Website Update and Use of Official accounts Dr.Lasantha Ranwala ( MBBS,MSc-Biomedical Informatics) Medical Officer - Health Informatics RDHS Office Colombo

Agenda Introduction Web site overview Update website in Wordpress Use of Offical accounts Data Backup

3 Internet Vs WWW Internet is a massive network of networks

4 Internet Vs WWW connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet Uses WWW (SMTP) IM FTP

5 World Wide Web Accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet. HTTP protocol to transmit data. Web also utilizes browsers to access Web documents called Web pages

6 URL? Uniform (or universal) resource locator, the address of a World Wide Web page eg: Google.com

7 Website set of related web pages served from a single web domain. hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network through an Internet address known as a Uniform Resource Locator(Url)

What is WordPress WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), often used as a blog publishing application, powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. Powering 12% of the top 1 Million websites 13 Million downloads 25 Million installations 56% CMS Market Share

Why Wordpress WordPress is very popular. This means you can find everything you need quickly Wordpeess functionality can be expanded or customized using plugins, which are add-on software modules. Thousand of FREE plugin/themes that can do anything you need. Search Engine Friendly You are in control Does not vendor-lock you Easy to outsource required changes

What can you do with WordPress Blogs: Video Blogs: Business websites: Online Magazines: Membership Sites: Online store: Community Websites:

11 Aquire a domain name Sign up for a hosting server Install wordpress Add content: page/post/pic/video/text Add Plugins/Widget Install a Theme Basic Settings Create Website on Wordpress

WordPress dashboard Login through /wp-admin

13 Pages Vs Posts Statics vs Dynamic single user vs Multiusers one way flow Vs two way flow In WordPress, you can write either posts or pages. Posts are typically regular blog entries, you write a post. Posts automatically appear in reverse chronological order on your blog's home page. Pages, on the other hand, are for content such as "About Me," "Contact Me," etc.

About Categories & Tags Each post must have at least one category Tags are similar to categories, but they are generally used to describe your post in more detail. Using tags is optional

Themes There are hundreds of free themes you can choose from

Plugins Plugins are software add-ons that can enhance and modify the default behaviour of Wordpress. Plugin are installed from with the WordPress Dashboard Example - AddThis

Widgets WordPress Widget is like a plugin, but designed to provide a simple way to arrange the various elements of your sidebar content without having to change any code. Can use external widget tools

Essential Settings Setting/General - Set time zone correctly Setting/Permalinks – the permanent URL to your Individual posts It is recommended to use custom structure : /%category%/%postname %

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