by Tony Zeoli | Jul 28, 2010 | Presentations, Updates
Tony Zeoli of Digital Strategy Works organized WordPress Westchester to bring WordPress training and support to those interested in the popular CMS to the north and East of New York City. Presentations are generally filmed live or filmed and then archived at https://www.livestream.com/wordpress. We can host your WordPress presentation on Livestream under the “livestream.com/wordpress” URL. Just shoot us an email at jm@digitalstrategyworks.com or az@digitalstrategyworks.com.
by Tony Zeoli | Feb 10, 2010 | Updates
Tony Zeoli hosts WordPress Westchester Meetup
On Thursday, January 28, 2010, Digital Strategy Works founder, Tony Zeoli, hosted the first WordPress Westchester Meetup group at the offices of the Journal News (1 Gannet Drive, White Plains, NY).
Tony’s presentation, Getting Started with WordPress, guided participants in the the difference between setting up a blog or web site on WordPress.com versus hosting by installing the WordPress software with a web host provider.
Tony covered the basics of install and how to set WordPress so that the home page resolves at “yourdomain.com, instead of “yourdomain.com/wordpress.” Just three simple steps and you’re done.
In your index.php file, (1) just change the path to blog-header.php from “/blog-header.php” to “/folder_name/blog-header.php; (2) Move the file from its current directory (usually “wordpress” if you didn’t change it when you installed WordPress) to the directory (folder), which is one level up (path: /directory_one_level_up/wordpress) from the “wordpress” folder; and (3) change the blog path in Admin/Settings/General tab from “https://www.mydomain.com/wordpress” to “https://www.mydomain.com.” Although this little trick is published on the WordPress Codex, many people don’t know to look for it there. When you download WordPress, this trick is not made obvious. Now that you know it, you can finally allow people to view your blog at “yourdomain.com” instead of “yourdomain.com/wordpress.”
Of course, you should try and do this when you first install WordPress, so that search engines pick up your site at “yourdomain.com,” and not “yourdomain.com/wordpress.” It’s a very simple step and one of the little secrets of WordPress.
The next WordPress Westchester Meetup tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, February 16th at 7:30 PM, again at the Journal News. Contact Tony Zeoli or Assistant Organizer, Jeffrey Marx, through the Meetup page for this event. Registering online will allow Tony and Jeffrey to keep you updated on date, time and location ongoing.
by Tony Zeoli | Jan 21, 2010 | Updates
Wordpress Westchester Meetup
Digital Strategy Works is pleased to announce the formation of the Westchester WordPress Meetup Group. As the popular blog software, WordPress, continues its migration to a full-fledged open source CMS solution, user groups have sprung up around the world to support bloggers, theme developers, and plugin developers who are need help or want to contribute in some way to the community supporting WordPress.
In fact, the community has grown so much over the past few years, individual user groups working with WordPress in major cities around the country are now forming larger, two-day conferences, aptly name WordCamp. The most recent WordCamp in New York City attracted over 700 attendees interested in learning about or contributing to WordPress.
While the WordPressNYC group has grown exponentially, we thought it was time to help our fellow WordPress fanatics in Westchester form a group of their own. Our first event will be held on Tuesday, January 26 from 6:30 pm to 9 pm at the offices of the Journal News at 1 Gannett Drive in White Plains, just off Rt. 287 and Westchester Avenue. (Directions)
For more information on the WordPress Westchester Meetup Group or to join, please register at Meetup.com.
