1. By- Prashant Walke
WordPress
Basic 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
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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/WordPress
https://wordpress.org/about/
http://codex.wordpress.org/
https://wordpress.org/showcase