Introduction to WordPress
This 5-minute video provides a brief introduction to the WordPress content management system and demonstrates why it is the most popular web publishing platform today. Covered in this video:
- Brief history of WordPress.
- Why it’s much more than a blogging tool.
- The power of “Open Source.”
- How WordPress works.
- Six reasons to choose WordPress.
If you’re relatively new to WordPress, you may have been confused by the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. If so, you’re not alone! In this video, we’ll take a quick look at the differences between these two related — but distinctively different — versions of the popular WordPress blogging software.
This video will guide you through the steps needed to install the WordPress content management system on your own domain or web server. The five steps to install WordPress…
- First, we’ll download the latest version of WordPress from WordPress.org.
- Then, we’ll upload those files to our web server, using FTP.
- Third, we’ll create a MySQL database and user for WordPress.
- Then, we’ll need to configure WordPress to connect to our newly-created database,
- And lastly, complete the installation and setup our new website.