An Introduction to Creating WordPress Websites

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