4. Why Wordpress?
• Very well structured code
• Easy to manage
• Great for SEO
• Built in blog
• Users Management
• Huge Community of developers
• Themes
• Plugins for almost everything you can
think of.
5. {Andrew Mason
Groupon founder
“All we did was we took a WordPress
Blog and we skimmed it to say Groupon
and then every day we would do a new
post with the points embedded...”
See full story here:
http://mixergy.com/andrew-mason-groupon-interview/
Groupon started with wordpress
And some of the biggest names online are:
http://en.wordpress.com/notable-users/
6. Installing wordpress
• All major hosting now have easy
install feature for wordpress – use it
• Hostgator.com is known to work very
well with wordpress.
• But if you really have to…
7. It only takes about 5 minutes
• Create a mySQL DB on phpAdmin
• Download and unzip the WordPress
• Rename the wp-config-sample.php file
to wp-config.php and open with a text
editor.
• Edit the info to match your details.
• Upload everything and go to:
http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php
8. What is the difference
between pages and posts?
• Pages are generally timeless
information such as ‘About’ or ‘Contact’
but can also be used to structure a
website. In essence, Pages are for non-
blog content.
• Posts are mainly for blogging or for
any information that has time/date
9. Themes
• For Design and Layout
• The only theme you need – Responsive
• ThemeForest.net
• woocommerce.com & getshopped.org
Be careful what you wish for
10. Plugins
• Codecanyon.net
• Wordpress.org
• Contact Form 7 / Custom Contact Forms
• Yoast WordPress SEO
• WP Types
• Shortcode exec-php
• WP google fonts
• Erident custom login & dashboard
• My custom css
• Ultimate tinymce
• Black studio tinymce
• Layer Slider
