Introduction To WordPress
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The document provides instructions for installing WordPress, including downloading and extracting the files, creating a database and user, setting up the wp-config.php file with database details, uploading the files to the server, and running the installation script. It describes both a 5-minute installation process and more detailed step-by-step instructions. It also explains how WordPress can automatically create the wp-config.php file if it's not found.
Introduction To WordPress
- 1. Getting Started with Junejo Naeem Ahmed WORDPRESS
- 2. INTRODUCTION TO WORDPRESS • WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. • Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. • WordPress was used by more than 22.0% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013. • WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites. • It was first released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, as a fork of b2/cafelog. • The license under which WordPress software is released is the GPLv2 (or later) from the Free Software Foundation. • WordPress is a great product. • It's easy-to-use, quite powerful, and flexible.
- 3. INTRODUCTION TO WORDPRESS • WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. • It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. • WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. • It is a mature and stable product. • We hope by focusing on web standards and user experience we can create a tool different from anything else out there. • WordPress is publishing software with a focus on ease of use, speed and a great user experience. • WordPress is blessed with an active community, which is the heart of open source software.
- 4. FEATURES • WordPress is a powerful semantic publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. • We are proud to offer you a freely distributed, standards-compliant, fast, light and free content management system, with sensible default settings and features, and an extremely customizable core. • The following is a list of some of the features that come standard with WordPress, however there are literally tens of thousands of plugins that extend what WordPress does, so the actual functionality is nearly limitless. • You are also free to do whatever you like with the WordPress code, extend it or modify in any way or use it for commercial projects without any licensing fees. • That is the beauty of free software, free meaning not only price but also the freedom to have complete control over it.
- 5. WHAT IS A "BLOG"? • Blog is an abbreviated version of weblog, which is a term used to describe websites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. • A blog features diary-type commentary and links to articles on other websites, usually presented as a list of entries in reverse chronological order. • Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects. • Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as web design, home staging, sports, or mobile technology. • And others are more like personal journals, presenting the author's daily life and thoughts.
- 6. WHAT IS A "BLOG"? • A main content area with articles listed chronologically, newest on top. • Often, the articles are organized into categories. • An archive of older articles. • A way for people to leave comments about the articles. • A list of links to other related sites, sometimes called a "blogroll". • One or more "feeds" like RSS, Atom or RDF files. Generally speaking (although there are exceptions), blogs tend to have a few things in common:
- 7. THE BLOG CONTENT • Retail sites feature a catalog of products. • University sites contain information about their campuses, curriculum, and faculty. • News sites show the latest news stories. • For a personal blog, you might have a bunch of observations, or reviews. • Without some sort of updated content, there is little reason to visit a website more than once. • On a blog, the content consists of articles (also sometimes called "posts" or "entries") that the author(s) writes. • Some blogs have multiple authors, each writing his/her own articles. Typically, blog authors compose their articles in a web-based interface, built into the blogging system itself. • Some blogging systems also support the ability to use stand-alone "weblog client" software, which allows authors to write articles offline and upload them at a later time.
- 8. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BLOG AND CMS? • Software that provides a method of managing your website is commonly called a CMS or "Content Management System". • Many blogging software programs are considered a specific type of CMS. • They provide the features required to create and maintain a blog, and can make publishing on the internet as simple as writing an article, giving it a title, and organizing it under (one or more) categories. • In other words, you get to focus on what you want to write, and the blogging tool takes care of the rest of the site management.
- 9. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BLOG AND CMS? • WordPress is one such advanced blogging tool and it provides a rich set of features. • Through its Administration Panels, you can set options for the behavior and presentation of your weblog. Via these Administration Panels, you can easily compose a blog post, push a button, and be published on the internet, instantly! WordPress goes to great pains to see that your blog posts look good, the text looks beautiful, and the html code it generates conforms to web standards.
- 10. THINGS BLOGGERS NEED TO KNOW • Archives • A blog is also a good way to keep track of articles on a site. A lot of blogs feature an archive based on dates (like a monthly or yearly archive). Archives can also be based on categories featuring all the articles related to a specific category. • Feeds • A Feed is a function of special software that allows "Feedreaders" to access a site automatically looking for new content and then post updates about that new content to another site. • This provides a way for users to keep up with the latest and hottest information posted on different blogging sites.Some Feeds include RSS (alternately defined as "Rich Site Summary" or "Really Simple Syndication").
- 11. THINGS BLOGGERS NEED TO KNOW • Blogrolls • A blogroll is a list, sometimes categorized, of links to webpages the author of a blog finds worthwhile or interesting. • The links in a blogroll are usually to other blogs with similar interests. • The blogroll is often in a "sidebar" on the page or featured as a dedicated separate web page. • WordPress has a built-in Link Manager so users do not have to depend on a third party for creating and managing their blogroll.
- 12. THINGS BLOGGERS NEED TO KNOW • Syndication • A feed is a machine readable (usually XML) content publication that is updated regularly. • There are tools out there that call themselves "feedreaders". What they do is they keep checking specified blogs to see if they have been updated, and when the blogs are updated, they display the new post, and a link to it, with an excerpt (or the whole contents) of the post. Each feed contains items that are published over time. • When checking a feed, the feedreader is actually looking for new items. New items are automatically discovered and downloaded for you to read, so you don't have to visit all the blogs you are interested in. All you have to do with these feedreaders is to add the link to the RSS feed of all the blogs you are interested in. • The feedreader will then inform you when any of the blogs have new posts in them. Most blogs have these "Syndication" feeds available for the readers to use.
- 13. THINGS BLOGGERS NEED TO KNOW • Managing Comments • One of the most exciting features of blogging tools are the comments. • This highly interactive feature allows users to comment upon article posts, link to your posts, and comment on and recommend them. • These are known as trackbacks and pingbacks. We'll also discuss how to moderate and manage comments and how to deal with the annoying trend in "comment spam", when unwanted comments are posted to your blog. • Comment Moderation • Comment Moderation is a feature which allows the website owner and author to monitor and control the comments on the different article posts, and can help in tackling comment spam. • It lets you moderate comments, & you can delete unwanted comments, approve cool comments and make other decisions about the comments.
- 14. THINGS BLOGGERS NEED TO KNOW • Pretty Permalinks • Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. • A permalink is what another weblogger will use to refer to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. Because others may link to your individual postings, the URL to that article shouldn't change. Permalinks are intended to be permanent (valid for a long time). • "Pretty" Permalinks is the idea that URLs are frequently visible to the people who click them, and should therefore be crafted in such a way that they make sense, and not be filled with incomprehensible parameters. • The best Permalinks are "hackable," meaning a user might modify the link text in their browser to navigate to another section or listing of the weblog.
- 15. THINGS BLOGGERS NEED TO KNOW • For example, this is how the default Permalink to a story might look in a default WordPress installation: • /index.php?p=423 • How is a user to know what "p" represents? Where did the number 423 come from? • In contrast, here is a well-structured, "Pretty" Permalink which could link to the same article, once the installation is configured to modify permalinks: • /archives/2003/05/23/my-cheese-sandwich/ • One can easily guess that the Permalink includes the date of the posting, and the title, just by looking at the URL. One might also guess that hacking the URL to be /archives/2003/05/ would get a list of all the postings from May of 2003.
- 16. THINGS BLOGGERS NEED TO KNOW • Blog by email • Some blogging tools offer the ability to email your posts directly to your blog, all without direct interaction through the blogging tool interface. • WordPress offers this cool feature. Using email, you can now send in your post content to a pre-determined email address & voila! Your post is published! • Post Slugs • If you're using Pretty Permalinks, the Post Slug is the title of your article post within the link. • The blogging tool software may simplify or truncate your title into a more appropriate form for using as a link. • A title such as "I'll Make A Wish" might be truncated to "ill-make-a- wish".In WordPress, you can change the Post Slug to something else, like "make-a-wish", which sounds better than a wish made when sick.
- 17. THINGS BLOGGERS NEED TO KNOW • Excerpt • Excerpts are condensed summaries of your blog posts, with blogging tools being able to handle these in various ways. • In WordPress, Excerpts can be specifically written to summarize the post, or generated automatically by using the first few paragraphs of a post or using the post up to a specific point, assigned by you.
- 18. A FEW BLOGGING TIPS • Starting a new blog is difficult and this can put many people off. Some may get off to a good start only to become quickly discouraged because of the lack of comments or visits. • You want to stand out from this crowd of millions of bloggers, you want to be one of the few hundred thousand blogs that are actually visited. 1. Post regularly, but don't post if you have nothing worth posting about. 2. Stick with only a few specific genres to talk about. 3. Don't put 'subscribe' and 'vote me' links all over the front page until you have people that like your blog enough to ignore them (they're usually just in the way). 4. Use a clean and simple theme if at all possible. 5. Enjoy, blog for fun, comment on other peoples' blogs (as they normally visit back). 6. Have fun blogging and remember, there are no rules to what you post on your blog!
- 19. INSTALLING WORDPRESS • WordPress is well-known for its ease of installation. • Under most circumstances, installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete. • Many web hosts now offer tools (e.g. Fantastico) to automatically install WordPress for you. • However, if you wish to install WordPress yourself, the following guide will help. • Now with Automatic Upgrade, upgrading is even easier.
- 20. THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE INSTALLING WORDPRESS • Before you begin the install, there are a few things you need to have and do. 1. Access to your web server (via shell or FTP) 2. A text editor 3. An FTP Client 4. Your web browser of choice
- 21. THINGS YOU NEED TO DO TO INSTALL WORDPRESS • Begin your installation by: 1. Checking to ensure that you and your web host have the minimum requirements to run WordPress. 2. Download the latest release of WordPress. 3. Unzip the downloaded file to a folder on your hard drive. 4. Be prepared with a secure password for your Secret Key
- 22. FAMOUS 5-MINUTE INSTALL • Download and unzip the WordPress package if you haven't already. • Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it. • Find and rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php, then edit the file and add your database information. • Upload the WordPress files to the desired location on your web server: • If you want to integrate WordPress into the root of your domain (e.g. http://example.com/), move or upload all contents of the unzipped WordPress directory (excluding the WordPress directory itself) into the root directory of your web server. • Run the WordPress installation script by accessing the URL in a web browser. This should be the URL where you uploaded the WordPress files. • If you installed WordPress in the root directory, you should visit: http://example.com/ • That's it! WordPress should now be installed.
- 23. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS • Step 1: Download and Extract • Download and unzip the WordPress package from http://wordpress.org/download/. • Step 2: Create the Database and a User • Step 3: Set up wp-config.php • You can either create and edit the wp-config.php file yourself, or you can skip this step and let WordPress try to do this itself when you run the installation script. • Return to where you extracted the WordPress package in Step 1, rename the file wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php, and open it in a text editor.
- 24. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS • Enter your database information under the section labeled • DB_NAME • The name of the database you created for WordPress in Step 2 . • DB_USER • The username you created for WordPress in Step 2. • DB_PASSWORD • The password you chose for the WordPress username in Step 2. • DB_HOST • The hostname you determined in Step 2 (usually localhost, but not always.
- 25. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS • Step 4: Upload the files • In the root directory of your website. (For example, http://example.com/) • In a subdirectory of your website. (For example, http://example.com/blog/) • Step 5: Run the Install Script • Point a web browser to start the installation script. • If you placed the WordPress files in the root directory, you should visit: http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php • If you placed the WordPress files in a subdirectory called blog, for example, you should visit: http://example.com/blog/wp- admin/install.php
- 26. SETUP CONFIGURATION FILE • If WordPress can't find the wp-config.php file, it will tell you and offer to try to create and edit the file itself. WordPress will ask you the database details and write them to a new wp- config.php file. If this works, you can go ahead with the installation; otherwise, go back and create, edit, and upload the wp-config.php file yourself (step 3).