Introduction to WordPress

I’m Sandy McFaddenHappiness Engineer at Automattic @ourvalley on Twitter

What is WordPress?

• A Content Management System

• An Open Source Project

• PHP and MySQL

• Used by 26% of the web! (w3techs.com)

What About Me?

What can it do?• Mission: to democratize publishing through Open

Source, GPL software.

• Makes it easy to publish online

• Personal blog

• Business website

• Private diary

• Sell products

Where do I start?

Getting Started• Find a web hosting provider

• Choose your domain name

• Install WordPress

• Start setting up your site

• Add your content

Web Hosting• WordPress.com

• BlueHost.com

• Siteground.com

• DigitalOcean.com

• Hostgator.com

• GoDaddy.com

Domain Name

• Most hosting providers

• hover.com

• namecheap.com

Install WordPress

• One click install

• Database

• Upload files

• Install

WordPress Components• Posts

• Pages

• Menus

• Widgets

• Plugins

• Themes

• Settings

Posts vs Pages• Posts are shown in a list in reverse chronological order

• Posts can have tags and categories to organize

• Posts are a classic blog

• Pages are more static

• Don’t have categories

• Examples are an About or Contact page

ResourcesWordPress.org Links

• About WordPress

• Site Examples

• Install WordPress

• Security

• Support

• Get Involved

General

• Posts vs Pages

• WP.com vs WP.org

• Siteground Tutorials

• WordPress.tv

• GPL