Introduction to WordPress: What It Is and Why It’s Popular
In thisIntroduction to WordPress, we learn that WordPress is an open-source content management system that allows users to generate, modify, and manage websites and blogs with ease and without any technical knowledge.WordPress is made by Matt Mullenweg, powering 43.4% of the website on the entire internet. After that, in 2009, it was announced open and free source for all. WordPress is a widely used blogging system on websites which allows its users to change, manage and customize websites with the help of a content management back up support system. This CMS is widely used around the world by different publishers, bloggers, editors and businessmen whether it’s online or physical. Famous websites which are powered by WordPress are whitehouse and Microsoft websites. These famous websites are made on WordPress.
Introduction to WordPress Features:
What are the features and qualities of WordPress? Why should someone use WordPress?
- Easy to use: WordPress is an open source and free of cost platform. It is quite easy to edit, create, and modify the content. Anyone can manage the content on a WordPress website without having any coding knowledge.
- Easy to manage content: Managing content on WordPress is also very easy. You can easily edit or delete the digital content e.g. music, photos and posts etc. On WordPress, online stores can be monitored easily. You can easily manage your product listing, pricing and orders etc.
- Easy to find help: whenever you face any issue in WordPress, you can easily find support to resolve the problem through different blogs, posts, tutorial, forums and Facebook groups.
- Flexibility: Thousands of pre designed templates and themes are available to cater different websites designs and styles for complex business websites as well as simple blog posts. These ready made website’s themes and designs can be easily customized for specific needs and requirements.
- Search engine optimization: WordPress was created to follow the SEO rules to rank and show websites to the intended audience. This SEO function ensures to increase the traffic and visibility of the website on search engines.
- Plugin availability: Various plugin options available in plugin’s library like SEO tools, online stores solutions, galleries images and contact forms. These plugins enhance the functionality of your website which is possible just by Plugins.
How to download WordPress?
WordPress is a free and open source platform. Anyone can download WordPress on their computer or laptop freely with the help of a few following steps. Downloading a WordPress on a computer or laptop manually is a valuable skill not only for beginners but also for experienced users.
In this article we will guide you how to download and install WordPress manually for free. There are several steps involved in the installation of WordPress.
Visit the link https://wordpress.org/download/ to download WordPress.
When you click on the link, downloading will start.
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Setting up Wizard
Setting up a wizard on your server is quite easy. By following these steps, you can set up WordPress on your computer locally. Click on the circled tabs to download WordPress. After clicking this WordPress file would be stored on your system.
Step 1: In the first step, you should click on the WordPress file which was downloaded. After clicking, just upload this file on your system or local host.
Step 2: Open your system browser, e.g. Opera, Firefox or Google chrome and head towards the WordPress file, you will get the new tab open for WordPress installer as shown under. In our example, our WordPress file path is locally hosted.
localhost/< Your_wordpress_folder >.
You can select any language of your preference and then click on continue.
Step 3: In this step, you have to fill in the essential information necessary for WordPress installation e.g. Database name, User name, password and host etc.
Database Name:Fill in the database name that you have selected for MySQL database for WordPress.
Username:Write the user name, who will use the website which you had created for MySQL Database.
Password:Write the Password, which you had created for MySQL Database.
Database Host:Enter the Database Host information, however by default it must be localhost.
Table Prefix:Table prefix aid in running various websites on the same database. It is mainly used to add a Prefix table on a Database.
After fulfilling all the information and requirements which was essential to provide, Just click on the Submit button.
Step 4: WordPress examines all the information provided and settings. After checking, the confirmation screen will pop up as shown in the picture below.
Just click on the encircled button, RUN THE INSTALL.
Step 5: Write all the information of the administrator. Tags which are needed for entering the information are shown in the picture.
It encompassed following information
- Site Title: write the name of the website which you will make on WordPress.
- Username: Write the name of the user who will operate and administrate the website.
- Password: write the password which contains symbols, letters and numbers.
- Email address: write the email address for your security purposes and link it to your email. Email is vital to recover and upgrade the platform.
- Privacy: it permits the search engine to list your site after verifying the checkbox.
Click on the install WordPress button after providing all the information.
Step 6: After successful installation of the WordPress, a new tab of log in details will appear as follows.
You can click on the login button as all the information on the tab is already given which you have provided in previous steps.
Step 7: In this step you will get a WordPress admin panel after clicking on the login button as shown in the picture below.
Enter all the information which you had provided during installation steps and click on the login button. You will automatically enter into the WordPress Dashboard.
Audience:
This step by step installation method is written for those who have prior knowledge of HTML and CSS. and for those who want to learn web development as a skill. After getting and studying all the information provided, one can easily develop expertise of moderate level in making websites and blogs on WordPress.
Prerequisites for an Introduction to WordPress Setup:
The prerequisites of this tutorial is that one who is taking step by step guidance must have prior basic knowledge of CSS and HTML. Otherwise various online videos can help in getting Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.