WordPress is open source blogging software that allows users to interact through comments on blog posts. Blogs contain written content, images, and sometimes video or audio in a chronological order. WordPress runs on a MySQL database and uses PHP for functionality, CSS for design, and XHTML markup. It features plugins, themes, categories, tags, and built-in search to make blogs search engine optimized. Setting up a blog requires obtaining a domain, hosting, choosing a theme, installing plugins, consistently creating content, and generating traffic through social media and email lists. Useful WordPress plugins include Akismet, Google Analytics, related post plugins, and SEO optimization plugins.

1. WordPress and Blogging A Typical Web 2.0 Tool

2. A blog is a website that allows people to interact with your content in the form of writing comments. Blogs are a lot more fluid and interactive than the normal “old school” websites. Blog contains text, hypertext, images, and sometimes video, audio and other files that can be viewed in a browser. Blogs are arranged in chronological order. What is a blog?

3. WordPress is Open Source Software run on MySQL database. It’s coded in PHP (functionality), CSS (look) and XHTML. WordPress is based on widgets, plugins and themes. It is SEO friendly (permalinks), has multiple categories to articles and tagging. Has inbuilt search engine. What is WordPress?

4. Create your own domain. Set up host that uses Fantastisco De Luxe or Simple Scripts. Choose a theme(blog-style or CMS). Choose plugins. Create good content, blog consistenly. Generate traffic (social media). Build following (emailing list). How to become a blogger?

5. Akismet Google Analytics for WordPress Related Post Plugin Socio media plugin (SocioFluid) Allin in One SEO Pack Codestyling Localization SimplePress (forum) Casche W3 (increase performance) Useful plugins

6. Inside View

7. CMS Style WordPress Theme

8. Blog Style Theme

9. Social Media Distribution (Twitter... bitly.com) RSS and FeedBurner Email List (MailChimp, Aweber, FREE pdf book) Multimedia blogging: Audio (interviews) Video (Vimeo, Animoto) ShareSlide Gravatar (and favicon) X-Factor in Blogging

10. PHP structure of WordPress

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