By- Prashant Walke

WordPressBasic Information & Installation

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Agenda

WordPress Basic

a. About WordPress b. Use of WordPress c. Features

WordPress Installation and Demo

a. WordPress Installation b. Create Demo Site

Architecture of WordPress

Customizing WordPress

a. Themes b. Plugins

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About WordPress

•WordPress started in 2003

It was first released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little

•WordPress is an Open Source project

WordPress was used by more than 22.0% of

the top 10 million websites as of August 2013

WordPress is the most popular blogging

system in use on the Web, at more than

60 million websites

WordPress

Other

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What You Can Use WordPress

For

WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content

management system.

Personal blog

Photoblog

Business website

Professional portfolio

Government website

Magazine or news website

E-commerce Application

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Features

Simplicity

Flexibility

With WordPress, you can create any type of website you want

Publish with Ease

You can create Posts and Pages, format them easily.

User Management

Easy Theme System

Extend with Plugins

Built-in Comments

Search Engine Optimized

Easy Installation and Upgrades

Community

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Brands That Use WordPress

Georgia State’s univercity : http://www.gsu.edu/

Sweden’s Official Site: https://sweden.se/

Bata is a family-owned global footwear and fashion accessory manufacturer and

retailer : http://www.bata.com/

Coca-Cola France The French site of the popular soft drink runs on WordPress:

http://www.coca-cola.fr/

Sony Music Entertainment : http://www.sonymusic.com/

Time is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City, and

the flagship publication of Time Inc: http://www.times.com/

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Brands That Use WordPress

Popular blogs:

http://blog.ebay.com/

https://blog.mozilla.org/

http://social.ford.com/

https://wordpress.org/showcase

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WordPress Installation

To run WordPress your host just needs a couple of things:

PHP version 5.2.4 or greater

MySQL version 5.0 or greater

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WordPress Installation

Things You Need to Do to Install WordPress

Checking to ensure that you and your web host have the minimum requirements to run

WordPress.

• Downloading the latest release of WordPress.

• Unzipping the downloaded file to a folder on your hard drive.

• Be prepared with a secure password for your Secret Key

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WordPress Installation

• Download WordPress from WordPress.org to download the latest version.

• Unzip the contents of downloaded files. Save these in a separate directory.

• Log into cPanel of your web host.

• Click on MySQL Databases icon and Create Database.

Step By Step Instructions

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WordPress Installation

•Now, connect to host via FileZilla and upload all WordPress unzipped files from your pc

to public_html directory.

•Once all files are uploaded, go to your website address and Start the setup.

• Continue with setup.

Step By Step Instructions

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WordPress Installation

Let’s Get Started

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Ways to Modify Your Site

Create users

Edit Menus

Add Posts

Edit text

Add Pages

Place Images

Upload Files

Embed Videos

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Create Demo Site

Let’s Get Started

http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin

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WordPress Themes

To create a unique look for your WordPress site.

To quickly switch between two site layouts

To provide alternative templates for specific site

features, such as category pages and search result pages.

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Theme Development

header.php

footer.php

sidebar.php

index.php

wp_footer()

wp_head()

wp_meta()

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Template Hierarchy

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Writing a Plugin

WordPress Plugins allow easy modification, customization, and

enhancement of a WordPress blog. Instead of changing the core

programming of WordPress, you can add functionality with

WordPress Plugins.

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Questions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPresshttps://wordpress.org/about/http://codex.wordpress.org/https://wordpress.org/showcase