{"id":999,"date":"2016-09-01T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T09:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=999"},"modified":"2016-09-15T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:18:54","slug":"wordpress-com-basics-setup-and-installation-2","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/wordpress-com-basics-setup-and-installation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress.COM Basics: Setup and Installation &#8211; pt 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress.COM (as opposed to WordPress.ORG) is for those who want to concentrate on their blog or website and not worry about the maintenance and security updates. Bring your laptop to this workshop and leave at the end of the day with your website up and running.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1344 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/09\/Antu_wordpress_wikimedia.svg_-150x150.png\" alt=\"antu_wordpress_wikimedia-svg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/09\/Antu_wordpress_wikimedia.svg_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/09\/Antu_wordpress_wikimedia.svg_-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/09\/Antu_wordpress_wikimedia.svg_-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/09\/Antu_wordpress_wikimedia.svg_-1000x1000.png 1000w, https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/09\/Antu_wordpress_wikimedia.svg_.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this workshop we&#8217;ll get you started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating your website name (www.mywebsite.com)<\/li>\n<li>Begin building your pages<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to insert images and video<\/li>\n<li>Publish!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have WiFi in this session.<\/p>\n<p>Before the day of this workshop be thinking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What\u00a0is the purpose of\u00a0this website\/blog\n<ul>\n<li>Your work\/academic portfolio<\/li>\n<li>Ecommerce<\/li>\n<li>Classroom or nonprofit website<\/li>\n<li>Personal blog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What website name would you like?\u00a0 (Have several options, your first choice may already belong to someone else)<\/li>\n<li>Have access to any images you would like to use<\/li>\n<li>If you already have an account with WordPress.com, know\n<ul>\n<li>Your login url\/web address<\/li>\n<li>Your password<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I look forward to helping you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress.COM (as opposed to WordPress.ORG) is for those who want to concentrate on their blog or website and not worry about the maintenance and security updates. Bring your laptop to this workshop and leave at the end of the day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/wordpress-com-basics-setup-and-installation-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">WordPress.COM Basics: Setup and Installation &#8211; pt 2<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12477116,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1475240400,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[1065],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[369124],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-999","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-beginner-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dOoO-g7","session_date_time":{"date":"September 30, 2016","time":"1:00 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"1065","slug":"lydia-rogers","name":"Lydia Rogers","link":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/lydia-rogers\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12477116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/999\/revisions\/1466"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}