Slides for WordCamp India 2021 Workshop Day.

1. @muhsinlk
Introduction to WordPress
WORKSHOP

2. Muhammad
Muhsin

3. 39% of the web is built on
WordPress.
FACT

4. BRIEF
⚡️ The most popular CMS in the world
👨💻 Created by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little
💡 Open-source as an idea
💰 Free to use, modify, distribute, etc.
♥️ A community unlike any other

5. 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.
DEFINITION

6. Free & Open Source
FREE as in Free of Charge
FREE as in Freedom to do anything with it
BREAKING IT DOWN
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
Web Hosting Service
PHP being a server side script, you will need a server to run it

7. Why WordPress?

8. ✨ Popular for its ease of use 🚀

9. 🆓 Free as in Freedom 💰

10. 💯 Lighthouse is possible ⚡️

11. ⛑ Safe and secure 🔐

12. 🎩 Plugins and Themes 🥼

13. 🔎 SEO-friendly 👨🥼💻

14. vs
.org
.com

15. ● Need a Domain and Server
Dot Org
● Get Started quick and easy
● Get all of WordPress
Features for Free
● Almost free in terms of what
a basic blog would need
● Use any theme or plugin
you’d like
● Run by WordPress
Foundation
● Pay to use additional
features
● Run by Automattic
vs
Dot Com

16. Self Hosted WordPress
WordPress.org

17. Getting Started
● Local by WP Engine
● DevKinsta
● ServerPress
● XAMPP

18. Things we will discuss:
1. Installing WordPress locally
2. Posts, Pages, Attachments
3. Taxonomies - categories, tags
4. Themes, Plugins
5. Custom Post Types, Custom Fields

19. localwp.com

20. Download Local

21. Local app

22. /wp-admin

23. Frontend

24. Demo

27. Thank you! 👨 💻
@muhsinlk
Muhammad Muhsin
muhammad@rtcamp.com

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