Date post: | 15-May-2015 |
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Welcome to WordPress
Course Outline
● Class 1: Understand Wordpress & setup workshop
● Class 2: Administration and management of your site (including changing themes)
● Class 3: Functionality: Plugins, Widgets, Themes
● Class 4: Customizing themes and course review
Team Rules
You are already winning by being here.
Everyone finishes.
Advanced exercises will be offered.
If you don't do the advanced exercises, that's fine.
Today's Plan● Introductions● What is Wordpress?● What's the difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org?● What's 'working locally' ... and why does it matter?● Installing Wordpress locally
Goals● Understand what Wordpress is● Able to articulate the differences between .com and .org● You should have a local Wordpress install!
Introductions!
Tell us about yourself
● Name● What you hope to get out of class● Random fact (or, the name of your yacht)
What is Wordpress?
● Open Source● Often used as a Content Management System (CMS)
○ Organize data in a database rather than updating individual files
○ Allows many users○ Allows users to communicate with one another (ex.
have different roles in the project)
What is Wordpress?
Translation:
Wordpress is free, open source, community-developed platform that helps people make websites quickly and cheaply, and manage them easily: even without knowing how to code.
WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
Your host
Hosting Customization
Domains Branding
Working 'Locally' -- huh?
Working 'locally' means working on your own machine rather than anywhere else - namely not on a remote server.
What you need:● �XAMPP - a way to run a free web server on your machine - and
include Apache and MySQL, both of which we need for WordPress
● Go to http://www.wordpress.org and click the blue Download button to download the latest release of WordPress
● A Text Editor○ Notepad++ for Windows○ Komodo Edit for Mac/Windows/Linux
Download!
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html^ Install this.
http://wordpress.org/download/
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads
Open XAMPP and start your services
find where your files need to go
Setup your database
From XAMPP home, find phpMyAdmin
Create Your Database
SUCCESS!!!!!!
Setup your database
Create a user with all privileges on that databaseWrite down that info!
SUCCESS!!!!!!
Installing Wordpress
If you haven't yet, un-zip your Wordpress download (the .zip).
Copy files from the Wordpress folder the documents folder(note, the documents folder as defined by XAMPP)
Installing Wordpress
Installing Wordpress
Visit BASEURL/wp-admin/install.php in your browserlikely localhost/wp-admin/install.php
If you got this error ... it's okay! We just copy the text and make the file ourselves.
Installing Wordpress
Copy that file into your XAMPP documents folder
... then go back to your browser and click Run the Install
SUCCESS!!!!!! (fill in your information)
MORE SUCCESS!!!!!!
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH SUCCESS!!!!!!
Lessons Learned
Do you ...● Understand what WordPress is?
Are you ...● Able to articulate the differences between .com and .org?
Do you ...● Have a local WordPress install?