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OUTLINE:
• What Is Word Press?
• WORDPRESS –HISTORY
• Word Press-Versions
• WORDPRESS – INSTALLATION
• WORDPRESS-SETUP(CONFIGURATION) STEPS BASIC STEPS
• CREATE STORE DATABASE
• DASHBOARD MENU
• WORDPRESS – DISCUSSION SETTINGS

WHAT IS WORDPRESS?
 Is a dynamic content management system. (CMS)
 A tool to help you build a website.
 Like Microsoft Word, Open Office or Pages help you create documents.
 Creates web pages (HTML) dynamically
 For basic usage it requires minimal knowledge of web programming or
markup languages (HTML, PHP, JavaScript etc.).
 Allows users to create website content easily

WHAT IS WORDPRESS?
 The first version of WordPress was released May 27, 2003
 Is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet.
 Runs millions of websites.
 Stats suggest WordPress sites represent as much as 25% of the worlds
websites.
 Needs a web server with PHP and MySQL to run.
 Local server to run it on your pc/laptop.
 The core WordPress software is free, As in open source.

WORDPRESS -HISTORY
 WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the
typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can
count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the
largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of
sites and seen by ten millions of people every day.
 Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little co-founded WordPress. 5

WORDPRESS-VERSIONS
2 different WordPresses :
 WordPress.com
Often referred to as “.com” WordPress using
 WordPress.org
Regular
Network or Multisite

WORDPRESS.COM
 WordPress.com is a service (by Automatic)
They provide WordPress AND hosting.
Free for basic site: somename.wordpress.com
 Has limitations compared to self hosted.
Added costs for customizing.
Limited ability to customize.

WORDPRESS.ORG
 Home of the open source version of WordPress.
Free! – Just download it
 Related things that may cost:
A web host (self-hosted)
A domain
Some WordPress / Web knowledge
 Limitations:
None!
 You can add plugins to add: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr connections. (1000’s of
plugins available)
 Add themes to change the look and sometimes add function. (1000’s of themes available)

WORDPRESS.ORG NETWORKS OR MULTISITE
The third version of WordPress is multisite (network).
 Was once known as WPMU, a separate program.
 Allows multiple websites on one install.
 It need not be obvious to users that it is one install.
 Limited version of what WordPress.com runs.
 Needs some knowledge to set-up.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR WORD PRESS
DATABASE: MYSQL 5.0+
WEB SERVER: O WAMP (WINDOWS) O LAMP (LINUX) O XAMP (MULTI-
PLATFORM) O MAMP (MACINTOSH)
OPERATING SYSTEM: CROSS-PLATFORM
BROWSER SUPPORT: IE (INTERNET EXPLORER 8+), FIREFOX, GOOGLE
CHROME, SAFARI, OPERA
PHP COMPATIBILITY: PHP 5.2+
WORDPRESS – INSTALLATION

WORDPRESS-SETUP(CONFIGURATION) STEPS
BASIC STEPS
Step 1: Install Local server (Wamp or Xampp)
First of all we have to start Wamp server Then wamp icon will appear on system
tray when
it will turn green that means its working

STEP 2: INSTALL WORDPRESSExtract the wordpress folder and
paste it on wamp www directory
and upload it into your web server
or localhost.

CREATE STORE DATABASE
WordPress requires MySQL database. So create a new empty
database with user/password (for example, user as "root" and
password as "root" or else you can set as per your convenience).
Then, you can continue with the installation process as discussed
further.

TO CREATE A DATA BASE WE NEED TO OPEN
WEB BROWSER AND TYPE LOCALHOST /
PHPMYADMIN

Open your browser and navigate to
your WordPress file path, then you
will get the first screen of the
WordPress installer as shown in the
following screen. In our case, the
path is localhost/<
Your_WordPress_folder >.

In this step, you can view the
information needed for the
database before proceeding with
WordPress installation

HERE, YOU HAVE TO ENTER THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE MYSQL
DATABASE AS DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING SCREEN
Database Name: Enter the database
name which you have created in MySQL
database for WordPress.
Username: Enter the user name of your
MySQL database.
Password: Enter the password which
you had set for MySQL database.
Database Host: Write the host name,
by default it will be localhost.
Table Prefix: It is used to add prefix in
the database tables which helps to run
multiple sites on the same database. It
takes the default value.
After filling all information, click on
Submit button.

WordPress checks the database
setting and gives you the
confirmation screen as shown in
the following snapshot.

Enter administrative information
Site Title: Enter the name of the site
which you are going to create in
WordPress.
Username: Enter the username as per
your choice while logging in the
WordPress.
Password twice: Enter password two
times to protect your site.
Your E-mail: Enter your e-mail
address which helps to recover the
password or any update.
Privacy: It allows the search engine to
index this site after checking the
checkbox.
After filling all the information, click
on the Install WordPress button.

After clicking on login, you will get a
WordPress Admin Panel as depicted in the
following screen.

THE WORDPRESS DASHBOARD IS A FIRST SCREEN WHICH WILL BE SEEN WHEN YOU LOG INTO THE ADMINISTRATION AREA OF YOUR BLOG WHICH
WILL DISPLAY THE OVERVIEW OF THE WEBSITE. IT IS A COLLECTION OF GADGETS THAT PROVIDE INFORMATION AND PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF
WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH YOUR BLOG. YOU CAN CUSTOMIZE YOUR NEEDS BY USING SOME QUICK LINKS SUCH AS WRITING QUICK DRAFT,
REPLYING TO LATEST COMMENT, ETC.
DASHBOARD CAN BE CATEGORIZED AS SHOWN IN THE FOLLOWING SNAPSHOT.
Dashboar
d menu
At glance
activity
Screen
options
welcome
Quick draft
News

DASHBOARD MENU
The WordPress Dashboard provides navigation menu that contains
some menu options such as posts, media library, pages, comments,
appearance options, plugins, users, tools and settings on the left side

Dashboard Menu: The WordPress Dashboard provides navigation menu that
contains some menu options such as posts, media library, pages, comments,
appearance options, plugins, users, tools and settings on the left side
Screen Options: The dashboard contains different types of widgets which can
be shown or hidden on some screens. It contains check boxes to show or
screen options and also allows us to customize sections on the admin screen.
Welcome: It includes the Customize Your Site button which allows
customizing your WordPress theme. The center column provides some of the
useful links such as creating a blog post, creating a page and view the front
end of your website. Last column contains links to widgets, menus, settings
related to comments and also a link to the First Steps With WordPress page
the WordPress codex.
Quick Draft: The Quick Draft is a mini post editor which allows writing, saving
and publishing a post from admin dashboard. It includes the title for the
some notes about the draft and save it as a Draft.

WordPress News: The WordPress News widget displays the latest news
such as latest software version, updates, alerts, news regarding the
software etc. from the official WordPress blog.
Activity: The Activity widget includes latest comments on your blog,
recent posts and recently published posts. It allows you to approve,
disapprove, reply, edit, or delete a comment. It also allows you to move
comment to spam.
At a Glance: This section gives an overview of your blog's posts, number
of published posts and pages, and number of comments. When you
on these links, you will be taken to the respective screen. It displays the
current version of running WordPress along with the currently running
theme on the site.

WORDPRESS – GENERAL
SETTINGS
WordPress general setting is used to set the basic
configuration settings for your site. In the setting
administration screen, it is a default setting screen.
Following are the steps to access the general settings

THE GENERAL SETTING PAGE IS DISPLAYED AS SHOWN IN
THE FOLLOWING SNAPSHOT.

Following are the details of the fields on general settings page.
Site Title: It displays the name of the site in the template header.
Tagline: Displays a short sentence about your site.
WordPress Address (URL): It is the URL of WordPress directory where your all core
application files are present.
Site Address (URL): Enter the site URL which you want your site to display on the
browser.
E-mail Address: Enter your e-mail address which helps to recover your password or
any update.

Membership: Anyone can register an account on your site after you check
this checkbox.
New User Default Role: The default role is set for the newly registered user
or members.
Time zone: Sets the time zone based on the particular city.
Date Format: Sets the date format as you need to display on the site.
Time Format: Sets the time format as you need to display on the site.
Week Starts On: Select the week day which you prefer to start for
WordPress calendar. By default it is set as Monday.
Site Language: Sets the language for the WordPress dashboard.
After filling all the information about general settings, click on
Save Changes button. It saves all your general setting
information

WORDPRESS – WRITING
SETTINGS
The writing settings controls the writing experience and provides options for
customizing WordPress site. These settings control the features in the adding
and editing posts, Pages, and Post Types, as well as the optional functions
like Remote Publishing, Post via e-mail, and Update Services. Following are
the steps to access the writing settings:
Step 1: To change writing settings, go to Settings -> Writing option.

The Writing Setting page is displayed as shown in the following
snapshot

Following are the details of the fields on the page.
Formatting: This field defines two sub options for better user experience.
•The first option Convert emoticons like :-) and :-P to graphics on
will turn text-based emoticons into graphic-based emoticons.
•The second option WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML
automatically corrects the invalid XHTML placed within the posts or
pages.
Default Post Category: It is a category to be applied to a post and you can
leave it as Uncategorized.
Default Post Format: It is used by themes to select post format to be
applied to a post or create different styles for different types of posts.

Post via e-mail: This option uses e-mail address to create posts and
publishes posts on your blog through e-mail. To use this, you'll need to set
up a secret e-mail account with a POP3 access, and any mail received at this
address will be posted.
Mail Server: It allows reading the e-mails that you send to WordPress and
stores them for retrieval. For this, you need to have POP3 compatible mail
server and it will have URI address such as mail.example.com, which you
should enter here.
Password: Set password for the above e-mail address.

Login Name: To create posts, WordPress will need its own e-mail account.
The Login Name will use this e-mail address and should be kept as a secret
spammers will post links redirecting to their own websites.
Default Mail Category: It allows selecting custom category for all the posts
that are published via Post by e-mail feature.
Update Services: When you publish a new post, WordPress will
automatically notify the site update services in the box. See the Update
Services on the codex for the long list of possible services
After filling all the above information, click on Save
Changes button to save your information.

WORDPRESS – READING
SETTINGS
Reading Setting is used to set the content related to the front page. You
can set the number of post to be displayed on the main page. Following
are the steps to access the reading settings:
Step (1): Click on Settings -> Reading option in WordPress.

THE WRITING SETTING PAGE IS DISPLAYED AS SHOWN IN THE
FOLLOWING SNAPSHOT

FOLLOWING ARE THE DETAILS OF THE FIELDS
ON READING SETTINGS.
Front page displays: This section is used to display the front
page in any of the following format:
Your latest posts: It displays latest posts on the front page.
A static page: It displays the static pages on the front page.
Front Page: You can select the actual page you want to display on front page from
the drop down.
Posts Page: You can select the page from the drop down which contains posts.
Blog pages show at most: The number of posts to be displayed per page
or site. By default, it is set as 10.

Syndication feeds show the most recent: The user can view the number of
posts when they download one of the site feeds. By default, it is set as 10.
For each article in a feed, show: This section is used to display the post by
selecting any of the following formats:
Full Text: It displays the complete post. It is set as default.
Summary: It displays the summary of the post. Search Engine
Visibility: After clicking on the checkbox, Discourage search
engines from indexing this site, your site will be ignored by the
search engine.
After filling all the information, click on Save Changes button to save your Reading
Setting information.

WORDPRESS – DISCUSSION
SETTINGS
WordPress discussion setting can be defined as the interaction between the blogger
and the visitors. These settings are done by the admin to have a control over the
posts/pages that come in through users. Following are the steps to access the
Discussion setting:
Step (1): Click on Settings -> Discussion option in WordPress.

THE DISCUSSION SETTINGS PAGE IS DISPLAYED
AS SHOWN IN THE FOLLOWING SNAPSHOT.

FOLLOWING FIELDS ARE SEEN IN DISCUSSION
SETTINGS.
Default article settings: These settings are default to the new pages you create or
new posts. This contains three more settings. They are:
Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article: When you publish
articles then it sends a notification (sends pings and trackback) to other blogs.
Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks):
Accepts pings from other blogs.
Allow people to post comments on new articles: You can allow or disallow
other people to comment on your article using this setting.
You can change the settings as per your will for individual articles.
Other Comment Settings: This setting has the following options:
Comment author must fill out name and e-mail: When you check this box, it is
mandatory for visitors to fill their name and email address.
Users must be registered and logged in to comment: If you check this box, only those
registered visitors can leave comments, if not checked anyone can leave any number of
comments.

Automatically close comments on articles older than days: This option
allows you to accept comments only for a particular time period as per
your wish.
Enable threaded (nested) comments: When you check this option,
visitors can reply or have a discussion and get responses.
Break comments into pages with top level comments per page and the
page displayed by default: If your pages are getting a lot of comments
then you can split them into different pages by checking this box.
Comments should be displayed with the comments at the top
of each page: You can arrange the comments in the form of
ascending or descending order.

Email me whenever: This setting contains two options, namely:
Anyone posts a comment: When you check into this box, the author
gets an e-mail for every single comment that is posted.
A comment is held for moderation: This is used in case you do not want
your comment to be updated before it's moderated by the admin.
Comment Moderation: Contain only a specific number of links that are
allowed into a comment.
Comment Blacklist: You can input your own spam words which you do not
want your visitors to enter into the comments, URL, e-mail etc.; later it
filter the comments.

Before a comment appears: This setting allows how your posts are
controlled. There are two more settings as followed:
Comment must be manually approved: If you check this box then
only the approved comments by the admin can be displayed on
the posts or pages.
Comment author must have a previously approved comment:
This can be checked when you want to approve a comment of an
author whose has commented and his e-mail address matches
e-mail address of the previous posted comment. Otherwise the
comment is held for moderation.
Click on Save Changes button to save the changes.

What Are WordPress Plugins?
WordPress plugins are apps that allow you to add new features and
functionality to your WordPress website. Exactly the same way as apps
for your smartphone.
There are more than 48,000 free plugins available right now on
the WordPress.org plugin directory. Thousands more are available from
third-party websites like Github.
On top of that, there are also thousands of premium WordPress
plugins that are sold by individual developers and companies like
ourselves.

WHAT CAN WORDPRESS PLUGINS
DO?
WordPress plugins are small software apps that integrate and run on top of the
WordPress software. This allows you to create almost any kind of website with
WordPress (not just blogs).
For example, you can:
 Start an online store with WordPress using the WooCommerce plugin
 Create a job board with WordPress using the Job Manager plugin
 Build a business directory with the best directory plugins for WordPress
 Start a coupon website like RetainMeNot
 Build your photography website using the Envira Gallery Plugin
 Create a Wiki website using the Knowledge base plugin
 Start your own podcast website using WordPress
… and tons more.

HOW WORDPRESS PLUGINS WORK?
WordPress is written in a way so that other developers can add their own code
into it. The WordPress plugin API offers a robust set of hooks and filters which
allow developers to modify existing WordPress functionality or add new
functionality.
WordPress also allows developers to store data in the WordPress database.
Plugins can utilize WordPress content types, taxonomies, and custom
fields which allow users to store different types of content not just post and
pages.
Each WordPress plugin installed on your site is registered in your WordPress
database. You can activate and deactivate them at any time you want.

HOW TO FIND WORDPRESS PLUGINS
AND INSTALL THEM?
 You can find free WordPress plugins by visiting
WordPress.org plugin directory or you can also
find them directly from your WordPress admin
area.
 Simply head over to Plugins » Add New page
and search by typing plugin name or
 WordPress will search the plugin directory and
display the available plugins in a list. You need
to review the results, and click on the install
now button next to the plugin you want to
install ,Functionality you want to add

 However, search
results inside the
WordPress admin area
are not always helpful
because they are
limited to free plugins
only. Most beginners
find it difficult to
decide which plugin is
best for the job.

WHAT ARE THE THEMES IN
WORDPRESS?A WordPress Theme is a collection of files that work together to produce a
graphical interface with an underlying unifying design for a website. These
files are called template files. A Theme modifies the way the site is
displayed, without modifying the underlying software.
A theme defines the look and feel of your site.
 Sets the graphics, colors.
 Sets the widget locations.
 Defines column layout.
 Can be changed relatively easily.
 Beware lock-in.
 Cannot add themes on WordPress.com.
 You can enable which one you want to use, and you can change settings.

WHAT IS THE USE OF THEMES
Your theme can display content anywhere you want it to be displayed.
Your theme can specify which devices or actions make your content
visible. Your theme can customize its typography and design elements
using CSS. Other design elements like images and videos can be included
anywhere in your theme.

GO TO APPEARANCE IN THE MAIN NAV MENU. USING THE CUSTOMIZE
OPTION, YOU CAN CHANGE THE APPEARANCE OF THE THEME.

ADDING/MANAGING NEW THEMES
Then install new themes
install

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