Introduction to WordPress Class 1

1. Intro to WordPress
ACE #CT01756 Intro to WordPress
By Adrian Mikeliunas
http://learnwp.us/week1/
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2.  Content Management Systems (CMS)
 History, Architecture and features
 Blogging Basics, Types of blogs
 Automatic Installation
 Manual installation
Class #1 Agenda
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3.  WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool &
a content management system (CMS) based on PHP
& MySQL, which runs from a web server
 Open Source
 CMS
 PHP
 MySQL
 Apache (or IIS)
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What is WordPress?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordpress

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CMS Architecture
Web
Server
APACHE
Client
App
Server
PHP
Database
Server
MYSQL

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Content Management Systems
(CMS)

6. CMS
 Templates
 Themes
 Plugins
 Extensions
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CMS vs Web Site
Web Site
 HTML
 CSS
 JS/PHP/ASP
 DB?
DYNAMIC STATIC/
COMPLEX

7. WordPress Joomla Drupal SharePoint
Popularity #1
Architecture AMP AMP AMP IIS/ASP/SQL
Strength Blog Flexible
Weakness Simple Moderate Complex $$
Community Yes Yes Yes Moderate
Market Bloggers Enterprise
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CMS Comparison
AMP = Apache, MySQL, PHP
IIS/ASP/SQL=Microsoft Server

8.  Started version 1.0 on May of 2003
 Current Version is 4.5.3 as of June 2016
 More than half of top 20 blogs sites use WordPress!
 Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to
power their web pages!
 Hall of Fame CMS category Open Source Awards
 http://www.awwwards.com/websites/cms
 https://wordpress.org/showcase
 http://builtwith.com to find out how a site was built…
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History, Architecture, Features

9.  Open Source Content Management System
 Multi-user Multi-blog
 Extended via Themes & PLugins
 3 Folders and 14 top PHP scripts:
 wp-admin
 wp-content
 wp-includes
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WordPress Features

10. Blogging Basics
Blog Types
Web Log = blog

11.  is a discussion or informational site published on the
Web, consisting of discrete entries ("posts")
 Typically displayed in reverse chronological order
 Entered by 1 or more persons
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
Examples:
http://www.hcplibrary.org/teen/wordpress/
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What is a Blog?

12.  One article or post
 Multiple comments to the post
 Comments to the comments
 Unusual blogs:
 Youtube comments
 WashingtonPost comments
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Blogging Basics

13.  Take responsibility not just for your own words, but for the
comments you allow on your blog
 Label your tolerance level for abusive comments
 Consider eliminating anonymous comments
 Ignore the trolls
 Take the conversation offline, and talk directly, or find an
intermediary who can do so
 If you know someone who is behaving badly, tell them so
 Don't say anything online that you wouldn't say in person
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger%27s_code_of_conduct
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The Blogger's Code of Conduct

14.  You create content
 Content stored in a database
 You pages get indexed by search engines…
 User clicks on a link or directly
 Pages don’t ‘exist’ until requested by web server
 WordPress application
 Retrieves content from database
 CSS used to style page
 Page is built “on the fly” by PHP resulting in HTML &
JavaScript
 Page is displayed to user’s browser
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How it works

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Add Content – Web Based Interface

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Stored in a database
the_title
the_content

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Same Content – Different Themes

18. Fuzzy line between “blog” and full web site
 http://thegrovelibrary.net
 http://stillwater.sals.edu
 looks more like a magazine than a blog
 http://tamworthlibrary.org
 Nice website – put together by Lichen Rancourt
Other Sample Sites

19. WordPress Installation
Local or Hosted?
Automatic or Manual?

20.  Cost?
 Storage capacity?
 Bandwidth?
 Tech Support?
 Install software yourself
 http://wordpress.org
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Hosting on your own server?
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21.  Often under $10/month
 Tech support available
 http://wordpress.org/hosting
 One Click Install!
 Your Hosting Provider will have:
 QuickInstall
 Fantastico
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Commercial Hosting
For more hosts: http://wordpress.org/hosting/

22.  WordPress.com provides hosting service for blogs and
standard configurations;
 Staring at $18 per year! Support included...
 Upgrades $99 and more…
 WordPress.org offers blogging software, documentation,
features & support
 WordPress MU (multi-user), a relatively complex program
that allows you to run thousands of blogs
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Which Version?

23.  Download from http://wordpress.org/download/
Or http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
 Bitnami: http://bitnami.org/stack/wordpress
 WordPress on a USB stick!
http://portableapps.com/apps/development/xampp
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Manual installation

24.  Content Management Systems (CMS)
 History, Architecture and features
 Blogging Basics, Types of blogs
 Automatic Installation
 Manual installation
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Class #1 Review