Using WordPress for Digital Workflows and More
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Using WordPress For Digital Workflows and more... @hughmcguire Hugh McGuire @kirkbiglione Kirk Biglione
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As digital becomes more central to a book publishers life, the tools must change to keep pace. In this session we look at WordPress as a lightweight digital swiss army knife, a powerful and flexible platform that can be adapted to many publishing needs. We’ll look at using WordPress-based systems for ecommerce, marketing, catalogs and discovery and more. Participants will aslo have a hands-on demo of PressBooks (built on WordPress), a digital book production tool that participants can use to generate an epub and typeset PDFs.
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Using WordPress For Digital Workflowsand more...
@hughmcguireHugh McGuire
@kirkbiglioneKirk Biglione
First: Setup your PressBooks accountYou’ll need this to make a book later
Next: download this test doc file ... from which we will make a book later.http://bit.ly/pressbooks-test
Why WordPress?that’s a blogging system, right?
WordPress World Domination
Recipe for World DominationMake People Happy
Continuous Cycle of Improvement
Standards Based
Open Source
Think of WordPress as
a toolbox
Inside the ToolboxAPIs
Theme System
Custom Content Types
Custom Taxonomies
Metadata
Localization
Security
Multi-user
User roles
Multi-site
Tools for solving real world problems
MARKET BOOKSTIMFERRISS.COM
SELL BOOKSWWW.WOOTHEMES.COM/WOOCOMMERCE/
BUILD COMMUNITYTASTYKITCHEN.COM
BUDDYPRESSBUDDYPRESS.ORG
PREMIUM WEB CONTENTWPAPPRENTICE.COM
WISHLIST MEMBERMEMBER.WISHLISTPRODUCTS.COM
BYOP?
Build Your Own Pottermore
Back to workflow
EDITORIAL WORKFLOWEDITFLOW.ORG
EBOOK BOOK PRODUCTIONANTHOLOGIZE.ORG
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALSANNOTUM.ORG
Remember Google Knol?The “wikipedia killer”
GOOGLE KNOLKNOL.GOOGLE.COM
BOOK PRODUCTION: PRINT & DIGITALPRESSBOOKS.COM
Principle #1:
Making a beautiful book should be no harder than making a beautiful website.
(ie: use a good framework and customizable templates.)
Principle #2:
If you build your book as structured markup from the start, then you can “get” to any output you like, “easily.”
(ie: make it in HTML ... and go from there.)
Principle #3:
The distinction between “books” and the “Internet” is going to disappear. All data, even “books,” will be on the web.
(ie: if you build your book on the web, it is already there.)
Our choice:
Build from an existing platform that is native to the web, structured, and makes it easy to make beautiful websites with customizable templates.
(ie: WordPress)
Let’s make a book
Login to PressBooks.com
If you’re account isn’t active yet, here are a few that are:
austen.pressbooks.comuser: austenpw: austenpw
bronte.pressbooks.comuser: brontepw: brontepw
twain.pressbooks.comuser: twainpw: twainpw
PressBooks output: ebook
(ibooks)
