Introduction to Wordpress

A  : What is wordpress ?

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL,which runs on a web hosting service.

Or, You can create web sites using wordpress.

B : You can create a web site in the following 2 ways..

• You can create a wordpress site , by registering an account online , Click here and build your own wordpress site , by following the instruction.
• You can download wordpress by clicking here , and connect with your MySQL database , and can build a web site , and later it can be uploaded.

C : Steps for downloading Wordpress

•  Download wordpress by clicking here 

• Extract it to the www directory of Wampserver . You can take it from the folder , in which WAMP SERVER is installed , or see the oicture below .You can see the www directory there.

Refer Wamp servar & Create a database , if you have any doubt.

And open the local host , you can see the extracted wordpress folder there.

I named it Wordpress-new (Because there is already a file named wordpress.

Note that , you have to extract or copy the whole wordpress package, for each site.

Here I already created a site by extracting wordpress files to WAMP SERVER .So in order to create another site , I copied the whole wordpress files ( You can download wordpress by clicking here) once again , and named it as wordpress-new . .

• And create a database for storing your wordpress site data (Refer Wamp servar & Create a database , if you have any doubt).

To do this , take phpmyadmin , and from the screen , click DATABASE.See the picture below : 

I named the database as wp_landec .(wp is nothing but the short form of WORDPRESS ) .

• Then , again come to the local host , and click wordpress-new folder , to connect it with the created database.Then you can see , 

• Click the "Create a Configuration File" . Then you can see ,

• Click " Let's go! " . Then you can see, 

Here , Database name is the name we created for storing wordpress site files (Remember I gave the name as wp_landec)

MySql user name is root , you can write your database user name and password , instead .Others have no change

• Click " Submit" . Then we are ready to run wordpress , by connecting with the MySQL database.

• Click "Run the install" .

Now we have to give the site name , we want to create ... See the picture below :

I gave the site name as LAN-DEC Engineers , and see other information from the picture.

• Now click "Install WordPress" .

• Click "Log In"  .
• Enter the user name and password you gave with the site name (site title) , see the picture .

If you click "Back to LAN-DEC Engineers" , you will lead to the site .

If you click "Log In" , then it will lead to the Admin area of the site . See the picture below : 

From the top , you can Visit the site named LAN-DEC Engineers .

Tip : 

http://localhost/wordpress-new/ this is the address of my wordpress site, because here , I am not hosting the site online.(To know how to HOST a site , click here)
And to access the Admin Panel of this site , use wp-admin also.
That is http://localhost/wordpress-new/wp-admin/ )

For any web site , there are 2 sides , one is its FRONT-END (which can be seen by clicking VIEW SITE ) , and the other is it's BACK-END (which is seen in the above picture).

Whatever changes we make in the BACK-END or ADMIN PANEL , the corresponding reflects in the FRONT-END.

Now , we are going to create a site ..

Click Here.