Transcript A web content management system

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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
 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
How to Install WordPress Manually
In order to install WordPress, firstly, you will need to download the latest
version of WordPress package from WordPress.org, but before you do it,
make sure your host has the the latest version of php and SQL, so you know
that they are compatible. If not, you can always contact your host, and ask
them to upgrade the php version and SQL to the latest.
Now, if you do not have File Transfer Portal or FTP software installed, you
need to download one. The most popular one is Filzilla; you need to make
sure to download the Client version, not the Server version. After you have
installed and have it running, you will notice that it basically requires few
pieces of information, such as Host, Username and Password. You can
create the account information by accessing to your hosting company’s
website. After you have the information, you can simply enter them and
then hit Quick connect.
How to Install WordPress Manually
After you are connected, you might need to browse to your root directory
of the domain. It really depends on with host company you are with.
Most hosting companies’ root directory is behind public_html, but few
hosting companies will be in httpdocs or they simply have a folder
created that is named after your domain name.
Now, you need to unzip the WordPress package from WordPress.org, and
then drag all unzipped files over to the root directory of you domain.
After that, you just let it finishing the transfer. In the meanwhile, you can
head back to your hosting company’s website, and create a database for
your WordPress. On most hosting companies’ dashboard or control panel,
they will have a section that is for SQL database, there you can create
database name, username and password. One thing that you need to
make sure is you need to grant all permission for the database username.
How to Install WordPress Manually
After the files transfer finished, you can open your browser, and then
type in your domain url, if everything is correct, a message will appear
that saying you need to create a configuration file.
You can go ahead, and click “Create a Configuration File” button. After
that, a welcome message board will appear. It basically tells you that you
need to have database name, username and password in order to install
WordPress.
How to Install WordPress Manually
You can simply
click “Let’s
go!” button.
After that, a
new message
board will
appear which
will require
you to fill out
all database
information.
How to Install WordPress Manually
So, you just fill out Database
name, User Name, and Passowrd.
For database host, about 90
percent of time, yours will be
localhost, but some host might
have different database host. You
might be able to find it out in SQL
database section or simply
contact your host’s support team.
Also for Table Prefix, it is best to
change it in to something other
than the default “wp_”, it can be
anything you want. Changing
table prefix can actually improve
the security of your WordPress
site.
How to Install WordPress Manually
After you have entered
everything and double
checked, you can click
“Submit” button. If everything
were setup correctly, a
username and password
creation page will appear. You
can fill out the site Title, create
username and password for
your WordPress dashboard,
and your email address. Finally,
you can click “Install
WordPress”, and you are done.
References :
https://wordpress.org
http://www.ar-wp.com