WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. In non-geek speak, it's probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website Content Management System (CMS) in existence today.
3. What is WordPress?
• Content Management System (CMS) based on
PHP and MySQL
• Free and Open Source (core.svn.wordpress.org)
• “Make Love, Not War” (MLNW) web tool
• User Friendly
4. A bit (OR a byte) of history
• Started as a fork (2003) of b2/cafelog
• v1.0 on January 3rd 2004, codename Davis
• Now in v4.0 since September, more evolved
than ever
• Its future is in social, mobile, and as an
application platform.
5. WordPress features
• Easy to setup and maintain
• Simple and flexible
• Easy publishing
• User management
• W3C compatible
• Zillions of Themes and Plugins
• Multilingual
7. Hands-on WordPress
• Setup the environment
• Download/install WordPress
• Create a database
• Configure WordPress
• Start Blogging
8. Setup the environment
• Get one of these
– _AMPstack (MAMP/WAMP/LAMP/XAMPP/etc.)
– VVV - Varying Vagrant Vagrants
– Chassis
– VCCW - Vagrant + Chef + WordPress
– vagrant-wordpress-lemp
• OR create your own environment