GDI WordPress 1 January 2012

Welcome to WordPress

Course Outline

● Class 1: Understand Wordpress & setup workshop

● Class 2: Administration and management of your site (including changing themes)

● Class 3: Functionality: Plugins, Widgets, Themes

● Class 4: Customizing themes and course review

Team Rules

You are already winning by being here.

Everyone finishes.

Advanced exercises will be offered.

If you don't do the advanced exercises, that's fine.

Today's Plan● Introductions● What is Wordpress?● What's the difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org?● What's 'working locally' ... and why does it matter?● Installing Wordpress locally

Goals● Understand what Wordpress is● Able to articulate the differences between .com and .org● You should have a local Wordpress install!

Introductions!

Tell us about yourself

● Name● What you hope to get out of class● Random fact (or, the name of your yacht)

What is Wordpress?

● Open Source● Often used as a Content Management System (CMS)

○ Organize data in a database rather than updating individual files

○ Allows many users○ Allows users to communicate with one another (ex.

have different roles in the project)

What is Wordpress?

Translation:

Wordpress is free, open source, community-developed platform that helps people make websites quickly and cheaply, and manage them easily: even without knowing how to code.

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

Your host

Hosting Customization

Domains Branding

Working 'Locally' -- huh?

Working 'locally' means working on your own machine rather than anywhere else - namely not on a remote server.

What you need:● �XAMPP - a way to run a free web server on your machine - and

include Apache and MySQL, both of which we need for WordPress

● Go to http://www.wordpress.org and click the blue Download button to download the latest release of WordPress

● A Text Editor○ Notepad++ for Windows○ Komodo Edit for Mac/Windows/Linux

Download!

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html^ Install this.

http://wordpress.org/download/

http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

Open XAMPP and start your services

find where your files need to go

Setup your database

From XAMPP home, find phpMyAdmin

Create Your Database

SUCCESS!!!!!!

Setup your database

Create a user with all privileges on that databaseWrite down that info!

SUCCESS!!!!!!

Installing Wordpress

If you haven't yet, un-zip your Wordpress download (the .zip).

Copy files from the Wordpress folder the documents folder(note, the documents folder as defined by XAMPP)

Installing Wordpress

Installing Wordpress

Visit BASEURL/wp-admin/install.php in your browserlikely localhost/wp-admin/install.php

If you got this error ... it's okay! We just copy the text and make the file ourselves.

Installing Wordpress

Copy that file into your XAMPP documents folder

... then go back to your browser and click Run the Install

SUCCESS!!!!!! (fill in your information)

MORE SUCCESS!!!!!!

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH SUCCESS!!!!!!

Lessons Learned

Do you ...● Understand what WordPress is?

Are you ...● Able to articulate the differences between .com and .org?

Do you ...● Have a local WordPress install?