April 22, 2021 - scmGalaxy

WordPress is a free open source content management system. It is an online site which is based on PHP and MySQL. it was mainly designed as a blogging tool but now it is a versatile CMS. we can create simple blog and fullt operational website and also mobile application using WordPress.

It is considered as the easiest and most popular CMS tool due to its features. The main feature of WordPress is its versatility and feasibility to use. There is no use of coding and designing skills for creating a website on this. Even a non-technical person can also create a website with the help of WordPress easily.

WordPress was released on 27th may 2003 by its founders Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg.

WordPress Versions

Version	Released date	Musician	Purpose
0.7	May 27, 2003	none	Numbering is continued with last release of b2
1.0	Jan 3, 2004	Davis	Additions of search engine friendly links
1.2	May 22, 2004	Mingus	Plugin support added
1.5	Feb 17, 2005	Strayhorn	Added features to manage static page and theme system
2.0	Dec 31, 2005	Duke	Added features like rich editing, faster posting, image uploading and many more
2.1	Jan 22, 2007	Ella	Redesigned interface, corrected security issues, improved editing tools and content management system
2.2	May 16, 2007	Getz	Widget support for templates were added
2.3	Sept 24, 2007	Dexter	Some security fixes, added native tagging support and brought easy notification of updates
2.5	Mar 29, 2008	Brecker	Improved systems like plugin, editor, multi-file upload, extended search
2.6	Jul 15, 2008	Tyner	Made WordPress as more powerful CMS, enables track changes to every post and page and allows posting from anywhere
2.7	Dec 11, 2008	Coltrane	Added automatic upgrade, administration interface redesigned fully
2.8	June10,2009	Baker	Redesigned widget interface, added improvement in speed
2.9	Dec 19, 2009	Carmen	Added built-in image editor, global undo, batch plugin updating
3.0	June17,2010	Thelonious	Added a new theme APIs, new default theme “Twenty Ten”, new UI
3.1	Feb23, 2011	Reinhardt	Added admin bar which is displayed in all pages when admin is logged in, a new writing interface
3.2	Jul 4, 2011	Gershwin	Made WordPress faster and lighter seeing growing speed in WordPress community
3.3	Dec 12, 2011	Sonny	Focus on making WordPress familiar for tablet users and beginners
3.4	June13,2012	Green	Improvements on theme customization and other minor changes
3.5	Dec 11,2102	Elvin	new theme “Twenty Twelve”, support for color picker, retina display
3.6	Aug 1, 2013	Oscar	New theme “Twenty Thirteen”, autosave, post locking, admin enhancements

Older Supported Versions

Version	Released date	Musician	Purpose
3.7	Oct 24, 2013	Basie	Automatic apply maintenance and security updates in background, recommendation of strong password
3.8	Dec 12, 2013	Parker	New theme “Twenty Fourteen”, responsive for mobile devices, improved admin interface, easy main dashboard
3.9	Apr 16, 2014	Smith	New theme browser, improvements in live widget, header previews
4.0	Sept 4, 2014	Benny	Easy language change, plugin compatibility with PHP 5.5 and MySQL 5.6
4.1	Dec 18, 2014	Dinah	New theme “Twenty Fifteen”, vine embeds and distraction free writing
4.2	Apr 23, 2015	Powell	“Press This” feature, emoji and improved character support
4.3	Aug 18, 2015	Billie	More focus on mobile users, improved customizer and better passwords
4.4	Dec 8, 2015	Clifford	New theme “Twenty Sixteen”, improved responsive images
4.5	Apr 12, 2016	Coleman	Added live responsive features, inline linking and some other updates

Latest Version

Version	Released date	Musician	Purpose
4.6	Aug 16, 2016	Pepper	Added native fonts, streamline updates and content recovery

Future Version

Version	Released date	Musician	Purpose
4.7	Dec 2016	none	Release is scheduled for December 2016

Reasons to use WordPress

Anyone can design his/her own website without any designing skills.
To create a website on WordPress we only need n Internet connection.
It provides a wide range of themes.
It provides many free plugins which add extra functionality to our websites.
It is free and open source.
Adding blog is very easy.
It is very fate and secure.
very easy to use.

How to create a WordPress website

Creating a site on WordPress is very easy. WordPress is designed in such a way that even non-tech users can also design their own websites easily and attractively.

Here, we’ll discuss each and every step involved in creating a WordPress site.

Selecting a right platform
Choosing a domain name and host
Choosing a theme/template
Creating new pages
Adding Content
Adding Media
Installing plugins

Selecting a right platform

First you have to decide a suitable platform to build your website with. Here platform means either you want to create your website using HTML, CSS or using a CMS (Content Management Systems).

There are various popular CMS in the market like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, DotNetNuke, etc.

Why choosing WordPress

For a beginner WordPress will be the best as it doesn’t need any technical skills and due to its flexibility it is suited for all type of users.

You’ll get a lot of options to select a theme as a wide range of community design themes for WordPress. It can handle any type of website whether large or small. Most known websites like CNN, NASA, eBay use WordPress.

Above all, it gives you a responsive site which makes it compatible with small screen devices like mobile phones and tablets.

Shared hosting is best choice for beginners. You can later upgrade your site’s hosting according to the site’s traffic.

Choosing a domain name and host

You need a domain name and a hosting space to get your website online.

Domain name enables you to give your site your own name while hosting gives a space to your site on a server which makes sure your website loads quickly and won’t go down for hours.

Domain name should be short and easy to remember, brand able and catchy which defines your business.

Choosing a domain name is not easy with fulfilling all the criteria as million of domain names are active.

Choosing a theme/template

After installing WordPress, a site appears very plain. To make it more attractive, users install best suitable themes for their site. It adds visuals and views to the front page.

First of all, login to your WordPress site. By default, first screen will be your dashboard.

Accessing Free themes

After login, you’ll get access for 150 free themes.

Look at the above snapshot, to look at the free themes, got the side bar menu of your dashboard, select Appearance >Themes.

Below screen will appear including all the installed themes.

Look at the above snapshot, if you want to install more themes click on Add New button above and install it.

To install a theme, click on Install followed by Activate button.

Creating new pages

Look at the above snapshot, go the sidebar menu, click Pages > Add New option.

Adding Content

Adding new post

At the end we all will come to this point to make our site popular. We need to post different things to increase the popularity of our site.

Clicking on Post > Add New option, the above page will appear on the screen.

There are two ways to write a post, either you may write in Visual editor or in Text editor (in HTML format). Currently this snapshot is of Text editor.

Adding Categories

You can divide your content in different categories by adding categories to them. This tool is handy when you are publishing content for more than one field.

Click on Posts > Categories, you will be directed to the above page.

Here, in Name add a title to your new category. In Slug, you can add some words which will become part of URL while searching.

Tags

Tags are very much similar to Categories with only one difference that each post has its own set of tags.

Enabling or Disabling Comment

Comment creates a debate on some posts or sites. Some users don’t want their visitors to comment. They can shut comment off in WordPress.

To disable a comment for a particular page

Go to Pages > Add New
Click on Screen Options on top right
Tick on Discussions box
Scroll down, untick Allow Comments option.

Go to Settings > Discussions
Untick “Allow people to post comments on new articles”

Editing sidebar

Sidebar which generally appears on the right side (sometimes appears on left) contains widgets like Archives, Categories and Meta, etc.

To edit the side bar, go to Appearance > Widgets

Use drag n drop method to either use a widget or remove a widget.

Adding Media

Every website needs some photos and videos to describe its content and value. WordPress also provide functionality to add a media. You can add image caption, title and description along with media. Also add alt text helps search engine to identify the image.

Installing plugins

Plugins are the extensions in the WordPress with certain piece of coding expanding specific function to you site. They are not built-in.

There are almost 25,000 different plugins options to choose from.

Installation a plugin is very simple. Click Plugins. You will see three options, as shown in the snapshot below.

Click on Plugins > Add New. Following screen will appear in front of you.

You can choose a plugin from the given options. Just click Install Now and you will be able to use it.

In this tutorial we will learn how we can create a project in CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations through Laravel. We will get to know how to create, update read and delete in Laravel from Scratch.

Initially have to download Laravel 5.8 version. For this you have to go to command prompt, in which first we have go to our folder path in which we want to download Laravel 5.8. After this we have to run “composer” command, because all Laravel depository is handled by composer. After run “composer” command we have to run following command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel=5.8 crud --prefer-dist

After downloading Laravel 5.8, we have to make Mysql database connection from Laravel 5.8.

We have to find .env file in your Laravel 5.8 folder. Open that file and under we have to define our mysql database before that we have to create a database in our mysql named as ‘crud’ and then we have to configure our .env as given below.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=crud
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

After this we have to create migration file in our Laravel folder. For this we have to write following command in your command prompt.

php artisan make:migration create_crud_table --create=crud

This command will create migration file in database/migrations folder. In this file we have to define table column which we want to create in table. Below we can find migration file in which we have define table column.

Now we want to migrate this table definition from this Laravel application to mysql database. For this we have write following command in command prompt. This command will make crud table in mysql database for perform CRUD operation from Laravel 5.8 application.

php artisan migrate

Now we have to create model for our database which is used for operations in controller class. To create a model we will run the command given below.

php artisan make:model Crud -m

This command will make Crud.php model file in app folder. In this file we have to define table column name which we can see below source code of Crud.php file.

Now we have to create Laravel 5.8 crud controller. For this we have to go to command prompt and under this we have write following command.

php artisan make:controller CrudsController --resource

This command will make CrudsController.php file in app/Http/Controllers folder. Once we open this file, we can find all predefine method for do CRUD operation in this controller file. We have to just add code for doing particular operation. Below we can find CRUD controller file code.

Now we have to set route of all CrudsController class method. For this we have to open to routes/web.php file. In this file we have to write following code for set route of all method.

Route::resource('crud','CrudsController');

Now in this step we have to set data in view file which has been store under resources/views folder, because this view file has received data from controller method, so here we have to set data in view file. Below we can find all view file which has been used in Crud application, and we can also find how data has been set and how to make form in Laravel 5.8 view file.

Now we can run the Laravel 5.8 Crud application, for this we have to go to command prompt, and write following command.