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WordPress for Photographers

Justin Seeley

WordPress for Photographers

Justin Seeley

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Lessons

Class Trailer

Day 1

1

What Can WordPress Do?

07:49
2

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

10:41
3

Domains and Hosting

08:14
4

Domains Q&A

10:00
5

Demo: 1-Click Install on HostGator

08:53
6

Audience Q&A

38:03
7

WordPress Dashboard Oveview

32:31
8

WordPress Dashboard: Settings

33:22
9

Audience Q&A

03:42
10

Working with Posts

33:44
11

Working with Pages

30:46
12

Audience Q&A

34:57
13

Using WordPress Plug-ins

44:26
14

WordPress Themes

27:13
15

Final Q&A

04:05

Day 2

16

Managing Your Media

35:20
17

Managing Your Media Q&A

05:48
18

Working with Video

09:39
19

Top 5 Photo Plug-ins

19:57
20

Top 5 Themes for Video

13:56
21

Top 5 Video Plug-ins

10:37
22

Creating a Discussion

09:53
23

Moderating Comments

12:26
24

Creating Ratings and Polls

11:27
25

Purchasing a Theme

17:58
26

Customizing a Theme

08:23
27

Editing Code for Non-Geeks

24:54
28

Customizing Themes Q&A

07:43
29

CSS Crash Course

24:15
30

Using the WordPress Codex

13:13
31

Creating and Using Menus

08:28
32

Lightbox Plugins

13:13
33

WordPress Codex, Menus and Plugins Q&A

08:43
34

General WordPress Q&A

10:17
35

Optimizing Images for the Web in Photoshop

32:30
36

Optimizing Images Q&A

10:56
37

Displaying High Resolution Images on the Web

11:35

Day 3

38

Protecting Images Online

22:06
39

Adding Watermarks

17:56
40

Copywriting Images

08:40
41

SEO 101

24:00
42

Engaging Your Audience

05:26
43

URL Shortening

09:54
44

Exporting/Importing WordPress Data

10:33
45

Backing Up WordPress

13:26
46

Security 101

24:20
47

Spotting Trustworthy Themes/Plugins

24:32
48

Trustworthy Themes/Plugins Q&A

21:13
49

Battling Spam

18:38
50

Dealing with a Hacked Site

15:41
51

Protecting Your Site

10:46
52

Using Web Fonts

24:08
53

Web Fonts Q&A

11:36
54

Thanks + Credits

04:04
55

Monetizing Your Content

24:55
56

Final Q&A

28:31

Class Description

Create a fresh beautiful website or blog using WordPress. In this 3-day course you'll learn how to get your photos online quickly and easily using the popular WordPress platform. Learn the basics of building a site using free or custom themes to create an amazing showcase of art & inspiration. You don't have to be a web designer to use WordPress - it's that easy.

Class Materials

bonus material with enrollment

WordpressSlides.pdf
wp_seo_101.pdf

Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

I watched all three days of the course. I am a photographer. The course was titled WordPress for Photographers. Only about 5% of the course was tailored to photographers. Most of the content and discussion was for pro website consultants and bloggers. That aside, Mr. Seeley is so well versed in what he knows well. Imagine sitting in front of the camera for 3 straight days remaining articulate and very professional! The class was really presented for bloggers, not photographers. An example of this is on day 3 where the presenter, after talking about photographers' concerns for an hour or two, said he wanted to transition out of photography into blogging. The class seemed short on the type of content that photographers need. It would have served photographers better if the students present in the studio were all photographers. Discussions on watermarking, photo file size and image theft/copyright infringement showed that Mr. Seeley's background in the needs of photographers is lacking, while his expertise in graphics and web design are VERY impressive. Too much of the class time was devoted to answering narrowly focused tech support questions from people other than photographers. It was a wonderful class for the audience that hijacked it, but it should have been titled and described differently if it was intended for web-blog designers. I really liked the energy, humor, and expertise of Mr. Seeley but the class was too-often off-mission. On day 1, it would have been very productive to show a photographer's WP website that was esthetically beautiful and had all the bells and whistles photographers are looking for. Then explain how you get from nothing to the final website using WordPress. That would have met the needs of pro photographers!

Shannon
 

Justin is an excellent presenter. He's easy to listen to and it's obvious he knows his stuff. As a presenter/trainer, I really appreciated his ability to stick with his outline while he fielded questions, both off and on topic. It takes some balancing to do that. He was good at noting questions that were too far afield and I think he actually answered all of them by the end of the three days. I would definitely attend more classes presented by him. Thanks, Justin and CreativeLIVE.

a Creativelive Student
 

Amazing class! Superb presentation! Justin kept the technical geek-speak to a minimal and made the entire class easy to understand and fun! I think this class should be called Wordpress for the Non-Geek! (As others have said there was not a lot of information specific to photographers, but when it was referenced there was great examples and information provided!)

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