Category: Wordpress

System requirments for installing wordpress Database: MySQL  Web server: WAMP (windows), LAMP (Linux), XAMP(Multi platforms), MAMP(Macintosh) Operating System: Cross platform Browser Support: Internet Explore updated, Firefox, Google chrome, Safari, Opera PHP Compatibility: PHP 5.2 Download WordPress When you open the link download WordPress then  you will get to see a screen as the following image: Download the wordpress zip file from the official site of wordpress org Create Store Database WordPress requires MySQL database. So, create a new empty database with user password example( user as “root” and password “root” or else you can set as per your convenience) Then, you can continue with installation process as discussed further. Set Up Wizard It’s very eays to seyt up WordPress into your system. The following steps describe how to set up WordPress locally on your system. Step (1): Extract the download WordPress folder and upload it into your web server or localhost. Step (2): Open your browser and navigate to your wordpress file path, then you will get the first screen of the wordpress installer as shown in the following screen. In our case the is localhost/<your_wordpress-foloder> Step (3): In this step, you can view the information needed for the database before proceeding with wordpress installation. click on let’s go! Step (4): Here , you have to enter the information about the MySQL database as describe in the following screen. Database Name: Enter the database name which you have created in MySQL database for wordpress. Username: Enter the user name of your MySQL database. Password: Enter the password which you had set for MySQL database. Database Host: Write the host name, by default it will be localhost. Table Prefix: It is used to add prefix in the database tables which helps to run multiple sites on the same database. it takes the default value. After filling all information click on Submit button. Step (5): WordPress check the database setting and gives you confirmation screen as shown in the following image Click on Run the install Step (6): Enter administrative information It contains the following fields: Site Title: Enter the name of the site which you are going to create in wordpress. Username: Enter the username as per your choice while logging in the wordpresss. Password Twice: Enter password two times to protect your site. Your Email: Enter your email address which helps to recover the password update. Privacy: it allows the search engine to index this site after checking the checkbox. After filling all the information click on the Install WordPress button. Step(7): After installation being successful, you will get a screen of the stating success as seen in the following screen. You can view your username and password detail added in wordpress Click on Log In button. Step(8): After clicking on login you will get a wordpress admin panel as depicted in the following image. Enter the username and password which you had mentioned during installation as shown in step 6 and click on the log in button.

The Content Management System is Software which stores all the data such as 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. Worpdress was announced as open source in October 2009. Here are some features of Worpdress Website User Management : it allows managing the user information such as changing the role fo the users to  Subscirber contributor editor author 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 hte media files on your website. Theme system: it allows modifying the site view and functionality. it includes images templates  files stylesheet and custom pages. Extend with plugins: Several plugins are availabe which provides custom functions and features and according to the user needs. SEO(Search Engine Optimization: it provides several search engine optimization tools which makes on site SEO simple. Multilingual: it allows translating the entire content into the language preferred by the user. Importers: it allow importing data in form of posts. it imports custom files comments post pages and tags. Advantages it is an open source platform and available free. CSS files can be modified according to the design as per user 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  WYSWYG editor what you see is what your 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 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 worpdress website. sometimes software needs to be up to dated to keep the wordpress up-to-date with current browser and mobile devices. updating wordpress versions leads to loss of data , so it a backup copy of the website is required. modifying and formatting the graphics images and tables is difficult.