Word press basic steps

WORDPRESS

Prepared by :

Divyesh Rakholiya & Magara Uday

BCA 5-A

[email protected]

Guided by: Ripal Sir Pandya

What we will be discussing:

WordPress

Features

The difference between Blogs and Sites

Why it is useful ?

A glance at how it works

Steps to get started

What is Wordpress ?

Wordpress is a free and opensource blogging tool and a

content management system based on PHP & MySQL

CMS is a Computer application that allows publishing,

editing & modifying content, organizing, deleting as well as

maintenance from a central interface

CMSs are often used to run websites Containing blogs,

news and shopping. Many corporate & Marketing websites

use CMS

CMS typically aim to avoid the need for hand coding, but

may support it for specific elements or pages

WordPress was used by more than 22.0% of the top ten

million websites as of August 2013, at more than 60 million

websites.

It was first released on May 27,2003, by its founders, Matt

Mullenweg & Mike Little

Famous Blogs like Mashable & TechCrunch are both on

WordPress. News Outlets like “The NewYork Times”.

FEATURES

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IT’S A BLOG: EXAMPLES

Sample Category Section A Standard Post

WHY USE A BLOG?

Communicate

More insight

Allows your readers to give feedback

Learn more about reader’s wants/needs

Provides ideas for blog content and direction

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IT’S A WEBSITE

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HOW DOES A WEBSITE DIFFER

FROM A BLOG?

Traditional Websites:

A set of ‘static’ pages

Content does not change often (or at all)

Tends to be more sales oriented

Typically does not offer a way to interact with its visitors

Often needs a web designer to make even minor changes or additions

Traditional Blog:

Fresh Content, changes often

Newest posts appear highest on the page

Tends to share insights and ideas

Typically offers a space to post comments and continue the conversation

Offers ability to add content quickly

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WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT TO COMBINE THE BENEFITS OF BOTH

A SITE AND A BLOG INTO ONE FULL FEATURED SOLUTION ?

IT’S WORDPRESS

UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN ADVANTAGES

Wordpress let’s you add web pages, not just blog posts

This allows you to build your site and blog with one toolset

You can maintain your site, yourself, without a designer

Easy to add new pages, video, images…

Search Engines (like Google) love Blogs

Fresh, relevant, original content is important

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IT’S A MARKETING TOOL

Gets the word out: Distribution/Syndication

Your posts are instantly sent to the world with RSS

Allows search engines to receive notice of new content Gets you ranked higher, quicker People find you easier

Allows visitors to receive future posts automatically

Offers interaction with your community

People can post comments Helps you understand what they want and gives ideas for future

posts

Provides more exposure for your E-newsletters

Feature articles can be referenced in emails and linked to a post online Brings email readers to your site Allows new site visitors to see what you’ve written about And articles are syndicated for you with RSS 12

EXTENDING REACH OF EMAIL

MARKETING

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Example A:Email Newsletter Example B:

Feature Article Teaser in email

Example C: Full Feature ArticleAs it appears on site

Example D:RSS Feed Reader

A LOOK AT THE SOFTWARE’S BACKEND:

WP-ADMIN AND THE DASHBOARD

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^ Example B: Dashboard Overview- Content Management

< Example C: Write a Post– Visual Editor

A LOOK AT WRITING CONTENT

The administrative section is where the pages and

posts are prepared

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Preparation of PagePage Presentation to Visitors

OVERVIEW: WHY USE WORDPRESS?

Changing Your Content is

easy: Visual Editor

Page and posts can be

written without HTML

It’s easier than creating a

Word Document

Managing Your Content is

a snap: Content

Management System

(CMS)

Finds pages or images

quickly and easily

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MORE GREAT THINGS ABOUT

WORDPRESS

Plugins: Tons of free plugins are available Think of mini-applications that automate an action

Sell from your site with the wp-commerce plugin

Get site stats with the Google Analytics plugin

Show your most read posts with the popularity plugin

Easily add Scripts and 3rd party applications Amazon.com affiliate program scripts

Constant Contact Sign Up boxes

Customization You are free to customize away

You may need to hire someone to create a truly custom look or if you don’t want to try to figure it out yourself

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GETTING AN ACCOUNT WITH WORDPRESS.COM

Open your web browser ( mozilla firefox, internet

explorer, opera, etc.,)

GETTING AN ACCOUNT WITH

WORDPRESS.COM

In the address bar of your web browser,

type: http://wordpress.com then press the

enter key.

http://wordpress.com/


WORDPRESS.COM

In the WordPress.com homepage, click Sign up

now button.


WORDPRESS.COM

Fill up the form leaving no blank fields.


WORDPRESS.COM

After filling out the form, click the Sign up button

found at the bottom to submit it.


WORDPRESS.COM

Check the activation message from

WordPress.com in your mailbox


WORDPRESS.COM

Click the provided link to activate your account


WORDPRESS.COM

This will be the page look after activating your

account. Click Login.


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Sign in with your username and password.

EXPLORING YOUR DASHBOARD

When you’re signed in, you’ll see a tab at the top of

your page which says “My Blog”. This allows you to

quickly access your dashboard.

DESCRIPTION/USE OF DASHBOARD

Referred to as the “back end” of your blog or site.

Behind-the-scenes control panel which stores all

settings and information.

Used to modify or update sites/blogs.


If the dashboard is the back end, the front end is

what the world sees.

To access the front end, click the title at the left side

of the dashboard.


The picture below is a screen shot of the front end

or the actual view of the site/blog.


The left-hand navigation menus are a way

to access almost all the powers of your

blog/site.

You can open any left-hand menu by

hovering over the text, and then clicking on

the arrow that appears.

EXPLORING THE WORDPRESS TOOLBAR

Your other menu is the toolbar across of your blog/site.

You can access fewer tools with this toolbar than you can with your left-hand menu.

The idea is just to put some essentials up there for secondary access to your administrative site.

CHANGING YOUR GENERAL SETTINGS

Open up the settings menu, click General and you’ll be

taken right there.


You can now adjust your blog/site to your

liking. You can also add a tagline here which

will appear under your title usually at the top

of your site.


You can also change your timezone, email address,

date and time settings , and language settings here.

Don’t forget to save changes.


It is also possible to upload an image to represent

your site/blog when it appears in various places in

WordPress.com.


Once you’ve found the image you want, choose

upload image. You can always change this image

later. Once uploaded you can crop the picture

according to your desired size.


Once it’s Uploaded, it will look like this in the

General settings:

USING WORDPRESS TO CREATE A WEBSITE

Check out the Theme Showcase by typing in the

browser address bar: http://theme.wordpress.com

http://theme.wordpress.com/


Browse themes from A-Z:


Choose a theme for your site:


Click activate to apply the theme in your site:


View the theme in your site by clicking the site title

at the upper left side of the screen:


This is now the front end view of your site after

activating the theme.


Apply a custom header to your site by clicking the

header link under Appearance Menu:


In the Custom Header page, click Browse.


Crop the image for your header by clicking the Crop

and Publish button.


After cropping the image, click upload, then save

changes.


This is now the new look of your page:


Create a Static Homepage:

Click Pages->Add New in your Dashboard.



This is the add new page view:



Title this page “Home”



You can type the content you want displayed on the

front page of your blog or upload an image.



Click Publish:



Create another page, title it “Posts” then publish it.In

the settings menu, click readings, then follow the

settings as shown. Save changes.


This screen shot shows the home as the static

homepage.


After creating a static page you may have created

two home pages. You can delete one by editing

the page and setting another page as the Parent

in the Attributes module.

http://support.wordpress.com/pages/page-attributes/


The Page Attributes module allows you to set

page parents and templates, and to change the

order of your pages.


It can be found to the right of each page editor,

under the Publish module.


Add more Pages Using the Pages Menu:


Creating a Custom Menu.

To create a custom menu, go to Appearance ->

Menus in your blog’s dashboard..

To create a custom navigation menu, type

in a name for it (only you will see this) and

click Create Menu.



To create a custom navigation menu, type in a name for

it (only you will see this) and click Create Menu.



Adding pages to your menu is as simple as checking

the proper boxes for the pages you want and then

clicking Add to Menu.



Want a menu tab to link directly to another website? No

problem! Type in the URL, the label name, and then

Add to Menu.


Changing the arrangement of your menu.

You can arrange your pages in hierarchies. For

example, you could have an “About” page that has

“Organization” page under it. Under “Organization ”

you might have another pages titled “History”, Mission

and Vision, etc.


Changing the Order of Menu Items and Creating

Sub-Menus:

Drag and drop the items up and down to change the

order of menu items. Drag and drop the items left and

right (as shown on the next slide) to create sub-menu

items.


Add Widgets and Other Goodies from the

Appearance Menu


Adding Media Files could be done in the Edit

Page view:


Creating Links:

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