Word Press Introduction

What is WordPress? WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQLfree and open sourcebloggingcontent management systemPHPMySQL WordPress can be used to create a presence on the www – webpage, blog, e commerce site WordPress is a very powerful, flexible, ever improving tool that can be used to create and present content on the www for free (or almost free!)

WordPress Stats 48% of Technorati’s Top 100 Blogs Are Managed With WordPress 74.6 Million Sites Depend on WordPress 22% of New U.S. Registered Domains Run on WordPress WordPress.com Gets More Unique Visitors Than Amazon (Us) 29,000 WordPress Plugins and Growing Daily* **WordPress is used by over 16.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1 million" websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites. [4]Alexa Internet [4] WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet. [5][6] [5][6] – * (2014) – **Source:

Notable WordPress Users

vs wordpress.org is hosted by the wordpress.com site. Use a wordpress.com domain name Upgrading of features handled by wordpress.com Free, but has paid upgrade features Limited number of plugins No affiliate marketing (way to make money) Is self-hosted – user has to find his own server Need your own domain name (cost about $20/year) Upgrading managed by web creator-you! Free Over 16,000 free plug-ins

Getting Started Iof you have not already done so, send your address to: (you may wish to create a g mail account for the course) in the subject heading type your first name and your student number I am an administrator for the multiuser website :

Learning about WordPress rdPress written explanations rdPress videos of WordCamp lectures etc, WordCamps tutorials/WordPress-Essential-Training/ html good introductory videos tutorials/WordPress-Essential-Training/ html (my site has been deleted!) New site being created

Costs of setting up a web page Hosting – cost about 10$ /month – while at Vanier – free! – Unlimited domains Domain name – cost about 12$ /year – need unique name – buy through site such as – Godaddy.com (Hostgator in video- notice maker of video provides you with a coupon code when buying hosting services- he gets a commission..and you get a reduction in price – win-win-win) – – Our domain name:

Getting started with you blog using WordPress.org Read Individual Blog Assignment- see Mio individual assignment 2 – due October 15th, 2014 Go to for example if you are Alessia your web address would be: Find the login tab on your web page, enter user name (a14your first name) and enter password – password sent to your g mail account

How to make a web site using WordPress Intro: watch 15 min to 21 min : For your new web page do the following: a. Log in see previous slide a.Change password: dashboard/users/edit/new password/update b.install theme (2012)appearance/theme/install c.Add about me page: Dashboard/pages/add new/ d. Add picture e.Extra: Change site title: appearance /customize/site title and tag line