Background by Sarah Lloyd
✩ What is WordPress
- Blog > Content Management System > Swiss army knife
- Open Source – free beer and freedom
- Automattic + community
✩ Important Concepts
- Technology minimalism – KISS
- Software as a service
- Technology responsibilities
- Don’t get distracted by graphic design
- Freemium business model
✩ The two approaches
✩ Is WordPress too much for you?
✩ Is WordPress not good enough for you?
- Developers – Best practice > specific use
- Developers – Custom building
- Developers – Love complexity > have skills
- Developers – dependancy / who will manage upgrades
- Developers – can be siloed
- Is the criticism justified?
✩ Cons of WordPress
- Targeted > hacking > spam
- requires additional security
- Becoming more complex
- Lot of bad advise / suppliers (naive complexity) / themes /plugins
- code bloat / conflicts
✩ Why use WordPress
- flexibility and control
- manage costs
- scale > support /application / services
- respected and used by big players
- uses common languages and is well supported
- diverse and quality plugins > themes
- templating language
- cheap to build (if done right)
- can scale
- still reasonably simple – if kept simple
- drag and drop plugins
- central hub
✩ Installing WordPress
- Pre-installed
- Click a button
- Manual Installation
- Download / upload / uncompress
- Database username/password/permissions
- Visit the Url> follow prompts
✩ WordPress Tour
- WordPress Settings
- Posts vs Pages
- Categories, tags, authors
- Media Library
- Comments and spam
- Managing website editors, authors and contributors
- Introduction to themes
- Theme customiser
- Theme editor
- Introduction to plugins
- Widgets
- Menus
- Tools
