INTRODUCTION TO

WORDPRESS

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Subject teacher: Mobina Beheshti
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 OBJECTIVES

• About WordPress

• Content Management Systems and its features

• Advantages and Disadvantages of CMS

• System Requirements for WordPress

• Installation Process
• Dashboard menu

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 WHAT IS WORDPRESS?
(WP)

WordPress is an open source Content Management System

(CMS), which allows the users to build dynamic websites and
blogs. WordPress is the most popular blogging system on the
web and allows updating, customizing and managing the
website from its back-end CMS and components.
• WordPress was initially released on 27th May, 2003 by Matt
Mullenweg and Mike Little.
• WordPress was announced as open source in October
2009.
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 WHAT IS CONTENT MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM (CMS)?
• The Content Management System (CMS) is a
software which stores all the data such as text,
photos, music, documents, etc. and is made
available on your website. It helps in editing,
publishing and modifying the content of the
website.

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 FEATURES OF CMS

1. User Management − It allows managing the user

information such as changing the role of the users to
(subscriber, contributor, author, editor or administrator),
create or delete the user, change the password and
user information. The main role of the user manager
is Authentication.

2. Media Management − It is the tool for managing the

media files and folder, in which you can easily upload,
organize and manage the media files on your website.

3. Theme System − It allows modifying the site view and

functionality. It includes images, stylesheet, template
files and custom pages.

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4. Extend with Plugins − Several plugins are available

which provides custom functions and features
according to the users need.
5. Search Engine Optimization − It provides several
search engine optimization (SEO) tools which
makes on-site SEO simple.
6. Multilingual − It allows translating the entire
content into the language preferred by the user.
7. Importers − It allows importing data in the form of
posts. It imports custom files, comments, post
pages and tags.

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 ADVANTAGES OF WP

• It is an open source platform and available for free.

• CSS files can be modified according to the design as per users
need.
• There are many plugins and templates available for free. Users
can customize the various plugins as per their need.
• It is very easy to edit the content as it uses WYSIWYG editor
(What You See Is What You Get is a user interface that allows
the user to directly manipulate the layout of document
without having a layout command).
• Media files can be uploaded easily and quickly.
• It offers several SEO tools which makes on-site SEO simple.
• Customization is easy according to the user's needs.
• It allows creating different roles for users for website such as
admin, author, editor and contributor.

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 DISADVANTAGE OF WP

• Using several plugins can make the website heavy

to load and run.
• PHP knowledge is required to make modifications or
changes in the WordPress website.
• Sometimes software needs to be updated to keep
the WordPress up-to-date with the current browsers
and mobile devices. Updating WordPress version
leads to loss of data, so a backup copy of the
website is required.
• Modifying and formatting the graphic images and
tables is difficult.

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System Requirements for WordPress

• Database − MySQL 5.0 +
• Web Server −
• WAMP (Windows)
• LAMP (Linux)
• XAMP (Multi-platform)
• MAMP (Macintosh)
• Operating System − Cross-platform
• Browser Support − IE (Internet Explorer 8+), Firefox,
Google chrome, Safari, Opera
• PHP Compatibility − PHP 5.2+

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 INSTALLATION PROCESS

open the link and download the WordPress

application :

https://wordpress.org/download/

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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.

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Set Up Wizard
• The following steps describe how to set up
WordPress locally on your system.
• Step (1) − Extract the downloaded WordPress folder
and upload it into your web server or localhost.
• Step (2) − 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 >.

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Select your language for the WordPress and click

on Continue.
• Step (3) − In this step, you can view the information
needed for the database before proceeding with
WordPress installation.
• Click on Let's go!

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• Click on Let's go!

• Step (4) − Here, you have to enter the information
about the MySQL database as described in the
following screen.

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• 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.

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• Step (5) − WordPress checks the database setting and

gives you the confirmation screen as shown in the
following snapshot.
• Click on Run the install
• Step (6) − Enter administrative information.

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• It contains the following fields −

• 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.
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• Step (7) − After installation being successful, you will

get a screen of the stating success as seen in the
following screen.

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• You can view your username and password detail

added in WordPress.
• Click on Log In button.
• Step (8) − After clicking on login, you will get a
WordPress Admin Panel as depicted in the following
screen.

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• Enter the username and

password which you had
mentioned during installation
as shown in step 6 and click
on the Log In button.

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 WP DASHBOARD MENU

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.
• 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 slide.

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 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.

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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 hide 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 in the WordPress codex.

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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 draft, 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.

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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 a 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 click 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.

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