Feedback for the presentation was positive, so I thought it might be worthwhile to share the slides on this here blog. In the presentation below, I cover the following…

• What I mean by “client-focused WordPress sites”
• Why we should make them, and
• How to start – tips, tricks, and specific areas.

The main part you’re likely interested in is the “How”. In that section, I talk about customizing the Visual Editor CSS, adding a “Styles” drop-down to tinyMCE, and how to handle advanced page layouts (amongst other things). Feel free to check out the slides below, and if you have any questions, fire away in the comments. Thanks!

To combat this, we built a very simple reference guide to give to our clients that explains how to do the following in their new WordPress blog:

• write a new blog entry
• save, preview & publish a post
• add tags (and what that means)
• add categories (and what that means)
• check blog stats
• use the Media section
• moderate comments
• update plugins
• add a new user

This covers about 99% of what most basic blog users need to know, and it provides them with a resource they can come back to when needed, share within their business, and so forth. It’s sort of a basic WordPress author’s guide suitable to email and view on screen – click here to download it (or click the image above).

We figured that since this guide has been helpful to us, maybe it will be helpful to other designers who use WordPress. Here’s hoping! Anyway, share freely (but not as your own, please!)

*note: we install the Site Stats plugin for all clients – if you use this guide, I recommend doing the same, or your clients might be confused as to why they don’t have a Site Stats link.