An introduction to wordpress
- 2. WHAT IS WORDPRESS? • WordPress is a free and open source blog publishing tool and a content management system based on PHP and MySQL, which runs on a web hosting service. It uses theme based architecture with many add-ons called plugins and widgets. Features include a plug-in architecture and a template system. • WordPress is the simplest, easiest, fastest and most economical tools available today to create, design, sustain and manage a website or blog. • A website or blog is imperative for every business to showcase its products/services far and wide, but also to remain connected with potential as well as existing customers. • WordPress is a state – of – the art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
- 3. WHO IS USING WORDPRESS? • Business • http://blogs.adobe.com • http://mozillalabs.com • Universities • http://med.ucf.edu • http://ualr.edu • More • http://wordpress.org/showcase/
- 4. WHY WORDPRESS? • Highly interactive and SEO friendly • Famous blogging platform and it contains huge number of users • Thousands of Plug-ins, Widgets and Themes to allow for complete customization. • Easy to operate even without coding skills. • It contains built-in search engine. • Contains thousands of plugins/extensions, pre – made themes, and tons of online documentation & help
- 5. WHY WORDPRESS? (CONTD.) • Easily Customizable: WordPress has more themes, plugins and other customization than its fellow competitor. This is mainly due to popularity, so the designer of these items always create more for WordPress. • Easy to Install: Installation of WordPress has become easy due to the automatic installation offered by hosting companies like godaddy, hostgator. You can have a new site up and running in well under five minutes. You can also create a new sites in less than a hour with manual installation. • Community Support: Millions of people are using WordPress, which means a lot of people out there to help you when you have problems which you may have. You can get help within minutes from the contributors of support forum.
- 6. WHY WORDPRESS AS A CMS? • It’s for more than just blogging • Allowing for multiple users/permissions • No need for system admin – anyone can upgrade/edit files • Named ‘Hall of Fame CMS’ in 2010 • http://packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home/2010-wordpress
- 7. WORDPRESS VARIETIES • WordPress.com - Free hosted version of WordPress • WordPress.org - Free downloadable version of WordPress • WordPress MU (http://mu.wordpress.org) - WordPress for multiple individual users • Buddy Press (http://buddypress.org) - Social networking site built on WordPress
- 8. TERMS • Widget - Bits of content you can add to your sidebars and menus without knowing any coding • Menu - Navigational menus found at the top and/or side of your site • Plugin - A package of code that adds additional functionality to your site Widgets Defined • Search widgets let people search your site • RSS widgets pull in RSS feeds and publish them on your site • Text widgets re handy for any custom text or code you’d like to include • Recent posts and recent comments will show recently added content to your site
- 9. WP MAINTENANCE MODE • WordPress Maintenance Mode WordPress Plugin adds a maintenance – page to your blog that lets visitors know that your blog is down for maintenance • You will still see blog Users with admin rights will still get full access to the blog including the frontend. • Simple to use Simply activate the plugin and your blog is in maintenance – mode. • Add a Countdown You can use a date with a countdown
- 10. EXCLUDE URLS • You can add URLs to exclude from maintenance mode so your sales pages or what is coming or whatever you want can still be accessible by your visitors • The WP Maintenance Mode WordPress Plugin also supports these languages: Turkey, French, Romanian, Italian, Albanian, Spanish, Russian, Croatian, Danish
- 11. SUMMARY • There are tons of good maintenance mode plugins available in WordPress plugin Directory. Some are basic (free) while others are pro (paid). • Best among them are Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode by Seed Prod, WP Maintenance Mode and YITH Maintenance Mode. • You may opt for any one of the above the result will be more or less similar.