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    Setup Your WordPress 4.X.X Website From Scratch
    Setup Your WordPress 4.X.X Website From Scratch
    Setup Your WordPress 4.X.X Website From Scratch
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    Setup Your WordPress 4.X.X Website From Scratch

    By Ivan Bayross

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    This book covers all aspects of setting up a WordPress website on any web host of your choice.

    The chapters are richly sprinkled with grabbed screens and simple, easy to follow, instructions so that even a novice can install, configure and finally skin a WordPress website.

    After your WordPress website has been setup successfully, you learn how to add functionality to your website that does not exist in the WordPress core, using several free plugins.

    A bonus PDF book download which covers additional topics in WordPress and and an important group of WordPress plugins.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIvan Bayross
    Release dateJan 14, 2015
    ISBN9781311212405
    Setup Your WordPress 4.X.X Website From Scratch
    Author

    Ivan Bayross

    My name is Ivan Bayross, I'm Gemini/Cancer cusp born. A 61 year old techno geek and published author. Here is what's been at the center of my world for the past 30 odd years: I was born, grew up, and live in Mumbai, with my wife Cynthia and our daughter Chriselle. Mumbai is the commerce capital of the sub-continent called - India. Did my M.Tech in Manchester U.K. where I specialized in DBMS. Did a diploma in Business Management from the same place. Own a software development and export house located at Vile Parle East, a suburb of Mumbai, along with my wife Cynthia, where we craft commercial applications using Open source and Microsoft tools and technologies. I have written and published 70 books most of them focused on commercial application development using Microsoft and Open Source tools and technologies. To know what books I've written and published do take get a quick look at: http://www.ivanbayross.com/mybooks.html I guest lecture at a couple of MBA and Engineering colleges in Mumbai. Today, it's guest lecturing that gives me my greatest satisfaction.

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      Setup Your WordPress 4.X.X Website From Scratch - Ivan Bayross

      SETUP YOUR WORDPRESS 4.X.X

      WEBSITE FROM SCRATCH

      Then go on to create your Website, Blog, add a Contact Us form with CAPTCHA, Social Media share icons, Social Media follow icons, a live Twitter feed, and so much more...

      Free Additional EBook For Download

      This is the only WordPress book that offers you an additional PDF book, packaged with vital information covering additional topics in WordPress and an important group of WordPress plugins.

      Authored by

      Ivan Bayross

      Contact Information

      Personal Website: http://www.ivanbayross.com

      Training Website: http://www.opensourcevarsity.com

      Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/ivanbayross

      Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ivan.bayross

      LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/in/ivanbayross

      Copyright

      The right of Ivan Bayross to be identified as the author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system, copied in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise transmitted without written permission from the publisher. You must not circulate this book in any format.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Thank You

      Chapter 01: An Introduction to WordPress

      Chapter 02: Why do I need hosting?

      Chapter 03: What is cPanel?

      Chapter 04: Uploading & Installing WordPress To Your Webhost

      Chapter 05: Acquiring WordPress

      Chapter 06: Uploading WordPress To A Webhost Using Its cPanel

      Chapter 07: Uploading WordPress To Your Webhost Using FTP

      Chapter 08: WordPress 4.X.X Pre-install Tasks

      Chapter 09: Installing WordPress CMS On Your Webhost

      Chapter 10: Login To WordPress 4.X.X Admin Section

      Chapter 11: WordPress Configuration

      Chapter 12: Create A Page

      Chapter 13: Creating A Post

      Chapter 14: Formatting Page Or Blog Post Content

      Chapter 15: Adding Images To A Page

      Chapter 16: Using The WordPress Menu System

      Chapter 17: WordPress Widget

      Chapter 18: WordPress Plugins

      Conclusion

      Foreword

      WordPress is a very mature, extremely well supported, open source, Content Management System (CMS) and Blogging system available for free download and use by everyone.

      WordPress CMS has made the building of Internet driven applications, Blogsites, websites, portals, EShops, simple. Using WordPress, people with limited (or no) programming skills can setup and maintain websites that have superb functionality, look amazing and deliver services, products or just plain information to site visitors, almost effortlessly.

      There is a learning curve for WordPress, but it’s definitely not a steep one. Anyone who can use an editor like Microsoft Word competently ought to be able to install, setup, configure and use WordPress successfully.

      This E-Book has been written specifically to assist anyone who wants to install setup, configure and use WordPress successfully, on any web host of their choice.

      In each section there is a step-by-step tutorial that walks you through whatever you have to do. The tutorial is built using an appropriate screen grab for every step. The screen grab displays exactly what you will see on your own computer screen when working through the material, with an explanation of what you must do to achieve a defined goal.

      Hence, all you have to do is to work through the chapters of this book to successfully install, setup, configure and use WordPress on any web host of your choice.

      This book covers the structure of a standard five page website. The pages being:

      * Home

      * About Us

      * Contact Us ( i.e. A contact us form plus the use of CAPTCHA )

      * Privacy Policy

      * Disclaimer

      The E-book explains how this five page website can be crafted using the built in tools of WordPress CMS.

      All resources required when structuring the above five pages, such as:

      * A Favicon

      * A Logo

      * Images

      * Lorem Ipsum text snippets

      * Additional WordPress User templates

      And more

      Are available for – Free Download. This will definitely help speed up your WordPress learning curve quite a bit.

      As an added bonus at no extra cost, is a companion website accessible to all those who buy my book. It’s http://www.opensourcevarsity.com. There are a host of WordPress tutorials available for free download from OpenSourceVarsity.com. There is also a helpful forum, where you can ask questions and get answers. You can also talk to me on my regular Skype based webinars. Why wait? Get you free account on OpenSourceVarsity.com right now.

      To the many seasoned web designers, web developers and budding WordPress enthusiasts who read this book I welcome your brickbats or bouquets. Without you I would not be an author. You can contact me via my email id – ivanbayross@opensourcevarsity.com.

      It’s your constructive criticism that helps me evolve and become the best technical author I can ever be.

      If you need extra help while working your way through this material I encourage you to create your account on http://www.opensourcevarsity.com access its WordPress tutorials. Use its excellent tech forum to post your queries. The tech forum has a really helpful community. All of this completely free of any cost.

      I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the two people who proof read my material, fixed my typos, ensured that the diagrams in each section are numbered correctly, ensured that page numbers were correct, created the book index, and took perfect care of so many vital manuscript issues plus consistently supporting and encouraging me:

      Kavita and Meher, you both are the wind beneath my wings.

      I am forever grateful.

      Finally and most importantly I need to thank my wife Cynthia who always encouraged me whenever I thought that I would never get a manuscript ready for publishing. You’ve always helped keep my feet planted firmly on the ground, while you pushed me to reach up as far as I can, in you I’m truly blessed.

      Thank You For Buying My Book

      Chapter 01 - An Introduction to WordPress

      What Is A CMS?

      A Content Management System (CMS) is software that makes it easy for non techies to organize and manage website content, made available to site visitors, via the Internet. This is big, because a CMS makes creating, maintaining and updating a website really simple and so affordable – Hey WordPress CMS is free.

      This is an enormous boost to tons of small businesses or organizations that do not have a massive tech budget. WordPress simplifies various website creation processes and puts the website back into the hands of content creators, allowing the website owner to spend a lot more time on what really matters—the website content.

      What Is A WordPress?

      WordPress is a Free Open Source software that works brilliantly as a Content Management System. Additionally, it is the best blogging framework available today. It is easy to build a lightning fast website and Blog site using WordPress.

      * First off, since WordPress is open source, it’s free.

      * Since its open source it has a thriving community of developers constantly improving the software and creating plugins to expand the WordPress core functionality.

      * WordPress lets you create pages (standalone content) and Blog posts (time-driven content) to flesh out the content of your site.

      * The site’s look and feel can be changed instantly using thousands of WordPress themes available on the Internet. WordPress themes are custom designs for your website. A ton of themes are available for free, a ton of premium themes are available for a few dollars cost each. It’s the WordPress theme that controls how everything is laid out and organized in your site visitors Browser.

      * Since WordPress is written in PHP it is easily customizable. It can be used to craft just about anything

      What Is A Blog?

      A blog is a

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