WordPress Workshop
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This document provides an introduction to WordPress, including: - WordPress is a free and open-source content management system that allows users to easily create and manage websites and blogs. It has become one of the most popular platforms, powering over 80 million websites. - As a CMS, WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL and allows for extensive customization through thousands of available themes and plugins. It also has a huge supportive community for assistance. - The document compares WordPress to other CMS options like Joomla and Drupal, finding that WordPress generally has more available themes and plugins while also being the easiest to install and use.
WordPress Workshop
- 3. Introduction οΆ Web software which you can use to create your own website or blog. οΆ Released in 2003. οΆ Become one of the most Popular web publishing platform. οΆ Most popular blogging tool, used on the Web at more than 80 million websites. 2/10/2015 3
- 4. Introduction οΆ WordPress is a Powerful Content Management System (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. οΆ Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. οΆ As of August 2014, more than 23% of the top 10 millions websites used WordPress . 2/10/2015 4
- 5. ο± Completely Free for commercial and private use ο± Open Source Project ο± Constantly Creating , evolving and Improving ο± 100βs of volunteers contributing to core ο± Thousands of Plugins ,Widget and Themes 2/10/2015 5
- 6. Why WordPress is better than Others ? ο΅ 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. ο΅ 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. ο΅ 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. 2/10/2015 6
- 7. Contβ¦β¦β¦ ο΅ Themes : There are more than 7000 themes available more than its competitor. Most of them are freely available. ο΅ Quality Plugins : You canβt add functionality to your WordPress site very quickly, in that case plugin comes very handy . WordPress provide many quality plugins which makes your task easy & quick. Best of all, you can get free plugins to do most things perfectly well. Most plugins are downloaded, installed and configured in a no time. WordPress emphasis on ease-of-use seems to have rubbed off on the plug-in writers! ο΅ Focus : Drupal and Joomla are design as complete CMS whereas WordPress was designed to solve problems. This is because WordPress has a clear target audience (bloggers). 2/10/2015 7
- 8. WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal ο΅ If you want to make powerful websites without worry about the technical aspects and coding of it, you have three options. ο΅ WordPress, Drupal and Joomla have build their reputation as the leaders of online Content Management Systems. ο΅ It doesn't matter how much you know about computer and technology, you can build a website in any of them, quick and easy due to their incredible system. Want to select one of them, its gonna be a difficult choice to make.
- 9. WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal RELEASED WordPress : Released in 2003 by Matt Mullenwegg Joomla : Released in 2005, forked from Mambo Drupal : Released in 2001 by Dries Buytaert POPULARITY WordPress : more than 140 million download Joomla : more than 30 million download Drupal : more than 15 million download
- 10. WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal FREE THEMES WordPress : 2000+ Joomla : 900+ Drupal : 1800+ FREE PLUGINS WordPress : 27000+ Joomla : 7000+ Drupal : 24000+
- 11. WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal MANUAL INSTALLATION TIMES WordPress : 5 min Joomla : 10 min Drupal : 10 min EASE OF MODERATION WordPress : Joomla : Drupal :
- 12. WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal LEVEL OF βSKILLSβ NEEDED TO OPERATE WordPress : Joomla : Drupal : UPDATE FREQUENCY WordPress : 42 days Joomla : 36 days Drupal : 51 days
- 13. What you can create in WordPress ο΅ Blogging website ο΅ Static website ο΅ Directory submission ο΅ Classified site ο΅ Create an article repository ο΅ Image gallery ο΅ Review website ο΅ Discussion forum ο΅ Membership website ο΅ e-commerce website ο΅ And Many moreβ¦β¦.. 2/10/2015 13
- 14. β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦ End of the Introduction Session 2/10/2015 14