WordPress

Submitted By ,
Anugraha K Mohanan
B7GMCA2007
 Contents
1.Introduction WordPress
2.Installation
3.Posts and pages
4.The settings panel
5.Menus
6.Widgets
7. Plugins
8. Themes
9.Conclusion
10.References
 What is WordPress?
WordPress:
Is a dynamic content management system. (CMS)
A tool to help you build a website.
Like Microsoft Word, Open Office or Pages help you
create documents.
Creates web pages (HTML) dynamically
For basic usage it requires minimal knowledge of
web programming or markup languages (HTML,
PHP, JavaScript etc.).
Allows users to create website content easily
WYSIWYG editor.
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WordPress:
The first version of WordPress was released
May 27, 2003
Is currently the most popular CMS in use on
the Internet.
Runs millions of websites.
Stats suggest WordPress sites represent as much
as 25% of the worlds websites.
Needs a web server with PHP and MySQL to run.
Hosting service for public sites.
Local server to run it on your pc/laptop.
WordPress is free:

The core WordPress software is free

But that does not necessarily mean a free website.
Possible expenses:
Domain names.
Hosting.
Plugins.
Themes.
You can add plugins to make your site:
Multilingual. (numerous techniques & plugins)
a social site like Facebook. (BuddyPress)

You can add plugins to add:

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr connections.
a forum. (bbpress + others)
much, much, more. (1000’s of plugins available)

Add themes to change the look and sometimes

add function. (1000’s of themes available)
Founders of WordPress.
Matt Mullenweg
Mike Little
Websites which uses Wordpress
Install WordPress
System Requirements for WordPress
Database − MySQL 5.0 +
● Web Server −

- WAMP (Windows)

- LAMP (Linux)

- XAMP (Multi-platform)

- MAMP (Macintosh)
● Operating System − Cross-platform
● Browser Support − IE (Internet Explorer 8+), Firefox,
Google chrome, Safari, Opera
● PHP Compatibility − PHP 5.2+
 Download WordPress
When you open the link https://wordpress.org/download/, you will
get to see a screen as the following snapshot −
INSTALLATION
INSTALLATION
INSTALLATION
INSTALLATION
INSTALLATION
INSTALLATION
LOGIN
WordPress has 2 interfaces for users:
- The front-end
- The back-end
The Front-end: The part of the site that your site vistor sees.
 Dashboard
WordPress back-end or “dashboard”
 Where you manage the site.
LOGIN
Welcome message
After logging in you will arrive at the dashboard.
 The dashboard, with welcome, on a brand new site.
Screen options tab
Many pages have options for what is shown.
 Click on the “screen options” tab (upper right).

Select what you want to see, un-tick the rest.

 In the case of the main Dashboard page, you can even bring
back the welcome screen here.
Help tab
Beside the screen options tab there is a “help” tab on
every page – again it is context sensitive.

The drop down help tab has:

 On the left side:
 General WordPress help.
 May have added help from plugins and/or themes.
 On the right side:
 links to the official WordPress documentation and support areas.
Main navigation
On the left side of the admin screen is the navigation menu :
- Access all your content.

- Control WordPress settings.

The tool bar
The admin tool bar:
The tool bar
Front end tool bar
Very similar to admin tool bar, most items are the
same.
Only shows if you are logged in.
Posts and pages
Posts and pages
Posts and pages are the basic content holders for
a WordPress site.
Posts:
Individual pieces of a collection of content.
Usually used for blogs or similar types of content.
Each content piece is associated with a date:
URL: your-domain/2018/11/30/post-title.
Posts have categories and tags.
Posts
Can be displayed many ways (dynamic):
Usually listed in reverse chronological order.
Sticky posts. (show at the top, need theme support)
Archives, by date, by author.
Categories and tags.

Many different sidebar widgets can be used to

create lists and indices to posts, or collections of
posts indexed in various manners.
Post display
Pages
Pages:
Are individual static stand alone content blocks.
Good for things like an About page.(any web site
pages)
Usually in site menus.
 May have comments section.

 No date, tags or category information on page.

URL: domainname.com/page-title/
Creating a post (or a page)
In the dashboard -> select “Add New” from
the Posts menu item.
Create a new post:
More post related items (and pages too)
We can also change publishing options:
 Published/Review/Draft
 Visibility and passwords.
 Publishing dates
and future publishing.
Pictures and videos
We can also:
Add images and other media including videos.
Click the add media button to upload images
As of 3.9 you can simply drag an image onto
the editor area and the image uploader will
launch.
Insert Media
Just drag a file on to the page.
 If you dragged an image onto the editor, this step is
skipped.
Image options
The image uploader has a few options:
- Add or change the title,text and captions.
- Change what it links to.
- Change the image size and the alignment
TEXT view
Use TEXT view to:
 Embed HTML code like YouTube snippets.
 Change the HTML directly, sometimes needed to get
things just right.
Pages
 Editing pages
is almost the same as for a post.
 Some options on right side are different.
WordPress settings panel
General settings
Change the title and tagline in the Settings -> General page.
 There are quite a few other important options here.
Permalinks
Permalinks settings change the way the URL
is displayed.
Default sample page permalink:
http://your-domain/?page_id=2
Default child page permalink:
http:// your-domain/?page_id=36
Default post permalink:
http:// your-domain/?p=4
Settings - permalinks
 In this case, month and name is set.
 There is also a custom box where you can edit the permalink
if you need something
unusual.
Menus
Menus
Right now, the menus on the demo site are
created from the page list.
WordPress takes hierarchy and order from the
page list, with home added at the start.
Menus
Widgets
Widgets
- Widgets are tools or content items
that you can add, arrange, and remove
from the widgetized areas of your theme.

- The most common widgetized area is

the sidebars.
Managing widgets
The Widgets admin is under the Appearance menu.
Plugins
A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of
functions that can be added to a WordPress website.

They can extend functionality or add new features to

your WordPress websites.

WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming

language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress.
Adding and managing plugins
Adding plugins
Add plugins from the Add New item under the Plugins
menu item.
 Search for the plugin.
 Search for plugins based on keywords, or name.
Add plugins listing
The search results:
 Several similar plugins shown.
 Descriptions, ratings and version are shown.
Themes

In WordPress, a theme is a collection of templates and

stylesheets used to define the appearance and display
of a WordPress powered website.
They can be changed, managed, and added from the
WordPress admin area under Appearance » Themes.
There are several free and paid WordPress Themes
available.
Themes
A theme defines the look and feel of your site.
Sets the graphics, colors.
Sets the widget locations.
Defines column layout.

Can be changed relatively easily.

You can enable which one you want to use, and
you can change settings.
Themes
 Conclusion
WordPress was used by more than 23.3% of the
top 10 million websites as of January 2015.

WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on

the Web, at more than 60 million websites.

WordPress is an excellent example of the

collaborative world of today. The basic platform can do a lot,
and is free.

No matter if your blog is hosted on wordpress.com or if you

download the CMS on your server, both options are free. But
that is just a beginning.
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March 24, 2011.

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