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LEARN WORDPRESS IN A DAY
The Ultimate Crash Course to Learning the
Basics of Wordpress in No Time
Disclaimer
The information provided in this book is designed or written to provide helpful information on the
subjects discussed. The author’s books are only meant to provide the reader with the basic
knowledge of a certain topics related to different subjects, without any warranties whether the student
will, or will not, be able to incorporate and apply all the information provided. Although the writer
has made his best effort to share the insights of Wordpress with the help different tutorials in this
book but there is need to understand that learning is a difficult task and each person needs a different
timeframe to fully incorporate a new topic. Neither this book nor any other book of the writer
promises that reader will learn certain topics and subjects at any extent within a certain timeframe.
This is all because learning is process that depends various aspects including the learner’s capability
to understand, practice and perform the topic or subject he/she is learning.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Installing WordPress
Chapter 3: Understanding the WordPress Dashboard
Chapter 4: Plugins
Chapter 5: Creating Pages and Posts
Chapter 6: Site Architecture
Chapter 7: Site Architecture
Chapter 8: Backups
Chapter 9: Optimizing WordPress
Chapter 10: SEO
Chapter 11: Comments
Chapter 12: Monetizing
Chapter 13: Maintenance
Chapter 14: Organizing Content
Chapter 15: Working with Contributors
Chapter 16: WordPress Security
Conclusion
Chapter 1: Introduction
Objective: This chapter gives you a brief overview of WordPress and what it can do to help you
create a website.
If you’re new to websites in general but you want to create a blog or site, you’ve probably seen a
product called WordPress thrown around. WordPress is well known in the webmaster world,
because it’s easy to use, you can create a blog within minutes, and best of all – it’s free. In this eBook
we’ll cover everything you need to know about WordPress and how it helps you create a brand and a
presence on the Internet.
Why Use WordPress
If you’re looking at a WordPress solution, you’ve probably already decided to build a website.
WordPress is used by professionals, enthusiasts, and hobbyists. It’s also a good solution for people
who have never had a website and don’t know where to start. That’s what makes WordPress so
valuable for website owners. You don’t need any type of technology knowledge to get started. You
can even build a website for free on the wordpress.com domain. Your site becomes a subdomain of
the main wordpress.com domain, so you just need to write without the worries about hosting and
maintenance.
WordPress is also very versatile, so you can use it for several different types of sites. It was
originally made for bloggers, so it’s well designed for blogging content. After its popularity evolved,
several developers created ecommerce plugins. WooCommerce is probably the most commonly
known ecommerce solution for WordPress.
Content continues to be one of the most important ranking signal for search engines, so many
companies use WordPress for content management solutions. You don’t need to be an expert in any
blogging platforms to implement WordPress, and it’s compatible with alternative platforms such as
Windows servers and Microsoft SQL Server. You’ll need to do some additional configurations to get
it to work, but WordPress is globally available for most platforms and server environments.
The first benefit of WordPress is the ease of use. If you’ve never used it before, it might be a bit
intimidating, but once you work with the platform you’ll find that it’s one of the easiest content
management tools to work with. You don’t need to keep track of posts, pages, or even plugins. The
WordPress dashboard shows you a list of published and draft posts, so you can easily organize your
website content. The WordPress dashboard couldn’t be more intuitive.
You can manage your content from anywhere in the world. Since the WordPress dashboard is
included in the hosted application, you can open your dashboard from any browser as long as you
have access to the Internet and your website.
Even experienced site owners don’t need any HTML or FTP knowledge to work with WordPress.
You don’t need to upload any files or edit any HTML. You just need to install WordPress and start
writing. No technical skill is required to get started.
We’ll cover SEO and search engine visibility, but another benefit of using WordPress is that the code
is clean and it indexes well in search engines. Most webmasters are concerned with Google, and
WordPress sites are easily able to rank and index in the search engine. There are also plenty of
plugins and themes that help improve your SEO strategies and help engage users with the right layout.
WordPress doesn’t require you to have any maintenance or patch skills. You just need to log in to
your dashboard and update any plugins or even WordPress itself with just one click of the mouse.
Again, you don’t need any technical skill to maintain your site. You just need to add a few plugins,
pick a theme, and then start writing. It’s really that simple.
If you want to learn web development, WordPress is a great platform. If you don’t, that’s alright too.
The point is that WordPress is completely customizable, so you don’t need to stick with the same
theme as other webmasters. You can hire a developer to customize a theme and your layout, or you
can get into the code yourself and start with WordPress customizations and coding. You’ll need a
background in PHP coding, HTML and CSS. All three of these languages are easy to learn, so you can
get started with WordPress development with little experience and a little practice with your own
site.
Several other blogging benefits are already packaged with the WordPress installation. You already
have RSS feeds installed, a comments filter called Askimet that filters spam, the right theme gives you
an advertising panel where you can include ads for monetization, and most WordPress themes are
responsive for mobile traffic. All of these benefits are included with either a theme you download
directly from the WordPress plugin store or with the blog installation. This means you don’t need to
take time to develop or install these features yourself, which saves you time and effort when starting a
website.
Plugins are one of the best benefits of WordPress. You don’t need to add extensions to your site or
find a developer to create additions. Thousands of plugins are available for you to download for free.
Every plugin from SEO, content formatting, image creation, layouts, and any other number of features
you need for your blog are available on the WordPress Codex site. There are also numerous premium
plugin sites if you can’t find the right one at the Codex site.
You might be a small site owner now, but you could have a successful high-volume site in the future.
You need scalability to manage site growth, and WordPress will never hold you back from growing
your business. Some large corporations use WordPress to manage their content, so you’re in good
company when you work with WordPress instead of using a custom solution. As a matter of fact,
WordPress is one of the leading content management tools on the market.
Once your business grows, you can add users to your WordPress dashboard to gain more
contributors. WordPress uses a tiered access model where you can have writers, editors, and
administrators. You can have a team of contributors who work on managing your site, so you can
manage other parts of your business. Some site owners contract content managers who find the
writers, develop topics, and then have them edited before posting. They even create a schedule for
your content, which is beneficial especially during the holidays or important events. For large sites, it
can take hours from the owner’s time to properly manage content, and these content management help
reduce the overhead of finding topics and ensuring that nothing but quality is posted to the site.
A Few Disadvantages
Even with its numerous advantages, every solution has some disadvantages, including WordPress.
The benefits definitely outweigh the disadvantages, but you still should know what to look out for
when searching for the right solution.
WordPress plugins are extremely convenient, but they also pose a security threat to the site owner.
You rely on third-party coders to keep their code secure and well written. If a WordPress plugin
coder doesn’t use standards that protect the code from vulnerabilities, then your site becomes
vulnerable. This is probably the number one con to using WordPress. Several hackers publish scripts
that run against any WordPress site to find vulnerabilities. This means that you don’t need to be a
hacker to find issues with a WordPress site. Just download a script on the Internet and run it against a
site, and you could hack the site with your own content.
You can keep your site protected from hackers by continually updating your site with the latest
patches, and you should only download plugins from developers who continually update their code.
WordPress plugins provide several flexible features, but you are still limited to the API. You can
customize WordPress to a point. Any modifications that must work outside the WordPress API will
need to run separately from the core code on the site.
Some site owners might find the limitations too much for their ideal functionality. If that’s the case
with your site, you’ll need to hire a developer to create a custom site, which is much more costly.
These limitations and disadvantages are just a few to consider, but as you can see the advantages are
much more numerous. If you’re a new site owner and don’t know where to start, WordPress can make
your startup creation much simpler. In this eBook, we’re going to discuss the benefits and
functionality of WordPress to help you decide if it’s the right platform for your business.
Lab Questions
1. If you want to add a new feature to your WordPress blog, what is the easiest, fastest way to do it?
a. Hire a developer to customize a plugin
b. Open the WordPress dashboard and customize the code
c. Search the Codex and add a new plugin
d. Download and install a new feature using FTP
Explanation: WordPress has a plugin feature where you can add features without any coding
experience.
2. What is one disadvantage of WordPress?
a. It needs several customizations before it will work for you
b. It requires a coder for additional features
c. Hackers provide scripts to find vulnerabilities in WordPress
d. It’s not a flexible solution for scalability
Explanation: Since WordPress is the same across all sites, a vulnerability in one plugin can mean
vulnerabilities for thousands of site owners.
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