This is http://increaserss.com . Hello and welcome to our series of video tutorials. In our previous tutorials we covered what WordPress was at its core: a website content management system. In this tutorial, we are going to be covering what kind of wordpress sites there are, so you can set one up and follow along.
The two different wordpress sites are Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org.
So to start, in your web browser, go to "wordpress.com". On the front page you will see some real, live, website examples that use Wordpress. Now, by the time you are watching this tutorial, these website examples will have been updated by Wordpress.com, but observing any one of these example websites will still exemplify my point, so go ahead and click one. Ill click on this door one here. This is obviously a photographer's blog. It looks good, but I want you to notice a few things:
First, it looks like a blog. Second, if we scroll to the bottom, you will see that this website is owned by Wordpress.com. Third, and most importantly, if we look at the address bar, we'll see that this site is only allowed a subdomain of wordpress.com, in the form of ___thewebsitename.wordpress.com. Let's look at another random example. We can see the same thing here.
We see all of this, because wordpress.com is a service that offers cloud hosting-a server, somewhere else, that you don't have access to. Pretty much, Wordpress.com offers nest where you can upload your content easily, at the cost of any real functionality. You don't own your website at wordpress.com, only the idea and content of your website. This means we cannot go beyond the blog. We don't necessarily want a blog. The purpose of this series aims to teach you how to use wordpress to manage your company and increase traffic, not set up a blog. With wordpress.com, you have:
A limited number of plugins
A limited number of themes
No access to your raw files- so you can't harness the power of how wordpress can integrate into any sort of website: not just blog websites.
Because of this, we will be using just the code of wordpress, and not the hosting provided at wordpress.com. To get the code, or "the program by itself", we will need to visit wordpress.org.
Here you will see a pretty basic interface. Simply click on this orange download tab up at the top, and then hit this download Wordpress button downloaded. Well that was fast! But now what do we do with this? If we explore the folder, we'll see a bunch of php code files. This, my friends, is the soul of WordPress. The codes are working together to create one magnificent program that can manage every part of your website.
But what do we do with all of these codes? Well, we first need to install all of this on a server, which we'll do in the next tutorial. There are a few things you need before the next tutorial, however:
Wordpress folder
Code editor
Web host --costs money
Ftp client
First, you need this wordpress folder, so make sure you save these files to a place on your computer that you can remember. As you know, this is free, wordpress is free, and will always be free. Second, and most importantly, you need a server that supports php5 and Mysql. I would recommend a popular cheap server, such as godaddy.com, or bluehost. Third, you need an ftp client where you can connect to your server-I would head over to filezilla-project.org, and download the Filezilla Client. And forth, you need a code editor. Notepad will work for editing code, and we will be using notepad in this series.
Make sure you have these four things before the next tutorial, where we will install wordpress. Now, installing wordpress on our own servers is a bit more tedious then signing up for an automatic installation at wordpress.com, but trust me, it is worth it 100%. The ability to customize wordpress brings all of its power to any sort of website, and in the end, will give you full control over every aspect of your content.
So again, make sure you download wordpress and filezilla, and purchase some hosting, and I'll see you in the next tutorial.
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thank you. I hope you enjoyed the video and found it useful.
theincreaserss 8 months ago