This tutorial has been prepared
for those who have a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS and has an urge to develop
websites. After completing this tutorial, you will find yourself at a
moderate
level of expertise in developing sites or blogs using WordPress.
Prerequisites
Before you start with this
tutorial, we are assuming that you are already aware about the basics of HTML
and CSS. If you are not aware of these concepts, then we suggest you go through
our short tutorial on HTML and CSS.
About the Tutorial
wordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which allows the users to build
dynamic websites and blogs. 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.
What is Content Management System (CMS)?
The Content
Management System (CMS) is a 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.
Features
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.
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.
