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WordPress – Installation ”; Previous Next System Requirements for WordPress Database − MySQL 5.0 &plus; Web Server − WAMP (Windows) LAMP (Linux) XAMP (Multi-platform) MAMP (Macintosh) Operating System − Cross-platform Browser Support − IE (Internet Explorer 8&plus;), Firefox, Google chrome, Safari, Opera PHP Compatibility − PHP 5.2&plus; Download WordPress When you open the link https://wordpress.org/download/, you will get to see a screen as the following snapshot − Create Store Database WordPress requires MySQL database. So create a new empty database with user/password (for example, user as “root” and password as “root” or else you can set as per your convenience). Then, you can continue with the installation process as discussed further. Set Up Wizard It”s very easy to set up WordPress into your system. The following steps describe how to set up WordPress locally on your system. Step (1) − Extract the downloaded WordPress folder and upload it into your web server or localhost. Step (2) − Open your browser and navigate to your WordPress file path, then you will get the first screen of the WordPress installer as shown in the following screen. In our case, the path is localhost/< Your_wordpress_folder >. Select your language for the WordPress and click on Continue. Step (3) − In this step, you can view the information needed for the database before proceeding with WordPress installation. Click on Let”s go! Step (4) − Here, you have to enter the information about the MySQL database as described in the following screen. Database Name − Enter the database name which you have created in MySQL database for WordPress. Username − Enter the user name of your MySQL database. Password − Enter the password which you had set for MySQL database. Database Host − Write the host name, by default it will be localhost. Table Prefix − It is used to add prefix in the database tables which helps to run multiple sites on the same database. It takes the default value. After filling all information, click on Submit button. Step (5) − WordPress checks the database setting and gives you the confirmation screen as shown in the following snapshot. Click on Run the install Step (6) − Enter administrative information. It contains the following fields − Site Title − Enter the name of the site which you are going to create in WordPress. Username − Enter the username as per your choice while logging in the WordPress. Password twice − Enter password two times to protect your site. Your E-mail − Enter your e-mail address which helps to recover the password or any update. Privacy − It allows the search engine to index this site after checking the checkbox. After filling all the information, click on the Install WordPress button. Step (7) − After installation being successful, you will get a screen of the stating success as seen in the following screen. You can view your username and password detail added in WordPress. Click on Log In button. Step (8) − After clicking on login, you will get a WordPress Admin Panel as depicted in the following screen. Enter the username and password which you had mentioned during installation as shown in step 6 and click on the Log In button. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Media Setting ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about Media Settings in WordPress. It is used to set the height and width of the images which you”re going to use on your website. Step (1) − Click on Settings → Media option in WordPress. Step (2) − The Media Settings page is displayed as seen in the following screenshot. Following are the details of the fields on Media settings − Thumbnail size − Set the size of the thumbnail. Medium size − Set the height and width of medium size images. Large size − Set width and height of larger images. Uploading files − After checking this checkbox, the uploaded image will be arranged into year and month based folder. Step (3) − After setting the dimension in pixels, click on Save Changes button. It saves your media setting information. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Permalink Setting ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will learn about Permalink settings in WordPress. Permalink is a permanent link to a particular blog post or category. It allows setting the default permalink structure. These settings are used to add permalinks to your posts in WordPress. Following are the steps to access permalink settings. Step (1) − Click on Settings → Permalinks option from the left navigation menu. Step (2) − When you click on Permalinks, the following page appears on the screen. Here are a few settings you can make − Common settings − Check any of the radio buttons to choose your permalink structure for your blogs Default − It sets the default URL structure in WordPress. Day and name − It sets URL structure according to the date and name in your posts. Month and name − It sets the URL structure according to the month and name in your post. Numeric − It sets numbers in the URL structure in your post. Post name − It sets post name in the URL structure in your post. Custom Structure − It sets the URL structure of your choice by writing the desired name in the given text box. Optional These are optional. You can add custom structure for main category or tag URL. If your text box is empty then default settings is used. Here you have two options. Category Base − Add custom prefix for your category URL. Tag Base − Add custom prefix to your Tags URL. Step (3) − Once you are done with changes, click on Save Changes button to save the permalink settings. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Add Pages ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to Add Pages into the WordPress. Adding pages is similar to adding posts in WordPress. Pages are static content and often do not change its displayed information. Following are the simple steps to add pages in WordPress. Step (1) − Click on Pages → Add New as shown in the following screenshot. Step (2) − You will get the editor page as seen in the following screenshot. The editor page has two tabs, Visual and Text. You can insert text in either of these. Here, we”ll study about inserting text into Visual format. Following are the details of the fields on editor page of the Add New Page. Title It is used to write the title of the article, which is later displayed on the page. Permalink shows the potential URL for the page below the title. The URL generates as per the given title. WYSIWYG Editor It is a WYSIWYG Editor, which is similar to a word processor interface where you can edit the contents of the article. Following are the options present of WYSIWYG editor − Bold Button − Used to bold your font. Italic − Used to italicize the font. Word Strike − Strikes through the content. Bullet List − Adds bullets to content. Number List − Adds numbers to the list of the content. Blockquote − Quotes the text. Horizontal Line − Creates a horizontal line between sentences. Left Align − Sets the content on the left side of the page. Right Align − Sets the content to the right side of the page. Justify − Justifies the content of the page. Add Link − Adds a link to your content. When you click on this button, the following page gets displayed. Following are the fields present in the Insert/edit link. URL − Enter URL you want to link. Link text − Insert text you want to enter into the link. Open link in a new window/tab − Open your link page into the new tab or window. Check the box as required. Or link to existing account − Links to an existing content page by selecting the page from the given list. When you click on existing page then you get a link created in the URL section as seen in the following screenshot. Remove Link − Deletes the particular link added for text or content. Read more tag − Adds Read More tag to your page. Toolbar toggle − Clicking on this you get another list of toolbar as shown in the following image. Paragraph − Selects the headings as required for the text from the dropdown. Underline − Underlines the sentences. Justify − Justifies your content. Text Color − Sets color for words or sentences. Paste as Text − Pastes your text. Clear Formatting − Deletes selected content. Special character − Inserts special characters needed in your content. Increase Indent − Increases the indent of the page. Decrease Indent − Decreases the indent of the page. Undo − Reverses the most recent editing command. Redo − Opposite of undo, restores the most recent editing command. Text Insertion For writing the content of an article. Publish To publish the page to the user on the website. Page Attribute Page attributes module allows you to select the parents for your particular page. You can also set order of the pages. Parent − Allows you to select parent page. Order − Sets the order of the page. Featured Images Includes the images in the pages. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Useful Resources ”; Previous Next The following resources contain additional information on WordPress. Please use them to get more in-depth knowledge on this topic. Useful Video Courses WordPress + Woo commerce Course: Build and Launch Successful Stores 146 Lectures 12.5 hours Theo McArthur More Detail Complete WordPress Course from Scratch in Hindi 55 Lectures 3.5 hours Ganesh Bagaria More Detail WordPress : Learn to Create a professional webshop 46 Lectures 3.5 hours Ronak Parmar More Detail Complete WordPress Website Design Course: Plus Divi Theme 58 Lectures 8.5 hours Mayokun Oduoste More Detail Build Digital Marketing Agency WordPress Website for FREE 23 Lectures 1.5 hours Being Commerce More Detail Setup Digital Marketing Agency WordPress Website with Ease 22 Lectures 3 hours Being Commerce More Detail Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Add Tags ”; Previous Next Tag is a small information attached to the main content or post for the purpose of identification. It tells the visitors what actually the post is about. If the tag is mentioned properly then it helps to find the content very easily. Following are the steps to Add Tags in WordPress. Step (1) − Click on Posts → Tags in WordPress. Step (2) − The Tags page is displayed. Following are the details of the fields on Tags. Name − Enter the name of tags. Slug − A word chosen to describe your post. It is specified in the tags URL. Description − Add brief description of your tag. It gets displayed when you hover on the tag. After filling all the information about Tags, click on Add New Tag button. Step (3) − The new created tags will get displayed on the right side of the page as shown in the following screenshot. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Interview Questions ”; Previous Next Dear readers, these WordPress Interview Questions have been designed specially to get you acquainted with the nature of questions you may encounter during your interview for the subject of WordPress. As per my experience good interviewers hardly plan to ask any particular question during your interview, normally questions start with some basic concept of the subject and later they continue based on further discussion and what you answer − What is WordPress? WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which allows the users to build dynamic websites and blog. List some features of WordPress? The features of WordPress are − User Management Media Management Theme System Extend with Plugins Search Engine Optimized Multilingual Importers What are disadvantages of WordPress? The disadvantages of WordPress are − Using several plugins can make website heavy to load and run. PHP knowledge is required to do modification or changes in the WordPress website. Sometimes software needs to be updated to keep the WordPress up to date with the current browsers and mobile devices. Updating of WordPress version leads to loss of data so it requires the backup copy of website. Modifying and formatting the graphic images and tables is difficult. What are the different types of gadgets present in the WordPress Dashboard? The different types of gadgets present in the WordPress Dashboard are − Dashboard Menu Screen Options Welcome Quick Draft WordPress News Activity At a Glance What is the use of Quick Draft section in WordPress Dashboard? The Quick Draft is a mini post editor allows writing, saving and publishing post from admin dashboard. It includes the title for the draft, some notes about your draft and save it as a Draft. What is the use of WordPress News in WordPress Dashboard? The WordPress News widget displays the latest news such as latest software version, updates, alerts, news regarding the software etc from the official WordPress blog. What is At a glance in WordPress Dashboard? This section gives overview of your blog”s posts, number of published posts and pages, number of comments. When you click on these links, you will be taken to the respective screen. It displays the current version of running WordPress along with currently running theme on the site. What is Activity Widget in WordPress Dashboard? The Activity widget includes latest comments on your blog, recent posts and recently published posts. It allows you to unapprove or approve the comment, reply to the comment, editing the comment or you can delete the comment or move it to spam. What is the use of WordPress General Setting? WordPress general setting is used to set the basic configuration settings for your site. What is WordPress Writing Setting? The writing settings controls WordPress writing experience and provides options for customizing WordPress site. These settings control WordPress”s features in the adding and editing posts, Pages, and Post Types, as well as the optional functions like Remote Publishing, Post via e-mail, and Update Services. What is the use of Post via e-mail option in WordPress Writing Setting? This option uses email address to create post for you and publishes posts on your blog by email. To use this, you”ll need to set up a secret e-mail account with a POP3 access, and any mail received at this address will be posted. What is WordPress Reading Setting? Reading Setting is used to set the content related to the front page. Here you can set the number of post to be displayed on the main page. What is the use of Syndication feeds show the most recent field in WordPress Reading Settings? The user can view the number of posts when they download one of the site feeds. By default, it is set as 10. What is the use of Search Engine Visibility field in WordPress Reading settings? It Discourage search engines from indexing this site, your site will be ignored by the search engine. What is WordPress Discussion setting? WordPress discussion setting can be defined as the interaction between the blogger and your visitors. These settings are done by the admin to have a control over the posts/pages that come in through users. What is the use of Media setting? It is used to set the height and widths for the images which you”re going to use into your website. What is Permalink setting? Permalink is a permanent link to a particular blog post or category. It allows setting the default permalink structure. These settings are used to add permalinks to your posts in WordPress. What is Plugin setting? Plugin allows easily modifying, customizing or enhancing wordPress blog or post. The wordPress Plugin is software that can be uploaded to expand the functionality of the site. They add services or features to wordPress blog. What is wordPress Category? Category is used to indicate sections of your site and group related posts. It sorts the group content into different sections. It is a very convenient way to organize the posts. What is wordPress Post? Posts are also known as articles and sometimes referred as blogs or blog posts. These are used to popularize your blogs. What is Preview Post in wordPress? Preview Post is to view the post before it is published to the user. It”s safer to preview your post and verify how your post looks on website. What is Publish Post in wordPress? Publish is used to make the post available to all the users wherein every user can view that particular post. What is Media Library? Media Library consists of the images, audios, videos and files that you can upload and add to the content when writing a Post or Page. What is Grid View in Media Library? It displays all images in the grid format. How media files can be inserted into the WordPress site? Media files can be inserted to your Pages or Posts from libraries, from local storage or from URLs. What are pages in wordPress? Pages are

WordPress – Spam Protection ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will learn how to protect your WordPress blog or website from spam. Make sure that your WordPress script is updated to the latest stable version. WordPress comes with a preinstalled antispam solution – Akismet. You can activate Akismet, for which you should have a WordPress API key. You have to register at the official WordPress website. The key will be sent to your mail box. Following are the steps to follow to enable Akismet Spam Protection plugin for your website or blog. Step (1) − Go to your WordPress admin area → Plugins → Installed. The following screen will be displayed. Step (2) − Click on Activate button as shown in the following screen. Step (3) − The Akismet plugin will be activated and then Click on Activate your Akismet account button as shown in the following screen. Step (4) − Click on Get your API key as seen in the following screen to get a new key or enter manually, if you already have API key. Step (5) − If you don”t have API key then, click on GET AN AKISMET API KEY tab to move further. Step (6) − Fill up the required fields and click on Sign up button as shown in the following screen. Step (7) − Once you complete with signup process. You will get an API key in your registered e-mail id. Enter API key manually and click on Use this key button as seen in the following screen. Step (8) − If you have entered a correct API key, it will be verified and you will get a confirmation message as reflected in the following screen. Step (9) − Now your blog will be protected from spam by Akismet. You will be able to check the comments in your blog for spam, as well as manually mark comments as spam from the blog admin area → Comments. You can keep a track of how many spam posts have been stopped by Akismet and you can secure your posts, blogs, comments, etc. Furthermore, you can prevent your website from spammers, who can harm your site. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Reset Password ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will learn how to reset your passwords in WordPress. We have two methods of resetting passwords in WordPress − User Lost your password Let”s look how to set password through the User section. Step (1) − Login to your wordPress admin panel and click on Users → All Users from the dashboard. Step (2) − When you click on All Users you get a page with a list of users. From this select the one you want to reset password of and click on edit. When you click on edit, the following page gets displayed. Now let”s look into resetting your password using Lost your password section. Step (3) − In this page you can type in your new password that must contain 7 characters. Once you are done with setting your new password click on Update Profile. Step (3.1) − When you try logging into your WordPress admin panel, you forget your password and need to reset it, you get the following message on the page. Step (3.2) − Click on Lost your password? The following page appears. Update your e-mail and say Get New Password. Step (3.3) − After you click, you get a message saying a Link has been sent to the e-mail address you provided. Step (3.4) − Go to your e-mail and open the (WordPress Site) Password Reset mail and click on the link that is provided. Step (3.5) − Type your new password, confirm again if required and then click on Reset Password. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

WordPress – Host Transfer ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to transfer WordPress to a new hosting platform. Here, we have used Hostinger web hosting to transfer the WordPress site to another host. Just follow the simple steps given below to transfer your WordPress site to another host. Step (1) − Keep the backup of WordPress files and export the database. We will study about this in detail in the chapter WordPress – Backup & Restore Step (2) − Login to your cPanel and click on MySQL Databases as shown in the following screen. Step (3) − Create a new database and MySQL user as shown in the following screen. The page has the following fields − MySQL Database Name − Enter your database name. MySQL Username − Enter your username. Password − Set password for your database. Password again − Once again set the same password as previous for authentication. After filling all the fields, Click on Create button. Step (4) − You can view your created MySQL database, User and Host as shown in the following screen. Step (5) − Click on &plus; symbol. Step (6) − Click on phpMyAdmin. Step (7) − Click on Import tab on the phpMyAdmin page. Step (8) − Click on Choose File button to select the backup file from your system and click on Go button. Step (9) − You can view the tables of database uploaded as shown in the following screen. Step (10) − Upload your WordPress files by using file transfer protocol(FileZilla) as shown in the chapter WordPress – Backup & Restore in Restoring WordPress Files section. Step (11) − Edit wp-config.php file as mentioned in the Restoring WordPress Files section in chapter WordPress – Backup & Restore. Step (12) − Inside the Website section of hostinger, Click on Auto Installer. Step (13) − You can view the uploaded file of the WordPress. Click on the URL link as shown in the following screen. Step (14) − You can view the login page of WordPress. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;