Learn WordPress - Live Session 1 Slides

WordPress Live Session 1

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Mohamed KhafajaWPML

Compatibility Documentation

Ahmed NagdyWPML

Compatibility Developer

Agenda▪ Introducing WordPress▪What is WordPress.▪Why WordPress.

▪ Building Sites with WordPress▪WordPress.com vs WordPress.org▪WordPress Installations Instructions▪Getting Ready▪Designs and Layout▪Functionality▪Publishing▪Finalizing website appearance

▪WordPress Multisite


What is WordPress

WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. But in non-geek speak, it's probably the easiest and most powerful

blogging andwebsite content management system (CMS) in existence today.

●It was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.

●First (non-beta) version was 0.7


https://wordpress.org/news/2003/05/wordpress-now-available/

Why WordPress?

●Free (as in beer or as in speech)?

●Easy to Use and Learn

●Extendable

●Updates

●Be Safe & Secure


Numbers

●Percentage of all websites globally that use WordPress: 26%

●Percentage of website build with a CMS: 59% built with WordPress

●Every 74 seconds a site within the top 10 million starts using WordPress!!

●while Shopify, the second-fastest growing CMS, which is gaining a new site every 22 minutes


Building Sites with WordPress


WordPress.com vs WordPress.org


Sources for this section: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-org-vs-wordpress-com-2015/







WordPress.org


Building Sites with WordPress- WordPress Installations Instructions (localhost)

What’s needed?●Web service solution stacks (Apache, PHP, MySQL).

● WAMP, LAMP, XAMPP●Recent version of WordPress (WordPress.org)


Building Sites with WordPress- Getting Ready














Building Sites with WordPress- Designs and Layout


Building Sites with WordPress- Functionality


Building Sites with WordPress- Publishing

WordPress comes with:●Posts●Pages

Not enough!●Custom Post Types



WordPress Multisite

Multisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0For whom:

●A magazine site with different sections managed by different teams.●A business site with sub-sites for different locations and branches●Schools and colleges allowing students to create their own blogs on

school serversExamples:

●BBC America●WordPress.com●Edublogs


http://www.bbcamerica.com/

https://wordpress.com/

http://edublogs.org/

What’s Next!in Live Session 2

●5-minutes Survey●WordPress Hosting●Moving the website to cPanel●WordPress Performance

● Hosting. Again!● Fast Theme● How many plugins?● Optimizing Images● Cache● Content Delivery Networks (CDN)


Education

Learn WordPress - Live Session 1 Slides