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CMS Systems and WordPress
Content Management,Working with WordPress
Pavel Ivanov
Telerik Corporation
www.telerik.com
Slide2Table of Contents
Content Management Systems (CMS)Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, SharePoint ...Working with WordPress
Installing and ConfiguringAdministrative Interface: Pages, Posts, Categories, Comments, Settings ...ThemesPluginsCreating / Modifying WordPress Themes
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Slide3Web Content Management Systems (CMS Systems)
Overview
Slide4Web CMS Systems
Web Content Management Systems (CMS)Software system providing Web site authoring, collaboration and administration toolsUsers with little or no knowledge of HTML can create and manage Web sites content
CMS typical functions:Create / maintain Web sitesAdd / edit / delete pages, documents, news, images, files, forms, polls, events, blogs, …Manage navigation, users, permissions, SEO, …
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Slide5Benefits of CMS Systems
WYSIWYG editorNo need for advanced HTML or CSS skillsNo need for Dreamweaver / FrontPage / etc. or Wiki syntax to learn
Can paste content from a word processorWeb-based accessEdit content from any computerStaff can change content immediatelyNo waiting for Web admin to upload the content
Support for many types of documents and files5
Slide6Examples of CMS Systems
Open Source CMS SystemsJoomlaDrupalWordPress
DotNetNukeCommercial CMS SystemsSharePoint (MOSS)Telerik Sistefinity
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Slide7WordPress
Working with WordPress
Slide8WordPress is not Volkswagen!
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Slide9What is WordPress?
WordPress is one of the world's leading blog and Web CMS systemsOpen-source (free) softwareWritten with PHP and MySQL database
Stores all Web site contents in the database and images / files in the file systemVery powerful, Easy-to-use, SEO friendlyVery large community – themes, plugins, …Official Web site: www.wordpress.org
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Slide10Installing, Configuring, and Developing with XAMPP
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What is XAMPP?XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution for Windows containing MySQL, PHP and PerlAlso contains phpMyAdmin and few other toolsHas Linux version (LAMP)How to install:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/faq-xampp.html
Slide11Running WordPress
InstallingIn the cloud (use WordPress as service)Just create and account at
www.wordpress.comAt your Web hosting providerDownload it!Unzip it in some public directory at the serverCreate the database and run the install script
Self-hostedInstall XAMP + WordPress at your local machineXAMMP/WAMP = Apache + MySQL + PHP11
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Slide12WordPress Themes
Creating / Modifying WordPress Themes
Slide13WordPress Themes
Typical WordPress themes consist ofMain index template – index.phpHeader –
header.phpFooter – foorter.phpSidebar – sidebar.php
Comments template – comments.phpStyles – styles.css13
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Slide14Layout
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Slide15Design
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Slide16Create HTML
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Slide17CUT IT TO WORDPRESS
Slide18WordPress Template Tags
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
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Slide19Creating / Modifying WordPress Themes
Live Demo
Slide20Useful Links
http://codex.wordpress.org/
http://google.com
http://google.com
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Slide21CMS Systems and WordPress
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Slide22Exercises
You are given a simple Web site design (XHTML + CSS + images): WordPress-Homework-Sample-Web-Site.rarYour task is to create a WordPress theme for this site design.