This document summarizes a WordPress workshop that covers:
- An overview of WordPress as a content management system (CMS) built on PHP and MySQL.
- Features of WordPress like personalization, search engine optimization (SEO), and types of sites that can be created with it like blogs, magazines and ecommerce sites.
- The process of installing WordPress including preparing the hosting environment, downloading WordPress, configuring the wp-config.php file, and installing themes.
- How to customize WordPress through its editor, plugins, widgets and theme customization options.
3. What is Wordpress?
A CMS (Content Management System)
- open source
- free
- created for blogs
- developed in PHP code
- built on the RDBMS MySql
- served by Apache
CMS (Content Management System)
RDBMS (Relation Database Management System)
6. What gives?
- Personalizations
- SEO
- Editor WYSIWYG for texts
- Multi-user management
- Multi-site management
- Expandability
- Community
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)