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An Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

An Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites. What is WordPress and who uses it?. As the world’s leading web publishing tool, WordPress is used to power over 65 million websites.

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An Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

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  1. An Introduction to Creating WordPressWebsites Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  2. What is WordPress and who uses it? • As the world’s leading web publishing tool, WordPress is used to power over 65millionwebsites. • WordPress started in 2003 as a free, open-source website and blogging tool. Already a better and easier solution than anything else around, the flexibility and ease of use quickly developed and improved further. • Over 24% of new websites are powered by WordPress. Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  3. What is WordPress and who uses it? • This makes WordPress the most popular website building application in the world - used for everything from building quick and easy small business sites and blogs to powerful, corporate ContentManagementSystem (CMS) websites. Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  4. How easy is WordPress to use? • The basics are incredibly simple! Adding a new web page can be as easy as sending an email or saving a Word document. • Most of the people who work on the 65 million sites run on WordPress are not technical people. Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  5. Who uses WordPress? • Over 14% of the world’s 1,000,000 biggest websites now use WordPress. • This number is rising fast – just see Google Trends (www.google.com/trends): Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  6. Overview • WordPress is essentially a free, open-source, highly flexible contentmanagementsystem that can serve as the foundation for a blog or a fully-fledged small business website for online marketing or ecommerce. • With a WordPress website, you can easily add content and new pages yourself - no knowledge of HTML, CSS or other technologies is required. Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  7. Overview • WordPressallows small businesses to take control of their website and save thousands of pounds. • WordPressmakes it possible for you to build your own website in minutes, and maintain it yourself after it’s built. • You can customize the look of your site so that it's unique. You can add new capabilities via hundreds of plug-ins. In addition, your site will be search-engine friendly from the start. Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  8. Overview • You will learn to use WordPress to set-up and manage your websites and blogs in this comprehensive, hands-on course. • You’ll master WordPress in a few sessions – not months. • You’ll discover how to use and customize themes, add extensive functionality through the use of important plugins, organize and manage your content - even how to Search Engine Optimize your WordPress blog or website for high page rankings and more customers and sales. Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  9. Course Content • Planning and preparing your site for WordPress • Manual installation of WordPress • Understanding the Dashboard • Setting up user accounts • Writing, tagging, and publishing a post • Adding pages and managing links • Working with the text editor • Styling paragraphs and creating lists • Working with media files • Linking, aligning, and sizing an image • Working with image galleries • Adding video and audio Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  10. Course Content • Naming, scheduling, and managing posts • Finding and installing new themes • Creating a basic theme from scratch • Review of basic template tags • Making your site stand out • Helping others connect to your site • Adding Analytics and RSS Feeds • Integrating social media sites • Becoming search engine friendly • Optimizing your site • Backing up your site • Installing and activating plugins Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  11. Famous WordPress Users • WordPress has been chosen by many of the world’s biggest and most successful businesses online (eBay, Yahoo, Flickr), companies (Sony, Samsung, Ford), universities (Harvard, MIT), news networks (CNN, NewYorkTimes, Forbes), brands (KrispyKreme, Ben and Jerry’s), and celebrities (Jay-Z, KatyPerry) because of all the great features and benefits WordPress offers. Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  12. 10 Downing Street – Prime Minister’s Office • WordPress is not only used by “Dave”, but by a vast range of governmental departments and political bodies in the UK and around the world. http://www.number10.gov.uk/ Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  13. Stephen Fry • Fry heralded Twitter’s rising star and now he’s a big fan of WordPress: http://www.stephenfry.com Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  14. Top Gear • “If you’re looking for a slick, smooth ride, high speeds and loads of power, WordPress… has got to be… the best engine… in the world!” http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  15. Havard • WordPressis good enough for them! http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/ Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  16. Who Else Uses WordPress..? Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  17. Notable WordPress Users Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  18. More WordPress Sites Tech Brands • Ebay Ink (http://ebayinkblog.com) • Yahoo! (http://ycorpblog.com) • Adobe (http://blogs.adobe.com) • Spotify(http://www.spotify.com) News Sites • Wall Street Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/law) • CNN (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) • New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/blogs/directory.html) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  19. More WordPress Sites – Other Brands, Companies and Famous Users • Ford (http://www.thefordstory.com) • Ben & Jerry’s (http://www.benjerry.fr/blog) • SONY Playstation(http://blog.us.playstation.com) • People Magazine (http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com) • SONY make.believe(http://electronicsblog.sel.sony.com) • Samsung (http://www.samsungusanews.com) • Nokia (http://conversations.nokia.com) • Nikon (http://press.nikonusa.com) • Pepsi (http://www.refresheverything.com/blog) • Lexus (http://www.darkersideofgreen.com/) • Krispy Kreme (http://www.krispykreme.co.uk) • Katy Perry (http://www.katyperry.com) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  20. More WordPress Sites • Matt Mullenweg (http://ma.tt/) • inhabitat(http://www.inhabitat.com) • Philip Laynon(http://philiplanyon.com) • Better Outcomes Consulting (http://www.boc-group.ca) • Hansel and Petal Flowers (http://hanselandpetal.wordpress.com) • 12X12 Vancouver Photo Marathon (http://vancouverphotomarathon.com) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  21. Cloud-Hosted WordPress Site (www.wordpress.com) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  22. Self-Hosted WordPress Site (www.wordpress.org) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  23. Self-Hosted WordPress Site (www.wordpress.org/download) - Download WordPress Latest version is: WordPress 4.3.1 Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  24. Self-Hosted WordPress(www.wordpress.org/download) - Documentation Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  25. WordPress Hosting(http://www.hostgator.com/) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  26. WordPress Hosting • http://www.hostgator.com (US-based) • https://www.tsohost.com/ (UK-based) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  27. WordPress Hosting(http://www.hostgator.com/) – Control Panel Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  28. WordPress Hosting(http://www.hostgator.com/) – QuickInstall Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  29. WordPress Hosting(http://www.hostgator.com/) – QuickInstall Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  30. WordPress Hosting(http://wordpress.org/hosting/) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  31. WordPress Hosting Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  32. WordPress Hosting(http://bedford-computing.co.uk/web12/) New Twenty Fourteen Theme Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  33. WordPress Hosting(http://bedford-computing.co.uk/web1/wp-admin) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  34. Manual Installation (codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  35. What You Need…. • Access to your web server (via shell or FTP) • FTP Client – for example, Filezilla (http://filezilla-project.org) • Text Editor • Web browser of choice • Check to ensure that your web host has the minimum requirements to run WordPress • Download the latest release of WordPress (www.wordpress.org/download) wordpress-4.3.1.zip • Unzip the downloaded file to a folder on your hard drive (for example, wordpress_sx) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  36. What You Need…. • Now, create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it – for example using cPanel, or PHPMyAdmin (username, password AND MySQL database = wordpress_sx) • Configure wp-config.php (See http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  37. What You Need…. • Upload to host server (ftp address = ftp://www.bedford-college.co.uk, username=wordpress, password=bedford, root folder is: /users/wordpress/) • Upload to your own folder at: ftp://www.bedford-college.co.uk/users/wordpress/wordpress_sx • Install by running script wp-admin/install.php (http://www.bedford-college.co.uk/users/wordpress/wordpress_sx/wp-admin/install.php) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  38. What You Need…. Text Editor (for example, for manually configuring wp-config.php) Windows • Notepad • Notepad++ • PSPad • Komodo Edit Mac • BBEdit (TextWrangler) • TextMate Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  39. PHPMyAdmin(http://www.bedford-college.co.uk/phpmyadmin) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  40. PHPMyAdmin(http://www.bedford-college.co.uk/phpmyadmin) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  41. Configure wp-config.php • Seehttp://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  42. Configure wp-config.php Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  43. Configure wp-config.php Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  44. Security Keys – Online Generator (https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt) https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  45. WampServer - Installing WordPress (http://www.bedford-college.co.uk/users/wordpress/wordpress_sx/wp-admin/install.php) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  46. WampServer - Installing WordPress (http://www.bedford-college.co.uk/users/wordpress/wordpress_sx/wp-admin/install.php) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  47. WampServer - WordPress Login (http://www.bedford-college.co.uk/users/wordpress/wordpress_sx/wp-admin/install.php) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  48. WordPress Dashboard (http://www.bedford-college.co.uk/users/wordpress/wordpress_sx/wp-admin) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  49. WordPress Dashboard (http://www.bedford-college.co.uk/users/wordpress/wordpress_sx/) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

  50. Automatic Installation (codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress) Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

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