1. WordPress Fall 2015

2. What is WordPress? WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQLfree and open sourcebloggingcontent management systemPHPMySQL WordPress can be used to create a presence on the www – webpage, blog, e commerce site WordPress is a very powerful, flexible, ever improving tool that can be used to create and present content on the www for free (or almost free!)

3. WordPress Stats 48% of Technorati’s Top 100 Blogs Are Managed With WordPress 74.6 Million Sites Depend on WordPress 22% of New U.S. Registered Domains Run on WordPress WordPress.com Gets More Unique Visitors Than Amazon (Us) 29,000 WordPress Plugins and Growing Daily* **WordPress is used by over 16.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1 million" websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites. [4]Alexa Internet [4] WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet. [5][6] [5][6] – *https://managewp.com/14-surprising-statistics-about-wordpress-usage (2014) – **Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress

4. Notable WordPress Users http://fr.wordpress.com/notable-users/ http://vaniercollege.org/ http://CNN.com http://Boeing.com Etc…

5. vs wordpress.org http://wordpress.com/ is hosted by the wordpress.com site. Use a wordpress.com domain name Upgrading of features handled by wordpress.com Free, but has paid upgrade features Limited number of plugins No affiliate marketing (way to make money) http://wordpress.org/ Is self-hosted – user has to find his own server Need your own domain name (cost about $20/year) Upgrading managed by web creator-you! Free Over 38,000 Template Over 16,000 free plug-ins

6. Getting Started 1. Type in your URL in search bar: vaniercollege.org/M0215_your first name/

7. 2. Click on admin login button and enter : User name: bawp Password: Bawp$1234

8. 3. Click on Users/Add New

9. 4.Complete the required fields, use your new G mail address for E-mail, pick a password that is secure, That you can remember

10. Learning about WordPress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jv47_VIBO Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jv47_VIBO Q http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_wit h_WordPress written explanations http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_wit h_WordPress http://wordpress.tv/ videos of WordCamp lectures etc, http://wordpress.tv/ WordCamps http://www.lynda.com/WordPress- tutorials/WordPress-Essential-Training/97614- 2.html good introductory videos http://www.lynda.com/WordPress- tutorials/WordPress-Essential-Training/97614- 2.html

11. Cont’d WordPress https://www.youtube.com/user/wpbeginner http://us1.campaign- archive1.com/?u=549b83cc29ff23c36e5796c38&id=8664f17452&e=4f26c7 ea69 Username: shahidim@vaniercollege.qc.ca Password: majidmiami http://videos.wpbeginner.com/wp- login.php http://videos.wpbeginner.com/wp- login.php

12. Costs of setting up a web page Hosting – cost about 10$ /month – while at Vanier – free! – Unlimited domains Domain name – cost about 12$ /year – need unique name – buy through site such as – Godaddy.com (Hostgator in video- notice maker of video provides you with a coupon code when buying hosting services- he gets a commission..and you get a reduction in price – win-win-win) – https://ca.godaddy.com/domains/searchresults.aspx?ci=83 269 https://ca.godaddy.com/domains/searchresults.aspx?ci=83 269 – Our domain name: www.bawp.vaniercollege.org

13. Getting started with WordPress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO2YGhO5CYk How to Make a Wordpress Website - 2015 (in less than 45 MINUTES!) with Jameson First 7 minutes : overview of what he will show you 7- 13.21 min –skip talks about setting up domain name and hosting 13.21min on shows how to build site using Spacious Template 28 steps to creating a site (in writing) based on the video above: http://www.nyctechclub.com/how-to-make-a-wordpress-website- 2015/ http://www.nyctechclub.com/how-to-make-a-wordpress-website- 2015