ABSTRACT

 Word Press is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. But
in non-geek speak; it’s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and
website content management system (or CMS) in existence today. WordPress is
currently the fastest growing CMS software. Initially WordPress was largely
associated with blogs as its main functionality was to allow easy blog experience.
Yet, over time, its developers expanded its functionality to allow the creation of
more complicated websites and grew it into a content management system rather
than a blogging tool. Word Press is considered the easiest to use CMS thanks to
a very friendly interface.

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 INTRODUCTION

1.1 WORDPRESS

WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which

allows the users to build dynamic websites and blogs. Wordpress is the most
popular blogging system on the web and allows updating, customizing and
managing the website from its back-end CMS and components.

1.2 What is Content Management System (CMS)?

The Content Management System (CMS) is a software which stores all the data
such as text, photos, music, documents, etc. and is made available on your
website. It helps in editing, publishing and modifying the content of the website.

WordPress was initially released on 27th May, 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and
Mike Little. WordPress was announced as open source in October 2009.

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography
of everyday writing and with fever users than you can count on your fingers and
toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the
world, used on millions of sites and seen by ten millions of people every day. 
Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little co-founded WordPress. 5

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1.3 Features of CMS

User Management: It allows managing the user information such as changing

the role of the users to (subscriber, contributor, author, editor or administrator),
create or delete the user, change the password and user information. The main
role of the user manager is Authentication.

 Media Management: It is the tool for managing the media files and folder, in
which you can easily upload, organize and manage the media files on your
website.

 Theme System: It allows modifying the site view and functionality. It

includes images, stylesheet, template files and custom pages.

 Extend with Plugins: Several plugins are available which provides custom
functions and features according to the users need.

 Search Engine Optimization: It provides several search engineoptimization

(SEO) tools which makes on-site SEO simple.  Multilingual: It allows
translating the entire content into the language preferred by the user. 
Importers: It allows importing data in the form of posts. It imports custom files,
comments, post pages and tags.

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1.4 Advantages

It is an open source platform and available for free. 1. WordPress –

OVERVIEW WordPress 9

 CSS files can be modified according to the design as per users need

. There are many plugins and templates available for free. Users can customize
the various plugins as per their need.

 It is very easy to edit the content as it uses WYSIWYG editor (What You See
Is What You Get is a user interface that allows the user to directly manipulate
the layout of document without having a layout command).

 Media files can be uploaded easily and quickly.

 It offers several SEO tools which makes on-site SEO simple.

 Customization is easy according to the user's needs.

 It allows creating different roles for users for website such as admin, author,
editor and contributor.

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1.5 Disadvantages

 Using several plugins can make the website heavy to load and run.

 PHP knowledge is required to make modifications or changes in the

WordPress website.

 Sometimes software needs to be updated to keep the WordPress up-to-date

with the current browsers and mobile devices. Updating WordPress version
leads to loss of data, so it a backup copy of the website is required

.  Modifying and formatting the graphic images and tables is difficult.

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 WORDPRESS – INSTALLATION

2.1 WordPress Installation :

The core WordPress software is free:

 As in open source.
 Freedom to use it as you want, even to change it
 As in $$$.

But that does not necessarily mean a free website.-

 Possible expenses:
 Domain names.
 Hosting.
 Plugins.
 Themes.

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 2.2 Different WordPresses:
2.2.1 WordPress.com

 Often referred to as “.com” WordPress.

 Note: This not at all related to using or not using “.com” domains for
your website.

2.2.2 WordPress.org

 Regular
 Network or Multisite
 We need to be aware of which one we are talking about, reading about or
using, there are some differences. 10 WordPress versions

2.3 System Requirements for WordPress

 Database: MySQL 5.0+

 Web Server: o WAMP (Windows) o LAMP (Linux) o XAMP (Multi-

platform) o MAMP (Macintosh)

 Operating System: Cross-platform

 Browser Support: IE (Internet Explorer 8+), Firefox, Google chrome, Safari,

Opera

 PHP Compatibility: PHP 5.2+

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2.4 Download WordPress

When you open the link https://wordpress.org/download/, you will get to see a
screen as the following snapshot:

2.5 Create Store Database

 WordPress requires MySQL database. So create a new empty database with
user/password (for example, user as "root" and password as "root" or else you
can set as per your convenience).

 Then, you can continue with the installation process as discussed further

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 SCREEN LAYOUT
3.1 The Dashboard

3.2 WordPress Appearance

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3.3 WordPress Plugins

3.4 WordPress Pages

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3.5 WordPress Widgets

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 CONCLUSION

Websites are playing important part in improvement of business.70% of

the population is using dynamic and interactive websites because of their eye
capturing visual effects. Static websites also have their own place for the
platform where there is specific information required. Static websites require
less investment as compare to dynamic websites. WordPress is the most
popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million
websites.

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 References
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/wordpress/

https://www.w3schools.com/wordpress/

https://www.javatpoint.com/wordpress/

https://www.geeksforgeeks.com/wordpress/

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