Introduction to WordPress & Theme implementation

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What is Wordpress?

• Free open source

• Blogging tool & CMS

• Based on PHP and MySQL

• Many features like plug-in architecture and a templatesystem

• It was started in May27, 2003 with a single bit of codewith a version 0.7 by Matt Mullenweg

Requirements

To run Wordpress on your host you need

• PHP version 4.3 or greater

• MySQL version 4.0 or greater

• Apache server is recommended to get a faster speed andfeatureful server for running wordpress

Features

• No rebuilding

• Wordpress Themes

• Cross Blog communication

• Comments

• Spam protection

• Full user registration.

• Password Protected Posts

Features..

• Easy installation and upgrades

• Workflow

• Multiple authors

• Ping away

Installation

The Blog Frontend

How WordPress Theme Works

Splitting The Files

Index.php

Understanding The Loop

Preview The Theme

• Congrats! You've done the front page (the main part of thetheme). Now, login to your admin panel, go to the Designtab, you should see the GlossyBlue theme, activate it and goto the front page to preview the theme.

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