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Laura Solomon Library Services Manager OPLIN solomola@oplin.org www.oplin.org. Using. For Internet Publishing. The agenda today:. What is WordPress & some stuff about it Comparison to Blogger Some examples of Wordpress installs How OPLIN uses WordPress
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Laura Solomon Library Services Manager OPLIN solomola@oplin.org www.oplin.org Using For Internet Publishing
The agenda today: • What is WordPress & some stuff about it • Comparison to Blogger • Some examples of Wordpress installs • How OPLIN uses WordPress • Installing and working with WordPress
What constitutes a blog? • Ongoing chronicle of information • Frequently updated • Pieces/parts: • Main content area with posts • Archive of older posts • A way for people to leave posts • Links to other sites • One or more RSS feeds
Wordpress is not… Content Management System (CMS)
What can WordPress do? • Act as a supplemental section or blog • Provide additional functionality
What CAN’T Wordpress do (probably)? Replace your entire web site
A little background • The largest self-hosting blogging tool in the world • Open source • Can download and customize it
Different flavors of Wordpress Local Hosted Photo courtesty of iShot71 (Flickr)
What’s a widget? • Sidebar plugin • Additional functionality without changing source code
Some example widgets • Active Discussions - Display posts with currently active discussion threads • Contact - Adds a contact form to the sidebar • del.icio.us cached++ - Create a list of the latest bookmarks on a del.icio.us account, from its RSS feed • Flickr Badge Widget - display your flickr photos in the sidebar • Now Reading scroll down on that page to see the widget version • WP Polls - a widget for WP Polls plugin
Actually installing WordPress • Ingredients: • MySQL database (preferably with admin tool) • Web server • PHP • Download of Wordpress • Caffeine helps, I swear
Your new best friend! http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
Do this… • Allow a really good chunk o’time
What to do • Install XAMPP • Go to the XAMPP admin panel and open up the admin interface for Apache • Click on phpMyAdmin on the left and create a new database • Unzip WordPress. Put actual wordpress directory in the htdocs directory of Apache (most likely C:\xampp\htdocs) so that you end up with C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress.
Take a deep breath, the hard parts are over! • You’re now ready to install WordPress! • Go to http://your_domain_and_path_here/wordpress • Follow the wizard • Remember, if you have (properly!!) locked down MySQL, the username and password are not “root/no password”
WordPress Resources • Full list of widgets (http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/WordPress_Widgets) • WordPress Lessons (http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons)
Video Tutorials • WordPress.com - Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Blog (http://youtube.com/watch?v=MWYi4_COZMU) • WordPress Tutorial - How to Edit a WordPress Page (http://youtube.com/watch?v=rnMnpt6u5uo) • Wordpress tutorial--installing on a local server (http://youtube.com/watch?v=OD4nh5A5up4) • Wordpress Tutorial (http://youtube.com/watch?v=H1ImndT0fC8)
Where is this presentation? http://www.slideshare.net/OPLIN Questions? solomola@oplin.org