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By
 Mosa Mohammed Hasan Al-Barqi
 Mohammed ali ahmed assiri
 Ali saad abdullah assiri
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Index :
 Introduction
 History
 Versions of wordpress
 Uses of wordpress
 Examples for some web sites desgined with wordpress
 Comparison with Joomla and Drupal Magazine
 Install Word Press
 control panel
 References
 Introduction
 what is web content management system ?
 A web
content
management
system (WCMS) is
a
software
system
that
provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow
users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to
create and manage website content with relative ease.
 Most
systems
use
a content
repository or
a database to
store
page
content, metadata, and other information assets that might be needed by the system.
 A WCMS allows non-technical users to make changes to a website with little training.
 A WCMS typically requires a systems administrator and/or a web developer to set up
and add features, but it is primarily a website maintenance tool for non-technical staff.
 Advantages of web content management system:
1)
Low cost : Some content management systems are free, such as Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress .
2)
Easy customization : A universal layout is created, making pages have a similar theme and design
without much code.
3) Easy to use : CMSs are designed with non-technical people in mind.
4) Workflow management : CMSs provide the facility to control how content is published, when it is
published, and who publishes it.
5) Good For SEO : CMS websites are also good for search engine optimization (SEO).
 Good web site always used dynamic web-content
 Some notable examples of CMS :
 WordPress : was the most popular content management system before 2014. It originated as a
blogging CMS, but has been adapted into a full-fledged CMS.
 Textpattern : is one of the first open source CMS and still one of the leanest and safest to use
 Joomla : is a popular content management system that can be used to easily create and edit
webpages.
 Drupal : is the third[13] most used CMS and originated before WordPress and Joomla.
 ExpressionEngine : is in the top 5 most used CMSs. It is a commercial CMS made by EllisLab.
 MediaWiki powers : Wikipedia and related projects, and is the most prominent example of a wiki
CMS.
 Cascade Server : is popular among universities [14] and enterprise scale organizations
 eXo Platform : Open Source Social CMS
 Liferay : Open Source Portal WCMS
o what is wordpress ?
 WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog .
 WordPress has a web template system using a template processor.
 WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management
system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.
 Features include a plugin architecture and a template system.
 WordPress was used by more than 22.0% of the top 10 million websites as of
August 2013.
 WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than
60 million websites .
 The license under which WordPress software is released is the GPLv2 (or later)
from the Free Software Foundation.
 History
• WordPress first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt Mullenweg
and Mike Little to create a fork of b2.
• Christine Selleck Tremoulet, a friend of Mullenweg, suggested the name
WordPress.
• In 2004 the licensing terms for the competing Movable Type package were
changed by Six Apart and many of its most influential users migrated to
WordPress.
• By October 2009 the 2009 Open Source content management system Market
Share Report reached the conclusion that WordPress enjoyed the greatest
brand strength of any open-source content-management systems.
Version
0.7
1.0
1.2
1.5
2.0
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
Release date
27 May 2003
3 January 2004
22 May 2004
17 February 2005
31 December 2005
22 January 2007
16 May 2007
24 September 2007
29 March 2008
15 July 2008
11 December 2008
10 June 2009
19 December 2009
Version
3.0
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
4.0
4.1
Release date
17 June 2010
23 February 2011
4 July 2011
12 December 2011
13 June 2012
11 December 2012
1 August 2013
24 October 2013
12 December 2013
16 April 2014
4 September 2014
10 December 2014
Developer(s)
WordPress Foundation
Initial release
May 27, 2003; 11 years ago
Stable release
4.0 (September 4, 2014; 2
months ago)
Preview release
4.0 Beta 4 (August 15, 2014; 2
months ago)
Development status
Active
Operating system
Cross-platform
Platform
PHP
Type
Blog software
License
GNU GPLv2
Website
wordpress.org
Uses :
 WordPress Wiki
 Personal blog
 Confession blog
 Contact book
 Business website
 Article library
 E-mail newsletter
 Landing page/ Sales page
 Timeline
 Online magazine
 Online clock, stopwatch site,
countdown site
 News site
 Directory site
 Questions and answers site
 Event blog/site
 Press release site
 Ticketing system
 Gallery
 Job listing site
 Collaboration tool
 Membership site
 E-commerce
 Project management
 CV site
 Social bookmark site
 Invoicing
 Video blog
 Forum
 Online book
 Polling site
 Classifieds
 Help desk
 Clone sites – Twitter
 Web comics
 Gaming portal/site
 Review site
 City guide
 Pitch your startup
 Web chat
 Podcast
 RSS Aggregator
 Coupon site
 Contest
 Courses and Schooling
 Google map tagging blog
 reasons why we use wordpress for a number of our websites.
1) Open Source Software : This basically means the software is free to download and use
2) Easy to Install : Good web hosting companies offer quick one click installation of wordpress and
have optimised systems to work seamlessly with the platform.
3) Great Themes : A theme provides the look of your website, there are many good free themes
and premium (paid) themes available to give your site the feel you want.
4) Plugins : Plugins add additional features to your website
5) S.E.O : SEO (Search Engine Optimization) this is making your site search engine friendly and
getting it to appear high up in the search engine results page.
Generally wordpress is very SEO friendly but there are also some excellent SEO plugins to fine tune
your website.
6) Simple CMS : CMS (Content Management System) this allows the user to publish and edit their
content easily and quickly.
7) Expandable and Adaptable : A wordpress business website can be as big as you want it to be,
from a simple blog page to large website with a number of complex features including
ecommerce.
Examples for some web sites desgined with wordpress :
Comparison with Joomla and Drupal Magazine
Web sites for Wordpress
https://ar.wordpress.org
Download the WordPress installation package
To start the installation process, first you need to download WordPress from it's official
download page. We recommend that you always download and install the latest stable
version of WordPress.
Once you click on the Download button for the latest WordPress version, the installation
package will be saved to your hard disk. Locate the installation package that you've just
downloaded and extract it to a new folder.
Upload the WordPress Files to Your Server :
Now, you need to upload the extracted files and folders to your web server. The
easiest way to upload the installation files is via FTP. For detailed information on
how to upload files via FTP, please check our FTP Tutorial.
Important! If you want your WordPress to be the main installation on your
account and to be accessible through your main domain (i.e.
www.mydomain.com), you need to upload the extracted files to
yourpublic_html folder.
Once the download is complete, extract the archive and upload it to your web
hosting account. You can do that via FTP using a client application like Filezilla or
via cPanel -> File Manager -> Upload file(s). If you want this WordPress
installation to be main for your website, the files should reside in the
public_html folder of your account. However, you can always make a subfolder
(i.e. public_html/blog) if you want to run only part of your website on
WordPress.
Create a MySQL Database for WordPress to use :
Now, you need to create a MySQL database and assign a user to it with full permissions.
For detailed instructions on how to do that, please follow the steps described in our
tutorial on How to Create MySQL Username and Database. Once you create your MySQL
Database and User, make sure you write down the database name, database username
and password you've just created. You will need those for the installation process.
Go through the installation process :
Now it's time to navigate to your website to start with the installation process. If you have
uploaded WordPress in your public_html directory you'll need to go to
http://yourdomain.com in your preferred browser. The first thing you will notice is a
message, telling you that you don't have a wp-config.php file and you should create one.
Just click on the Create a Configuration File button to proceed.
On this page you will see a message, asking you to prepare the necessary information for
the installation. Since we already have this information, simply press the Go! button.
Enter the details for your newly created MySQL database and press the Sumbit button
WordPress will now check if your settings are correct. If you have entered all the necessary
information, you will see a confirmation screen. Press the Run the Install button to
proceed.
On the next screen you will have to enter the information about your administrative
username and the title of your new site. In addition, you can specify whether you'd
want search engines to index your site or not. Once you fill in that information, press the
Install WordPress button. Bear in mind, however, that you should specify a real email
address. It can be later used in case you forget your password.
That's it!Your new WordPress
application is installed. You can
use
the Login
access
your
In button
to
administrative
backend and start posting in
your new site.
References :
https://wordpress.org
http://www.ar-wp.com