RAPID LEARNING WORDPRESS
RAPID LEARNING WORDPRESS
About the Book
Intention of this Book is to quickly get you started using WordPress to develop Blog or a Web Site. WordPress is intended for general public and therefore no coding skill is required. In the background WordPress uses PHP Programming Language and MySQL Database. WordPress home page is at https://wordpress.org.
Book is organized as a collection of standalone tutorials. Each tutorial contains minimum amount of instructions needed to explain how to use specific functionality.
Book contains demo Web Sites that show how to combine functionalities covered in previous tutorials in order to create Web Site with static Web Pages and another Blog Web Site with Posts.
Table of Contents
- 1. Create Web Site
- 1.1 On Web Hosting Server
- 1.2 On wordpress.com
- 1.2.1 Create Account
- 1.2.2 Log in
- 1.2.3 Create Web Site
- 1.2.3.1 Initial Steps
- 1.2.3.2 Subsequent Steps
- 1.3 On Server
- 1.3.1 Configure PHP
- 1.3.2 Start & Configure MySQL DB
- 1.3.3 Download & Extract WordPress
- 1.3.4 Configure IIS Web Server
- 1.3.5 Create Web Site
- 2. Main Terms
- 2.1 Pages/Posts
- 2.2 Page Editor
- 2.3 Home Page
- 2.4 Menus
- 2.5 Widgets
- 2.6 Categories
- 2.7 Tags
- 2.8 Users
- 2.9 Themes
- 2.10 Plugins
- 3. Gutenberg Blocks
- 3.1 Basic Block Operations
- 3.1.1 Add
- 3.1.2 Move
- 3.1.3 Delete
- 3.1.4 Duplicate
- 3.1.5 Select
- 3.2 Common Blocks
- 3.2.1 Title
- 3.2.2 Paragraph
- 3.2.3 Image
- 3.2.4 Cover
- 3.2.5 Quote
- 3.2.6 Heading
- 3.2.7 Gallery
- 3.3 Layout Elements
- 3.3.1 Separator
- 3.3.2 Spacer
- 3.3.3 Media & Text
- 3.3.4 Button
- 3.3.5 Layout Grid
- 3.3.6 Columns
- 3.3.7 Group
- 3.3.8 Navigation
- 3.3.9 Blog Posts
- 3.4 Widgets
- 3.4.1 Latest Posts
- 3.4.2 Social Links
- 3.4.3 Search
- 3.4.4 Categories
- 3.5 CoBlocks
- 3.5.1 Dynamic HR
- 3.6 CoBlocks Galleries
- 3.6.1 Collage
- 3.6.2 Stacked
- 3.6.3 Masonry
- 3.6.4 Offset
- 3.7 JetPack
- 3.7.1 Form
- 3.7.2 Contact Info
- 3.7.3 Tiled Gallery
- 3.7.4 Slideshow
- 3.7.5 GIF
- 4. Demo Web Sites
- 4.1 Web Site with Web Pages
- 4.1.1 Crate Web Site in Subdirectory Vehicles
- 4.1.2 Activate Preinstalled Theme
- 4.1.3 Create Pages
- 4.1.4 Add Pages to Menu
- 4.1.5 Edit Site Identity
- 4.1.6 Edit Widgets
- 4.2 Web Site with Blog
- 4.2.1 Create Web Site in subdirectory Cooking
- 4.2.2 Activate Preinstalled Theme
- 4.2.3 Create Categories
- 4.2.4 Create Posts
- 4.2.5 Create Menu from Categories
- 4.2.6 Edit Site Identity
- 4.2.7 Edit Widgets
- 5. Summary
- 5.1 Terms
- 5.2 Web Site structure
- 5.3 Steps for creating Web Site
- 5.3.1 Install WordPress
- 5.3.2 Add Users
- 5.3.3 Install Theme
- 5.3.4 Create Pages
- 5.3.5 Create Posts
- 5.3.6 Create Portfolio
- 5.3.7 Define Homepage
- 5.3.8 Create Menu
- 5.3.9 Add Widgets
- 5.3.10 Customize Interface
- 6. Appendix
- 6.1 cPanel - PHP Settings
- 6.1.1 Set Max File Upload Size
- 6.1.2 Set PHP Version
- 6.2 wordpress.org
- 6.2.1 Switch Web Sites
- 7. Errors
- 7.1 WordPress
- 7.1.1 Fullscreen Option Missing
- 7.1.2 The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet
- 7.1.3 Cannot modify header information
- 7.1.4 Sites in your WordPress network must use sub-directories
- 7.1.5 Can't Log In
- 7.1.6 The action can't be completed
- 7.1.7 The action can't be completed
- 7.1.8 The link you followed has expired
- 7.2 MySQL
- 7.2.1 [Warning] Can't create test file
- 7.3 PHP
- 7.3.1 Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extensions
- 7.3.2 The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini
- 7.3.3 Your file exceeds the maximum upload size for this site
- 7.4 IIS
- 7.4.1 Uploaded images not showing
- 7.4.2 HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden
- 7.4.3 HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found
- 7.4.4 HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found
- 7.4.5 No .htaccess file
- 7.5 Remote Host
- 7.5.1 HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found
- 7.5.2 Wildcard DNS may not be configured correctly!
- 7.5.3 The system experienced a problem during the creation of the "*" subdomain
- 7.5.4 This webpage is not available
- 7.5.5 Please make sure that the Apache mod_rewrite module is installed
- 7.5.6 Installation cannot proceed
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