anatomy of a wordpress site

Anatomy of a WordPress Site

Jonathan Kay@wpstagecoach

wpstagecoach.com/wcsea2016

Who?Who am I?

What do I do?

How I know about WordPress?

What?How?

Why?WordPress internals

Lots of moving parts!

Domain NameThink of it as your name

somethingreallylong.com

ipaidtoomuchforthis.website

mysite.io

HostingWhat is hosting?

Lots of different types!

HostingWhat is hosting?

Lots of different types!

WordPressDownload from wordpress.org

Think of it as the skeleton of your website

(finally!)

wp-content:

Themes

Plugins

Uploads (images & media)

DatabaseAll your information is stored in it

Contains connections between your data

DatabaseAll your information is stored in it

Contains connections between your data

You can directly interact with the database with PHPMyAdmin if you host has it

ThemesSkin and clothes

Can’t function without skin!

Be wary of themes that try to do too much!

wordpress.org/themes

PluginsLike skills or abilities you learn

Can be anything!

Other Technical ThingsDNS

me@myfancynewdoma.in

e-mail

So what?

So what?

Questions?

Jonathan Kay@wpstagecoach

wpstagecoach.com/wcsea2016

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