All You Need To Know About
" WordPress "
First, to start with WordPress Technology, you need to know
- What is WordPress?
- – WordPress is a PHP-based, open-source content management system that works with MySQL or MariaDB databases and HTTPS.
- – It has various features including a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to within WordPress as Themes.
- – WordPress saves content and allows users to develop and publish webpages, requiring nothing more than a domain and hosting service. This core comparison was created to help explain how WordPress works. WordPress uses a template processor in its web template system.
- Why do we use it?
- – WordPress technology is simple, Easy to use.
- – No need to code.
- – It is used to build beautiful websites properly and efficiently within a minimum time.
How to install it in our system?
Step 1: We need a local server to host our website, that for we need to install XAMPP software in our system –
https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
You can download it from the above link and then click on the download button
- What is XAMPP?
- – XAMPP includes Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages making up the majority of the free and open-source XAMPP stack, which was created by Apache Friends.
- – In simple language, it provides a local server and database for free use.
- – After downloading XAMPP you have to install it, here are the steps to install.
Now search XAMPP in windows, open it, and you only need to start the Apache server and MySQL database.
- After clicking the start button you will see port no. (from above img. for Apache server 80,443 and MySQL 3306), If you don’t see any port no. then you have not
installed XAMPP properly. - Step 2: Now download
- WordPress from this link https://wordpress.org/download/
- It comes in a zip file that you must extract. After extracting – ‘wordpress’ named folder is created, copy that folder and paste it to this path C:\xampp\htdocs(Search the xampp folderin ‘c’ drive and then you have to select the ‘htdocs’ folder, only in thisfolder do you have to paste it otherwise you get an error).
- ‘htdocs’ folder contains different websites that we are creating. That’s for we paste the ‘wordpress’ folder in ‘htdocs’ because wordpress is one of the websites that contain a few files of PHP that will help for creating our website.
- Step 3: Now open chrome browser and simply type – localhost/wordpress
- You will get a new page, if you see an error message on the page then check all the processes properly
- This kind of page can be obtained.
- Click on the Let’s go button you will see this page
– Before going ahead you need to create a database named ‘wordpress’.
– It is very simple to create a database just go to this website: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
- Now close the phpMyAdmin tab, and WordPress can manage it.
- In the above image after clicking the let’s go button you need to fill database
name that we created in phpMyAdmin(i.e wordpress) - Username is by default ‘root’ and password is blank(do not write anything) After that keep all the things as it is….. just clicks on submit button.
- You have to enter the Site Title that you are creating, Username, Password, and Email and after that ‘do not tick to Search engine visibility’ if you tick that box then your website will not show in google search.
- After that click on Install WordPress and then simply log in to the website with your username and password.
- And we successfully installed WordPress in our system.
- This kind of dashboard will be present.
- Your sample website is ready, just click on your website name (above dashboard) you will see the website.
- It’s not too fascinating, you have to customize it according to your need, but the basic website is ready to use – you can add blog posts, comments, header, footer, videos, images, etc.
- You can also make posts for your website.
- What are the posts in WordPress?
- A common task of a WordPress admin user is adding posts to input material (text, multimedia, and other documents). Postings are also frequently referred to as
articles, blogs, or blog posts. Using this function of WordPress, you can add material to your website. - How to create posts?
- Below the dashboard button there is a Posts button, click on that button to see your posts, now there is nothing only the ‘Hello Word’ post is there by default.
- You can add more posts according to your need and content just click on add new
- For Example: I am making post on a Machine Learning
- Just give heading and start writing your content
- You can add multiple background colour to specific blocks of content, like this.
- Select block which you have to change the background color and then on the right side .you will see the ‘Background’ option click it, and you will see many colors.-
- You can insert tags related to your website, it will help for search engine optimization and also add images like things
- After that we will see How to change Themes?
- – In the dashboard go to the ‘Appearance’ option, and you will see some pre-downloaded themes.
- – You can choose any theme or otherwise you can download new themes.
- – After downloading just click on activate button. It will automatically design according to theme.
– After applying theme :
- – This types of changes you can do easily in WordPress.
