Understanding How Wordpress Works

Word press is a content management system design for everyday folks like you to build fully featured blog and web site sites for any purpose. That includes the tasks of all the web site administration tasks.

Some of the topics discussed include:

• Blogging only vs Website with blogging.

• Managed vs Self Managed WordPress Hosting.

• Manual installation on Your Own Web server.

• The WordPress Dashboard.

• User Accounts. What you need and what you don’t.

• Adding and Maintaining Blog Posts.

• Adding and Maintaining Web Pages.

• Uploading Graphics.

• Including Links.

• How Layout and Design Is Handled with Themes.

• The Essential WordPress Plugins.

• Basic SEO Tools such as Analytics.

• How to Get Free Plugins and Themes.

• How monetizing (making money) works.

• What technical knowledge you need.

• Site security and backup.

• Where to get support.

Word press is the most widely used content management system design for everyday folks to build fully featured blog and web site sites for any purpose. That includes the tasks of all the web site administration tasks. This webinar is a great place to make that assessment for yourself.

Is WordPress Hard to Administer?

Most website owners and bloggers want to focus on making content, selling products and proividing services. To do that all web site companies have an administrative backend that you will need to use. This is also true of WordPress.

This webinar will give you a tour into how backend administrative services work for WordPress. For example:

• The options of a WordPress website or blogging focus.
• Using the Dashboard
• How to edit and write blog posts.
• How create and edit web pages.
• Using WordPress themes.

  You learn about how a WordPress site is designed using themes. Themes provide the layout, user interface, navigation and graphical look and feel of your website. Themes allow you options to tweak the styles. WordPress comes with default themes and there are many third party themes available free. The neat part about themes you can preview them and change them in a few steps without messing up your website. Even if you try a theme you do not like, you can change it back without penalty.

• Using WordPress plugins.

  WordPress is very extensible. What that means you can have a lot of the functionality of major web site without the work. WordPress does this via plugins. Plugins provide cabilities such as taking orders, registration, joining your mailing list, hosting paid advertising on your web site, handing web site traffic analytics, automatically informing the search engines about your site as you update content and you will find that vendors offering affilitate services such as Amazon have plugins for you to use for selling products and services. We will look at the must have sitemap and analytic plugins.

Who Should Attend: Web designers, web developers, business owners, web entreprenuers or if you have to use WordPress in your work. If you want to know if WordPress is right for you should find this an informative webinar.

No. This seminar is designed to help you assess using WordPress for your website needs. However, WordPress is easy to set-up and I can assist you setting a site up. See the Can You Help Me To Setup A WordPress Website Right Away? FAQ below.

Absolutely Yes. What you learn from this Webinar helps you make decisions for configuring, I should say tweaking, your WordPress site. It also provides a place for you to ask questions and a community to show your progress and promote your site.

• WordPress.org is a community driven project.

• WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) – A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don’t have to.

• WordPress is known as blogging software.Web content that serves as a journal for an individual or organization. Can be one web page or a complete web site.

  WordPress Blogging Alternatives

  • Blogger. Google’s free tool for creating blogs.
  • Weebly. Weebly is an American web-hosting service that features a “drag-and-drop” website builder for websites, blogging sites and combinations.
  • Squarespace. Web-hosting service that features a “drag-and-drop” website builder for websites, blogging sites and combinations.
  • Tumblr. Microblogging platform and social networking website.

• WordPress Open Source CMS Alternatives

  • Joomla
  • Drupal
  • Ruby on Rails. More suited as a web application programming framework.

• WordPress.com is blogging community managed by makers of the open source WordPress software. WordPress.com blogs are free with the option of adding paid upgrades such as personalized domain names, custom CSS, video storage, and more. In comparison, a self-hosted WordPress.org blog does not have upgrades and must be installed on a web hosting account separately. Tutorial

• Managed vs Self Managed WordPress Hosting. WordPress.com and WordPress.org

Famous 5 Minute DIY Install

WordPress can be installed on any web hosting site that runs PHP and MySQL. You do not need to be a programmer, but do need to know how to use your Web Hosting control panel, use FTP (File Transport Protocol), often provided in your Web Hosting control panel. Be sure to read the requirements to be sure your Web hosting service is compatible with the latest WordPress.

Famous 5 Minute DIY Install Instructions

BlueHost.com Simple Scripts

Web Hosting companies often provide automated ways to install WordPress. This is how it is done at BlueHost.com.

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• User Accounts WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

• User Roles WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

• Using Permalinks WordPress.org

• Post Formats

  • WordPress.com Post Formats

  • WordPress.com Themes Supporting Post Formats

  • WordPress.org Post Formats

• Writing

  • WordPress.com Topic: Writing & Editing

  • WordPress.com Settings »Writing Settings

• Posts

  • WordPress.com Posts

  • WordPress.org Writing Posts.

• Posts with HTML Code

  • WordPress.com Allowed Code

  • WordPress.org Writing Code in Your Posts.