Now that we've learned a little bit about Wordpress, we're going to make a website for your lightning talk!
What better way to present your research work than with a research project of its own--one into the basic features of Wordpress?
You will need to use this Wordpress site as a major component of your lightning talk visual aids.
You will need three of the following pieces to bring your Wordpress presentation piece to life:
- At least two "pages", i.e. fully separate single HTML pages
- An image gallery with at least 3 images
- A plugin
- At least two "posts", i.e. modular pieces of HTML
- Add or customize a header and footer for your theme
- Host your wordpress instance on Heroku or your own hosting account so that your client can see it. I suggest using Duplicator to easily move your WP instance from one host to another.
There are two options here: hard mode and easy mode.
Use the setup steps from the last lesson to create a local Wordpress site. Then complete step 6 above to deploy your site.
Go to http://www.wordpress.com. Set up a new account, and create your first site. You will see a lot of similar options from the last class, but not all of them.
Whether you follow the easy mode or hard mode path, submit a link to your live WP instance to #wdi6 after you finish your Lightning Talk.
Your instructional team will gather all these links into a repo, and share with the class.
Don't worry too much about perfecting your Wordpress site. All we want to see is the work you put into your Lightning Talk in a convenient format. The talk itself, and the project you build, are the more important parts.