Contents

WordPress Installation ......................................................................................................................... 1

XAMPP, WAMP, MAMP: ...................................................................................................................... 1
Download WordPress .............................................................................................................................. 2
WordPress Installation ............................................................................................................................ 2
WordPress Dashboard ............................................................................................................................. 5
WordPress Dashboard Features .............................................................................................................. 5
Website Template/Theme ....................................................................................................................... 7
Types of WordPress theme ................................................................................................................. 7
Following are the steps for Theme Management. .............................................................................. 8
New pages & posts................................................................................................................................ 10
Posts ...................................................................................................................................................... 10
Add a new post ................................................................................................................................. 10
Publishing a new post ....................................................................................................................... 11
Edit existing post ............................................................................................................................... 12
Delete post ........................................................................................................................................ 12
Pages ..................................................................................................................................................... 12
Add a new page in WordPress .......................................................................................................... 12
WYSIWYG Editor................................................................................................................................ 13
Edit Existing Post ............................................................................................................................... 13
Delete Existing Post ........................................................................................................................... 13
Posts VS Pages ................................................................................................................................... 13

WordPress Installation
XAMPP, WAMP, MAMP:
1. If you are using Windows, you require installing WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, and
PHP).
2. If you are using Linux, you require installing LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP).
3. If you are using MAC, you require installing MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, and
PHP).
4. Or you can also install XAMPP, which is multi-platform and comes with (Apache, MariaDB,
PHP, and Perl).
5. WordPress is compatible with PHP 5.2+ and MySQL 5.0 +
Download WordPress
WordPress is a free and open-source platform under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and you
can download it directly from WordPress's official website. You can also open the
https://wordpress.org/download/ link now to download WordPress.

WordPress Installation
• First, you need to download WordPress and upload it into your localhost or web server project
folder.
• Then you are required to open your web browser and navigate the URL of the WordPress
folder path (In the case of localhost URL will be
http://localhost/wordpress_project_folder_name).
• Next, WordPress installation requires an empty MySQL database, so you require to create it
before.
• Next, the WordPress Setup wizard will ask you for initial information about the website,
which is mentioned below.
Step 1: The WordPress installation setup will ask you about your language preference in the first step.
Here you have to choose the language of your choice and press Continue.
Step 2: The second stage provides the required information before proceeding.
Step 3: You must provide MySQL database connection credentials in this installation step. It will ask
to enter the information related to the MySQL database. Here is the list of fields that the screen will be
asking you to insert:
1. Database Name: This will be the name of the database that you have already created in the
MySQL database to use WordPress.
2. Username: It will be the user name data for your database.
3. Password: Here, you must enter your MySQL database's password.
4. Database Host: is where you have to insert the hostname; the default is "localhost".
5. Table Prefix: is implemented to add prefixes in the database tables, which help run multiple
sites on the same database.

Once you provide all the information, press the Submit button.
Step 4: The installation setup checks the authentication of database credentials and provides you with
a confirmation.
If you have provided the correct MySQL credentials, a new screen will come up with the option "Run
the Install".
Click the "Run the Install" button.
Step 5: This is the final step, where you must provide site admin information.
Enter the administrative information; the form will have the following fields:
1. Title of the site
2. Username
3. Password
4. Your Email address
5. Check-box to allow search engines to index the site.

Once you fill required data in the form, click the "Install WordPress".
Step 6: The admin panel will come up with a login screen. Enter the username and password you have
chosen on the previous screen and log in.
That's it; we have successfully installed WordPress.

WordPress Dashboard
WordPress Dashboard is the first screen of the WordPress admin control panel after the login. It
provides website information at a glance, it's easily customizable, and offers quick access to other
pages. In this tutorial, you will learn about the different segments of the WP dashboard in detail.
For handling all the different utilities of WordPress, you need a control panel from which you can
control and manage your entire WordPress Website. The admin dashboard of WordPress is also called
WP Admin Panel. It acts as a control unit, which consists of a collection of gadgets that can help build
your website with a customized look and theme, and therefore, it is essential to understand what
features it has and how you can use it as a user.

WordPress Dashboard Features

These are the features available on the WordPress Dashboard:
 • Top Admin Bar
• Screen Options
• Welcome to WordPress
• At a Glance
• Activity
• Quick Draft
• WordPress News
• Admin Sidebar Menu

Top Admin Bar

WordPress Top Admin Bar provides shortcut links, including notifications about plugin updates, user
comments, writing or editing posts, user options, etc. You can see that it will be available on all pages
of WordPress after login for your convenience.

Screen Option
The WordPress screen option is related to the current page customization and may contain some
checkboxes to show and hide some screen options.
Screen Option is a collection of different widgets that can be toggled for showing and hiding on some
screens using checkboxes. This dashboard feature allows you to customize the admin screen or panel.

Welcome
It provides some useful links and steps to start working with WordPress for the first time.

At a Glance
It provides a quick overview of published posts, pages, current WordPress version, and active theme
information.

Activity
The activity widget provides quick access to the latest posts and comments. It instantly offers the
option of accepting, declining, answering, editing, deleting, and marking a comment as spam.

Quick Draft
Quick Drafts allows quick access to write and save content from the dashboard. You can draft or
publish new content from here that came to your mind.
It provides a tiny post editor allowing users to write, save, and publish a post from the admin panel. It
also has the provision for adding a draft title, notes about the draft, and a saving option as a Draft.

WordPress News
The WordPress News widget gets information from the official WordPress blog, which contains
information about the latest software releases, updates, news, and alerts.

Admin Sidebar Menu

WordPress Admin Sidebar Menu provides main admin options, which include links such as Posts,
Media, Pages, Comments, Appearances, Plugins, Users, Tools, Settings, etc., used to handle your
entire website components.
Let us understand each of these menus one by one.

• Posts: talks about the entries as contents in reverse chronological order on the posts page.
Also, posts get displayed in the RSS feed of your blog. You can control the number of posts
you want to show at a time from the Reading Settings.
• Pages: It is a static website content element and is not listed according to date. Also, pages do
not make use of tags. An About page is a typical example of a page.
• Media Library: It is an essential repository for media files (such as images, audio, videos, and
other documents) that can be used on your site. It allows you to upload as well as manage
media files in your posts and pages easily and quickly.
• Comments: This section shows your website's visitors' comments as they wanted to
communicate with you, and you can see the list of all comments made by your readers.
• Appearances: This is used to customize your website's look and appearance.
• Plugins: This is a section from where you can incorporate other additional programs for your
website, which can extend the functionality and add new features to your site.
• User: This section helps define what actions the different users of your site are allowed to
perform. These actions are called capabilities.
• Tools: It contains a collection of programs for performing non-routine management tasks.
• Settings: This section is used to set the basic configuration of your site.

Website Template/Theme
Once you install WordPress, you will see a simple site. To make it more robust and intelligent, full of
content, you must establish the most appropriate themes that fit your intentions. It becomes helpful
in adding a visually appealing look to the front and other pages of your website.

With the help of WordPress theme, you can design the layout and appearance of your website in the
front-end.

When WordPress is installed, it has a pre-installed theme which is very simple and unattractive. But
no one wants a website to be that much simple. To make it more attractive one can install and apply
different themes from WordPress.

Themes provide a style (including font styling), colors, page layouts, widget positions, etc. You can
change the theme of your site without changing the content of the site. Themes provide a unique
look to your site.

Types of WordPress theme

There are thousands of themes available on the WordPress. Some are free and some are paid. You
can choose a theme according to your choice.

1. Free

WordPress provides many good looking themes absolutely free in the WordPress theme directory. If
you are using your site for a small audience or yourself, go for free one. Because there are some
chances that same theme is being used by another site.

2. Premium
Premium themes may cost you starting from $1,000. Prize varies depending upon the design and
requirement of your site.

One advantage in premium themes is that they provide a reliable code base and offer support. It
gives you a more enhanced security.

Following are the steps for Theme Management.

Step (1) − Select Appearance → Themes from the dashboard.

Step (2) − The following screen will be displayed. Hover over any theme and click on Theme Details.
Step (3) − When you click on Theme Detail the following page appears. It consists of details related to
the theme. Details like version, description, tags etc.

If you want to add this theme to your page/website then click on Activate, and if you want to just
check the theme, then click on Live preview.

If you click on activate then you get a pop-up message as −

New pages & posts

Once you have chosen a theme, the next thing you need to do is add pages to your website. To do this,
you have to go to "Pages" > choose the "Add New" option. There are various components of this new
Page, creating a screen that will be discussed separately in a further chapter.
Similarly, you can also add content by navigating to "Posts" > "Add New" option. Ensure you refresh
the website after every update from the WordPress dashboard so that the saved changes get reflected
on your website.

Posts
Adding posts in WordPress to insert content (text, multimedia, and other documents) is a common
activity of a WordPress admin user. Posts are also commonly termed blog posts or articles, or blogs.
Putting the content on your website is done using this feature of WordPress. In this tutorial, you will
learn how to use WordPress Posts.
"Posts" is a WordPress component that allows users to inscribe a blog and post it on the associated
site. These posts are listed in descending order on the front page of the website or blog.

Add a new post

Here are the steps to add new posts to WordPress:
1. To add a new Post on your website through WordPress, you must log in to the WordPress
account.
2. There you will see Admin Sidebar Menu on the left.
3. Go to the Posts on the menu and choose Add New.
 4. Now you will see a new screen where you will be given the option to add a title and content
for your web page.
5. There are two primary components of this screen:
a. Title: where you can insert the title of your post
b. Content: where you will inscribe the content for your post. It can be done in two
different ways:
i. Visual mode lets you write in a regular format using WYSIWYG Editor.
ii. Text mode allows you to write in HTML format like you are writing in
Windows Notepad.

Publishing a new post

Once you have created the content for your blog or site and set up all the formats and other tags, you
now need to publish the content. You have to click the Publish button to publish your desired post.
This button will be available on the right side of the panel.
Here is the list of components that comes under the Publish section:
1. Save Draft: This button saves the post as a draft.
2. Preview: This button is for previewing the post before publishing.
3. Move to Trash: This link is for deleting the post.
4. Status: This option is to change the current status of the post, whether it is published, pending,
or under reviewer draft.
5. Visibility: This option is to modify the post's visibility to public, private, or password
protected.
6. Published: This option is for setting the date and time of publication
Edit existing post
You must go to Posts> All Posts to edit a post. There you will see the list of all created posts. Hover
your mouse over any post; You will see the option of Edit and Quick Edit. You can use any one of the
options to make changes to your post.

Delete post
You must go to Posts > All Posts to delete a post. There you will see the list of all existing posts.
Hover your mouse over any posts; you will see a Trash link allowing you to delete the post.

Pages
Pages are static and not changed frequently such as contact us, about us, privacy policy, etc. They
don't have date and time published, however, database stores the published date or time of the page.
They are not included in RSS feeds as they don't have date and time published on the page.
They are neither listed by date nor can be categorized by the category and tags. They can make a
hierarchy by nesting pages under each other making one of them the parent page.
They are not social, hence they don't have the commenting option.
Here are the steps to add new pages in WordPress, and this is similar to adding a new post:

Add a new page in WordPress

1. To add a new Post on your website through WordPress, you must log in to the WordPress
account.
2. You will now see the screen of the Dashboard.
3. On the left side of your Dashboard, you will see Admin Sidebar Menu.
4. Go to the Pages on the menu and choose Add New.
5. Now you will see a new screen where you will be given the option to add a title and content
for your web page.
6. There are two primary components of this screen:
a. Title: This is an input field where you can insert the title of your page
b. Content: This is a textarea where you have to inscribe the content for the page. It can
be used in two different ways:
i. Visual mode: This is where you can write in a regular format by using
WYSIWYG Editor.
ii. Text mode: This is where you can write in HTML format like in Windows
Notepad.
WYSIWYG Editor
WYSIWYG Editor has similar capabilities to a Word Processor, and it is a primary interface where
you can draft and format your content. Various buttons for editing formatting include Bold, Italic,
Word Strike, Bullet-List, Number-List, Block-Quote, Left, Right Alignment, Justify, Add-Link,
Distraction-Free Writing Toggle Button, Toggle Toolbar, and the horizontal line.
Once we write our entire article or content, we can publish the page to the user by clicking the Publish
button from the right window screen.
Here is the list of components that comes under the Publish section:
1. Save Draft: This button saves the page as a draft.
2. Preview: This button is for previewing the page before publishing.
3. Move to Trash: This link is for deleting the page.
4. Status: This option is to change the current status of the page, whether it is published,
pending, or under reviewer draft.
5. Visibility: This option is to modify the page's visibility to public, private, or password
protected.
6. Published: This option is for setting the date and time of publication.

Edit Existing Post

Go to Menu> All Pages to edit a post. There you will see the list of all created pages. Hover your
mouse over any page; You will see the option of Edit and Quick Edit. You can use any one of the
options to make changes to your page.

Delete Existing Post

Go to Pages > All Pages to delete a page. There you will see the list of all existing pages. Hover your
mouse over any page; you will see a Trash link allowing you to delete the page.

Posts VS Pages
Post and page appears to be same on the dashboard as both are used to add content on your site.
People get confused in their usage.
Pages are static. Then don't change frequently. Some examples of pages are contact us, about us,
introduction, etc.
Posts are what you make an update on your post. They need to change very frequently as they need
to keep your site fresh and attractive for your users.