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WordPress FOR DUMMIES

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WordPressI bought it.  I'm reading it. 

ColumbusBestBlog.com (my other blog) is not going to have this "DUMMY" to kick around anymore. 

I had a gift card for Barnes and Noble and it was priced at 30% off.  I could not resist it.

WordPress for Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson Anyone read it?

Last Dummies book I purchased was about html...HTML 4 FOR DUMMIES the only Dummies book I have ever NOT enjoyed reading. I  use it as a reference book, when I have to but I have enjoyed reading a couple of Dummies books cover to cover in the past, about computers.

I am in chapter two of WordPress FOR DUMMIES.  No big revelations yet... none of the things that stump meCowtown FOR Dummies and keep the lmost 18 month old ColumbusBestBlog.com stuck in it's tracks.

I get to skip chapters three through five because they are about WordPress.com and my blog is a WordPress.org blog. I will feel like I am accomplishing something!

What I am learning includes the three different flavors of WordPress include:

WordPress.com is vanilla

WordPress.org is chocolate

WordPress MU is Neopolitan ...  and it is pronounced WordPress em-you

and in fact there is a version for big companies with big bucks and the author of WordPress FOR DUMMIES,  Lisa Sabin -Wilson doesn't even give it an ice cream flaver...it is "Enterprise Edition" and it costs big bucks. Or bucks anyway...

I know I did NOT understand the difference between the vanilla and the chocolate before I started ColumbusBestBlog.com on December 31, 2006... I know I did not really understand the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org when I started the WordPress group on ActiveRain.  I might have limited the group to WordPress.org users had I understood.  The group is for both vanilla and chocolate...  and I suppose Neopolitan...  anyone doing a WordPress MU site?

 

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Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

thanks for the comment... even if it is a bit spammy... linking to a group where there are three members and one post and where you are setting up virtual shop. I'd watch that tendency if I were you...

back to the topic at hand...   WordPress.org  I was blogging for a relatively long time before I knew of WordPress... and when I asked about WordPress in a some what stupid way I was told (or felt I was told) "shut up and keep blogging" by one of the owners of the company where my first blog is...

Jun 04, 2008 03:45 AM
The Brewer Team - Benchmark Realty
Benchmark Realty - Franklin, TN

I need this book because I think wordpress has a lot of capabilities that I don't know how to use.

Jun 18, 2008 02:32 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

I need to read more of it... I carry it around but dread reading it.

I read the part about installing it... Installing went so easy that I did not learn much from it and my lazy brain did not want to understand the part about installing...  I gotta learn how to do this...or get a TypePad blog...

thanks for the comment

Jun 18, 2008 02:46 AM
Chris Shouse
Lyoness USA - Las Vegas, NV
Realtor - Las Vegas

Maureen I really need this book I got a new wordpress.org and I am doing OK with it but there is so much more  it can do and I do bang my head up against the wall sometimes.  Thanks for letting us know about it.

Jun 21, 2008 05:29 PM
Jim Kimmons
San Leon, TX

I am writing a complete tutorial series, with screen shots, on setting up a real estate community blog on WordPress.  The tutorials are at About.com, but the easiest way to jump in is to go to the sample blog I'm building as part of the tutorials.  The blog is at http://DemoTownRealEstate.com.  The links on the right go to the various tutorial sections. 

It will be very thorough as to the use of plugins to do what we need for our site visitors.  It also suggests the appropriate plugin for SEO purposes.  It's a work in progress, so you may be past some or all of it already.

 

Jim Kimmons
Real Estate Business Guide
http://realestate.about.com
realestate.guide@about.com

Jun 22, 2008 12:37 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Jim... I checked it out... I will be back...

Jun 25, 2008 03:57 AM
Anonymous
Jim Kimmons

Maureen:

 

I am in the process of activating a brand new plugin for listings, Great Real Estate, and it looks like it will be a great solution for displaying our own listings, including Google map, panoramas, image gallery, videos and listing details.  A bit complex, as it requires several other plugins to function.  I am working with the author on a map issue, then I'll get it up and running and add it to the tutorial.  For those in a hurry, use the link.

 

Jim

Jun 25, 2008 04:24 AM
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September Puckett
RE/MAX 100 - Louisville, KY

Thanks so much. The book was on my list, I need to make a point of getting it soon. Good advice Thanks!

-September Puckett

 

Jun 30, 2008 07:27 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

I was looking through it for a solution to my latest dilemma... I think I have to ask Jay McGillicuddy and Mark Flanders for help...

It's something I've done before.  It is embarassing. I need to throw in the towel and scream "Uncle."

Jul 02, 2008 02:10 AM
Stephen D White, E-Pro, ABR Cape Cod Real Estate
SDW Realty of Cape Cod - Falmouth, MA

Maureen hopefully by now you've checked out wordpress.org website? if not check it out! And yes there is a wordpress group on AR. I recently blogged about my latest wordpress trouble at

http://activerain.com/blogsview/650694/WordPress-Theme-problems

Aug 22, 2008 01:48 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

"hopefully by now you've checked out wordpress.org"  I've had a WordPress.org blog for 20 months now  so yes I have checked  it out... I am not real comfortable finding info via the WordPress.org site or community.

Is there more than one WordPress group on AR?  I founded the group:: WordPress Blog  

I believe your post is posted to the AR group,  WordPress Blog   and featured*.  I'm the one who features* the posts in that group.

* don't let the word featured confuse you.  It's just a little pat on the back... no extra points.

 

Aug 22, 2008 09:47 PM
Stephen D White, E-Pro, ABR Cape Cod Real Estate
SDW Realty of Cape Cod - Falmouth, MA

Maureen thanks for getting me up to speed. I didnt know that the wordpress group was yours. Thank you for the group and featuring my post! For some reason I have not keep up with your blog posts. But I now have subscribed to you to keep better informed. Sorry If my post seemed awkward but I have not kept up with your posts.

Aug 23, 2008 12:48 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

here I was hoping there was another WordPress group where the smart kids (in the know about WordPress anyway) were sharing the good stuff.

Aug 23, 2008 11:57 PM
Stephen D White, E-Pro, ABR Cape Cod Real Estate
SDW Realty of Cape Cod - Falmouth, MA

Gee I was hoping the "smart kids" in your group would be sharing what they know about Wordpress! Thanks for featuring my Wordpress post!

Aug 24, 2008 05:46 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Our smart kids Jay Thompson and Jay McGillicuddy.. and others are AWOL.  Busy on their WP blogs...

Aug 24, 2008 05:56 AM
Nannette Turner
eXp Realty LLC - Lynchburg, VA
Online Marketing Home Ownership Advocate Specialis

ok I'm convinced I need to get the book.  It is on my to do list for today.

Aug 29, 2008 12:55 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Nannette the next edition comes out in November.  There is an online chapter that addresses the 2.5 update... I am still reading it and read the online chapter for 2.5 (I need to update to 2.6)

I am stumped by FTP and was reading Cheryl Johnson's AR Tutorials.  I think I have a mental block.

Aug 29, 2008 01:00 AM
A. Grey
Vidlisting.com - Bremerton, WA
Real Estate Video Mentor - Vidlisting.com

Hi Maureen

Just a quick note since it seems related to the topic:  we just added video widgets that embed and autoupdate themselves on wordpress.com blogs. The WP.com widgets change when you modify the title, photo, or size of the regular widget. Next week, you'll be able to change the designs to any of the unbranded ones as well.n  The widgets also report how many times they have been viewed and how many clickthroughs to the video that they get.

I'm not sure if any other video hosting company is doing this.

(if its ok to post a link) Since seeing it beats reading about it, here is a link to a demonstration on our..well....wordpress.com blog:

http://forsalebylocals.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/initial-examples-of-our-vidlisting-video-widgets-for-wordpresscom-blogs/

Tony

Oct 09, 2008 10:24 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

thanks for the link....

Oct 09, 2008 10:35 AM
Amy Gerrish
Realty Executives - Phoenix, AZ
Realtor - Phoenix to San Tan Valley

Hi Maureen, I have a MU Blog!!! It's for my farming website for the San Tan Valley. I have hired someone to fix some kinks. But you can see it here at http://www.SanTanEvents.com.

 

 

Sep 09, 2010 01:18 PM
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