Introduction to WordPress - with local installation

Introduction 2

WordPressFor beginners

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL which runs on a web

hosting service.

Source: Wikipedia

Free & Open Source

FREE as in Free of Charge FREE as in Freedom to do anything with it

Blogging Tool & CMS Use it to run a Blog Use it to Manage Content on your Website, Portal or App, without really writing

code.

PHP and MySQL PHP – Programming language used to build WordPress MySQL – the database used for running WordPress

And no, you don’t really need to know PHP or MySQL to get started with WordPress

Web Hosting Service PHP being a server side script, you will need a server to run it

Let’s Break that up

A blog (a contraction of the words web log) is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first).

Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject. More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, interest groups and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic.

What is Blogging

Source: Wikipedia

A Content Management System (CMS) is a computer program that allows publishing, editing and modifying content as well as maintenance from a central interface. Such systems of content management provide procedures to manage workflow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual steps or an automated cascade. CMSs have been available since the late 1990s.

CMSs are often used to run websites containing blogs, news, and shopping. Many corporate and marketing websites use CMSs. CMSs typically aim to avoid the need for hand coding, but may support it for specific elements or entire pages.

What is a CMS

Source: Wikipedia

Dot Com V/s Dot Org

Get Started quick and easy

Almost free in terms of what a basic blog would need

Pay to use additional features

Run by Automattic

Need a Domain and Server

Get all of WordPress Features for Free

Use any theme or plugin you’d like

Run by WordPress Foundation

Self Hosted WordPress

WordPress.org

One Click installation

Fantastico Scriptilicious

Built-in Installer Need Database Details FTP access to transfer files

How do you install it?

Installing WordPress

Locally using Wampserver or Xampp

Create Database

TAN Tan Tada

WordPress Admin

Dashboard and controls

Dashboard

Posts

Pages

Themes & Plugins

Free Themes on WordPress.org

2,002 themes, 78,401,293 downloads, and counting Thoroughly Checked

Premium Themes may be paid or at times free. Feature Filled to set them apart from the regular themes.

Themes

Extend features

Free & Open source

Limitless possibilities

Hello Dolly! – Default Plugin (this is an ode to the software, and it shows how much we <3 WordPress!)

Plugins

General: setup website urls, date format,

timezones (your server may be located in a different timezone this helps reconfigure it on your site)

Discussion: Allow comments and so on.

Permalinks: have pretty URLs for your site.

Settings

Administrator – somebody who has access to all the

administration features within a single site.

Editor – somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of other users.

Author – somebody who can publish and manage their own posts.

Contributor – somebody who can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them.

Subscriber – somebody who can only manage their profile.

User Roles & Capabilities

Post Formats

as

Custom Post Types & Custom Fields

Ecommerce, Classifieds, Job Portals, Social Networks, Apps and much more

What can you do with WordPress

Thank You

Alexander GounderProprietor – Ink my web

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