2. What is WordPress?
WordPress is free and open source blogging tool and content management system (CMS)
based on PHP and MySQL that runs on a server. WordPress users may install and switch
between multiple themes.
Now currently running 3.9 and requirements are
PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
MySQL version 5.0 or greater
3. Contents
How to install WordPress?
How to Manage Themes?
How to Manage Plugins?
How to Manage Posts?
How to Manage Pages?
General Setting?
4. How to Install WordPress (Step 1)
The first thing you need to do to install WordPress is to download the latest
installation package from http://wordpress.org
10. How to create a website with WordPress
Where to login for the WordPress admin console?
Writing a post in WordPress
How to create a category in WordPress?
How to post comments in WordPress?
How to change a WordPress Theme?
11. Login
Once you have your WordPress blog
installed, you need to log in to the
WordPress administrator console from
where you can write posts and articles,
Manage comments, change your
theme, etc. To log in the WordPress
admin panel, Navigate to the
WordPress login page or directly type
the URL in your browser.
13. Manage Posts in WordPress
WordPress gives you the option to create a summary of a post, and also add a ”More…” link
to the post so that your visitors can click it and read the whole post.
14. Add New Post in WordPress
You can proceed with entering the desired content. Once you are ready, the new post can
be published just by clicking the Publish button.
15. Creating pages in WordPress
Creating individual pages in WordPress is quite similar to writing a post. Just click Add New in
the pages menu.
18. General Setting
You have a
number of options
that you can set for
your Comments.
They are listed
under
Setting > Discussion.
19. How to Install Themes in WordPress
To find the theme in your WordPress: Administrator Area > Appearance > Themes.
20. How to Activate and Deactivate Plugins?
Plugins are tools which
provide additional
functionality to your
application. To install a
plugin you generally just
need to put the plugin file
into your ‘wp-content/plugin’
directory.
Once a plugin is installed,
you may activate it or
deactivate it from the plugin
menu in your WordPress
Admin Panel.
21. How to Install WordPress Plugins?
In WordPress 2.7 and above you can install plugins directly from the admin console. Download
the plugin to your computer, then log in to your WordPress area and go to Plugin > Add New.
Browse to the plugin archive and select it. Then click install now and the plugin will be installed
shortly.
22. General Settings
You can easily adjust
the website Title and
tagline setting of your
blog from the
WordPress admin area
>Setting > General.
23. Reading Settings
You can easily adjust the
reading setting of your blog
from the WordPress admin
area > Setting > Reading.
From there you can adjust the
front page setting, the number
of post your blog pages show,
the number of post your feed
show, as well as the encoding
for your pages and feeds.
24. Media Settings
The media setting in the WordPress determines the size of images that are inserted in your blog’s
posts.
25. Permalink Setting
WordPress allows
you to set your blog
links the way you
want them to look
like via the built-in
tool called
permalink.
This setting can be
modified from the
WordPress Setting >
Media.