What is WordPress? WordPress Review

1. Introduction to WordPress

WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. Users can build their own websites on servers that support PHP and MySQL databases. WordPress can also be used as a content management system (CMS).

WordPress is a personal blog system that has gradually evolved into a content management system software. It is developed using the PHP language and MySQL database. Users can use their own blogs on servers that support PHP and MySQL database.

WordPress has many free templates developed by third parties, which are easy to install. However, to make your own template, you need to have certain professional knowledge. For example, you must at least know the HTML code, CSS, PHP and other related knowledge under the standard universal markup language.

WordPress officially supports the Chinese version, and there are third-party Chinese language packs developed by enthusiasts, such as the wopus Chinese language pack. WordPress has thousands of various plug-ins and countless theme template styles.

2. Software Features

Because of the powerful scalability of WordPress, many websites have begun to use WordPress as a content management system to build commercial websites. The functions provided by WordPress include:

1. Publish, classify, archive, and collect articles, and count the number of times they are read.

2. Provide RSS aggregation in various forms such as articles, comments, and categories.

3. Provide the functions of adding and categorizing links.

4. Support comment management and spam filtering functions.

5. Supports direct editing and modification of multiple styles of CSS and PHP programs.

6. Conveniently add required pages outside the Blog system.

7. Make your blog more personalized by setting various parameters.

8. Generate static HTML pages with the support of some plug-ins (such as WP-SUPER-CACHE).

9. You can easily change the display effect of the page by selecting different themes.

10. By adding plug-ins, a variety of special functions can be provided.

11. Support Trackback and Pingback.

12. Support import function for some other blog software and platforms.

13. Support member registration and login, and background management functions.

feature

WYSIWYG article editor

Template system, also known as theme system

Unified link management function

PermaLink system optimized for search engines

Supports plugins to extend its functionality

Articles can be nested in categories, and the same article can belong to multiple categories.

TrackBack and Pingback Features

A typesetting filter that generates appropriate text formatting and styling

Functions for generating and using static pages

Multi-author co-writing feature

Can save a list of users who have visited the website

Access from users in certain IP ranges can be prohibited

Support the use of tags

3. Website Building Process

1. Register a domain name

Generally, you can just register a .com domain name, and the price is not expensive, basically 70 yuan a year.

2. Apply for a virtual host

There are many virtual host operators. Domestic hosts are fast, but relatively expensive, and the space is generally small; foreign hosts are cheap, and most of the space is unlimited, but the speed is slower than domestic hosts. How to choose depends on the positioning of your blog. If you just use the blog to write articles, it is recommended to use a domestic host. If you are building a forum or resource site and often need to upload attachments, it is best to choose a foreign host with unlimited space.

3. Bind your own domain name to the virtual host

Use the virtual host control panel to bind the applied domain name.

It is very simple to bind a domain name to most virtual hosts. If you really don’t know how, you can contact the virtual host’s customer service.

4. Download WordPress

Download the latest WordPress program from the official WordPress Chinese website.

5. Modify the DNS resolution of the domain name

Why does your homepage appear when you enter your domain name in the browser? This depends on DNS resolution. Domain name registrars will provide a domain name management system, in which you can modify the DNS resolution of your domain name. Just resolve the DNS to the virtual host you purchased. The address of the virtual host can be viewed on the control panel of the virtual host provider, and it will usually be displayed on the page for binding the domain name.

6. Create WordPress Database

One advantage of foreign hosts is that they can create databases, while domestic hosts usually need to be purchased separately.

Create a database in the control panel and write down the four elements: database host address, database name, user name, and password.

7. Modify the WordPress installation configuration file.

Just modify the wp-config-sample.php file in the wordpress package, fill in the host address, database name, user name, and password written down in step 6 into the corresponding positions, and rename it to wp-config.php.

8. Upload the WordPress program to the ixwebhosting domain name space

This step can be done by uploading via FTP. Very simple.

9. Visit domain/wp-admin/install.php to install WordPress . Fill in the blog information and email address.

This step is the easiest, completely foolproof and automated. It is better to fill in the domain name email in step 4 when filling in the email address. Of course, you can also fill in your own commonly used email address.

In addition, with the launch of BAT cloud platforms, website building has become more convenient. For example, Baidu Cloud Platform has relevant tutorials.