WordPress

Fall 2015

What is WordPress?

• WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL

• WordPress can be used to create a presence on the www – webpage, blog, e commerce site

• WordPress is a very powerful, flexible, ever improving tool that can be used to create and present content on the www for free (or almost free!)

WordPress Stats• 48% of Technorati’s Top 100 Blogs Are Managed With WordPress• 74.6 Million Sites Depend on WordPress• 22% of New U.S. Registered Domains Run on WordPress• WordPress.com Gets More Unique Visitors Than Amazon (Us)• 29,000 WordPress Plugins and Growing Daily*

• **WordPress is used by over 16.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1 million" websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites.[4]

• WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet.[5][6]

– *https://managewp.com/14-surprising-statistics-about-wordpress-usage (2014)

– **Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress

Notable WordPress Users

• http://fr.wordpress.com/notable-users/• http://vaniercollege.org/• http://CNN.com• http://Boeing.com• Etc…

vs wordpress.org

http://wordpress.com/• is hosted by the

wordpress .com site.• Use a wordpress.com domain

name• Upgrading of features handled

by wordpress.com• Free, but has paid upgrade

features• Limited number of plugins• No affiliate marketing (way to

make money)

http://wordpress.org/• Is self-hosted – user has to

find his own server• Need your own domain

name (cost about $20/year)• Upgrading managed by web

creator-you!• Free• Over 38,000 Template • Over 16,000 free plug-ins

Getting Started

1. Type in your URL in search bar: vaniercollege.org/M0215_your first name/

2. Click on admin login button and enter : • User name: bawp• Password: Bawp$1234

3. Click on Users/Add New

4.Complete the required fields, use your new G mail address forE-mail, pick a password that is secure , That you can remember

Learning about WordPress

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jv47_VIBOQ

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress written explanations

• http://wordpress.tv/ videos of WordCamp lectures etc,

• WordCamps• http://www.lynda.com/WordPress-tutorials/

WordPress-Essential-Training/97614-2.html good introductory videos

Cont’d WordPress

• https://www.youtube.com/user/wpbeginner

• http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=549b83cc29ff23c36e5796c38&id=8664f17452&e=4f26c7ea69

• Username: shahidim@vaniercollege.qc.caPassword: majidmiamihttp://videos.wpbeginner.com/wp-login.php

Costs of setting up a web page

• Hosting – cost about 10$ /month– while at Vanier – free!– Unlimited domains

• Domain name – cost about 12$ /year – need unique name – buy through site such as– Godaddy.com (Hostgator in video- notice maker of video

provides you with a coupon code when buying hosting services- he gets a commission..and you get a reduction in price – win-win-win)

– https://ca.godaddy.com/domains/searchresults.aspx?ci=83269

– Our domain name: www.bawp.vaniercollege.org

Getting started with WordPress• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO2YGhO5CYk

How to Make a Wordpress Website - 2015 (in less than 45 MINUTES!) with Jameson

• First 7 minutes : overview of what he will show you• 7- 13.21 min –skip talks about setting up domain name and hosting• 13.21min on shows how to build site using Spacious Template

• 28 steps to creating a site (in writing) based on the video above: http://www.nyctechclub.com/how-to-make-a-wordpress-website-2015/