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Those who have absolutely no knowledge in web development
and still want to have a website with features like content management and
bogging perhaps Wordpress will be the best choice for them. It’s already a
built-in package and freely available for downloading from wordpress.org. After
downloading the package users need to unzip the downloaded folder and upload
the entire files and folders within ‘wordpress’ folder to their server. They
have to create a database in their server which will be needed during installation
process.
Suppose users have already installed WAMP or XAMP in their
system (here I assume WAMP is installed in C: drive) then ‘localhost’ is their
root directory. They may upload the entire files & folders which are within
‘wordpress’ to this path c://wamp/www
. In this case to view the website users have to type only ‘localhost’ in their
web browsers. But if users don’t want to upload files & folders directly
into ‘www’ folder instead they want to create another folder for ex.
‘mywordpress’ within ‘www’ they can do so.
In this case to view the website they have to type
‘localhost/mywordpress’ in their web browsers.
As soon as users type the path in their web browsers they
will be asked to follow the installation process step by step. In this process
they need to enter database name, database user name, database password,
database prefix so that all the necessary tables will be created automatically.
In the last step they have to enter admin user name, admin password along with
other information to complete the installation process. This admin login
credential will be used later by website administrator in order to login into
admin panel of the website.
There are links in the admin panel to create categories of posts,
posts, pages etc. By default the posts which will be created by admin will be
displayed on the home page which is known as blogging (so by default home page
is the blog page in wordpress). Pages which will be created by admin will be
shown in the front end of the website and those pages will be automatically
linked from the top menu of the website.
Wordpress has many features including a plug-in architecture
and a template system. This means at a time admin panel can accommodate
numerous templates (designs) and plug-ins (which are betterly known as
Add-ons). Template or theme can provide a certain look & feel to the
front-end of the website while plug-in can provide the ability to customize the
functionality. By default there only two themes are available in admin panel
and admin has to activate one of them. But admin can download free ready-made themes
and install them through admin panel to use them as well. Users having little knowledge
in HTML/CSS can also build their own customized theme in order install them
into wardress.
In my next posts I will explain in detail how to build your
own customized themes.
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