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Abstract

                WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which allows the users to build dynamic websites and blog. WordPress is the most popular blogging system on the web and allows updating, customizing and managing the website from its back-end CMS and components.

                This tutorial will teach you the basics of WordPress using which you can create websites with ease. The tutorial is divided into various sections for convenience. Each of these sections contains related topics with screenshots explaining the WordPress admin screens.

The Content Management System (CMS) is software which stores all the data such as text, photos, music, documents, etc. and is made available on your website. It helps in editing, publishing and modifying the content of the website.

WordPress was initially released on 27th May, 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. WordPress was announced as open source in October 2009.

If you're thinking about starting a Wordpress blog, you probably noticed there are 2 versions of WordPress:

  • com
  • org.

WordPress.com

                WordPress.com is a better option when you don't want to host your blog yourself. WordPress.com will host your blog and this is really the best way to enjoy blogging for free. If you wish to be launched and established with a WordPress blog as fast as possible and with minimal work or cost, then WordPress.com is an excellent choice. But there are certain limitations with this option. A WordPress.com site is hard to customize (limited choice of themes and functionalities) and you can't include your own ads. This will make it a poor option if you're planning to make money with your blog. A last thing you have to keep in mind is that you don't own the blog, but WordPress does. They can end your blog at any time if your blog doesn't meet there policy

 

WordPress.org

                WordPress.org is much more flexible, but it comes with a cost: you need a domain name and web hosting to host your blog. On the other hand, this isn't a big cost. Hosting fees start at a couple of dollars a month. Using this method gives you much more freedom: you can use the theme of your choice and extend your blog with a choice of plugins, adding a lot more functionality to your blog. If you're planning to create a company blog or site, then you should go for this option.

Why choose WordPress?

  • open source software
  • easy to use
  • flexible
  • used worldwide
  • constantly in development

Open source software

            WordPress is open source software. This means that you don’t have to pay a license or you don’t have to pay to use it.

Easy to use

            WordPress is easy to use. Not only it’s simple to install and to configure, you also don’t need any technical knowledge to create and to maintain the content.

Flexible

            Because WordPress is a flexible platform, it’s easy to suit your needs. The default configuration contains the basics, but you also can extend WordPress with a lot of interesting and powerful plugins.

Used worldwide

            WordPress is used worldwide; thousands of blogs and websites run on the WordPress platform. Depending on the source, it’s reported that 8 to 12% of the websites worldwide are running on WordPress!!

Constantly in development

             A lot of developers work together to constantly make WordPress better.

  1. Wordpress Features
  • User Management
  • Media Management
  • Theme System
  • Extend with Plugins
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Multilingual
  • Importers

User Management:

            

             It allows managing the user information such as changing the role of the users to (subscriber, contributor, author, editor or administrator), create or delete the user, change the password and user information. The main role of the user manager is Authentication.

 

Media Management:

            

             It is the tool for managing the media files and folder, in which you can easily upload, organize and manage the media files on your website.

 

Theme System:

            

             It allows modifying the site view and functionality. It includes images, stylesheet, template files and custom pages.

 

Extend with Plugins:

            

             Several plugins are available which provides custom functions and features according to the users need.

 

Search Engine Optimization:

            

             It provides several search engine optimization (SEO) tools which makes on-site SEO simple.

 

Multilingual:

            

             It allows translating the entire content into the language preferred by the user.

 

Importers:

            

             It allows importing data in the form of posts. It imports custom files, comments, post pages and tags.

2.Advantages & Disadvantages

Advantages

  • It is an open source platform and available for free

 

  • CSS files can be modified according to the design as per users need.

 

  • There are many plugins and templates available for free. Users can customize the various plugins as per their need.

 

  • It is very easy to edit the content as it uses WYSIWYG editor (What You See Is What You Get is a user interface that allows the user to directly manipulate the layout of document without having a layout command).

 

  • Media files can be uploaded easily and quickly.

 

  • It offers several SEO tools which makes on-site SEO simple.

 

  • Customization is easy according to the user's needs.

 

  • It allows creating different roles for users for website such as admin, author, editor and contributor.

 

Disadvantages

  • Using several plugins can make the website heavy to load and run.

 

  • PHP knowledge is required to make modifications or changes in the WordPress website.

 

  • Sometimes software needs to be updated to keep the WordPress up-to-date with the current browsers and mobile devices. Updating WordPress version leads to loss of data, so it a backup copy of the website is required.

 

  • Modifying and formatting the graphic images and tables is difficult. 

 

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