Download - Introduction to WordPress Class 1
Content Management Systems (CMS)
History, Architecture and features
Blogging Basics, Types of blogs
Automatic Installation
Manual installation
Class #1 Agenda
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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
ClientApp
ServerPHP
Database ServerMYSQL
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Content Management Systems (CMS)
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CMS
Templates
Themes
Plugins
Extensions
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CMS vs Web Site
Web Site
HTML
CSS
JS/PHP/ASP
DB?
DYNAMIC STATIC/COMPLEX
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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, PHPIIS/ASP/SQL=Microsoft Server
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Started version 1.0 on May of 2003
Current Version is 3.6.1
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 in the 2010 Open Source Awards
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History, Architecture, Features
http://wordpress.org
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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
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Blogging Basics
Blog Types
Web Log = blog
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:
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What is a Blog?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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WordPress Installation
Local or Hosted?
Automatic or Manual?
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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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/ 2014
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?
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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
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Content Management Systems (CMS)
History, Architecture and features
Blogging Basics, Types of blogs
Automatic Installation
Manual installation
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Class #1 Review
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