Updates of UDEMY courses: (Basic WordPress)

1. WordPress for Beginners 2. How To Create A Website using WordPress 3. Talking With Clients – Creating a WordPress Website 4. Build Your First Website in 1 Week with HTML5 and CSS3 Prepared by…….. Shibly Ahmed & Mostofa Kamal Sr. Executive SJ Innovation LLC

WordPress is powerfull CMS (Content

Management System) originally developed

for blogging, but now capable of making

dynamic and interactive Website quickly.

WordPress allows users to build dynamic

websites and blogs that may be updated

customized and managed from its back-end.

Open Source web application Self-hosted & hosted option Supports W3C Web Standards* Over 26,000 Plug-in Outstanding Visual Editor Relatively simple learning curve for developers & clients *The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web

Domain Name

Web Host

Install

Themes

Content

Plugins

Widgets

Domain Name:

A domain name locates an organization or

other entity on the Internet. For example,

the domain name www.totalbaseball.com

locates an Internet address for

"totalbaseball.com" at Internet point

199.0.0.2.

Web hosts:

Web hosts are companies that provide space

on a server owned or leased for use by clients,

as well as providing Internet connectivity,

typically in a data center.

Themes:

WordPress Theme is a collection of files that

work together to produce a graphical interface

with an underlying unifying design for a

weblog.

Content:

Content allows users to spotlight their posts

and have them uniquely displayed by a theme.

The content is intended to be displayed on a

blog’s front page; by using the module

consistently in this manner, users are given

a reliable Featured Content experience on

which they can rely even when switching themes.

WordPress Plug-ins:

WordPress plugins are bits of software that can be uploaded to to extend and expand the functionality of your WordPress site. * Spam blocker * Add additional SEO capabilities * Contact/Tell-a-Friend form * Google XML Sitemaps * Automatically post to social networks * Database Backup

Widgets :

WordPress Widgets add content and features to Sidebars.Widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.

Comparing Content

Management Systems

(CMS)

WordPress

Drupal

Joomla

MODx

WordPress.com WordPress.org Hosted on WordPress.com Self-Hosted on your Web Hosting Account Limited Customization Virtually Unlimited Customization Limited selection of established Can select from thousands based themes of free/fee-themes to choose from widgets, create your own No access to extra plug-ins & widgets

Two Methods:

•Hosting service control

panel

•Manually (download

from WordPress.org,

FTP to your server,

edit config file,

run installation)

WordPress Codex - codex.wordpress.org

WordPress Showcase - wordpress.org/showcase

Designing for WordPress - css-tricks.com/designing-for-

wordpress-complete-series-downloads

Digging into WordPress - digwp.com

Digging into WordPress (The Book)

Chicago WordPress Meetup