This document summarizes a WordPress workshop that covers: - An overview of WordPress as a content management system (CMS) built on PHP and MySQL. - Features of WordPress like personalization, search engine optimization (SEO), and types of sites that can be created with it like blogs, magazines and ecommerce sites. - The process of installing WordPress including preparing the hosting environment, downloading WordPress, configuring the wp-config.php file, and installing themes. - How to customize WordPress through its editor, plugins, widgets and theme customization options.

1. Wordpress
Workshop
april 22, 2015 - Accademia di Belle Arti di Bergamo

2. Intro - Wordpress overview

3. What is Wordpress?
A CMS (Content Management System)
- open source
- free
- created for blogs
- developed in PHP code
- built on the RDBMS MySql
- served by Apache
CMS (Content Management System)
RDBMS (Relation Database Management System)

6. What gives?
- Personalizations
- SEO
- Editor WYSIWYG for texts
- Multi-user management
- Multi-site management
- Expandability
- Community
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)

7. http://torquemag.io/13-surprising-wordpress-statistics/

8. What can I do?
Creating dynamic site like:
- blog;
- magazine;
- ecommerce;
- community;
- portfolio;
- and more….

10. http://www.awwwards.com/websites/wordpress/

11. How does it work?
HOSTING configuration
- PHP 5.4+
- MySQL 5.5+
- mod_rewrite Apache module
APPLICATIONS
- Wordpress
- Themes based on template

13. Wordpress Installation

14. Environment preparation
- Installing software platform (XAMPP, LAMP,
WAMP, MAMP);
- Creating Wordpress directory;
- Creating database.

16. Let’s start
Edit wp-config.php file Follow Wordpress
steps
Download last version from wordpress.org

17. Wordpress Configuration

18. So?
- set URL;
- allow or disallow comments;
- set time zone;
- and more...

19. Theme installation

20. - in Wordpress theme panel;
- in other marketplace;
- with Google;
- from a developer
Where looking for theme?

22. How installing it?
- via file
- via Wordpress dedicated panel

23. Can I personalized it?
- via Wordpress editor (NEVER);
- via our editor (Sublime, Brackets...);

24. Via code only?
- via theme settings;
- via plugins;
- via widgets

25. Resource

26. Preliminaries
Wordpress portal - https://wordpress.org/
XAMPP - https://www.apachefriends.org
Tutorial WP on XAMPP - http://it.wikihow.com/Installare-WordPress-su-XAMPP
Personalizations
Most famous Marketplace - http://themeforest.net/
Free plugins - https://wordpress.org/plugins/
Inspirations
WP Awwwards - http://www.awwwards.com/websites/wordpress/
All resource
http://www.robertoiacono.it/risorse-wordpress/

27. Thanks