WordPress Fall 2015

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 Etc…

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 38,000 Template Over 16,000 free plug-ins

Getting Started 1. Type in your URL in search bar: vaniercollege.org/M0215_your first name/

2. Click on admin login button and enter : User name: bawp Password: Bawp$1234

3. Click on Users/Add New

4.Complete the required fields, use your new G mail address for , pick a password that is secure, That you can remember

Learning about WordPress Q Q h_WordPress written explanations h_WordPress videos of WordCamp lectures etc, WordCamps tutorials/WordPress-Essential-Training/ html good introductory videos tutorials/WordPress-Essential-Training/ html

Cont’d WordPress archive1.com/?u=549b83cc29ff23c36e5796c38&id=8664f17452&e=4f26c7 ea69 Username: Password: majidmiami login.php login.php

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 WordPress How to Make a Wordpress Website (in less than 45 MINUTES!) with Jameson First 7 minutes : overview of what he will show you min –skip talks about setting up domain name and hosting 13.21min on shows how to build site using Spacious Template 28 steps to creating a site (in writing) based on the video above: /