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FROM ZERO TO WORDPRESS PUBLISH
BUILD A SITE EASY AND SECURELY
Michele Butcher
@michele_butcher [email protected] http://cantspeakgeek.com http://wpsecuritylock.com
Slides can be found at http://mlb.pw/wcn15
MICHELE BUTCHER• WORDPRESS SPECIALIST AT WP SECURITY LOCK
• INSTRUCTOR AT JOHN A LOGAN COLLEGE
• WORDPRESS EVANGELIST FOR INMOTION HOSTING
• LEAD ORGANIZER OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS WORDPRESS MEETUP
• CRAZY WOMAN BEHIND CAN’T SPEAK GEEK
• HOSTESS OF SAFE WP WEEKLY SECURITY WEBINAR
• PHOTOGRAPHER
• MOTHER TO THE NEXT GEN WORDPRESS USER
THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP IS THE FIRST STEP
WHAT WILL YOUR WEBSITE BE ABOUT?
Once you have this figured out the rest is a cake walk
.com .co .net .club
.io .de .org
.website .gov .me .pw .nyc .us .tv .ca
.link .eu
.edu .es
.in .info .mobi
.consulting .click .help
.dentist .rehab
.auction .software .business .auction .network .forsale .pizza .paris
.property .hosting
.diet
.rocks .website
.guru .loans
.healthcare
.restaurant .gifts
.engineer .sarl
.airforce .army .navy
.market .mortgage
.vet .deals .direct .soy
.okinawa
.attorney .lawyer
.desi
.surf .press .place .life
.beer .uk .au
.ninja .city
.guide .country .cooking
and many many more
PLUS THE PLACES TO BUY A DOMAIN ARE ENDLESS
Go Daddy
Namecheap
SiteGround
HostGator
1 and 1
web.com
Media Temple
Network Solutions
register.com
domain.com
And many more
ONCE YOU HAVE YOUR NAME PICKED OUT AND WHAT YOU WANT TO DO FOR YOUR SITE, IT IS NOW TIME TO TALK HOSTING
HOSTING IS LIKE A HARD DRIVE FOR YOU WEBSITE. IT IS WHERE ALL THE FILES LIVE. IT IS TYPICALLY CALLED A SERVER. THERE RE DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOSTING AND MANY DIFFERENT HOSTING COMPANIES.
TYPES OF HOSTINGShared- (Typically the cheapest) You and many others on the same server
Cloud Hosting or VPS- Virtual Machines
Dedicated Hosting- You are on your own server and you do not have to share
When going with any server, make sure it is a managed server unless you know how to set up a server!
HOSTING COMPANIES (THERE ARE MANY AND SOME ARE HERE!)
InMotion
SiteGround
GoDaddy
WP Engine
HostGator
Site5
Media Temple
Liquid Web
1 and 1
Blue Host
RackSpace
FlyWheel
DreamHost
Linode
WiredTree
Pantheon
Green Geeks
NameCheap
YOUR HOSTING COMPANY WILL GIVE YOU AN IP ADDRESS AND NAMESERVERS FOR YOUR DOMAIN. YOU WILL ENTER THE IP OR THE NAMESERVERS WHERE YOU
PURCHASED YOUR DOMAIN.
THERE ARE 2 WAYS THIS CAN BE DONE.
Example taken from namecheap.com
SO NOW YOU HAVE PURCHASED YOUR DOMAIN AND YOUR SITE HOSTING,
PLUS YOU HAVE THE DOMAIN POINTED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION…
TIME TO BUILD YOU A WEBSITE!!!!
FIRST YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE A DATABASE FOR YOUR WEBSITE. YOU WILL GOT TO THE “MYSQL DATABASE WIZARD”.
ONCE THERE FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE THE DATABASE.
REMEMBER TO WRITE DOWN OR COPY/PASTE YOUR DATABASE NAME,
DATABASE USER NAME, AND THE PASSWORDS. YOU WILL NEED THESE LATER! GIVE THE USER FULL ADMIN ROLES. IF NOT THE SITE WILL NOT
WORK PROPERLY.
ONCE THE WORDPRESS FILES ARE DOWNLOADED TO YOUR COMPUTER, YOU NOW NEED TO GO INTO YOUR FILE MANAGER THAT LIVES IN YOUR SERVER’S CPANEL.
ONCE IN THE FILE MANAGER, UPLOAD YOUR WORDPRESS ZIP FILE TO YOUR SERVER.
Your upload screen will look like this. Do not navigate off this screen until the gray box in the bottom right states the
upload is complete.
ONCE UPLOADED YOU WILL EXTRACT THE ZIP FILE. THEN CLICK THE RELOAD BUTTON.
If your file manager now looks like this, you may delete the zip file.
THIS STEP IS THE TRICKIEST STEP OF THEM ALL. WE MUST MOVE ALL THE FILES FROM THE WORDPRESS FOLDER INTO THE .PUBLIC_HTML FOLDER1. HIGHLIGHT ALL OF THE FOLDERS WITHIN
THE WORDPRESS FOLDER
2. CLICK THE MOVE FILE BUTTON
3. DELETE OUT THE “WORDPRESS”
4. CLICK “MOVE FILES” 5. CLICK THE “UP ONE LEVEL” BUTTON
6. DELETE THE “WORDPRESS” FOLDER SINCE IT IS NOW EMPTY
7. CLICK THE RELOAD BUTTON
THE 5 MINUTE INSTALL
1. Go to you site 2. Pick you language 3. Click “Let’s go”
The first time you go to your new website,
this is what you should see.
REMEMBER WHEN I SAID TO KEEP YOUR DATABASE INFORMATION CLOSE?
WE NOW WILL USE IT!
1. Leave localhost unless instructed by your hosting company to change. 2. Change your Table Prefix to anything but wp_ but
make sure there is a “_” at the end.
THE IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Site name, login,
password, and email.
Remember to save your login
information and use a strong password.
Uncheck the “allow search engines to index this site until
you have your site built.
POSTS VS PAGESPosts are entries listed in reverse chronological order on the blog home pages or the page set for the posts.
Pages are static and are not listed by date.
THEMES
It is the “pretty” of your site
It is what gives it color and layout
It is NOT the functions of your site
PLUGINS
Gives your site functionality
Does a specific job
Thousands on the WordPress.org/plugins repository
COMMENTS
Gives your readers a chance to interact
Can be spam if not using a spam blocker
Set up a spam blocker like Akismet
THANK YOU!Slides can be found at:
http://mlb.pw/wcn15
@michele_butcher
http://cantspeakgeek.com http://wpsecuritylock.com