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WordPress

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Introduction:

WordPress is an open-source content management

system licensed under GPLv2, which means that
anyone can use or modify the WordPress software
for free. A content management system is basically
a tool that makes it easy to manage important
aspects of your website - like content - without
needing to know anything about programming.

WordPress is a free and open-source content

management system (CMS) written in PHP and
paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database.
Features include plugin architecture and a template
system, referred to within WordPress as Themes.
WordPress was originally created as a blog-
publishing system but has evolved to support other
types of web content including more traditional
mailing lists and forums, media galleries,
membership sites, learning management systems
(LMS) and online stores.

WordPress is a factory that makes webpages is a

core analogy designed to clarify the functions of
WordPress: it stores content and enables a user to
create and publish webpages, requiring nothing
beyond a domain and a hosting service.
WordPress has a web template system using a
template processor. Its architecture is a front
controller, routing all requests for non-static URLs
to a single PHP file which parses the URI and
identifies the target page. This allows support for
more human-readable permalinks.

History:

WordPress first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort

between Matt Mullenweg and Mike little to create
a fork of b2. Christine Selleck Tremoulet, a friend
of Mullenweg, suggested the name WordPress.

B2/cafelog, more commonly known as B2 or

cafelog, was the precursor to WordPress.
B2/cafelog was estimated to have been installed on
approximately 2,000 blogs as of May 2003. It was
written in PHP for use with MySQL by Michel
Valdrighi, who is now a contributing developer to
WordPress. Although WordPress is project,
b2evolution, is also in active development.

Features:
Plugin System
The WordPress APIs make it possible for you to
create plugins to extend WordPress. WordPress's
extensibility lies in the thousands of hooks at your
disposal. Once you've created your plugin, we've
even got a plugin repository for you to host it on.

Theme System
Create WordPress themes for clients, other
WordPress users, or yourself. WordPress provides
the extensibility to create themes as simple or as
complex as you wish. If you want to give your
theme away for free you can give it to users in the
theme repository.

Application Framework
If you want to build an application, WordPress can
help with that too. WordPress provides a lot of the
features under the hood that your app will need:
translations, user management, HTTP requests,
databases, URL routing and much, much more.
You can also use our REST API to interact with it.

Custom Content Types

WordPress comes with default content types, but
for more flexibility you can add a few lines of code
to create your own custom post types, taxonomies,
and metadata. Take WordPress in whatever
direction you wish.

Simplicity
Simplicity makes it possible for you to get online
and get publishing, quickly. Nothing should get in
the way of you getting your website up and your
content out there. WordPress is built to make that
happen.

Flexibility
With WordPress, you can create any type of
website you want: a personal blog or website, a
photoblog, a business website, a professional
portfolio, a government website, a magazine or
news website, an online community, even a
network of websites. You can make your website
beautiful with themes, and extend it with plugins.
You can even build your very own application.

Publish with Ease

If you've ever created a document, you're already a
whizz at creating content with WordPress. You can
create Posts and Pages, format them easily, insert
media, and with the click of a button your content
is live and on the web.

Publishing Tools
WordPress makes it easy for you to manage your
content. Create drafts, schedule publication, and
look at your post revisions. Make your content
public or private, and secure posts and pages with a
password.

User Management
Not everyone requires the same access to your
website. Administrators manage the site, editors
work with content, authors and contributors write
that content, and subscribers have a profile that
they can manage. This lets you have a variety of
contributors to your website, and let others simply
be part of your community.

Media Management
They say a picture says a thousand words, which is
why it's important for you to be able to quickly and
easily upload images and media to WordPress.
Drag and drop your media into the uploader to add
it to your website. Add alt text and captions, and
insert images and galleries into your content. We've
even added a few image editing tools you can have
fun with.

Full Standards Compliance

Every piece of WordPress generated code is in full
compliance with the standards set by the W3C.
compatibility with the next generation of browser.
Your website is a beautiful thing, now and in
This means that your website will work in today's
browser, while maintaining forward
the future.

Easy Theme System

WordPress comes bundled with three default
themes, but if they aren't for you there's a theme
directory with thousands of themes for you to
create a beautiful website. None of those to your
taste? Upload your own theme with the click of a
button. It only takes a few seconds for you to give
your website a complete makeover.

Extend with Plugins

WordPress comes packed with a lot of features for
every user. For every feature that's not in
WordPress core, there's a plugin directory with
thousands of plugins. Add complex galleries, social
networking, forums, social media widgets, spam
protection, calendars, fine-tune controls for search
engine optimization, and forms.

Built-in Comments
Your blog is your home, and comments provide a
space for your friends and followers to engage with
your content. WordPress's comment tools give you
everything you need to be a forum for discussion
and to moderate that discussion.

Search Engine Optimized

WordPress is optimized for search engines right out
of the box. For more fine-grained SEO control,
there are plenty of SEO plugins to take care of that
for you.

Use WordPress in Your Language

WordPress is available in more than 70 languages.
If you or the person you're building the website for
would prefer to use WordPress in a language other
than English, that's easy to do.
Themes:
What is a Theme?
Fundamentally, the WordPress Theme system is a
way to "skin" your WordPress site. Yet, it is more
than just a "skin". Skinning your site implies that
only the design is changed. WordPress Themes can
provide much more control over the visual
presentation of your content and other data on your
WordPress site, as well as behavior of certain site's
elements while interacting with visitors.

A WordPress Theme is a collection of files that

work together to produce a graphical interface with
an underlying unifying design for a website. These
files are called template files. A Theme modifies
the way the site is displayed, without modifying the
underlying software. Themes may include
customized template files, image files (*.jpg, *.png,
*.gif), style sheets (*.css), custom Pages, as well as
any necessary code files (*.php). For an
introduction to template files, see Template Files.

Default Themes
WordPress currently comes with three themes: the
default Twenty Nineteen theme (demo), and the
previous defaults Twenty Seventeen (demo) and
Twenty Sixteen (demo) themes.
You can switch between Themes using the
Appearance in the Administration Screen. Themes
you add to the theme directory will appear in the
Administration Screen > Appearance> Themes as
additional selections.

Get New Themes

The WordPress Theme Directory is the official site
for WordPress Themes. Every theme in this
directory is reviewed by a dedicated team and
tested against wide range of rules, all of which are
ensuring secure and pleasant experience for theme
user.

Among almost 2,900 themes in directory, you can

easily find the right one for your site with advanced
search feature using filters for layout, subject and
specific theme's features.
Adding New Themes

Adding New Themes using the Administration

Screens

You can download any theme from WordPress

Theme Directory directly to your site by using the
Add New option in the Appearance sub-menu.

1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Screens.

2. Select the Appearance screen, then Themes.
3. Select Add New.
4. Either use the Search or Filter options to locate a
Theme you would like to use.
5. Click on the Preview link to preview the Theme
or the Install link to upload the Theme to your site,
6. Or use the Upload Theme button at the top of
page to upload a zipped copy of a Theme that you
have previously downloaded to your machine.

Adding New Themes by using cPanel

If your host offers the cPanel control panel, you

can use its Upload option to upload the Theme files
to your site. For this you will need Theme files in
an compressed archive (.zip or .gz).
1. Download the Theme .zip file to your machine.
2. In cPanel File Manager, navigate to your
Themes folder. Depending on your hosting, path to
Themes folder can differ a bit but essentially you
are looking for public_html inside which you'll find
/wp-content/themes/.
3. Once you're inside the Themes folder in cPanel
File Manager, click on Upload and upload that .zip
file you saved in Step 1.
4. Once the .zip file is uploaded, right click on the
name of that file in cPanel
and select Extract from the context menu.
5. When Theme files are successfully extracted,
follow the instructions below for activating the new
Theme.

Adding New Themes Manually (FTP)

To add a new Theme to your WordPress

installation via FTP protocol, you'll need FTP
client and extracted Theme files.

1. Download the Theme archive (.zip) and extract

the files it contains. You should have a folder
named as theme itself, containing theme files.
2. Using an FTP client to access your host web
server and navigate to /wp- content/themes/
directory.
3. Upload the Theme folder to this directory on
your host server.
Activating The Theme
To activate a Theme for your site:

1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Screens.

2. Select the Appearance screen, then Themes.
3. You should see here all themes from your /wp-
content/themes/ directory and from here you can
see details for each of them by clicking on Theme
Details (rollover the Theme thumbnail).
4. Live Preview option will give you preview of
your site with your site's content.
5. To activate the Theme click the Activate button.
Your selection will immediately become active.
Picking A Theme
• As you're browsing through themes keep your
limitations in mind. If you've decided you don't
want to mess with the code, look for a theme with a
style manager for easy customization or look for a
theme that is already exactly how you want it so it
won't need any customizing.

• What kind of a site are you creating? If it's not a

standard blog, you might need to widen your
search. Most free themes are focused on the simple
blog design.

• Colors and header images are often changeable,

so you may not need to worry about those. Instead,
pay attention to the structure of the site. Do you
want one sidebar or two? Do you like the menu
where it is? If you're willing to make tweaks
anything can be changed, but you want to find a
theme that needs the least customization.

• Browse through a theme's test site or preview.

Don't just look at a screenshot of the theme. Play
around with it. Navigate through the site. Notice
the differences between the home page and the
individual posts.
• Pay attention to how a theme handles different
elements. Do you like how blockquotes and images
are displayed? Are pages and posts handled
differently?

• You might even want to download a theme and

take a look at the code. Is it well organized and
easy to edit? There's nothing worse than picking a
theme and discovering the code is a horrible mess
when you try to customize it.

• Make sure your theme is compatible with the

latest version of WordPress. You want to take
advantage of all the newest features and you can't
do that with an outdated theme.

The more time you spend figuring out what you

want and then selecting the right theme, the less
frustrated you'll be. You can always change themes
easily, but you want to spend your time creating
content, not constantly tweaking the design.
Plugins:
What Is a Plugin?
WordPress Plugins are pieces of software that
extend the core capabilities of WordPress. They let
you do more. Since WordPress is open source
software, these are all third party tools that add-on
to what WordPress can do. They're easy to
download and install. Some are premium (there is a
fee to purchase them) and others are free. You may
want to read the "Getting Started with Plugins"
ebook available from PluginBuddy.com. This 21-
page (free) guide gives you the best practices you
should be using when working with plugins.
Plugins can do things like improve your search
engine optimization (All-in-One SEO Pack),
display related posts in your sidebar (Yet Another
Related Posts Plugin), do complete backups of your
WordPress site (Backup Buddy) or create stunning
web forms quickly and easily (Gravity Forms).
You can add just about any functionality to
WordPress with plugins. The WordPress Plugin
Directory is a repository of free plugins that have
been (somewhat) vetted. There are currently more
than 18,000 plugins in the WordPress directory, so
there's a lot to choose from.

Adding Plugins
It's easy to add new plugins to WordPress. Go to
Plugins> Add New and you've got several options.
Search & Install
Your first option is to search the WordPress Plugin
Directory right here. You can find a plugin and
install it from here. Once the plugin is installed,
just click 'Activate.' © 2011 iThemes Media LLC.
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40 You may need the login information for your
site's host to automatically install plugins. You can
get this information from your web host and it's
likely the same info you needed to set up
WordPress.

Download & Upload

The second option is to download a plugin from a
third party source. It will usually come as a .zip
file. At the top of the Plugin page click on "Add
New", then "Upload" and you can upload that .zip
file. Once it's uploaded and installed, just click
'Activate.' We also recommend using the Easy
Theme and Plugin Upgrades plugin. This will make
it easy to upload your plugins without fear of losing
any data. This is a free plugin from iThemes,
provided through the WordPress.org Plugin
Directory.

Manual Installation
You can also add plugins manually by uploading
them with FTP software. This is more complicated
and not for the novice user. You'll need to
download a plugin to your computer and unzip it.
This will give you a folder on your computer with
all the plugin files. Then, using an FTP program,
upload the plugin folder to the wpcontent/plugins
folder on your site. Then go to the Plugins screen
and you can find your new plugin in the list. Click
'Activate' to get started. (Some hosts allow you to
upload the zip file to the wp-content/plugins folder
and then unzip from within that folder.)

Choosing Plugins
With so many plugins out there it's helpful to
understand a little about how they're organized and
how the process works.
First off, the WordPress Plugin Directory is the
best source for free plugins. These plugins have
been vetted by the WordPress community to ensure
there are no malicious plugins or nefarious code.
But that doesn't mean every plugin in the directory
works perfectly. Some will even break your site.
But they are free...and sometimes you get what you
pay for. Keep this in mind as you browse the
directory. Some plugins might be several years old
and haven't been updated. They may work just fine.
Or they might cause all sorts of problems. Just be
aware of what you're installing and don't be
surprised if you need to delete a plugin and find a
new one. (It's also a good idea to install one plugin
at a time and check your site after each installation.
That way if your site breaks, it's easy to know
which plugin caused it
and you can go back and delete it.)
Project:
Portfolio Website
Personal portfolio website is developed for the
purpose of providing personal information and
services. Home page simply provided name and
profession. About page give personal information
and CV is also attached in about page which can be
downloaded by any user who wants to look for CV.
Contact page provides personal contact information
and services page gives services related
information for website. Website is developed
using HTML CSS and Javascript as a front end-
design and for back – end MySQL I is use for
database and procedural PHP language is used for
server site programming. There are certain areas
where a website portfolio is more important than
others. If you find yourself in one of the following,
it’s safe to assume that you need a portfolio like a
book needs words.

Definition
Installing the system and building a simple site
based on this CMS don’t require a professional
WordPress website developer. However, as the site
grows more complex and an increasing number of
third-party add-ons are tacked onto it, it may begin
manifesting all sorts of quirks.In many cases, a
layman doesn’t have enough expertise to find out
what causes these issues exactly. That’s when the
services of an expert WordPress developer or
WordPress development agency are
indispensable.The PSD2HTML WordPress
Website Developement experts have fixed
problems with WordPress on thousands of
websites.

Wrong Data for Connection First, make sure that

you’ve specified the right username, password,
hostname, and DB name in the wp-config.php file.
Perhaps, someone has changed these without
telling you about it. Find the file and verify the
data. Wrong? Edit. Right? Keep searching for the
cause.

Hosting Provider or Server Another possible

culprit is your hosting provider. You may have
saved more data to your DB that the provider
allows you to. Get in touch with them and find it
out. In addition, the server itself can be out of order
at the moment. Then, it’s time that heals.