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WordPress 101
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WordPress 101
An Introduction to WordPress
By Shanta R. Nathwani
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Some Statistics
As of August 19,2011:
WordPress is now powering 14.7% of the top million websites in the world, up
from 8.5%. And 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running
WordPress. These stats apply to both WordPress.com and WordPress.org
sites.
In July, WordPress.com blogs passed the50 million mark. At the time,
WordPress revealed that each month, 287 million people account for 2.5 billion
pageviews on WordPress.com blogs.
In his speech, Matt Mullenweg says that WordPress now has 15,000 plugins
and has seen 200 million plugin downloads. WordPress 3.2 had 500,000
downloads in the first two days, representing the fastest upgrade speed in the
blogging platform’s history.
Retrieved from TechCrunch September 7, 2012
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.Com vs. .Org
WordPress.com WordPress.org
Hosted on the WordPress Also known as “self-hosted”
servers
Allows for customization of
Gives an address like: almost everything, including
tantienhime.wordpress.com, but themes, plug-ins, permissions,
can have your own domain ($)
etc.
Very little customization
Space is only limited by the
Can be seen on the WordPress hosting provider
home page
Ability to upload video and
No Plug-ins audio files “out of the box”
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Some Examples of My Own
WordPress.com:
http://tantienhime.wordpress.com
WordPress.org
http://malverncollegiate.com
http://roxannereads.com
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Who Is Using WordPress?
The National Post
TechCrunch
The Huffington Post
CNN Blogs
Mashable
Time Magazine (blog)
The Wall Street Journal
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Why Are They Using It?
Highly customizable
Allows for multiple users and multiple domains (including sub-
domains)
Built in SEO, Analytics and framework
Easy and cheap to use
Millions of resources (themes, plugins and forums)
Open Source
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An Important Distinction
Posts vs. Pages
Posts Pages
Dynamic Static
Tags No Tags
More for blogging portions and Used for Contact and About
news pages
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Another Important Distinction
Categories vs. Tags
Categories Tags
Helps to determine the Describes the content
structure of the website
Use about 5-7 per post
Can be used to create menus
much like pages