Your First Wordpress Website

Make your first wordpress website

In this lesson we are going to get started with setting up our wordpress website on our local machine. So let us start!

1.  First of all you require wamp server which is windows based development environment. WAMP is best for making windows based web applications. WAMP server has three things Apache server, PHP and MYSQL.  So, download wampserver from this link

http://download.cnet.com/WampServer/3000-2196_4-10797034.html

2. Once you have downloaded wamp server the installation of wampserver is pretty straight farward. Just track the exe file you have just downloaded and double click it. It is pretty much automatic and self explanatory. So keep on clicking next and finish the installation. 

3. Once you have installed wamp server you would like to test it in an internet browser whether it is working or not.

4. Click the start menu and click on start wampserver. Wamp server icon would appear on right bottom first it would be red, then yellow and finally white. It s icon is shown on right bottom where you see the time

5. Now open your internet browser and write http://localhost/. You will get to the root of your WAMP server. This is the page which shows what ever you place in your www folder in c  drive and we also call it the root of our local server.

6. Now you have completely set up your local server on your local machine. Using WAMP server you can not only run Wordpress but you can also run and test any kind of php sql based web applications. So it is a very good tool to learn as it gives you an environment to test your web aps on your system before finally launching them on a live server.

7. Your root directory where you would place all your aps would be  C:\wamp\www.

8. To upload your database and create user there is phpmyadmin that comes with WAMP server. It is also a very important tool to learn we will talk about it later once we set up the database and user for our wordpress website

9. Now go to www.wordpress.org and download the latest version of wordpress.

10.   Once the download of wordpress is complete you will observe that downloaded file is a compressed zip file.

11.   Unzip this file on your root directory  (C:\wamp\www) in www folder

12.   Once you have done that open your internet browser and write http://localhost/

13.   Now you can also see the “wordpress” folder in which you extracted your wordpress installation files.

14.   Now we need to create a database and a user for our wordpress installation

15.   Database and users are created in phpmyadmin. So, click on “phpmyadmin”  as shown in the snapshot below on your localhost page

16.   You will enter phpmyadmin which is a very useful tool to learn. Enter the name of the database and remember the name I would write “wordpress” as the name of the database and click create and your database with the name wordpress would be created.

17.   Next click on privilidges you will see that by default a user with the name of root is already there and the name of your server is localhost

18.   Now you have three config details your database name that is “wordpress”, your user name that is root and your servername that is “localhost”

19.   Now go to www folder and then in wordpress installation folder you will see a file with a name of ‘wp-config-sample’. Rename it to ‘wp-config’ and open it

20.   Look for these details replace the text ‘database_name_here’ with the database name that is ‘wordpress’ in our case, write ‘root’ in place of ‘username_here’ and there was no password so remove the text ‘password_here’.

21.   Now save this file and close it. Go to your browser and write http://localhost

22.    Click on wordpress and youwill go to the wordpress installation page

23.   Write all the installation details the username password and remember your username and password, your email address and once done click ‘install wordpress’ button

24.   Your wordpress installation is complete now and you will get the installation success page

25.   Now click on login and write down the user name and password you chose in the previous step and click login and now you are logged into your dashboard.

26.   Now your wordpress installation is complete to view your website you have just created click on visit site button which is on left top of your dashboard as shown in the snapshot below

27.   Below is the snap shot of your first wordpress website

28.   Up till now you have successful configured local environment for wordpress development on your local machine and also made your first wordpress website … WOW!

29.   In the next post we would try to push further try to understand different parts of our dashboard or admin panel and create header pages and posts of our wordpress website, play with plugins and learn about permalinks.

30.   So stay tuned more to come!

If you want to read more about wordpress you can visit below links.
http://zeeshandurrani.com
https://www.facebook.com/wordpresstoday

Wordpress How To Get Started!

First of all let me give you a brief introduction about wordpress what is wordpress? Wordpress is world’s most popular content management system today and it is used to make dynamic websites with ease. It is recommended for the people who do not have a good time with programming. World’s top brands like ebay, yahoo, dig blog, ford, wallstreet journal and sony etc. are using word press to power up their websites.

There is a misconception that wordpress is only for blogs in my opinion wordpress can be used to make any kind of dynamic website. Wordpress really saves your precious time and money. Some of its great applications are like making an online store, a job board, a membership website, a real estate website, an online telephone directory etc. Believe me if you would have to build this using programming it would have taken a lot of time and money. There are thousands of free themes available online which you can install to give a beautiful look to your website and more than 18000 plugins to transform your website to anything.  And there number is increasing all the time.

 

Thanks to the programmers who are keeping wordpress alive and making our lives easy by contributing new themes and plugins. We’ll also be developing plugins and themes also but there are also beginners who would be learning all this stuff so I would start from scratch and go to advance topics gradually so that you don’t have gaps in your knowledge and don’t miss anything. Believe me learning wordpress is a great skill and fun. I will teach you everything stepwise and all the next posts would be about practically taking you through the journey of setting up your own wordpress website.

 

We will make a website locally, put it online on a live server and hook in some fantastic plugins. So let us begin!

 

I have divided the process into parts and in future posts I will be covering  the below topics

1.     Setting up local environment for wordpress installation on your pc

2.     Installing wordpress on local machine

3.     Logging in to wordpress admin panel or dash board

4.     Getting acquaintance with different parts of admin panel

5.     Setting up your website making pages and posts and setting featured images to posts

6.     Settings like permalinks and static homepage

7.     Increasing the media upload limit of your website on local machine

8.     Installing wordpress theme and tweaking your website header

9.     Installing plugins

10.   Testing your website locally in your internet browser

11.   Steps of backing up your website database and files

12.   Installing Filezilla and transferring and setting up your website on a live server

13.   Addressing the security issues with the website

14.   Making a child theme

15.   Adding Flash animations into your website

16.   Ways to speed up your website

17.   Converting your wordpress website to a money making machine

18.   Making an online store with wordpress

19.   Making a membership website with wordpress

20.   Making a Helpdesk ticketing application for an IT company

21.   Making an online telephone directory with wordpress

Learning wordpress is fun! Stay tuned more to come!