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It’s more than a blog. It’s a CMS! Beginning Wordpress
It’s more than a blog. It’s a CMS!
Beginning Wordpress
PHP & MySQL – What Makes it Tick
Famous 5-Minute Install
wp-config.php
Multiple Users and Roles
• Super Admin• Administrator• Editor• Author• Contributor• Subscriber
Pretty Permalinks
There’s a Plugin for That
E-Commerce Image Galleries SEO Adminimize (customize what users see on the
backend) Custom Content Type Manager (customize posts) Anti-spam Contact Forms
Posts
Pages
Media Library
Menus
Widgets
Comments
Upload ThemesWordpress 2012 Theme
Wordpress 2013 Theme
Inside the Theme• More than just a way to skin your site.
• Uses the “loop” to display posts.• Queries your posts and pages. Configurable.
• Use of customizable template files.• Think of PHP includes, but more flexible.
• The Only Required Files for Themes• functions.php• style.css• index.php
functions.phpPlugins – applied across all themes.functions.php – local to theme.• Actions
• Functions triggered thru-out the WP Core. • e the Observer Pattern.• E.g. wp_footer, wp_header.
• Filters • manipulate data output by actions.
• Action Hooks • E.g. Add css / javascript to header.
• Filter Hooks • E.g. Modify the length of post content.
style.css Used in combination with template tags to achieve look of
site. WP generated classes plus theme specific classes
o E.g. <body class=“home page logged-in..
Use Child Themes Making changes to existing themes not recommended.
o You will lose your changes. Child themes extend functionality of an existing theme (parent
theme). Extend style.css. Extend functions.php.
Wordpress 2013 Theme
My Child Theme
Multisite Wordpress 1 Wordpress Installation – many sites.
Sub-Domains OR sub-directories.
Virtual – Do not have directory on your server.
Do have separate directories for media uploads.
Do have separate tables in the database.
Can also share plugins and themes.
Troubleshooting
Wordpress Codex http://codex.wordpress.org/
Community http://wordpress.org/support/
