1. Creating a Web Presence Introduction to WordPress Week 1

2. What we’ll cover this week:  Housekeeping  Introductions  Expectations  What is WordPress .com vs. org

3. Housekeeping  Class start time? 6:30? 6:45? 7:00?  Contact me – aldavis@aldavis.orgaldavis@aldavis.org  Slides will be made available for download.

4. Introductions  Who am I, and what makes me qualified to stand up here?  Who are you?  What kind of website do you plan to create?

5. Course Expectations  My Goal –Turn every one in class into a power user of the WordPress platform  Finished product –At the completion of this course you will have a website powered by WordPress that includes a number of elements you will learn throughout this class

6. Marks  How you will be graded  Attendance/participation= 20%  Exercises= 60% –Each week you will required to complete the exercises done in class by Sunday at 6pm and email me that you have completed them, so I can go into your site and evaluate  Final Assignment- 20%

7. What is Wordpress?  WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and content management system (CMS) powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system.

8. Why Use WordPress?  Ease of use  Large, active community  WordPress version 3.3 has been downloaded 5.5 million times. It was released Dec 12, 2011

9. Why Use WordPress?  WordPress is used by over 14.7% of the "top 1 million" websites and as of August 2011 powers 22% of all new websites. WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet.

10. Wordpress.com vs.org  There are two different types of WordPress, commonly referred to as.com and.org .com is WordPress powered websites hosted ( for free) by Automattic, the company that builds WordPress .org refers to the downloadable version of WordPress that is used with shared hosting accounts and local installs

11. .com limitations  Can’t add plugins  Limited number of themes  No Code customization

12. .org limitations  While the software is free, you will have to pay for a domain name and hosting account  Responsible for your own updates to software and plugins  On your own for support

13. . Com benefits  Early access to new WordPress features  Email Subscriptions and post by email built right in  Support provided by Automattic  No Cost just sign up at wordpress.com

14. .org benefits  (almost) complete control  Any plugin  Any theme  Customize the code

15. What you’ll be using for the course  A platform has been built specifically for this course.  You will be given access to a website that is powered by WordPress  you will be allowed to move your content off the website for up to 30 days after the last class.  After 30 days, the site will be wiped out and you won’t be able to retrieve your work

16. Installing WordPress  4 methods to installing WP (.org) –One Click installer –Via FTP –SSh –Using a plugin

17. Minimum requirements  Minimum requirements for WordPress As of version 3.2 ( released July 4, 2011)As of version 3.2 ( released July 4, 2011) PHP version 5.2.4 or greaterPHP version 5.2.4 or greater MySQl version 5.0 or greaterMySQl version 5.0 or greater

18. One Click installer  What is it? An application that installs software for the end user (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc.)  Why Use it? Simple to use Fast  Why Not to use it No control of what is installed No control of how it is installed Can be tough to go back and change the installation Can be tough to go back and change the installation

19. One Click installer

22. FTP  What is FTP? Stands for File Transfer Protocol Fancy way of saying “moving files from your computer to the server via the internet”  What do you need? FTP Client. There are many out there for Windows and Mac—some are even free  Why use FTP? Fine control over what is installed When you’ve uploaded your files, you get to use the famous 5-minute install for WP  Why NOT to use FTP Can be slow depending upon your Internet connection Requires greater technical knowledge than One-Click Need to set up your own database for WP to work Can be slow depending upon your Internet connection Requires greater technical knowledge than One-Click Need to set up your own database for WP to work 

23. FTP

28.  Live demo of the install process  Dallas.introtowp.com/wp-login Dallas.introtowp.com/wp-login

29. SSH  What is SSH? Stands for Secure Shell Fancy way of saying “A secure channel to connect to your web server space.” Command line based ( Advanced users)  What do you need? Command Line Tool- PuTTY – Windows Terminal - Mac  Why use SSH? Much faster than FTP Guarantees you always get the latest version of WordPress  Why NOT to use SSH? Not all hosting providers offer full access (unable to connect to other sites) Requires greater technical knowledge Requires command line use Not all hosting providers offer full access (unable to connect to other sites) Requires greater technical knowledge Requires command line use 

30. SSH

31. wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

32. SSH unzip latest.zip

33. SSH Move all the files out of the wordpress folder cp –rf./wordpress/*./ Delete downloaded files rm latest.zip rm –rf wordpress/

34. SSH Edit wp-config-sample.php then save it as wp-config.php

35. SSH Navigate to yourdomain.com/wp-admin

36. Backup Buddy  What is Backup Buddy? A WordPress plugin developed by ithemes ( www.ithemes.com) Like getting 3 plugins in one Installations Backups Migration tool  Why use Backup Buddy? Allows you to develop locally, deploy to a web server Takes all of your themes, custom CSS, plugins, content over in one smooth move  Why NOT to use Backup Buddy? No custom installation of WordPress No custom installation of WordPress

37. Backup Buddy

38. Navigate to domain/importbuddy.php after you have FTP’ed the backup file and the import file to your webserver space

39. Backup Buddy

43. Account sign up