Introduction to WP
How web works?
What is CMS?
How CMS Works?
Example of CMS
What is WordPress?
WordPress is the most popular Content
Management System (CMS) & Blogging
tool based on PHP and MySQL.
What makes WP great?
What makes WP great?
What makes WP great!
What makes WP great!
What makes WP great?
What makes WP great?
Who use WordPress?
• 22% of new domains
• Over 69 million websites
• Over 18.9% of the top 10 million websites
Who use WordPress?
Wordpress.org Wordpress.com
Free * Free *
Self Hosted
Yourdomain.com
Hosted on wordpress.com
You.wordpress.com
All Theme Supported
Free/Premium/Custom
Limited Theme Supported
Must use provided themes
All Plugins Supported
Free/Premium/Custom
No Plugins
Some Built in Features
Manually Updated Automatically Updated
Manually Backed-Up Automatically Backed-Up
CMS Usage
57.8
9.7
5.8
3.4
2.6
20.7
WordPress
Joomla
Drupal
Blogger
Magento
Others
Source
WP vs Joomla vs Blogger vs Drupal
Source
CMS Migration
Theme Marketplace
Want to learn WP theme
development?
What do I need to know?
Tools to get started!
• A text editor (Notepad, Notepad++, Sublime Text 3)
• A web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer)
• A web server: Apache (local or remote)
Resources
HTML
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
CSS
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
http://css-tricks.com/
JS
http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/default.asp
http://api.jquery.com/
Resources
PHP
http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp
http://php.net/
WordPress
http://codex.wordpress.org/
http://wp.tutsplus.com/
http://www.wpbeginner.com/
http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/
Theme Submission
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review
http://notes.envato.com/news/announcement-wordpress-
theme-submission-requirements/
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Introduction to WordPress