Transcript Wordpress Powerpoint Presentation

Wordpress
What is Wordpress?
• Wordpress is a content management
system. It is free and easy to use.
• It allows you to build dynamic websites
• It is built on PHP and mySQL
• Visit wordpress.org for more information
Download wordpress for mac from
http://wordpress.org/download/
Download Xampp
• Download xammp
from
http://www.apachefr
iends.org/en/xampp
.html
Install Xampp
•
Double click on the .dmg file
•
Drag the xampp folder into
your applications folder
•
To start the xampp server,
open the xampp folder and
click on the control panel
•
start apache (webserver) and
mysql (database)
• Open your web browser (safari/firefox,
etc.)
• Browse to http://localhost
Creating a database
•
Click on phpMyAdmin
Naming database
• Create a new
database and name
it ‘wordpress’
• Press create
Setting up the database
• Copy wordpress folder into htdocs
folder in the xampp folder
• In the wordpress folder rename the wpconfig-sample.php file to wp-config.php
• Open the wp-config.php file (using
textedit)
• These are the default settings for
wordpress
• In the browser type localhost/wordpress
To re-enter wordpress site
• Go into your xampp folder in application
• Click on xampp control
• Start the ‘apache’ and ‘mysql’
• Open browser
• Enter url http://localhost/wordpress/wpadmin/
Using wordpress
• Create your website by filling in the site
name, username, password and email
• Login to wordpress
• http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/
To re-enter wordpress
• Start the xampp control panel
• Start apache and mysql
• In your browser type the url
http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin
• Enter your login details