Introduction to Wordpress, Presentation at Wordcamp Nigeria 25/09/2010

1. Introduction to wordpress Dade AderemiVP Information Management and CommunicationAIESEC Nigeria

3. Easy to maintain

4. Free and works with LAMP/WAMP

5. SEO friendly

6. Easy to Extend

8. Other Examples of Sites Using WORDPRESS

10. Started as a fork of b2/cafelog

11. November 21, 2005: wordpress.com opened to the public

12. 27 million WordPress.com publishers as of September 2010

13. 13.9 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com

14. won a Packt Open Source CMS Award in 2007

15. In 2009 WordPress won the best Open Source CMS Award

16. Over 11,426 Official Plugin

17. Over 1,239 Official Theme

18. As of August 2010, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 12.5 million times

21. Your URL is xyz.wordpress.com

22. Enhanced services allow you to use your domain name

25. Web Database provided by your host

26. FTP access

27. HTML or Text EditorSome general knowledge of computer file structures

28. Set Up a Domain and Host

30. Database User

33. Add DB informationDB_NAMEDB_USERDB_PASSWORDDB_HOST

36. Installation: Run Install and you are done! Yeah! Installing is as simple as that!

37. Accessing the Dashboard Access login via /wp-login.php

38. Exploring the Dashboard

40. Tagline

41. email address

42. Date format

44. Change Login Password

45. Change Username

46. Assign rights and permissions to users

49. http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

52. THANK YOU Dade AderemiVP Information Management and CommunicationAIESEC Nigeria @dadepo