Details can be found here: https://nagdy.net/learn-wordpress/ ---------------- Agenda: - Introducing WordPress - What is WordPress. - Why WordPress. - Building Sites with WordPress - WordPress.com vs WordPress.org - WordPress Installations Instructions - Getting Ready - Designs and Layout - Functionality - Publishing - Finalizing website appearance - WordPress Multisite ======================== Follow us: https://nagdy.net https://facebook.com/NagdyWP https://twitter.com/NagdyWP ------------------------- **Important Links:** WAMP: http://www.wampserver.com/en/ WordPress: http://wordpress.org/

1. WordPress
Live Session 1
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2. Mohamed Khafaja
WPML Compatibility
Documentation
Ahmed Nagdy
WPML Compatibility
Developer

3. Agenda
▪ Introducing WordPress
▪ What is WordPress.
▪ Why WordPress.
▪ Building Sites with WordPress
▪ WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
▪ WordPress Installations Instructions
▪ Getting Ready
▪ Designs and Layout
▪ Functionality
▪ Publishing
▪ Finalizing website appearance
▪ WordPress Multisite
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4. What is WordPress
WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP.
But in non-geek speak, it's probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and
website content management system (CMS) in existence today.
● It was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.
● First (non-beta) version was 0.7
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5. Why WordPress?
● Free (as in beer or as in speech)?
● Easy to Use and Learn
● Extendable
● Updates
● Be Safe & Secure
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6. Numbers
● Percentage of all websites globally that use WordPress: 26%
● Percentage of website build with a CMS: 59% built with WordPress
● Every 74 seconds a site within the top 10 million starts using WordPress!!
● while Shopify, the second-fastest growing CMS, which is gaining a new site every
22 minutes
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7. Building Sites with WordPress
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8. WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
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Sources for this section: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-org-vs-wordpress-com-2015/

9. WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
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10. WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
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11. WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
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12. WordPress.org
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13. Building Sites with WordPress
- WordPress Installations Instructions (localhost)
What’s needed?
● Web service solution stacks (Apache, PHP, MySQL).
● WAMP, LAMP, XAMPP
● Recent version of WordPress (WordPress.org)
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14. Building Sites with WordPress
- Getting Ready
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15. Building Sites with WordPress
- Getting Ready
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16. Building Sites with WordPress
- Getting Ready
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17. Building Sites with WordPress
- Getting Ready
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18. Building Sites with WordPress
- Getting Ready
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19. Building Sites with WordPress
- Getting Ready
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20. Building Sites with WordPress
- Getting Ready
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21. Building Sites with WordPress
- Designs and Layout
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22. Building Sites with WordPress
- Functionality
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23. Building Sites with WordPress
- Publishing
WordPress comes with:
● Posts
● Pages
Not enough!
● Custom Post Types
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25. WordPress Multisite
Multisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a
single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0
For whom:
● A magazine site with different sections managed by different teams.
● A business site with sub-sites for different locations and branches
● Schools and colleges allowing students to create their own blogs on school
servers
Examples:
● BBC America
● WordPress.com
● Edublogs
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26. What’s Next!
in Live Session 2
● 5-minutes Survey
● WordPress Hosting
● Moving the website to cPanel
● WordPress Performance
● Hosting. Again!
● Fast Theme
● How many plugins?
● Optimizing Images
● Cache
● Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
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