The Ultimate Guide to Choosing WordPress Pros and Cons
Introduction to WordPress Class 1
1. Intro to WordPress
ACE #CT01756 Intro to WordPress
By Adrian Mikeliunas
http://learnwp.us/week1/
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2. Content Management Systems (CMS)
History, Architecture and features
Blogging Basics, Types of blogs
Automatic Installation
Manual installation
Class #1 Agenda
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3. WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool &
a content management system (CMS) based on PHP
& MySQL, which runs from a web server
Open Source
CMS
PHP
MySQL
Apache (or IIS)
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What is WordPress?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordpress
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CMS Architecture
Web
Server
APACHE
Client
App
Server
PHP
Database
Server
MYSQL
8. Started version 1.0 on May of 2003
Current Version is 4.5.3 as of June 2016
More than half of top 20 blogs sites use WordPress!
Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to
power their web pages!
Hall of Fame CMS category Open Source Awards
http://www.awwwards.com/websites/cms
https://wordpress.org/showcase
http://builtwith.com to find out how a site was built…
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History, Architecture, Features
9. Open Source Content Management System
Multi-user Multi-blog
Extended via Themes & PLugins
3 Folders and 14 top PHP scripts:
wp-admin
wp-content
wp-includes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Wordpress_
Template_Hierarchy.png
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WordPress Features
11. is a discussion or informational site published on the
Web, consisting of discrete entries ("posts")
Typically displayed in reverse chronological order
Entered by 1 or more persons
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
Examples:
http://www.hcplibrary.org/teen/wordpress/
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What is a Blog?
12. One article or post
Multiple comments to the post
Comments to the comments
Unusual blogs:
Youtube comments
WashingtonPost comments
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Blogging Basics
13. Take responsibility not just for your own words, but for the
comments you allow on your blog
Label your tolerance level for abusive comments
Consider eliminating anonymous comments
Ignore the trolls
Take the conversation offline, and talk directly, or find an
intermediary who can do so
If you know someone who is behaving badly, tell them so
Don't say anything online that you wouldn't say in person
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger%27s_code_of_conduct
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The Blogger's Code of Conduct
14. You create content
Content stored in a database
You pages get indexed by search engines…
User clicks on a link or directly
Pages don’t ‘exist’ until requested by web server
WordPress application
Retrieves content from database
CSS used to style page
Page is built “on the fly” by PHP resulting in HTML &
JavaScript
Page is displayed to user’s browser
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How it works
18. Fuzzy line between “blog” and full web site
http://thegrovelibrary.net
http://stillwater.sals.edu
looks more like a magazine than a blog
http://tamworthlibrary.org
Nice website – put together by Lichen Rancourt
Other Sample Sites
20. Cost?
Storage capacity?
Bandwidth?
Tech Support?
Install software yourself
http://wordpress.org
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Hosting on your own server?
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21. Often under $10/month
Tech support available
http://wordpress.org/hosting
One Click Install!
Your Hosting Provider will have:
QuickInstall
Fantastico
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Commercial Hosting
For more hosts: http://wordpress.org/hosting/
22. WordPress.com provides hosting service for blogs and
standard configurations;
Staring at $18 per year! Support included...
Upgrades $99 and more…
WordPress.org offers blogging software, documentation,
features & support
WordPress MU (multi-user), a relatively complex program
that allows you to run thousands of blogs
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Which Version?
23. Download from http://wordpress.org/download/
Or http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Bitnami: http://bitnami.org/stack/wordpress
WordPress on a USB stick!
http://portableapps.com/apps/development/xampp
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Manual installation
24. Content Management Systems (CMS)
History, Architecture and features
Blogging Basics, Types of blogs
Automatic Installation
Manual installation
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Class #1 Review