How To Install

WordPress

Training Module

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• What is WordPress?

• Things to Know Before Installing WordPress

• Things You Need to Do to Install WordPress

• WordPress Features

• Managing and Administering

• Publicizing Your Work

• Customizing the Design

• Creating Content

• Archives and Search

• Discussion and Comments

• Creating and Managing a Blogroll

Module I

WordPress is an open source CMS, often

used as a blog publishing application

powered by PHP and MySQL. It is popular

among users for its ease of installation.

Under most circumstances, installing

WordPress is a very simple process and

takes less than five minutes to complete.

WordPress is the most popular CMS in

use today.

It was first released on May 27, 2003, by

Matt Mullenweg. As of December 2011,

version 3.0 had been downloaded over

65 million times.

What is Wordpress?

Before you begin the installation process…..

You need access to your site and its directory and software to proceed with the installation. These are:

• Access to your web server (via shell or FTP)

• A text editor

• An FTP Client

• Your web browser of choice

Things to Know Before Installing WordPress

Things You Need to Do to Install WordPress

Begin with…

• Checking to ensure that you and your web host have the minimum requirements to run

WordPress.

• Downloading the latest release of WordPress.

• Unzipping the downloaded file to a folder on your hard drive.

• Be prepared with a secure password for your Secret Key

• Print this page out so you have it handy during the installation.

WordPress Features

Locally Install 

WordPress is designed in a manner to enable you to install it on your own web server/ shared

hosting account that renders weblog completey under your control. If required, you are allowed to

access/modify everything concerning weblog.

Portable Core 

The wordpress related files and their placements are highly configurable. For example, if you

want your weblog at http://example.com (public_html - the public "root" of your webserver or

hosting account) and you want to store the wordpress related files and directory tree in

http://example.com/wordpress (public_html/wordpress), you can!

UTC-friendly 

WordPress lets you define time as an offset from UTC (Universal Coordinated Time), so all the

elements related to time are stored in the database as GMT values- a universal standard.

Furthermore, this lets you display correct time on your weblog, irrespective of the location of host

server.

Managing and Administering

User management 

WordPress makes use of user-levels for controlling user-access to various key features, thereby

enabling you to restrict the individual user’s ability to create/modify content in your weblog, by

changing their user-level.

User profiles 

Users on your weblog can create a profile detailing their email address, IM aliases etc, if required.

Users can also control the manner their details are displayed on their weblog in.

Easy installation and upgrade 

The famous 5 minute install of WordPress is simply unmatched when it comes to ease of use and

simplicity. It’s quite simple to upgrade WordPress to newer versions. Furthermore, it doesn’t take

much time for installation!

Dynamic page generation 

You don’t need to rebuild the pages every time your weblog needs to be updated. It’s quite easy

and fast to update your weblog or its design. Furthermore, minimal storage space is required on

the server for this.

Internationalization and Localization 

Creating a weblog localized as per your choice, and delivering in a language you like is easy. For

translating and localizing the WordPress to its full extend, the gettext method is used.

Feeds 

WordPress fully supports the RSS 1.0 (aka RDF), RSS 2.0 and ATOM specifications. Moreover, just

any page on your weblog has an associated feed that your readers can subscribe to - there's a

feed for the latest posts, for categories, comments, well, like we said earlier, for anything you

want. The easier your readers find it to view and check the various sections of your weblog, the

simpler it will be for you to convey your message. WordPress also fully supports RSS 2.0 with

enclosures, so adding mp3 files (such as podcasts) to your RSS feeds is a snap.

Cruft-free Permalinks 

You can ensure that the URLs for all pages in your weblog conform to a standard, cruft-free

system, and all the links are structured, sensible, and understandable to human and machines

including search engines. Clean URLs are essential for SEO and a better user-experience.

Inter-blog Communication 

In an increasingly vast and connected world, WordPress comes ready for TrackBack and

PingBack - two great ways of connecting to other weblogs, and allow them to do the same.

Publicizing Your Work

Template Driven Design 

WordPress uses templates to generate the pages dynamically enabling you to control the

presentation of content by editing the templates using the Template Tags and Template Editor

tool. You can also edit your templates and other related files with the help of the file editor in

your browser without downloading and uploading the files.

Customizing the Design

Template Tags 

Template tags are used within blog's Templates to display information dynamically or to

customize your blog. It make easier to design the content and information displayed on your

weblog. Various tags are:

• General tags

• Author tags

• Bookmark tags

• Category tags

• Comment tags

• Link tags

• Post tags

• Post Thumbnail tags

• Navigation Menu tags

Customizing the Design

Themes 

Wordpress allow users to change the look & functionality without altering the informational

content by just switching the themes. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for

more advanced customizations. You can also create and share your own themes.

Plugins 

WordPress rich plugin architecture allows users

and developers to extend its functionality beyond

the features that come as part of the base install.

Plugins extend the core functionality of your

weblog.

Widgets

Widgets offer users drag-and-drop sidebar content

placement and implementation of many plugins

extended capabilities. Users can rearrange widgets

without editing PHP or HTML code.

Customizing the Design

Password protection 

If you want to share any article with some of the people only, you can make it password

protected.

Post Slug 

It is used to clean the PermaLinks to create more search engine and user friendly URLs.

Post to the future 

You can write a post today and have it appear on the weblog at a future date, automatically.

Multi paged posts 

If your post is too long than you can cut it up into pages, so your readers don't have to scroll

to the end.

File/picture uploading 

You can upload pictures or files, and link to them or display them in your articles. You can

also create thumbnails of pictures when you upload them.

Creating Content

Categories 

Organize your posts into categories, and sub-categories, and sub-sub categories...

Emoticons 

WordPress is smart enough to convert character smileys, like ":)" into the graphical image

counterparts.

Save Drafts 

Save your unfinished articles, improve them later, publish when you're done.

Previewing Posts 

Before you "Publish" your post, you can look at the preview for the article to check if everything is

the way you want it.

Desktop Tools 

You can also use desktop blogging tools instead of browser to update your weblog.

Creating Content

Blog by email 

You can send your posts as an email and have them appear on the weblog.

Bookmarklets 

Wordpress also provide bookmarklets to your browser.

Sidebar 

If you don't like a bookmarklet, use our friendly browser sidebar, which can be used in a similar

fashion.

Formatting 

WordPress is something that actually makes your words and pages more readable and, therefore,

appealing. WordPress comes with plugins for text-formatting for cleaning up your content and,

thereby, making it free from typos.

Creating Content

Archiving 

After a long period of blogging, it extremely matters how well you organize your blog posts.

WordPress offers various options to display the archives of your blog, containing all the old

posts. You can easily link your archive posts to any of the post or page in your blog and alos

you can opt from yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, category-wise or author-wise archives.

Searching 

WordPress has a functional built-in search tool, which allows visitors to your blog to search

for terms they are interested in, and the search-hilite plugin that ships with WordPress can

highlight their search terms, so it is even easier for them to find what they were searching

for. In addition to this, the plugin also does the same for someone who arrives at your blog by

clicking at a search result in a search engine, such as google. All in all, searching is fun, with

WordPress.

Archives and Search

Community Building 

WordPress helps in building communities around weblogs, through the use of comments,

trackbacks and pingbacks, which helps you keep in touch with the audience.

Discussion and Comments

Notification 

WordPress can keep you in the loop by sending you an email each time there is a new

comment or a comment awaiting moderation.

Moderation 

For the control freak in all of us, WordPress provides an array of moderation options. You can

moderate all comments before they appear on the blog

Discussion and Comments

• comments with specific words in them

• comments posted from specific IP addresses

• comments containing more than some specified number of

links.

• All these moderation options keep spammers and vandals in

check.

Blogroll 

The blogroll displays a list of URL links of blogs or websites that you

read frequently or found useful.

Categorizing 

You can neatly organize your blogroll by categorizing it.

Importing 

You can also import links to your WordPress blogroll, If you already

have a list of links as an OPML file.

Displaying 

As with everything else, you get some neat template tags that

enable you to display your blogroll the way you like - in alphabetical

order, ranking order, the order in which they were updated - you get

the idea

Creating and Managing a Blogroll

Module II

Five Minute Installation – Step By Step Instruction

• Download WordPress from WordPress.org to download the latest version.

• Unzip the contents of downloaded files. Save these in a separate directory.

• Log into cPanel of your web host.

• Click on MySQL Databases icon.            

Step By Step Instructions

• Enter the name of database and click “Create Database”.

• Click "Go Back". Now, scroll down a bit and look for “Add New User”. Enter a username, password and create user.

• Below “Add New User” there is “Add User To Database” option. Select appropriate database and username and click "Add".

• On next screen, select checkbox “All Privileges” and click “Make Changes”. Now, the

newly created database is ready for WordPress.

• Now, connect to host via FileZilla and upload all WordPress unzipped files from your pc

to public_html directory.

•Once all files are uploaded, go to your website address and Start the setup.

• Continue with setup.

• Click submit. If everything is fine, you should see a screen like this saying all is okay:

• Click Run the install. Next, you will be asked to enter blog name and your email address.

• WordPress is installed.

• Click log in and enjoy blogging!

• Click Install WordPress. In less than a minute, you will be greeted with 'success'

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Happy coding - DDBalaji