WordCamp Nashville 2015 From Zero to WordPress Publish (Beginner's WordPress)

FROM ZERO TO WORDPRESS PUBLISH

BUILD A SITE EASY AND SECURELY

Michele Butcher

@michele_butcher [email protected] http://cantspeakgeek.com http://wpsecuritylock.com

Slides can be found at http://mlb.pw/wcn15

MICHELE BUTCHER• WORDPRESS SPECIALIST AT WP SECURITY LOCK

• INSTRUCTOR AT JOHN A LOGAN COLLEGE

• WORDPRESS EVANGELIST FOR INMOTION HOSTING

• LEAD ORGANIZER OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS WORDPRESS MEETUP

• CRAZY WOMAN BEHIND CAN’T SPEAK GEEK

• HOSTESS OF SAFE WP WEEKLY SECURITY WEBINAR

• PHOTOGRAPHER

• MOTHER TO THE NEXT GEN WORDPRESS USER

GET READY FOR THE RIDE TO WORDPRESS

THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP IS THE FIRST STEP

WHAT WILL YOUR WEBSITE BE ABOUT?

Once you have this figured out the rest is a cake walk

NOW LETS PICK A DOMAIN NAME

YOU HAVE LOTS OF CHOICES HERE!

.com .co .net .club

.io .de .org

.website .gov .me .pw .nyc .us .tv .ca

.link .eu

.edu .es

.in .info .mobi

.consulting .click .help

.dentist .rehab

.auction .software .business .auction .network .forsale .pizza .paris

.property .hosting

.diet

.rocks .website

.guru .loans

.healthcare

.restaurant .gifts

.engineer .sarl

.airforce .army .navy

.market .mortgage

.vet .deals .direct .soy

.okinawa

.attorney .lawyer

.desi

.surf .press .place .life

.beer .uk .au

.ninja .city

.guide .country .cooking

and many many more

PLUS THE PLACES TO BUY A DOMAIN ARE ENDLESS

Go Daddy

Namecheap

SiteGround

HostGator

1 and 1

web.com

Media Temple

Network Solutions

register.com

domain.com

And many more

ONCE YOU HAVE YOUR NAME PICKED OUT AND WHAT YOU WANT TO DO FOR YOUR SITE, IT IS NOW TIME TO TALK HOSTING

HOSTING IS LIKE A HARD DRIVE FOR YOU WEBSITE. IT IS WHERE ALL THE FILES LIVE. IT IS TYPICALLY CALLED A SERVER. THERE RE DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOSTING AND MANY DIFFERENT HOSTING COMPANIES.

TYPES OF HOSTINGShared- (Typically the cheapest) You and many others on the same server

Cloud Hosting or VPS- Virtual Machines

Dedicated Hosting- You are on your own server and you do not have to share

When going with any server, make sure it is a managed server unless you know how to set up a server!

HOSTING COMPANIES (THERE ARE MANY AND SOME ARE HERE!)

InMotion

SiteGround

GoDaddy

WP Engine

HostGator

Site5

Media Temple

Liquid Web

1 and 1

Blue Host

RackSpace

FlyWheel

DreamHost

Linode

WiredTree

Pantheon

Green Geeks

NameCheap

YOUR HOSTING COMPANY WILL GIVE YOU AN IP ADDRESS AND NAMESERVERS FOR YOUR DOMAIN. YOU WILL ENTER THE IP OR THE NAMESERVERS WHERE YOU

PURCHASED YOUR DOMAIN.

THERE ARE 2 WAYS THIS CAN BE DONE.

Example taken from namecheap.com

SO NOW YOU HAVE PURCHASED YOUR DOMAIN AND YOUR SITE HOSTING,

PLUS YOU HAVE THE DOMAIN POINTED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION…

TIME TO BUILD YOU A WEBSITE!!!!

HTTPS://WORDPRESS.ORG/DOWNLOAD/

FIRST YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE A DATABASE FOR YOUR WEBSITE. YOU WILL GOT TO THE “MYSQL DATABASE WIZARD”.

ONCE THERE FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE THE DATABASE.

REMEMBER TO WRITE DOWN OR COPY/PASTE YOUR DATABASE NAME,

DATABASE USER NAME, AND THE PASSWORDS. YOU WILL NEED THESE LATER! GIVE THE USER FULL ADMIN ROLES. IF NOT THE SITE WILL NOT

WORK PROPERLY.

ONCE THE WORDPRESS FILES ARE DOWNLOADED TO YOUR COMPUTER, YOU NOW NEED TO GO INTO YOUR FILE MANAGER THAT LIVES IN YOUR SERVER’S CPANEL.

ONCE IN THE FILE MANAGER, UPLOAD YOUR WORDPRESS ZIP FILE TO YOUR SERVER.

Your upload screen will look like this. Do not navigate off this screen until the gray box in the bottom right states the

upload is complete.

ONCE UPLOADED YOU WILL EXTRACT THE ZIP FILE. THEN CLICK THE RELOAD BUTTON.

If your file manager now looks like this, you may delete the zip file.

THIS STEP IS THE TRICKIEST STEP OF THEM ALL. WE MUST MOVE ALL THE FILES FROM THE WORDPRESS FOLDER INTO THE .PUBLIC_HTML FOLDER1. HIGHLIGHT ALL OF THE FOLDERS WITHIN

THE WORDPRESS FOLDER

2. CLICK THE MOVE FILE BUTTON

3. DELETE OUT THE “WORDPRESS”

4. CLICK “MOVE FILES” 5. CLICK THE “UP ONE LEVEL” BUTTON

6. DELETE THE “WORDPRESS” FOLDER SINCE IT IS NOW EMPTY

7. CLICK THE RELOAD BUTTON

THE 5 MINUTE INSTALL

1. Go to you site 2. Pick you language 3. Click “Let’s go”

The first time you go to your new website,

this is what you should see.

REMEMBER WHEN I SAID TO KEEP YOUR DATABASE INFORMATION CLOSE?

WE NOW WILL USE IT!

1. Leave localhost unless instructed by your hosting company to change. 2. Change your Table Prefix to anything but wp_ but

make sure there is a “_” at the end.

NEXT STEP SPARKY IS TO RUN THAT INSTALL!

THE IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Site name, login,

password, and email.

Remember to save your login

information and use a strong password.

Uncheck the “allow search engines to index this site until

you have your site built.

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU NOW HAVE A WEBSITE!

TO LOG IN TO YOUR DASHBOARD YOU WILL USE THE LOGIN

HTTP://YOURDOMAIN.COM/WP-LOGIN.PHP

NOW TO LOOK AROUND THE DASHBOARD

POSTS VS PAGESPosts are entries listed in reverse chronological order on the blog home pages or the page set for the posts.

Pages are static and are not listed by date.

THEMES

It is the “pretty” of your site

It is what gives it color and layout

It is NOT the functions of your site

PLUGINS

Gives your site functionality

Does a specific job

Thousands on the WordPress.org/plugins repository

MEDIA

Images

PDF’s

Videos

COMMENTS

Gives your readers a chance to interact

Can be spam if not using a spam blocker

Set up a spam blocker like Akismet

QUESTIONS?

THANK YOU!Slides can be found at:

http://mlb.pw/wcn15

[email protected]

@michele_butcher

http://cantspeakgeek.com http://wpsecuritylock.com