up here in the browser
tab where it says David’s Donuts and then
the tagline “Just another Wordpress site”
what was the one that you came with the other
day?
David: David’s Donuts, they’re totally
fat free in the middle.
Mark: [Typing] Free in the middle.
Very good, so that’s our tagline and when
I save it, the browser tab will update when
I refresh, so that’s what you can do there.
Your Wodpress and site URL that’s going
to be something we’ll probably talk about
in a future video but for now this is probably
going to be pretty populated with the address
of the site when you set up your host in,
so don’t mess with that unless you understand
what you’re doing.
Then email address, this is what you want
to put in whenever somebody fills out a comment
or anything, any notifications that come from
your website you’re going to want to make
sure that email address is your email address
otherwise you will never get the notifications
which is kind of important.
I’ll skip through most of this at the moment
but you might want to go ahead and set your
time zone so that things are tagged at the
correct time, so that it won’t throw you
off.
The same thing with Dave format, whatever
you prefer and that kind of thing and then
you go down to the bottom and you click save
changes.
Then we’re done there and then the next
thing I want to do is, let me take a stop
here for just a moment and I’m going to
show you what the site looks like right now
as it sits because we haven’t done anything
yet.
This is what the site looks like when we haven’t
done any customization whatsoever, this is
the way it comes out of the box with the 2015
Wordpress theme and so if it has a side navigation
or side menu and then the content is over
here on the right.
Right now what it’s showing is it’s showing
a sample blog post called “Hello world”
and that just comes with your first Wordpress
installation.
We’re going to edit this here shortly and
change this out but it doesn’t have any
color, it just has a slightly darker color
here and then white on the sidebar or the
menu.
If I were to refresh this, I believe that
it should show our new… yup, there we go.
There totally fat free in the middle, it updated
there and it also updated in the navigation
or I’m sorry in the browser tab in the top,
so you’ll that.
What we’re going to do is going to bounce
back in forth and see this develop as we build
the site.
Again, this is where we’re headed and this
is where we currently are.
Let’s jump back over to the admin panel
and let’s start working through this and
if you got questions that are directly related
to what we’re doing you can go ahead and
put it in the chat and David will keep track
of those and I may stop through this from
time to time to answer some if they’re related
to what I’m doing right at the moment.
If it’s not, then we’ll try to address
those at the end, so go ahead.
David: Do you want a quick one?
Mark: Go for it.
David: We have a couple of good ones that
are coming in here.
Yvonne was asking a question is there a way
to… when you were talking about plug ins,
is there a way to see a list of plug ins that
no longer work with the new update?
Mark: Man that is a great question.
Let me make sure I understand, I’m going
to answer that in two ways because I’m not
entirely sure which way you’re asking, so
if you are considering adding a new plug in
that you don’t already have in your site
at the moment, when you go to the plug ins
tab and in fact I’ll go ahead and do that
now but I’ll try not be ADD and jump all
over the place.
When you go where the plug ins and click add
new, you can see right here on some of these
featured ones, it’s going to say “Compatible
with…
“ I’ll highlight it right there “Compatible
with your version of Wordpress” and so it
will tell you whether it’s been tested with
your particular version or not.
You’ll see that all of these right here,
this one right here for example theme check
is “Untested with your version of Wordpress.”
David: Danger, danger, danger.
Mark: That doesn’t automatically mean it
won’t work but you do want to be careful
because you just don’t know.
David: Will it cause harm potentially and
if it does can you just simple uninstall and
if like nothing happen?
Mark: See, now he kind of [phonetic] teed
that up for me because that that answer is
not easy.
David: What?
Are you implying that I already know the answer?
Mark: Yes, I think so.
If you install a plug in that has been untested
with your version of Wordpress that does not
mean that it won’t work.
It might work, it might work great but it
also might not work and here’s there’s
so many different possibilities of what might
happen.
I’ll give you a couple of real quick and
then we’ll move on.
It might conflict with another plug in, which…
who knows what that’s going to do it might
cause your plug ins not work, it might crash
your site.
There’s really no way to know because there’s
so many different plug ins and so… there’s
really no way for me to answer what would
happen because they’re all so very different.
What I would first do before you install any
plug in is to see if it’s been tested with
your version of Wordpress and then go to that
plug ins page and look at the reviews and
the comments to see if there’s any indication
that there might be a problem, so that’s
a good question.
Let me keep rolling here and David will keep
collecting those questions as we go.
The first thing that I want to do, let’s
go back to… so here’s our demo real quick,
you see we’ve got a wooden background over
here behind the menu or the navigation and
then we have just a large picture of donuts
which is making me very hungry and we’re
probably going to have donuts for lunch whether
it’s appropriate or not just because I’m
staring at it.
Then we’ve got some pictures with some donuts
here and some text.
I’m going to go ahead and start by first
going back to our admin and we’re going
to add some pages into the menu here and then
we’re going to then customize the background
and I’ll talk about why there’s not a
logo here in just a minute.
In fact David if I… or when you guys in
the chat, if I don’t mention the logo here
in a few minutes make sure that I do because
that’s really important to talk about.
David: Noted.
Wait, what?
Never mind.
Mark: Right, okay.
In fact I’ll just do that right now.
[laughter]
Mark: One of the things that you need to be
aware of for some free themes in fact for
premium themes as well is they all have different
functionalities built in and one of the things
that the 2015 theme does not have is it doesn’t
have built in a way to put a logo in there,
in the menu or in the top and so you are stuck
with doing a couple of things either adding
some code to make that happen or use a plug
in that will allow your logo to be put in
there.
I intentionally left it this way because I
want you to see that even people that work
with Wordpress all the time can run into issues
with plug ins.
The only way in 2015 theme that you can get
a theme in there, I’m sorry a logo in there
is to either do code which I don’t want
to do in this class because I’m trying to
teach code.
What I did was a couple of days ago, I found
a plug in that will suppose to allow a logo
to automatically be populated into there.
Strangely enough it worked earlier in the
week and then when I did the live class on
Thursday the plug in all of a sudden mysteriously
did not work during the live class.
This is what happened is, when I decided yesterday
and this morning to try to find a different
solution that would be easy for everyone in
the class, I uninstalled the plug in that
was not working and it crashed the entire
site.
David: That’s not good.
Mark: That’s not good and of course I can
figure out ways to fix it but I wanted to
leave it here because what I did was, I went
ahead and reinstalled the plug in again and
it doesn’t display the logo like it supposed
to but it displays instead this words, “2015
demo” with a square around it.
Indicating that that’s where the graphic
is supposed to be but it doesn’t display.
David: One of the things we wanted to make
very clear especially to those of you who
have not yet started building a website, is
this should be a major thing that you should
be aware of in why you may want to purchase
a premium theme over the free theme.
Because a lot of the premium themes come pre
installed with these plug ins that you know
are going to work and frankly it just makes
it work better and more reliably.
You don’t want to obviously be… this was
an actual business and not just something
we mocked up, you don’t want your whole
site to crash just because you tried to put
your logo at the top left, it’s ridiculous.
Mark: Well, in fact I specifically am not
trying to malign the person that made this
plug in, so I’m not going to mention to
you which one it is because that’s not my
purpose but I will tell you the mistake that
I made that really probably cause this and
I’ll go ahead and just tell you.
I mentioned a few minutes about making sure
that a plug in was tested with your particular
version of Wordpress, like it says right here.
The other thing you always want to look at
is this right here.
It says “Last updated three weeks ago”
or “Last updated one day ago” or one month
or six moths in other works you want to make
sure that this plug in has been updated relatively
recently.
Well, I violated my own rule and I downloaded
a plug in that had not been updated in two
years and you know what?
[crosstalk] Low and behold, guess what?
It didn’t work or it crashed, so just be
aware of that.
David: Bad sign.
Mark: I’m going to move one from that but
I wanted you to know that in the 2015 theme
you cannot natively add a logo in here, so
I’ll be interested to know if any of you
guys are actually using the 2015 theme.
If you find a way to get a logo in there easily,
I know how to do it with code but if you find
a plug in to do it that would be great, so
let us know about that.
I’m going to move and we’re going to add
some pages, so the first thing you want to
do is go over to your menu on the left and
you want to hover over the word pages and
you can either click on the word pages or
you can click on add new, it doesn’t really
matter it will go in the same place.
We’re going to go to add new and when that
comes up, I’m going to go ahead and dismiss
this little pop-up there and I’m going to
add a homepage first, so you just simply type
a title up here.
Then What I’m going to do right now, I’m
going to add any content here yet, I’m just
going to click publish and then when it comes
back I’m going to add another three pages
as well.
We’ll go back up to add new on the top and
I’m going to add page called donuts and
publish.
It’s eventually going to come back for me,
let try it one more time.
David: [joking] Would you like me to start
singing?
Because that’s going to make the likes go
through the roof, I’m sure.
Mark: I specifically don’t want you to start
singing.
Okay, I’m going to quickly add another one,
in fact I’ll maybe just add one more for
the second time.
I will add our contact page and publish, so
of course right now there’s no content in
any of these pages and the other thing you
need to know about Wordpress is just because
you add a page doesn’t mean that’s going
to actually appear in the menu.
Even though those pages are there if we go
back to our website so far and refresh you’re
going to see that there’s absolutely nothing
that’s changed at all.
We have not got any pages listed over here,
so even though we’ve added them, now what
we need to do is we need to add them to our
menu and there’s one other step that we
need to take.
First of all I want you to go down to settings,
right here and we’re going to go over to
reading.
All right, we’ll click on reading and what
we’re going to do is right now the way that
the website is setup is that it is showing
your blog posts on your homepage but we want
to change it from blog post to what’s called
a static page to display something different.
Right here, you’ll see it says front page
displays and it says your latest post.
We’re going to change it to a static page
and then I’m going to go to front page and
click this down arrow and I’m going to click
home because I want our front page to be our
homepage.
Then if we had a blog built in we would click
post page and we would click the blog page
here in the list.
I don’t actually have one yet, I’ll go
ahead and click sample page just for now and
then we’re going to go down here and click
save changes.
Now, not a lot’s going to change but I’ll
go ahead and refresh here.
Now, you see that it says home and then the
only reason that it’s showing edit and leave
a reply or I’m sorry, the only reason it’s
showing edit is because we are currently logged
an outside user would not actually see the
word edit right here.
Now, let’s go back to our admin side and
now we’re going to add those pages to our
menu.
If you go over to this side and go to appearance
and then go down to menus, right now it’s
asking you to create a new menu and give it
a name so I’m going to type main menu, you
could call this anything you want.
David: I think when my son was helping me
work on some different things he called it
“Main menu of mainess” so you can call
it anything you want because no one’s going
to see it but it does help you to identify
which menu you’re currently working with.
Mark: I’m going to click create menu and
then when that comes back it’s going to
show right here, is our main menu which there
isn’t anything there but here are our pages
that we can put in the menu, so I’m going
to click home, donuts and contact and I’m
going to click add to menu and they’re going
to show up right over here in just a moment.
Now, here are the three that we are going
to add to our menu.
The next thing you can do is you can drag
them in the order that you’d like them to
be displayed.
You can click and drag home up to the top
and I can take contact down to the bottom.
Then you can click save which I’ll do that
now and then when we go back to our website
and refresh you’re going to see… sorry,
pardon me, hold please.
See, I miss something, this is important.
I didn’t do anything because down here on
the menu settings you need to click where
in the theme it’s going to be displayed,
so I’m going to click primary menu and click
save menu.
Now, when I go refresh we’ve got home, donuts
and contact right here and then I’m going
to talk about this other content here below
in just a moment.
David: Mark, would you like to throw you one
of the question from the chat?
Mark: That’s what I live for.
David: Okay, let’s see there’s quite a
few great ones here.
Katie a question, does the site go live right
away or are you able to work on it offline
before actually making it live?
Mark: That’s an excellent question Katie.
There’s a lot of variable on that as well
but there are different parts inside Wordpress
that go live as soon as you click save and
there are other parts that don’t.
Example on this particular page regarding
the menu or the menu structure, as soon as
I click save menu whatever changes I made
go live right then, okay the only way that
you could… there’s a couple of ways that
you could have it not go live like you could
build this site offline on your computer locally.
Most people don’t do that but you can do
it that way and then upload it later, that’s
a little more complicated or you can build
it somewhere else on your server that is not
your primary domain name, so that no one’s
looking at it.
As a general rule, a lot of these changes
that you make do go live right away.
Some of the exceptions would be, if you created
a page or a post you could save it as a draft
and then it would not actually go live until
you published it.
Also, if you created a page which we’re
going to do in just a minute or as you noticed,
when we created those pages until we added
it to the menu no one actually saw it, it
never showed up.
Those are a couple of options on how… when
things are shown live and when they’re not.
I don’t know if that answer your question
if it didn’t feel free to give us another
question and we’ll see if we can get back
to but that’s a great question.
While we’re on the menu structure, okay
I want to show also how to make a subpage.
How when you hover over a page name on a website
a lot of time there will be drop down below
it.
Of course I just realize I’m using hand
gestures like you can actually see me.
[laughter]
Anyway, so let’s say that you wanted to…
for donuts to be a subpage of home, it’s
really easy.
All you do is you click on donuts and drag
it to the right [crosstalk] and it snaps right
in.
In fact I think that on this one…
yes if you wanted to do a second level of
sub items you can actually drag contact further
[crosstalk] sub…
David: Snaps right in.
A sub of a sub.
Mark: I think because we’re doing a donuts
thing, everything is making me thing of food.
I want a sub of sandwich now, so yes but that’s
all you do and it wants you to save it then
it becomes permanent and that everybody can
see it.
I’m going to drag it back over but that’s
how you would with a sub page.
I’m going to save this one more time and
there was a question from Thursday that I’m
going to ahead and answer now because somebody
is going to have it.
If you wanted to add an item to your menu
that was link to another website, like for
example if we wanted to put a PC Classes in
our menu.
It’s really easy to do as well, go over
here to this left side and if you click custom
links then it gives you this option to put
a URL in, so we’re going to put [typing]
pcclassesonline.com and then, so you put in
the address that you want to there and then
what you want the text say.
We’re going to say just to keep it short
we’re going to say PCO and I would just
add to menu.
When I click add to menu it’s going to be
right below contact, right here.
You can drag it in whatever order you’d
like and then when you click save, I’m going
to go back over here to like side and refresh.
Now, you’ll that PCO is one of the links
here and if I were to click on it, it would
take you to our website so that’s how you
can add an external link there.
I’m going to go ahead and remove that but
and of course you could make that a sub item,
you could drag it around and put it wherever
you’d like.
Now, to remove something from here, if you
just click the down arrow on the right side
of that little box, you can go to remove right
here.
Okay, and then I’m going to save it again
and then it would be gone.
Now, I want you to know that that is just
removing it from your menu it’s not actually
deleting the page, the page still exists so
that’s important to know that distinction.
Now, the next thing I want to show you is
that over in our demo we’ve got the subtext
like home, how sweet it is our donuts know
they aren’t healthy who wants a healthy
donut anyway?
That kind of thing, now this is unique to
this particular theme but the way that you
add that text, is when you go back over to
menus normally there’s going to be a place
right here for you to put a description but
it’s not showing.
David where do you think it’s hiding?
David: [joking] In my pants?
I don’t know.
[laughter]
Mark: I can’t believe you said that out
loud, fantastic.
Okay…
David: [joking] Hi, everyone I’m Steve Carell,
how are you?
Mark: I’m going to mute your mike now.
David: No, no.
Mark: Up here… wow.
David: How to throw Mark Collier off his game.
Mark: Well, there it was.
David: Make a pants joke.
Okay, go ahead, go ahead.
Mark: Anyway, okay.
If you want to add those, it’s an option
that’s hiding up here under the screen options
that I mentioned when we first started.
If you click the down arrow this is all relative
to what page you’re currently on, it’s
going to have different options depending
on what page you’re on.
You’ll see the description right here is
not clicked.
I’m going to go ahead and click description
and then now I’m going to close that and
when I come back to here again you’ll see
that now there’s a field here that wasn’t
here before.
Make sure you always check the screen options
when something is not showing.
I can write [typing] how sweet it is whatever,
you know what my OCD is not going to allow
to do that, so [typing] sweet it is.
All right, something like that and then under
donuts we can say, [typing] no, they aren’t
healthy, who wants a healthy donut.
Okay and things like that and you can have
whatever you’d like there and when you save
the menu, then we’ll go back and we’ll
refresh and now you see that the subtitles
are there as well and of course the PCO button’s
gone.
You could add whatever you’d there that’s
looks kind of a nice little add on that comes
with this particular theme.
Again, not all themes have that but this one
does and it’s really nice.
All right, so I’m going to move on to something
else here, is there any questions related
to what we’re talking about right now David
that I could answer?
David: There’s a few that are little bit
off topic, good questions but… not really
any really interesting in here though, I think.
[crosstalk] they are totally out of topic,
yeah.
Mark: We are definitely reading your questions,
want to let you know we’re reading those
and we’re going to try to get all of them
but I’m going to try to just stay in this
flow here and then if it’s not about what
we’re doing right now, we’ll try to get
to it at the end, all right.
That’s how you add items or pages to your
menu, okay.
The next things I want to do is I want to
show you how to start adding backgrounds and
things of that nature, okay.
We’ll go back here, I’m going to go over
to the left side again and go under appearance,
we’re going to spend a lot of time under
the appearance tab there.
If you go down to customize… then you are
in the customizer here and it’s going to
show you a preview of your site here on the
right and then as you make changes here on
the left, it’s going to appear here so you
can see what it looks like and it’s not
permanent until you click save up here.
Back to your question earlier, I’m sorry
I forgot who asked that but back to your question
if you… until you click save this is not
actually going to go live.
What you can do is go under… this area is
called your header and if you want to go under
header image and click that it says you can
apply the header on smaller screen on the
sidebar on widescreens and what it says here
and what it says here is you can crop images
to your liking after clicking add new image
and they recommend 954x1300 pixels so if you
want your picture to not stretch or be stretched
out of proportion, you want to make it 954x1300.
As a side note, if you don’t have a graphics
program that you can make something like that
in, canva.com is a great place to do that
because you can actually tell it exactly how
many pixels you want to make something and
make it really easy there.
I’m going to go ahead and click add new
image here and I’m going… and it opens
up our media library here and I can either
go to media library and use anything that
I’ve already uploaded which in this case
I haven’t uploaded anything yet or I can
upload a new file which I’ll do that now.
Then you just navigate to wherever you have
your file in this case I’ve got some right
here, I’m going to upload this wood background
right here and in just a moment when it uploads
I’m going to click select and crop.
I’ve already made it to the size I wanted,
so I don’t have to crop it but you could
crop to whatever size you need it and then
I’m going to click crop image and now it’s
there.
Now, we’re going to about the color of the
text in just a moment but there’s the background
so if I hit save and publish, if I go back
and refresh again there it is.
We’ll be able to change the color in just
a moment.
Now, we go back over here there’s some other
options here, this is also another place to
change your site title and tagline and you
can turn things on and off here depending
on what you’d like to show.
Then if we go on to colors, you can change
your base color scheme, for example if you
said dark let’s see what happens here.
See, now it changed… it automatically change
a number of settings for you including the
color over here and also the background as
well as your content background and you could
click through these and see some basic options
and see what it looks like.
You could just make it kind of a large change
right there if you like or you can customize
each one as you go down and chose a background
and a header and sidebar, text color and that
kind of thing.
You see here where I’m in the header and
sidebar text color, if I make that white you
see now I can read this right here so I’m
going to ahead and drag it to the corner.
You can drag anywhere in here and it will
change the color as you go.
I’m going to drag it to white and I’m
going to click save and publish and now if
you go back here you will see that we are
getting closer to our demo which is right
here, okay.
I just saw another little thing I want to
mention, over on the demo here, you see that
the main navigation or the main pages are
all caps.
That’s actually really simple, that’s
because when I was on the menu page when I
typed the name of the menu or the name of
the item you can type it in all caps or however
you like and it will show up there as well
the same way.
David: Good to know.
Mark: Okay, cool.
David: You want a quick question Mark?
I don’t [crosstalk] know if this is going
to be a good one for now or later, so you
can tell me [crosstalk] and a couple of people
have asked this question, so I’m going to
just… a few people asked…
I’m going to ask the version that Yvonne
gave which was how do you set up the site
so that we can work on it and no one sees
it.
If there’s something like creating sub…
I think she means sub-domain called like wp-admin
is there a way to not publish the sub-domain
until we are ready and then move it into the
domain name.
We really like to work on this while it’s
development so no one sees it.
Mark: Bring up a question.
Okay, sure.
There’s actually a couple of ways to do
that.
There’s one way that I like doing it that’s
probably the easiest thing for me personally.
There two ways you can either… on your host,
on your hosting program, you can go in and…
like for example this one right here is called…
you can see it, it’s not hidden, you can
see pcclassonline.com/wordpress/live2015demo
so that’s where this page currently is and
unless somebody knew this address they wouldn’t
know to look for it anyway.
You can actually install it somewhere on your
service that has an address that is not public
and then when you get done, you can…
Bluehost can help you if you know how to,
you can point your domain to that specific
folder on your server when you’re ready
for it to go public.
However, if you’re working on the site that
is not done yet and there isn’t currently
a site being shown, there’s actually an
easier way to do that in my opinion.
Let me take hopefully 60 seconds, 90 seconds
to tell you how to do this real quick, really
easy.
If you create a page under pages, add new
and you can create a page called landing or
a page called coming soon or whatever you
want to, some of that nature what you can
do then is once you’ve made a page, you
can just put your graphic on their or anything
that you want just for people to see when
they come to your domain and then if you go
down to settings and go back to reading where
we were earlier.
You can then say, you want your front page
to be and you’re going to choose landing
or coming soon or whatever that page you made
and then what you do is after you do that
you save that and then when you go to your
menu under appearance you can go to menu and
you can make a different menu that only has
that landing page in it and no other pages.
In other words when they come to your site
all they see is that one page and the other
one just still be in developed in the background
and you can work on them but they only see
that one page and the only way they’d see
the other ones is if they have the direct
addresses to them which they’re not going
to have.
David: Good information.
I know a lot of people or quite of you were
asking that in chat right now.
Mark: Great.
There’s also some plug ins you can use that
create landing pages for you.
Those are really cool too, those are great
but this is just… that’s one of the easy
quick ways that I use, so excellent question.
Let me get back to where we were there of
course my… kind of focus back to where we
were.
So far we’ve made the pages, we’ve changed
the color over here, we’ve put in some subtext
before we move on to the content over.
I’m going to show you where this stuff is
coming from, these widgets right here the
recent post, the recent comments, achieves
and so on.
I’m going to show you how to remove that
and maybe how to add other things if you want
as well.
Because if you notice over in our demo, we’ve
got location and hours listed there and in
fact I’m just going to copy this real briefly
so I don’t have to type it again, because
I’m going to have to type in a minute.
I’m going to show you how to do that.
That is… that content over there is under
appearance and widgets.
When you open the widgets area, you’ll right
now that there are recent posts and so on
just like you saw over on the sidebar of the
demo we’re building.
Right now what I want to do is I want to get
rid of these six different widgets, so there’s
two ways you can do it, there’s a slow way
where you can just click the down arrow and
click delete and it does that or you can just
drag it and drop it over here and just get
rid of it that way just by dragging it back
over into the available widgets area.
This actually happens live as you do it, so
there’s no save button on this page.
Now, if I go back and refresh again, you’ll
see that there’s nothing over there.
That’s how you get rid of those and then
if you want to put in our location and hours
widget, all that that was if you scroll down
over you’ll find one that says “Text”
and if you just click and drag this back up
to your widgets area right here and drop it.
Now, we can click in here and we can put our
text in here.
You can put a title, this is like maybe the
location and hours or whatever you’d like
it to say and then I’m going to go ahead
and paste in the text so I don’t have to
type it again.
There’s like… an address and maybe some
hours and phone number and email address and
if you click automatically add paragraphs
down here, what that’s going to do is that’s
going to automatically put each one of these
lines with you hit enter between these, it’s
going to automatically let them be displayed
that way if you don’t it’s going to just
run it all together, so I’ll click save.
Now, we refresh and there’s our location
and hours just like that.
There are also other widgets over there that
you can drag over there and play with as well
depending on what you want like a calendar
of blog post or contact info, things of that
nature.
David: One thing just to add in here is I
mean obviously this is a demo page that is
not a real business but for those of you who
are business owners and thinking of doing
something like this you may want to reconsider
publishing your actual email address on the
website and instead using a contact form which
I believe we’re going to show people how
to [crosstalk] in just a minute.
Mark: Perfect.
David: Reason being it’s a great way to
just get a ton of spam out there.
If you only knew how much spam I get from
that short period of time, well I’m not
so sure where I publish my email address,
trust me I have… it’s one of my things
I do as soon as I wake up is go through it
and delete all the junk.
Mark: That’s right.
I would recommend that you don’t put an
exposed email address like that but rather
use a contact form instead, so that’s great
David, that’s a good reminder there.
The next thing we’re going to do is let’s
go over here and we’re going to put some
content and the first thing I want to, I’ve
told you that I don’t want to use any code
with we do this but actually there’s going
to be just one little piece of code that I
am going to show you.
How to get rid of this page title here and
we’ll do that here in just a few minutes,
in fact David in a minutes I closed a window
so I’m going to have to open another one,
so when I get to that point if you want to
fill some more questions for just a minute
we’ll do that.
David: Sure.
Mark: So, I’m going to go ahead and I’m
going to add a picture over here and I’m
going to add some content below it and also
while I’m here, you notice that all the
pages have this leave a reply at the bottom
and we want to turn that off.
Let me show you how to do all that.
Well, jump back over here to the admin side,
we want to go over to pages and I might click
on pages so we can see a list of all the pages
we have.
You see that here’s our homepage.
I’m going to hover over that and click edit.
Now, what I want to do first is I want to
go ahead and turn off the ability for people
to leave a comment on the page because that
just doesn’t make any sense.
Normally, you would scroll down here to the
bottom and there will be an option right here
to turn it off but it’s not showing.
I’m going to give you a second change to
guess where that is and we’re not using
the same answer as earlier.
If it’s not showing where do you think we’re
going to look?
David: This is the part where I really hold
back from giving a sarcastic answer.
Mark: Yes, just give it to me.
David: Sorry, I’m I’ve been focusing on
the chat why don’t you just tell us.
Mark: Okay.
[laughter]
Mark: We’re going to go to screen options
up here and in the top and we’re going to
click, there’s two things up here and this
is kind of weird what it’s doing is you
want to be able to turn off discussion and
comments options on the pages but you have
to actually turn them on here so you can see
them, discussion and comment.
Now, when you go down here it says allow comments,
allow trackbacks and pingback we’re just
going to unclick both of those and then now
when we update the page now you’re going
to see that that is can be gone and it’s
gone.
You’re going to have to do that on every
page one the 2015 theme because it automatically
defaults to having that on.
It depends on which theme you’re using as
to whether that default is on or off but that’s
how you turn those off.
As we work into there if I forget to tell
you on the other pages, you just simply go
up here to screen options on each page, click
the down arrow turn on the discussion and
comments and then go down to the bottom and
turn off allow comments, allow trackbacks
and pingbacks so that’s how you do that.
Next we’re going to add a picture and some
content here.
Right in this area is where you’re going
to add your pictures and content.
The first things we do is I’m going to just
click in this area and I’m going to go up
here to this button that says add media, I’m
going to click add media.
It takes me to our media library and show
everything that I’ve currently uploaded
to our website which is wood background.
I’m going to need to upload something else.
I’m going to click upload files and I’m
going to select a file and I’m going to
David’s Donuts and I’m going to upload
maybe some header images, I’m not sure what
I’ve got there, yeah, okay.
Let’s use this picture of this donuts just
for fun.
I’m going to double click on that, it’s
going to load it into here now while this
is loading you can bring in the picture that
you want to use and size however you’d like
either before you bring it in here like in
Canva or Photoshop or whatever you have or
you can possibly even crop it in here as well
depending on which you’d prefer to do it.
Now, before I click insert into page I want
to show you a couple of options here.
Right here under attachment display settings,
the first thing is alignment and you can have
it aligned left, center, right or none I’m
just going to leave it at none.
This is important right here.
Link to, I don’t typically want my big header
image to be linked to anything in other words
I don’t want someone to click on the picture
and go anywhere, I just want it to be displayed
as a picture, so in this case I’m going
to click the down arrow and I’m going to
say none.
I don’t want it to link to anything.
Then size, it automatically defaults here
in this case to medium size I want it to actually
come in and have the size that I actually
made it at.
I’m going to full size but you ever size
you’d like.
If it comes in smaller than you expected it
to be, chances are you probably just had something
less than full size and then click insert
into page and then in just a moment there’s
that nice big picture.
If I were to click update on the right and
go back to David’s Donuts, in fact David
I’m going to need you to go get some donuts
right now if you would do that that would
be great.
David: I’m on my way.
Mark: Thank you.
Okay, so there’s the picture.
Again, you can make it taller or shorter depending
on what you want but for now we’ll just
use that as well.
Again, we’re going to come back and turn
this off here in just a little bit.
Next I’m going to ahead and put some content
underneath the picture and if you remember,
right here we had first type of donut, second
type of donut, that kind of thing.
We’re going to go ahead and do that, I’ll
show you how to do that, we’ll go back to
the admin or to the edit page.
We’re going to scroll down below our picture,
I’m just going to hit return there and we’re
going to put in a picture and some text.
I’m going to put in some text first and
then the picture.
I’ve got a little add on to my Chrome browser
here for dummy text so that I don’t have
to type any.
I’m going to ahead and copy this dummy text
here just so we have some and I’m going
to paste some text, you could type whatever
you’d like and I’m going to click a couple
of options here, so I’m going to paste it
twice so that we have some dummy text
Next I want to go ahead and put those pictures
of those donuts right here on the left side.
I’m going to click my cursor right before
the first word in the paragraph then I’m
going… because that’s where it’s going
to put the picture.
Now, I were to put it in the wrong place I
could drag around but it’s nice to just
put it in the right place first.
I’ll put my cursor there, I’ll go up to
add media and I’m going to upload a file
again.
David: Mark, while you’re doing this one
of the questions we have from the other day
was someone who was asking, well what if I
don’t want the photo to be either absolutely
on the left, absolutely on the right or absolutely
in the center.
What if they want to drag it around, what
are their options or is basically the answer
that this is not the right thing for you.
Mark: Okay, I think I understand what they
mean.
If they want to like put it in a very specific
place [crosstalk] like maybe in a column or
something of that nature that’s a great
question.
David: Yes.
Mark: In the 2015 theme there are not really
any options to do that, you just simple have
one large column.
There are plug ins you can use to make columns
or there’s code you can use to make columns
but if you want to just use this theme out
of the box, it doesn’t do that.
David: Okay, good to know.
Mark: That’s a great question.
Again, I’m going to turn off my…
I’m going to actually turn my alignment
to left but you could do this here or afterwards,
link to none I’m going to have it come in
and you know what, I’m going to chose thumbnail
make a little smaller, 150x150 insert into
page and there’s that first donut.
You see how this text is starting to wrap
around this particular picture?
I’m going to ignore that for a moment and
I’ll show you why.
I’m going to click down here to the next
one, I’m going to say add media and upload
another file, I’m going to grab my picture
of my chocolate donut here and…
David: I got a great question for you Mark
from Doug who just brought this up.
He’s asking are any images that you add
in the site automatically optimized for web
viewing or do you have to do that step mainly
before you upload the image?
Mark: Man what his name again?
David: Doug.
Mark: Doug.
That is a great question.
Thank you for asking that.
No, they are not automatically optimized.
There are some plug ins that do that as well
but I highly recommend that when you bring
a picture in that you optimize and incase
you guys don’t know what I mean by optimizing.
You want to make it a small file size as you
can and still have it display well.
In other words you don’t want it pixilated
but you want you want to make a small file
size.
I don’t have the time right now to go into
the different file sizes, maybe we can talk
about it some other time.
I would just say as small as you file size
can be.
In this case I think, I didn’t pay attention
but I think these are probably the 30KB to
40KB range, this two donuts.
You want to keep them as small as you can.
The reason why if you don’t do that, like
I’ve seen people go out and take their DSLR
and they take amazing photos and how big is
an average photo in your…
David: For me, if I’m doing JPEG it’s
still usually a few megabytes, multiples,
yeah.
Mark: Let’s say it comes out of like 3MB
or something.
I’ve actually had a client that brought
in something like eight to nine megs each
and when you put in pictures that are eight
to nine megs each you’ll realize that the
whole website’s got to load all of those
pictures and so it’s going to load very,
very slowly so you don’t want to do that.
David: Speed of dark.
Mark: Speed of dark, that’s exactly right.
You’ll see it here in the back side, now
back to looking at our donuts here.
You’ll that it doesn’t look like it’s
going to align correctly but I would do first
is would click update and let’s go and see
what it actually looks like.
Okay, so now what I’m going to do is I’m
going to back to the back and I’m going
to add an extra space here and I think that
will align correctly.
Let’s go back over here, I’m going to
go right here and add one.
David: Here we go.
Mark: Now, but I do want to tell that just
because it looks correct here doesn’t always
mean that’s going to look the same way on
the other side.
We’ll look at that and I bet it’s going
to align up just perfectly and there you go.
There’s kind of the homepage, you could
add more items down here if you like just
for fun, I’ll go ahead and I’ll show you,
you saw that in the demo we had a map here.
I’ll go ahead and show you how to do that
real quick.
The way you do that, again I want to emphasize,
the way you do that in this theme because
if you’re using a premium theme chances
are really good that it’s already going
to have a feature built in that shows you…
that helps you add a map in fact even maybe
customize the map through those features but
this one doesn’t have it.
What we’re going to do, is we’re going
to Google Maps, maps.googl.com and we’re
just going to look up…
I don’t know we’ll look up Tulsa, Oklahoma
which is pretty close to where I’m from,
all right.
There’s Cain’s Ballroom which is a great
place to go see concerts.
David: Thank you for that random info.
Mark: Yup, no problem.
In fact I can talk about Dr. Robert J. Herman
orthodox treatment anyway.
David: That’s okay.
Mark: Okay.
Well that’s where my daughter gets her…
David: Fantastic.
Mark: Okay, sorry.
[laughter]
Mark: What you can do is you can pull up whatever
address you’d like, you can put in the address
that you need and then if you go down here
to the right, bottom right to the little gear
option.
You could go to share or embed map and then
go to click on embed map here and then what
you’re going to do is you’re going to
choose what size you want the map to be, small,
medium, large or custom size.
In this case I’ll just say I want it 800
by I don’t know 300, you can choose whatever
you want.
Then what you want to do is you want to copy
this code right here and then we’re going
to go back to your page and if you scroll
down, I assume that I want to put it below
these donuts so I’m going to space down
a couple and then here what’s really important
if I paste the code right here, it’s going
to actually display the code and not the map.
Because right here I am on the visual editor
and not the text editor, so for this case
only I’m going to over to text and it’s
going to show you the code that it takes to
display what we have already and I’m going
to go right below this and I’m going to
paste in that code.
If I go back to visual, if you go back down
here it’s going to show my map here, so
if I update and then go back to David’s
Donuts and hopefully if I did it right, it
will load in just a moment and there’s the
map, [crosstalk] that’s cool, that’s cool.
David: Great.
Mark: That’s how you do that.
All right so let’s take moment and fill
in some more questions and maybe if you can
answer a couple or if you can fill a couple,
I’m going to grab one thing real quick.
David: A couple of people where asking where
are the best places to go get the best premium
themes and I want really emphasize we do it…
for this reticular topic Mark did a ton of
research and plus keep in mind he is a full
time web designer also.
We’re going to include links to everything
in the description of this video and for those
of you who are here live, it’s going to
be when it’s published.
There’s so many different options out there
and frankly part of it is Mark has worked
with so many of these themes, he knows what
they don’t tell you necessarily when they’re
publishing it and you want to make sure you
have a good theme that has a good amount of
plug ins that are really versatile and when
you’re checking out a theme, don’t just
go based on whatever fake business they’re
advertising.
Like with this one, you’re like “Okay,
it looks great for donuts” well it’s going
to work great for a bunch different businesses.
You have to keep in mind that it’s always
place holder text and part of the difference
between an amateurish looking site and a really,
really good site is good photography, good
graphics.
If that means paying a few dollars and I mean
with Deposit Photos it’s a couple dollars
per photo, it’s worth the money.
A few people on the chat were asking me about
how much do we expect to pay for these themes,
so I went through the list and they’re usually…
it’s not outrageous.
It’s usually averaging right around $50
to $60 but this is a tool, it’s your business
presumably, so it’s important that you make
the right decisions and invest your money
wisely so I think it’s absolutely worth
60 bucks.
Mark: That’s great.
In fact we are going to give hopefully at
the end I’ll be able to mention a couple
of my favorite themes.
We’ll give you some links to those.
All right, so I want to go ahead and show
you how to get rid of the page titles here
and forgive me, one of you early right before
the class started gave us a link to a plug
in to do this and since I have… and I want
to make sure I respect you being in the class
I haven’t personally test that plug in so
I will not recommend it yet but I bet it’s
going to be great.
But we need to get rid of these page titles
here and the 2015 does not automatically give
us an ability to do that.
Again, almost any good premium theme will
give you just a click on, click off but this
one doesn’t
If you were to use Google, like I use it in.
I know we both Google all kinds of stuff and
I just Googled Wordpress 2015 remove page
title and of course you can get just a little
snippet code to get rid of it.
In this case, I found some and I’ll go ahead
and put it in the chat.
I don’t know how many of you guys are actually
using the 2015 but just incase I want to have
it and put the little snippet of code in there
in the chat, so hopefully that comes up for
people to see and that’s how you can remove…
that’s the code you can and I’ll show
you how to do this.
If you go back to the edit page and you go
down to appearance and then edit CSS right
here.
You can take and go right here, I’ll hit
enter a couple of times and you can paste
in this code and then save style sheet.
David: It was Randy by the way, Randy from
the Netherlands.
Mark: Thank you Randy from the Netherlands.
Then I’m going to refresh and now you see
that the page title is gone and it looks a
little better, so that’s how you can you
do that.
There are probably some other plug ins that
can do that as well.
Again, another plug for a good premium theme,
all right so now we got our homepage, we’ve
got some content on there.
I think that you guys can probably figure
it out.
I’m not going to ahead and add content to
the donuts page because honestly it’s exactly
the same process that we just did with the
homepage.
I do want to do one more thing before we get
into a bunch of… or two more things, sorry.
I’m going to talk about permalinks and I’ll
also want to show you how to add a contact
form, all right and then we’ll start jumping
into some questions from you guys.
Thank you for being patient.
I’m going to go ahead and add a content
form first, so I’m going to go back here
to pages and I’m going to my contact page
and let me tell you there are a lot of different
ways to add a contact form.
I’m going to go ahead and just use the built
in contact form that comes with the Jetpack
plug in.
When you have the Jetpack plug in it automatically
comes with your install when you’re using
the 2015 theme.
I automatically puts this button right here
that says “Add contact form” it honestly…
it couldn’t be easier.
I mean, you just click this button right here
and it pops-up with this little window and
it’s going to say “Here’s what your
form will look like” and I’ve got a name,
email, website and comment fields.
I don’t usually need someone to give me
their website, so in this case I’m just
going to hover over this little minus button,
I’m going to click that and it’s going
to delete it.
This is what my form currently going to look
like, if you like to add more fields to it,
you can click add new field and then you can
label it like [typing] I don’t know, where
are you from of course you would not do that.
Then you can choose what type of field type
it is, like a drop down or whatever kind of
field type you need you can decide whether
it’s required or not required, whether they’d
have to fill that out and then you can save
the field.
In this case, I’m going to delete so this
is all I need for the contact form but before
I click add this form to my post, I’m going
to go up here at the email notifications and
click that and then I’m going to enter my
email address because if I don’t, when someone
fills out this form, I’m not going to get
notified.
I will just put in [typing] david@davidsdonuts.com
and then message from your website or whatever
you like it to say.
Save and go back to form builder and then
add this form to my post and now it puts in
this code and then if I click update and go
back to our website and click contact, you
can see that now there’s a nice clean form
there.
Again you could add pictures on the top, you
could add other content but we’re going
to do that for now because we’ve already
kind of covered that.
There’s one other thing I want to do before
we jump into questions.
If you go up here, you’ll notice that in
the address, the URL bar you’ll that this
page name should be contact but instead it’s
?page_id=8 and you’ll see that all the pages
have some similar… with the exception of
the homepage, they’ve got odd names like
that and we want to fix that, we want it to
actually say the name of the page.
That’s really easy, let me show you to do
that.
If you go back to our admin panel again, you
go down here to settings and to permalinks,
right here and when the default it actually
show a page number like ?p=123 or whatever
we’re just going to go down here to custom
structure and click…
I’m sorry I’m going to use post name but
you could use custom structure also.
Post name and then go on to save changes and
now, when I go back to our site and reload
it and if I go to donuts, guess what right
up here the name of the page is donuts like
it should be.
Whenever I see a website that shows ?=p_7549
I realize that someone just doesn’t know
how to change that, so that’s another great
way to update your site and make it look more
readable for an average person.
All right, so I think we’ve gone over quite
a few different things to help you get started.
Let me start seeing how I can do with your
questions.
David: Okay, so I’ll throw a few here.
One I know the answer I’m going to let you
do it.
Can you use multiple themes within a single
website?
Mark: Okay, that’s actually strangely enough
it’s not as easy as you might think.
The answer technically is no but you could
actually do a sub-domain like for example
if you did chocolate.davidsdonuts.com as a
sub-domain you could actually install another
theme on that because it’s… [crosstalk]
technically a separate website so in that
case… so to your actual question, can you
use multiple themes on one website, the answer
is no.
David: Good point.
Very common question from Jules, how do you
get rid of “Powered by Wordpress”?
Mark: Okay, now… again, I can’t emphasize
this enough.
Everything is different, every theme is different
and so that’s in the footer and so in this
case you’re going to have to actually go
into some code to get rid of that for this
but again on any good theme, any premium theme
that’s just simply an option under customize
and you could just simply type it on in there.
In this case it will need to be a code to
get rid of that on this one.
David: You wanted another one?
Mark: Sure.
David: Let’s see.
Well, see this is from… let’s see is the
cost of a… is the cost of a theme a time
purchase or reoccurring, also images, some
are reoccurring fees too?
Mark: Great question.
A theme is one time cost, there are few exceptions
to that rule.
There are some really good websites that actually
you can buy a membership to.
One of my favorite just escaped me at the
moment, but… right, there’s one called
Elegant Themes and you buy a membership to
them and then you have access to a whole bunch
of different themes for that membership but
you do have to pay that on a recurring basis.
That’s not generally what I do but there
are some exceptions that for the most part,
when you theme that’s a onetime expense
and then any good theme, when they do updates
like some of my favorite themes, they update
every single month and the updates are all
free after that for a lifetime.
You do however, legally you’re supposed
to… if you want to get updates and you want
to use the theme on more than one website,
you’re supposed to buy a copy of it for
each website but it is not a recurring price.
It’s just a onetime fee.
Now regarding the pictures, those are also
onetime fees but some of the places including
Deposit Photos, you have to buy a block credits.
Like I believe Deposit Photos I think is a
$32 block of credits and then you can use
those all up and there’s no recurring price
unless you of course want to buy more pictures.
David: Okay.
A question came in earlier, forgive me I don’t
remember who it was that asked it about when
you were talking about installing updates.
Basically should you back up the website before
installing updates and also how?
Mark: Yes, yes and yes.
You should definitely always backup, backup,
backup it’s just like the rest of your computer,
backup and it will save your butt.
There are a number of different plug ins you
can use to back up your site.
My favorite it is not free but my favorite
is Backup Buddy and that’s made by a company
called iThemes and I did mention this in my
video that I made a few days ago that’s
called Mark’s Top Seven Wordpress Plug Ins
and Backup Buddy is my favorite because you
can setup a schedule and it will automatically
back up your site everyday, every week, every
month how often you want and it can send a
backup of your site to your Dropbox or your
Google Drive account or it can email it to
you.
It’s my favorite it’s not free I believe…
boy I can’t remember how much it cost, it’s
on the top of my head I believe it might be
$80 a year I think for two sites.
That’s what I would recommend but absolutely
you should be backing things up before you
plug ins just incase it crashes something.
David: Is that a good question right there?
This one that’s listed there, we already
answered that.
Mark: We did answer that, okay.
All right, let’s see going through some
of the other ones here.
Maybe if you want to clarify, do you see the
one from Janet there, right beneath up, there
you go.
Do you want to clarify that?
David: That’s a good question [crosstalk]
not right now though.
Mark: Okay.
David: Because it’s a little deeper, yup.
Let me just take a look some of these, sorry
for the delay we’re just… there are a
lot of question, so we’re looking through
all of them.
Mark: Okay, let me answer Marty’s question.
Is there a way to only show a .com instead
of showing… visiting seen extensions like
wordpres.com okay, so it sounds like if you’re
website, I’m making an assumption here but
if you have a website that ends with wordpress.com
like let’s say it was markcollier.wordpress.com
that means you are using the wordpress.com
side of Wordpress which is great.
But what we are discussing today is specifically
the wordpress.org which the difference is
with wodpress.com you essentially are using…
you are actually building your website on
their server and you are using all of their
elements to build your site and so you want
to use like your own domain name or if you
want to use various plug ins or themes those
are potential add ons that you got to pay
for and there’s… if you will Google what
is the difference between wordpress.com and
wordpress.org you will see some great resources
out there to help you explain it.
But what we’re talking about here is you
install Wordpress on a server space that you
have purchased from a place like Bluehost
and in that case, it’s going to display
whatever domain name you set up as suppose
to the like markcollier.wordpress.com.
You can change that on wordpress.com but I
believe that’s a paid add on that you have
to do.
David: Another question here, it’s kind
of a broad one it’s at the very bottom.
Was what can we do to prevent getting hacked,
it’s a tough one.
Mark: It is and there’s a lot of steps to
that.
Again, I’m glad you asked that because I
want to refer to my plug ins video that I
did a few days ago.
One of my favorite plug ins is called iThemes
Security.
I highly recommend that you use that because
it will protect you against all kinds of things.
There are also some other great ones out there
as well besides that one, there’s one called…
I actually don’t know how to pronounce it
Sucuri which is another highly rated one it
was just great.
David: Well, will put links.
Mark: We’ll put links there too.
But I would definitely look for a plug in
that will help you with the security.
Depending on who your host is, they might
also provide some protection for that but
iThemes Security is my favorite one and it
does a great job.
David: Fantastic.
Are we good at this good or are you going
to…
Mark: I think we are.
David: All right folks.
Well, thank you so much for taking your time
to come out here and join us for those of
you who’ve been watching us on Youtube,
again we really do… and also the website,
we do appreciate your feedback.
Leave us a comment in the section below if
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We will see you next time.
This is David A. Cox along with…
Mark: Mark Collier.
David: And we’ll see you next time.
Take care everyone.
Bye-bye.
