To Learn Development: First Steps With WordPress

5 Minute Installation of WordPress
LoginDomain/wp-admin
Start at the Top After logging in you are on the main Administration Screen called the Dashboard. This is the brain behind your website, the place where you can let your creativity explode, writing brilliant prose and designing the best and most lovely website possible. This is where the organization of your site begins – and this is just the start.

It’s All in the Details

web page layout and design. Move your mouse over the title of the article post. Notice how it changes color. This is called a hover.

style sheet (the file that controls the look of your web page), when you want to make changes to it.

Take a Quick Trip Around

Some Theme designers design their single post pages to look different from the home page. By clicking on the title, you are taken to another web page that looks different from the home page.

Again, in the single post, pay attention to the layout and notice what is now different about the design elements. Is the header different? Smaller, larger, or a different color? Is there a sidebar?

Posts are usually stored in Categories and/or Tags so you can keep related topics together.

Again, take a look at the layout and see how it may be different from the home page and the single post.

Do the same with the Archives. You may only have one post, but look at how the page is laid out.

All of these changes are created from only a few files called template files and you can learn more about how they work in Stepping Into Templates. For now, however, let’s get on with how the rest of WordPress works.

Test Drive the WordPress Administration Screens

main navigation

The various menu items are as follows:

Dashboard
Posts
Media
Links
Pages
Comments
Appearance
Plugins
Users
Tools
Settings

Quick Changing the Look

In your Appearance Screen, you will see a list of currently installed themes, including theWordPress Twenty Sixteen theme. To quickly change the theme, simply click on the Activate button under one of the themes listed, then click on your site name in the top toolbar to see how it looks.

Writing and Managing Posts

Let’s start by making your first test post in theAdd New tab.

Planning Session

Answer the following questions:

What am I going to do with this?
Who is going to read this?
What kinds of information will I be posting?
Why am I doing this?
Who am I doing this for?
How often am I going to be posting and adding information?

This website will be dedicated to My PARENTS, BROTHERS, and SISTERS,

and cover the topics of FASHION, CLOTHES, and DESIGING. The audience will

be ___TWITTER_______FACEBOOK ___________LOCAL MARKETS_____NEAR CITIES _______. I will be adding LATEST DESIGN PRODUCT DESIGN BY BROTHER

posts every DAY NEW LOOKS about _CLOTHES FASHION_______ _______ ______________.

I am doing this because _OF MY FAMILY BUSINESS GROWTH TO EARN MONEY TO SETUP PLATFORM____________ _____________ __________________.

Using the Information

If you know your audience is mostly made up of young people under the age of 25,

you will probably want a more conservative look where the information is more important than a lot of pop and flash.

“The website will be dedicated to providing news and information on computers, web pages, and the internet and cover the topics of computer tips, web page design, and internet news.”

sidebar is laid out in a list,

posts referenced by category is the best choice

Archives by date and Categories by category. It may even feature a calendar.

What Information Do You Want to Share

A WordPress feature called Pages makes the process of presenting this information easier. Pages, similar to posts,

Comments

Setting Up Your Site

Enhanced Admin Bar with Codex Search. It allows you to search both the WordPress Codex and WordPress Support Forum from your WordPress Administration Screens.
Jetpack by WordPress.com to supercharge your website

{The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.}

Akismet WordPress Plugin that is available with all WordPress sites to help protect it from comment spam.

Put Posts into Categories

Posts > Category Screen

Preventing Spam

A google bomb is when a large number of different websites link to a page with the same link text to influence the ranking of that page for a search term.

What Is Next

start writing some wonderful information to share with your new-found public!

Customizing Your WordPress Site

Why use a Child Theme?

here are a few reasons why you would want to use a child theme:

If you modify a theme directly and it is updated, then your modifications may be lost. By using a child theme you will ensure that your modifications are preserved.
Using a child theme can speed up development time.
Using a child theme is a great way to learn about WordPress theme development.

Finding a WordPress Theme

Customizing the Look

Enhance Your Site with Plugins