Introduction to cms and wordpress
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The document is an introduction to content management systems (CMS) and WordPress presented by Mumtaz Gohar. It discusses what a CMS is, types of CMS, popular CMS like WordPress, advantages of CMS, and market share of CMS. It then focuses on WordPress, providing an overview of its history, tools, ranking, installation, interfaces, and use as a CMS. Key points are that WordPress is an open source blog tool used by millions, it allows publishing and modifying content through a dashboard, and functions as a CMS through collaborative workflows and user roles.
Introduction to cms and wordpress
- 1. Mumtaz Gohar MS Web Engineering Introduction to CMS using WordPress WordPress is the largest blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day
- 2. Learning Outcomes • What is CMS • Types of CMS • Popular CMS • Advantages of CMS,s • Market share of CMS,s • What is Open Source • WordPress( History, Tools, Ranking ) • Installation, downloading, configuration • Interface (Front-end Back-end) • Application Development Example Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 3. What is CMS? • Web Content Management System • Create/manage HTML & images • Authoring tools • Templates for presentation “The software provides authoring (and other) tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of programming languages or markup languages to create and manage content with relative ease.” (Wikipedia) “A content management system, typically referred to as a CMS, is a program that allows publishing, editing, and modifying content on web site” Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
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- 6. Types of CMS Presented By Mumtaz Gohar http://www.cms.co.uk/types/
- 7. Popular CMS Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 8. Popular CMS’s Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 9. Other Popular CMS’s Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 10. Advantages of CMS’s Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 11. Market Share of Various CMS’s Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 12. What is open-source software? • Developed out of the free software movement • A social and political movement with the goal of ensuring software users’ basic freedoms • The freedom to use it, to study and change it, and to redistribute it free of charge. Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 13. What is open-source software? • Free to use • Free to redistribute • Access to and modification of source code • Distribution of License - rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed (no overall ownership) • Often developed in a public, collaborative manner Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 14. Examples of open-source software Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 15. Advantages of open-source software • Affordability - free to use, free to update • Perpetuity of access through open standard – sustainable • Interoperability - compatibility with other systems • Localism - cheap access to technology helps build local economies with less reliance on proprietary software • Can be more reliable - it potentially has thousands of independent programmers testing and fixing bugs in the software Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 16. Disadvantages of open-source software • Lack of sound business model - Difficult to design a commercial business model around the open source model • Technical requirements may be satisfied but not the ones of the market • Security - may allow hackers to know the weaknesses in the software • Difficult to collected data concerning productivity and quality Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 17. Introduction to WordPress • An open source blog tool and publishing platform • Used as a content management system • Uses a dashboard to administer the site • Users can re-arrange widgets without editing PHP or HTML code • Third-party plugins (like apps.) to extend functionality • Layout and style can be changed with the use of “Themes” • 1000s of themes are available free and paid for http://www.cms.co.uk/open-source/wordpress.html What is WordPress? Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 18. Introduction to WordPress(Cont…) • It was first released on May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg • As of September 2009, used by 62.8 million website in the US and 202 million websites worldwide • 7,576,230 sites using WordPress (17 May 2013) • Version 3.0 had been downloaded over 32.5 million times • Has a large online community through forums • WordPress is used by 14.9% of all websites and 54% of CMS http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all http://trends.builtwith.com/cms/WordPress Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 19. Introduction to WordPress(Cont..) • It was Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 20. Example sites TechCrunch Crikey Forbes National Geographic (Netherlands) Toledo Museum of Art United States Mission University of Maine Harvard Gazette Nokia Now Playing micro-site SAP info Pepsi Refresh Project Comacho Cigars Military Sealift Command Nikon Festival h MAG I can haz cheez burger More on the WordPress Showcase www.craigbailey.net www.xensystems.net Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 21. WordPress Features • Managing and Administering • Publicizing Your Work • Customizing the Design • Creating Content • Archives and Search • Discussion and Comments • Creating and Managing a Blogroll Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 22. Different versions of WordPress • Hosted and managed service • No need to download software, pay for hosting or manage a web server. • “Branded” URL like “tim.wordpress.com” • Limited functionality • Limited customization of themes • Restricted use of CSS • Can’t use or upload plugins WordPress.com Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 23. Different versions of WordPress WordPress.com Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 24. Different versions of WordPress • Self-hosted - need to purchase domain name and register with a web host (charge) • Free to download to you computer • Full functionality • Access to thousands of third-party themes and plugins • Full customization of themes • Complete control to change the source code • Requires more technical knowledge to set up and run than .com WordPress.org Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 25. Different versions of WordPress WordPress.org Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 26. Different versions of WordPress WordPress.org Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 27. WordPress as a Content Management Systems (CMS) A CMS is a collection of procedures used to manage workflow in a collaborative environment. The procedures are designed to: • Allow for a large number of people to contribute to and share stored data • Control access to data, based on user roles. User roles define what information each user can view or edit • Aid in easy storage and retrieval of data • Reduce repetitive duplicate input • Improve the ease of report writing • Improve communication between users Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 28. Data can be defined as almost anything - documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, etc Data stored on a database using (open source): Database Code Server WordPress as a Content Management Systems (CMS) Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 29. Data requested and retrieved WordPress as a Content Management Systems (CMS) Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
- 30. Introduction to WordPress Some links: Smashing magazine: http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/ http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/07/05/free-wordpress-themes-2011-edition/ WordPress themes: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ WordPress plugins: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ Best WordPress plugins: http://thebestwordpressplugins.com/ Presented By Mumtaz Gohar
Editor's Notes
- #18: WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It is popular among users for its ease of installation. Under most circumstances, installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete. WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today.