Introduction to WordPress:Part 1 – Up and running in 5 minutes with WordPress

By Bronson Quick

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Thanks to the people who made this happen

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http://www.sennza.com.au/- Giving away a copy of Beginning WordPress 3 by Stephanie Leary- Donating their time and resources to educate and grow the WordPress community

What we’ll coverA brief intro into the following:• What is WordPress? • Why choose WordPress?• Requirements• The famous 5 minute install• Posts and Pages• Custom headers with Twenty Ten• Links• Q & A

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The basics of a WordPress installation

What is WordPress?WordPress is web software that utilises PHP, HTML, JavaScript and CSS to make the most used content management software in the world!

WordPress 3 has been downloaded over 23, 685, 477 times since it’s released on June 17, 2010.

http://wordpress.org/download/counter/

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• Websites• Blogs• Social networks• eCommerce• Marketplaces• Photo blogs• The list is endless!

It’s not just a blog!

http://www.sennza.com.au/wordpress-is-not-just-for-blogs-dammit/

The best CMS out there! What can it do?

Why choose WordPress?There are so many users, designers and developers who are happy to help out in many different ways. e.g. Contributing code to the core, making plugins, helping out in forums, podcasts, Meetups and WordCamps!

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1) The community!

It’s so easy to use from the backend that you can get the hang of the basics without needing a manual!

2) Ease of use

Change the look of your site without every having to re-enter content.

3) Themes

Just like iPhones have the saying “there’s an app for that”, WordPress users are often heard saying “there’s a plugin for that” and if there isn’t one, chances are someone is working on one right now!

4) There’s a plugin for that

Requirements

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Ingredients for a WordPress pie!Server Requirements:

• PHP 5.2+• mySQL 5.0.15+• the mod_rewrite Apache module• FTP Client - http://filezilla-project.org/

The famous 5 minute install

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The steps1. Download WordPress.2. Unzip.3. Upload via FTP to your server.4. Create a database in phpmyadmin or your hosting control panel. e.g. cPanel,

Plesk, etc.5. Go to yourdomain.com and fill in the blanks!

Post and Pages

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If you have WordPress setup and have a blog page then you can add and edits posts in this section.

Posts

If you need to edit another page on your site then head to the Pages tab!

Pages

It really is that easy to manage! Hence the 23 million downloads!

Custom Headers with Twenty Ten

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Just one of the Twenty Ten theme goodness that comes with WordPress1. Custom headers2. Menus3. Custom backgrounds4. Dropdown menus5. Editor styles6. One and two column templates7. A print stylesheet8. Lots of widgets

WordPress Links

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Clickity, click!

WordPress.orghttp://wordpress.org/

WooThemeshttp://www.woothemes.com/

ThemeForesthttp://themeforest.net/

Elegant Themeshttp://www.elegantthemes.com/

WordPress Showcasehttp://wordpress.org/showcase/tag/cms/

100 Free Themes – Smashing Magazineshttp://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/08/19/100-free-high-quality-wordpress-themes-for-2010/

Thanks & Questions

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Hope you learnt something

Ask me some questions!

Please feel free to use the Message Board on Meetup.com for this group to start a discussion and everyone here can contribute , educate and help each other.

http://www.sennza.com.au/Twitter: @sennza

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