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Wordpress is a free sophisticated blogging software application used to create feature-rich great looking and fully functional blogs. Using Wordpress, you can write blog posts which include text, images, videos or audios, organize them in categories, change the entire look & feel of your blog by choosing attractive theme, interact with your blog readers through comments and let readers subscribe to your blog. While Wordpress is a complete self-sufficient in itself as a blogging tool, you can extend it’s functionality beyond imagination by using extensions to Wordpress known as Wordpress Plugins.
For those having some web programming knowledge, Wordpress is created using PHP, MySQL, HTML and CSS. For those not knowing any programming or web designing, there is no need to worry. Because for writing articles, categorizing them, choosing themes, installing or uninstalling plugins, moderating comments and doing most of the blog creation and maintenance tasks, no programming skills are required. Wordpress hides the coding parts from non-programmers and lets them administer their blogs using very simple and intuitive User interface. For programmers, Wordpress offers free and easy access to the complete source code of the blog, so that they can customize or extend the functionality of their blog. There is very extensive documentation available for wordpress including tutorials, manuals, etc. There is a very large Wordpress user community, through which users and developers help each other through support forums and groups
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Wordpress is used by individuals, small & large companies and Non-profit organizations to create attractive looking personal or professional blogs. Wordpress is very easy to install. Anyone can get started with using it. Many popular blogs are using Wordpress to build very attractive looking, professional quality and highly useable blogs. Some examples of very highly successful blogs powered by Wordpress are : Technology companies like Mozilla Labs http://mozillalabs.com/
, Online Magazines Wall Street Journal http://magazine.wsj.com/
, Web Designer Wall http://www.webdesignerwall.com/
, The Forbes Blogs http://bfn.forbes.com/ , Emerald’s Largesse’s cooking blog http://www.emerils.com/cooking-blog/ , etc.
This tutorial will show you step by step with example how to setup your own Wordpress Blog. In this tutorial, you will be learning How to:
- install Wordpress quickly with 5 minute installation
- write and edit blog posts
- organize blog posts into Categories and tags
- Find, choose and install a Wordpress theme.
- moderate Comments in Wordpress
- Find, choose and install a Wordpress plug-in.
- SEO in Wordpress
- Wordpress administration, settings, tips and tricks.
So, let’s get started by first installing Wordpress.
