This evening is a trip out for a techie event - the Baltimore Wordpress meetup group. This is my first time at this meetup, but with HealthCa.mp running a Wordpress network site this seemed like a useful group to attend. Roni Noone shares her story and experience working with Wordpress. Her first experience was building a custom site - with all the features of a blog. Eventually went to wordpress.org and downloaded the software and control her website. So the switch was made. Her focus was weight loss. Ended up posting daily. Focus on content and not software. Then the hosting platform crashed. And there were no backups. Switching to blogger saved the day - but eventually went back to Wordpress but diversified. Created blogs for specific content then tweaked sites for specific content and purpose. The downside - blog schizophrenia and no one home base. Roni's Weigh is oldest blog and home base. Customized version of neoclassical. Not a widget fan - tweak PhP/HTML/CSS instead. Plugins used: Akismet
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Pick giveaway winner Greenlightbites is food blog. Very tight niche. Mainly recipes and pictures. You can use WPquery to pull specific content from DB and add that above main loop. then exclude WPquery content from main loop. Add extra users as authors to allow people to upload and publish their own content. Editor allows people to edit the content of others. Use categories and tags to allow readers to find content. Plugins: Post-plugin library
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For blogging and tech topics.
outsourced to http://makemyblogpretty.com Fit.blogging.com Conference site for bloggers in health and fitness. Intensedebate plug in. Poopbutterflies.com Tumblr style in wordpress Clear theme Barebones site Tool set:
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Fan page for each site on Facebook All sites have autofeed to twitter to secure name. @RoniNoone for chat on twitter. Personal page on FB for chat too. Monetization:
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iTunes via Linkshare Regular readers don't click on ads. They read content so use CPM ads rather than CPC. A really informative presentation. Watch for the presentation on RoniNoone.com Mark Scrimshire
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Pick giveaway winner Greenlightbites is food blog. Very tight niche. Mainly recipes and pictures. You can use WPquery to pull specific content from DB and add that above main loop. then exclude WPquery content from main loop. Add extra users as authors to allow people to upload and publish their own content. Editor allows people to edit the content of others. Use categories and tags to allow readers to find content. Plugins: Post-plugin library
Wp-pagenavi - Navigate by page number RoniNoone.com
For blogging and tech topics.
outsourced to http://makemyblogpretty.com Fit.blogging.com Conference site for bloggers in health and fitness. Intensedebate plug in. Poopbutterflies.com Tumblr style in wordpress Clear theme Barebones site Tool set:
Dreamweaver
Photoshop / illustrator
iMovie GarageBand Social media:
Fan page for each site on Facebook All sites have autofeed to twitter to secure name. @RoniNoone for chat on twitter. Personal page on FB for chat too. Monetization:
Affiliates: Amazon
iTunes via Linkshare Regular readers don't click on ads. They read content so use CPM ads rather than CPC. A really informative presentation. Watch for the presentation on RoniNoone.com Mark Scrimshire
B: http://ekive.blogspot.com
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