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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><b><u>Do It Yourself Installation</u></b></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The famous, fabled, fabulous five-minute WordPress installation is a reality when everything is configured and coordinated properly. This section walks through the steps that are often hidden from view when you use a provider with packaged installs, and highlights some of the common misfires between WordPress and MySQL instances.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The installation process is quite simple (assuming that your web server and MySQL server are already running):Download the WordPress package and install it in your web server’s directory tree, then navigate to your top-level URL and complete the configuration. One (compound) sentence describes it completely.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It’s possible and even advisable to install a fully functioning WordPress instance on your laptop or development machine, particularly if you are going to be working on the core, developing plugins or otherwise making changes that would create embarrassing failures during testing on a public web site. MacOS X comes with an Apache web server (with PHP and URL rewriting); download MySQL from mysql.com, or use a pre-packaged configuration like MAMP (mamp.info, which includes the php- MyAdmin tool) and you’ll have a self-contained development and deployment lab. For other platforms, XAMPP (www.apachefriends.org) has a neatly integrated platform stack that runs on Windows, Mac OS and Linux foundations. Having everything under one hood is a powerful option for examining failure modes, as you’ll see in the next two sections.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><b><u>Installing WordPress Files</u></b></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> If you download the WordPress code from wordpress.org, you’ll get a zip (or tarball) archive that expands into a directory called ‘‘wordpress.’’ The first part of a WordPress installation is to get the code into your web server’s directory structure, and ensuring you have it in the right place is a critical step. Gloss over this part and you’ll find your blog ends up with a URL like example.com/wordpress and you’ll either have to start over or e-mail ugly URLs to your friends and family. If that’s what you want, to distinguish your blog from other content on your web site or to isolate multiple blogs, choosing the filesystem layout is equally important.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Pick the top-level directory where you want to install WordPress. Most commonly, this is the root directory for your web server, and if you’re using a hosting provider it’s probably the subdirectory called public_html in the file tree. If you are using a packaged install where there’s a menu asking you for the target location, make sure you pick this top-level directory (and yes, you know that it already exists, that’s the point!); if you’re copying files from your local machine to the web server target using an FTP client, make sure you pick the right destination. The somewhat obvious move to copy the zip file to the server then unpack it will put everything into a ‘‘wordpress’’ subdirectory, and if you want your blog’s URL to be example.com rather than example.com/wordpress, move the files ‘‘up’’ one directory level before proceeding. There is a configuration option to have your WordPress installation in a subdirectory to your top-level URL, so it’s not fatal if you drop WordPress into a less-than-desirable filesystem geography. We cover that at the end of this section.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Once the WordPress files are installed, your filesystem browser should show you something like Figure 1-1, with an index.php and template wp-config-sample.php file. That’s the entirety of the WordPress system, which runs effectively within the web server's PHP interpreter.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> At this point, if you're doing a manual installation, you'll want to create your own wp-config.php file by editing the sample provided and saving it in your top-level WordPress directory. As an alternative, you can navigate to your blog’s URL, and the WordPress code will realize there’s no configuration file and present you with a dialog boxes like those in Figures 1-2 and 1-3 where you can fill in the details. You'll need the MySQL database name, database username, and some idea of the WordPress database table prefix (other than the default wp_). These lower-level details are the guts of the next section on database configuration. If you are using a hosting provider with packaged installations you probably won't see this step, because the WordPress files will be extracted and the MySQL database information will be automatically inserted into a configuration file, no blogger-serviceable parts inside.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> What do you do if you already have HTML or other content at your target URL, and you want to add WordPress to an existing site? Disposition of existing files depends on your desired first user experience upon navigating to your URL. If you want visitors to see your blog, and to use WordPress as a content management system as we’ve described here, your best choice is to save existing content and convert it into blog posts or pages, effectively making your previous site color commentary and context for your WordPress-driven site. Alternatively, you can install WordPress in a subdirectory, keep your existing index.html file, and direct readers to your blog through a button or link on your extant home page. Don’t leave this to chance; if you have an index.html file and then install WordPress, you’ll have an index.php and an index.html file side by side and users will see one or the other depending upon the Directory Index configuration of your site’s web server. Actions on existing content should be informed by how much traffic that content is driving to your site: if your pages are responsible for search engine traffic, you probably don’t want to disrupt the existing URLs that have been cached, and should install WordPress in a subdirectory. If you feel strongly about making WordPress the wrapper around the user experience, move the content and include URL rewriting or redirection for pages that move into the WordPress world.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> If you used a hosting provider’s packaged installation, or if you manually created a wp-config.php file and then navigated to your top-level blog URL, WordPress should have completed creating the database tables, created an administrative user for your blog, and set an initial password. Upon a successful installation, you should see a box like Figure 1-4 that indicates your five minutes of famed installation are done.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>Wordpress Database Configuration</u></b></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> If your hosting provider spun up a MySQL database and created a user for you, check your resultant wp-config.php file to gather this information. It is necessary for the MySQL probing covered in this section, and it’s good to have in case you run into MySQL problems later on. There’s a username and password combination included in that file, so treat it the way you’d treat other login information. On the other hand, if you’re going deep on the do-it-yourself route, this section gives you a sense of what’s likely to create confusion or consternation as you pull the pieces together.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In theory, MySQL set up for WordPress is trivial: make sure MySQL is up and running, create a Word- Press user in MySQL, and then have that user create a database to hold the WordPress tables. You can use the MySQL command line or tools like phpMyAdmin for these tasks, but bear in mind that MySQL has its own set of users and permissions granted to those users, distinct from those used by your (or your hosting provider’s) operating system. Once MySQL is installed, it will create a default table of users and grants, adding a ‘‘root’’ user on Unix systems that is a MySQL superuser, unrelated to the Unix root user. However, if you’re attempting to connect to your MySQL instance as the MySQL root user, those connections can only be made from localhost – the same machine on which MySQL is running. If you want to learn more about MySQL permissions, the table governing grants of those permissions to users, and how MySQL users are managed, refer to the ‘‘MySQL Reference Manual’’ (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/) and the sections on securing the initial MySQL accounts.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> No set naming conventions exist for WordPress users or databases; hosting providers will typically prepend the name of the package or your account information to distinguish users that benefit from MySQL database co-tenancy. Again, it’s possible to have multiple databases, owned by the same user or different MySQL users, running in a single MySQL database server instance. In the example shown in Figure 1-3, we used wp_ as a prefix for both usernames and database names, at least providing a hint to the database administrator that these belong to a WordPress installation.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> What can go wrong between WordPress and MySQL? Three primary root causes of installation failure exist: your web server can’t even find the MySQL server to begin with, it connects to the database but can’t log in, or it logs in successfully but can’t find the named database in which to create the WordPress tables. Note that all of these conditions need to be fulfilled at installation time; there has to be some basic database structure to contain the admin user before you can log in as that admin.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Web server can’t find MySQL. Either you have the hostname for the MySQL server noted incorrectly in the <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">wp-config.php</span> file, or the web server is looking for a local MySQL instance and can’t open the socket connection to it. Here’s a simple example: When you run WordPress locally on MacOS, MySQL creates the socket<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> /tmp/mysql.sock</span> for local connections, but the WordPress PHP code is going to look for /<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">var/mysql/mysql.</span>sock through the PHP engine’s MySQL module. Simply symbolically link one to the other:</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">The actual filesystem path to the local MySQL socket is a function of the database configuration; when it starts up it creates the local socket. Where the PHP engine, and therefore any PHP based applications, look for this socket is PHP configuration dependent. If you want to figure out exactly where the mismatch is, a bit of heavy-handed </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">printf()</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> style debugging helps.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Edit </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">wp-includes/wp-db.php</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, the set of functions that establish WordPress’s database connection. If you’re seeing the ‘‘Error establishing a database connection’’ message during installation, insert an </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">echo(mysql_error())</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">; statement where the error is detected to see the details displayed along with the generic message, as shown in Figure 1-5:</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">if (!$this->dbh) { <br />echo(mysql_error());<br />$this->bail(sprintf(/*WP_I18N_DB_CONN_ERROR*/"<br /><h1>Error establishing a database connection</h1></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">The </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">mysql_error()</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> function is a PHP library function that spits out the error generated by the last<br />MySQL function called.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> WordPress finds MySQL but can’t log in. Most of the time, the MySQL username or password are wrong, particularly when you have to copy some arbitrary username generated by a hosting provider. Double-check your username data, and verify that it is reflected properly in your <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">wp-config.php</span> file. You may also run into a password authentication issue when using MySQL 4.1 or MySQL 5.0 with some web servers’ PHP implementations; they only support the older MySQL 4.0 password hashing scheme. If this is the case, use MySQL’s <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">OLD_PASSWORD()</span> function to hash your WordPress user’s password in the backward-compatible format; the magic SQL incantation (at the MySQL command-line prompt or within the SQL window of MAMP) to address this is:<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">SET PASSWORD FOR user@host = OLD_PASSWORD(’password’);</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">where </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">user@host</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> is your WordPress database username and database hostname, and </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">password</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> is the<br />(clear text) password you provided in the configuration file.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">WordPress connects to MySQL but can’t select the database. Just because the web server can log in to the database server with your WordPress database user information doesn’t mean that there’s necessarily a database available to that user. This is another scenario best diagnosed with</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> mysql_error() </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">inserting it in wp-db.php where the selection error is identified:</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">function select($db) { </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">if (!@mysql_select_db($db, $this->dbh)) {</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">$this->ready = false; </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">echo(mysql_error());</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">$this->bail(sprintf(/*WP_I18N_DB_SELECT_DB*/’</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><h1>Can&#8217;t select database</h1> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div> </div> </div>

unc.Wordpress Do It Yourself Installation., Installing WordPress Files, Wordpress Database Configuration

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Content & Conversation from wordpress., WordPress as a Content Management System., Wordpress Getting Started., Wordpress Hosting Options.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM48hyphenhyphen3GfEcsFSc78IeWRxE2pLI72fJrUrF3XNKcf13AcNTBF32UX0D97Q3s1VJGyE09N2jlPHuDtbeFmNI88x6EwjI38Mbhvd9u9WzsVgQmNn-z8dwaJ5wE_3VWb5je9xBhmhrB3e8q4T/s1600/03789728-photo-wordpress-logo-sq-gb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM48hyphenhyphen3GfEcsFSc78IeWRxE2pLI72fJrUrF3XNKcf13AcNTBF32UX0D97Q3s1VJGyE09N2jlPHuDtbeFmNI88x6EwjI38Mbhvd9u9WzsVgQmNn-z8dwaJ5wE_3VWb5je9xBhmhrB3e8q4T/s1600/03789728-photo-wordpress-logo-sq-gb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><u>Content & Conversation from wordpress</u></b></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Multiple linear feet of shelves in bookstores are filled with volumes that will improve your writing voice, literary style, blogging techniques, and other aspects of your content creation abilities. One of our goals for this book is define the visual, stylistic, and context management mechanisms you can build with WordPress to shape vibrant user communities around your content. That context stimulates conversation with your readers. It's not just about the words in each post, or even if you’re an interesting writer. How will people find you? How will you stand out in the crowd? How do you put your own imprint on your site, and personalize it for whatever purpose: personal, enterprise, community, or commercially measured?</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>WordPress as a Content Management System</u></b></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Blogging systems have their roots in simple content management operations: create a post, persist it in stable storage such as a filesystem or database, and display the formatted output based on some set of temporal or keyword criteria. As the richness and types of content presented in blog pages expanded, and the requirements for sorting, searching, selecting, and presenting content grew to include metadata and content taxonomies, the line between vanilla, single-user–targeted blogging software and enterprise-grade content management systems blurred.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Content management systems (CMS) handle the creation, storage, retrieval, description or annotation, and publication or display of a variety of content types. CMS also covers workflow tasks, typically from an editorial or publishing perspective, but equally including actions such as approval and marking content for additional editing or review.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> WordPress isn’t the only open source content management system in widespread use today; the Drupal and Joomla projects are equally popular choices. Drupal and Joomla start from the perspective of managing content repositories; they handle a variety of content types, multiple authors in multiple roles, and getting the content to a consumer that requests it. WordPress is at its heart a blogging system, and the end focus is on displaying content to a reader.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> WordPress has established itself as a bona fide content management system through its design for extensibility and the separation of content persistence from content display. Taking some liberties with the Model-View-Controller design pattern, WordPress separates the MySQL persistence layer as a data model, the theme-driven user interface and display functions, and the plugin architecture that interposes functionality into the data to presentation flow. Most important, WordPress stores content in raw form, as input by the user or an application posting through the WordPress APIs. Content is not formatted, run through templates, or laid out until the page is rendered, yielding immense power to the functions that generate the actual HTML. At the same time, the data model used by WordPress uses a rich set of tables to manage categories (taxonomies), content tags (folksonomies), author information, comments, and other pieces of cross-reference value.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Although that design gives WordPress incredible power and flexibility as a content management system, it also requires knowledge of how those data persistence and control flows are related (it was a search for such a dissection of WordPress in functional terms that got us together to write this book).</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>Wordpress Getting Started</u></b></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Before any serious work on presentation, style, or content begins, you need a home for your blog (despite the previous discussion about WordPress and content management systems, we'll refer to your blog and the actual WordPress installation that implements it interchangeably, mostly for convenience and brevity). Factors affecting your choice include:</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div> <ol style="text-align: left;"> <li align="justify">Cost: Free hosting services limit your options as a developer, and frequently preclude you<br />from generating money from advertising services. More expensive offerings may include better<br />support, higher storage or bandwidth limits, or multiple database instances for additional<br />applications.</li> <li>Control:What tools are provided for you to manage your MySQL database, files comprising<br />the WordPress installation, and other content types? If you want to be able to muck around<br />at the SQL level, or manage MySQL through a command-line interface, you should ensure<br />your hosting provider supports those interfaces.</li> <li align="justify">Complexity: You can install the Apache web server with a PHP interpreter, MySQL, and the WordPress distribution yourself, but most hosting providers have wrapped up the installation process so that some of the rough edges are hidden from view. If you expect to need technical support on the underlying operating system platform, find a provider (including your own IT department) that provides that support in a reasonable time frame.</li> </ol> <div style="text-align: justify;"> This section takes a quick look at some hosting options, walks through the basics of a do-it-yourself installation, and concludes with an overview of the ways in which WordPress and MySQL choose to ignore each other when installation goes into the weeds.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>Wordpress Hosting Options</u></b></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Three broad categories of WordPress hosting exist, each with trade-offs between administrative complexity<br /> and depth of control. The easiest and most popular is to use wordpress.com, a free hosting service run by Automattic using WordPress MU. You can install themes and plugins through the Dashboard but you can only enable or disable the choices pre-installed for you. Further, you won't have access to the underlying MySQL databases, core code, or be able to integrate WordPress with other systems. You can redirect one of your own URLs to wordpress.com, but if you want full control over everything from the code to the URLs used, you’re probably looking at a paid option. For our readers, the free route may be a reasonable first step, but we’re assuming you’re going to want to perform surgery on your installation. You’ll find a starter list of for-fee hosting providers on WordPress.org, including the paid option on wordpress.com. Most have the latest, or close to latest, releases of the WordPress core available as a package to be installed in conjunction with MySQL and a web server. The third hosting option is to install everything on servers that you own and operate. If your servers live in a hosting facility but you enjoy root administrative access, that’s equivalent to a do-it-yourself installation.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> WordPress requires a web server with PHP support, a URL rewriting facility, and an instance of MySQL. Apache is the most popular option for front-ending WordPress because it provides PHP interpretation through mod_php and URL rewriting in mod_rewrite. There is growing interest in lighttpd (Lighty) as a replacement for Apache, although the URL rewriting functionality needs a bit of handholding. Finally, you can use Microsoft’s IIS 7.0 as a web server with its URL_rewrite module.The emphasis on URL rewriting stems from WordPress’s support for ‘‘pretty’’ permalinks to blog entries, allowing you to create a URL tree organized by date, category, tag, or other metadata. Those mnemonic or readable URLs are mapped into MySQL database indices for the corresponding pages using the .htaccess file (in Apache parlance). It’s a case of dynamic content generation, this time starting from the user path to the page in question, and relying heavily on your web server's muscle to map public neatness into internal structure. Technically, URL rewriting isn’t required to install WordPress, but it's good to have because it gives you tremendous flexibility in the presentation and naming conventions used for your content’s URLs.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Up to this point we’ve mentioned MySQL in passing, but a brief review of MySQL requirements rounds out the hosting prerequisite list. It’s worth establishing some terminology and distinguishing between the MySQL software, database instances, and WordPress instances using MySQL. When you install and configure MySQL, you have a full-fledged relational database system up and running. It doesn’t have to be configured on the same machine as your web server, and some hosting providers will create horizontally scalable MySQL ‘‘farms’’ in parallel to their web server front ends. An instance of MySQL running on a server can support multiple databases, each with a unique name. When you install Word-Press, you’ll need to know the name of the MySQL database reserved for your content, although this information may be auto-generated and configured for you if you’re using a provider that supports WordPress and MySQL as an integrated package. WordPress creates a number of relational data tables in that named database for each blog that you create.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Confusion results from nomenclature and complexity. You (or your hosting provider) may run multiple MySQL instances on multiple servers, and you’ll need to know where your database is hosted. Because each instance of MySQL can run multiple databases, and each database contains groups of tables, it’s possible to run multiple MySQL based applications on the same hosting platform, using one MySQL instance or even one MySQL database.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> If you want to have multiple WordPress blogs on the same server, you can share a single MySQL database instance for all of them provided you configure WordPress to distinguish the MySQL database table names within the MySQL database. It’s a simple configuration option that we cover in the next section, and it highlights the distinction between multiple sets of tables in a database and multiple databases for distinct applications.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Once you’ve secured the necessary foundation, it’s time to get the code up and running. Even if you’re using a hosting provider that installs MySQL and WordPress for you, it’s worth knowing how the server-side components interact in case you need to track down a problem when you’re deep in plugin development.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><u><span style="color: red;">Please Comment Here</span></u></b></div> </div> </div>

Content & Conversation from wordpress., WordPress as a Content Management System., Wordpress Getting Started., Wordpress Hosting Options.

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Intersecting the Community from Wordpress., What is WordPress and the Gnu Public License?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM48hyphenhyphen3GfEcsFSc78IeWRxE2pLI72fJrUrF3XNKcf13AcNTBF32UX0D97Q3s1VJGyE09N2jlPHuDtbeFmNI88x6EwjI38Mbhvd9u9WzsVgQmNn-z8dwaJ5wE_3VWb5je9xBhmhrB3e8q4T/s1600/03789728-photo-wordpress-logo-sq-gb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM48hyphenhyphen3GfEcsFSc78IeWRxE2pLI72fJrUrF3XNKcf13AcNTBF32UX0D97Q3s1VJGyE09N2jlPHuDtbeFmNI88x6EwjI38Mbhvd9u9WzsVgQmNn-z8dwaJ5wE_3VWb5je9xBhmhrB3e8q4T/s1600/03789728-photo-wordpress-logo-sq-gb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><u>Intersecting the Community</u></b></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> WordPress thrives and grows based on community contributions in addition to sheer usage. Like high school gym class, participation is the name of the game, and several semi-formal avenues along which to channel your efforts and energies are available.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> WordCamp events are community-hosted, locally operated, and now happen in dozens of cities around the world. Camps that reach critical mass are listed on wordcamp.org, but you’ll do just as well to search for a WordCamp event in a major city close to you. WordCamps occur nearly every weekend with bloggers, photographers, writers, editors, developers, and designers of all experience and skill levels counted among their attendees. WordCamps are a low-cost introduction to the local community and often a good opportunity to meet WordPress celebrities. Less structured but more frequently convened than WordCamps are WordPress Meetups, comprising local users and developers in more than 40 cities. You’ll need a meetup.com account, but once you’re registered you can check on locations and timetables at wordpress.meetup.com to see when and where people are talking about content management.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A rich, multi-language documentation repository is hosted at codex.wordpress.org. The WordPress Codex, with all due respect to the term reserved for ancient handwritten manuscripts, represents the community-contributed tips and tricks for every facet of WordPress from installation to debugging. It's a wiki with fourteen administrators and well over 70,000 registered users. If you feel the urge to contribute to the WordPress documentation, register and write away in the WordPress Codex. We hope you’ll find this book a cross between a companion and a travel guide to the Codex.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Finally, mailing lists (and their archives) exist for various WordPress contributors and communities. A current roster is available on-line at codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists; of particular interest may be the WP-docs list for Codex contributors and the WP-hackers list for those who work on the WordPress core and steer its future directions.</div> <div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><b><u>WordPress and the Gnu Public License</u></b></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> WordPress is licensed under the Gnu Public License (GPL) version 2, contained in the license.txt file that you’ll find in the top-level code distribution. Most people don’t read the license, and simply understand that WordPress is an open source project; however, pockets of corporate legal departments still worry about the viral component of a GPL license and its implications for additional code or content that gets added to, used with, or layered on top of the original distribution. Much of this confusion stems from liberal use of the words ‘‘free’’ and ‘‘copyright’’ in contexts where they are inappropriately applied.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We’re not lawyers, nor do we play them on the Internet or on television, and if you really want to understand the nuances of copyright law and what constitutes a conveyance of code, pick up some of Lawrence Lessig’s or Cory Doctorow's work in those areas. We include this section to assuage IT departments who may be dissuaded from using WordPress as an enterprise content management system by overly zealous legal teams. Don’t let this happen to you; again, if WordPress is acceptable to CNN and the Wall Street Journal, two companies that survive on the copyrights granted to their content, it probably fits within the legal strictures of most corporate users as well.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The core tenet of the GPL ensures that you can always get the source code for any distribution of GPL licensed software. If a company modifies a GPL-licensed software package and then redistributes that newer version, it has to make the source code available as well. This is the ‘‘viral’’ nature of GPL at work; its goal is to make sure that access to the software and its derivatives is never reduced in scope. If you plan on modifying the WordPress core and then distributing that code, you’ll need to make sure your changes are covered by the GPL and that the code is available in source code form. Given that WordPress is written in PHP, an interpreted language, distributing the software and distributing the source code are effectively the same thing.</div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Following are some common misconceptions and associated explanations about using WordPress in commercial situations.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> ‘‘Free software’’ means we can’t commercialize its use. You can charge people to use your installation of WordPress, or make money from advertisements running in your blog, or use a WordPress content management platform as the foundation of an online store. That's how wordpress.com works; it also<br /> enables Google to charge advertisers for using their Linux-based services. You can find professional quality WordPress themes with non-trivial price tags, or you can pay a hosting provider hundreds or thousands of dollars a year to run your MySQL, PHP, Apache, and WordPress software stack; both involve commercialization of WordPress.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> If we customize the code to handle our own {content types, security policies, obscure navigational requirements} we’ll have to publish those changes. You're only required to make the source code available for software that you distribute. If you choose to make those changes inside your company, you don't have to redistribute them. On the other hand, if you've made some improvements to the Word-Press core, the entire community would benefit from them. Getting more staid employers to understand the value of community contribution and relax copyright and employee contribution rules is sometimes a bit challenging, but the fact that you had a solid starting point is proof that other employers made precisely that set of choices on behalf of the greater WordPress community.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The GPL will infect content that we put into WordPress. Content — including graphical elements of themes, posts, and pages managed by WordPress — is separated out from the WordPress core. It’s managed by the software, but not a derivative of or part of the software. Themes, however, are a derivative of the WordPress code and therefore also fall under the GPL, requiring you to make the source code for the theme available. Note that you can still charge for the theme if you want to make it commercially available. Again, the key point here is that you make the source code available to anyone who uses the software. If you're going to charge for the use of a theme, you need to make the source code available under the GPL as well, but as pointed out previously, users installing the theme effectively get the source code.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> More important than a WordPress history lesson and licensing examination are the issues of what you can do with WordPress and why you'd want to enjoy its robustness. The next section looks at WordPress as a full-fledged content management system, rather than simply a blog editing tool.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><u><span style="color: red;">Please Comment Here</span></u></b></div> </div>

Intersecting the Community from Wordpress., What is WordPress and the Gnu Public License?

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What is Wordpress? , A Short History: Word Press and Friends, Word press use current state, Where do you get started?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <ul style="text-align: left;"> </ul> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1DbPJ3n6QJyLUAazT0Qo_QA1weaHZwfSgn2dlX7DF1pWDpscIAuJhAlvS3EaXAzn2WX8cUi1F5CGOSX8gzBy6eDBfmhF4cHd1cJwGbUndDFQI56WsIu2ubcuus84fpM9Yra9lUNCPA9cD/s1600/03789728-photo-wordpress-logo-sq-gb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1DbPJ3n6QJyLUAazT0Qo_QA1weaHZwfSgn2dlX7DF1pWDpscIAuJhAlvS3EaXAzn2WX8cUi1F5CGOSX8gzBy6eDBfmhF4cHd1cJwGbUndDFQI56WsIu2ubcuus84fpM9Yra9lUNCPA9cD/s1600/03789728-photo-wordpress-logo-sq-gb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><b>WHAT IS WORD-PRESS?</b></li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: left;"> </ul> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> WordPress is one of the most popular open source blogging systems available, with global and vibrant user, developer, and support communities. Though it can be compared to TypePad, Moveable Type, Google’s Blogger, and the Apache Roller project as a user-generated content workhorse, WordPress distinguishes itself with a broad array of hosting options, functional extensions (plugins), and aesthetic designs and elements (themes).</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> With the rise of self-publishing, low-cost web hosting and freely available core components like the MySQL database, blogging software followed the same trend as most other digital technologies, moving from high-end, high-cost products to widely available, low-cost consumer or ‘‘hobbyist’’ systems. WordPress isn’t simply about creating a blog so that you can have a digital diary attached to your vanity URL; it has evolved into a full-fledged content management system used by individuals and enterprises alike. This section takes a brief tour through the early history of WordPress and brings you up to speed on the current release and user community.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li style="text-align: justify;"><b>A Short History: WordPress and Friends</b></li> </ul> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> WordPress started similarly to many other popular open source software packages: Some talented developers saw a need to create a powerful, simple tool based on an existing project licensed under the GPL. Michel Valdrighi’s b2/cafelog system provided the starting point, and WordPress was built as a fork of that base by developers Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. WordPress first appeared in 2003,also built on the MySQL open source database for persisting content and PHP as the development platform. Valdrighi remains a contributor to the project, which thrives and depends on a growing and interested community of users and developers.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"> As with other systems written in PHP, it is self-contained in the sense that installation, configuration, operation, and administration tasks are all contained in PHP modules. WordPress’s popularity has been driven in part by its simplicity, with the phrase ‘‘five minute installation’’ making appearances in nearly every description or book about WordPress. Beyond getting to a first post, WordPress was designed to be extended.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> WordPress today is supported by a handful of core developers and just under 100 key contributors. Mike Little today runs the WordPress specialty shop zed1.com and he contributes the occasional patch to the code. Matt Mullenweg’s company, Automattic, continues to operate the wordpress.com hosting service as well as fund development of related content management tools: WordPress MU, a multi-user version of WordPress that is at the heart of the wordpress.com hosting system. Pronounce it ‘‘EM-YOU’’ or take the rather scholarly ‘‘MYU’’ approach if you want to impress your Greek or mathematically inclined friends. Gravatar dynamically serves images tied to e-mail addresses, providing a hosted icon with a variety of display options. Think of it as a service to make hot-linking your profile picture technically and socially acceptable.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> As a content management system, the WordPress system definition doesn’t stop at time-serialized posts with comments. BuddyPress is a set of themes and plugins that extends WordPress into a functional social networking platform, allowing registered users to message and interact with each other, again with all content managed within the WordPress framework. Similarly, bbPress is a PHP- and MySQLbased system designed for forums (bulletin boards) that is distinct from WordPress but is commonly integrated with it.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We cover some of these WordPress adjunct systems in ‘‘The WordPress Developer Community,’’ but they’re included here to provide a sense of how WordPress has expanded beyond a basic single-user-oriented tool. At the same time, we’re not endorsing or making a commercial for Automattic, but delving into the guts of WordPress without a spin of the propeller hat toward Mullenweg and Little is somewhere between incorrigible and bad community behavior.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Word press use current state</b></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Exactly how popular and prevalent is WordPress usage? ‘‘Popular’’ is always a subjective metric, but statistics add some weight to those perceptions. Jason Calacanis claimed 202 million websites using WordPress in Episode 16 of ‘‘This Week in Startups’’ (September 2009). That includes sites using WordPress for content management, blogging, and personal rants, and has to be discounted by those of us who have multiple WordPress installations to their names, but even with that order of magnitude estimate, WordPress is immensely popular.<br /> <br /> Here are download statistics for the core WordPress system:<br /> <div> <ol align="left"> <li>2006: 1.5 million (source: WordPress.org)</li> <li>2007: 3.8 million (source: WordPress.org)</li> <li>2008:More than 11 million (source: Matt Mullenweg’s WordCamp NYC keynote)</li> </ol> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Hosted blogs on wordpress.com now number over 4.6 million, with more than 35 million posts over the 2008 calendar year, reaching a run rate of about 4 million posts per month; again those statistics are courtesy of Mullenweg’s WordCamp NYC keynote (available on WordCampTV for your viewing pleasure). The plugin population went from about 370 in 2006, to 1,384 in 2007, with more than 6,300 currently registered as reported on WordP ess.org. The combinations of plugins and themes require<br /> scientific notation to represent in complexity, but at the same time, they’re all equally simple to locate,integrate, and use. That’s the result of a solid architecture and an equally solid community using it.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Today, WordPress powers CNN’s blogs, the Wall Street Journal’s All Things D, and the irreverent but snowclone-driven icanhazcheeseburger.com. (If you looked for a backstory on ‘‘snowclone,’’ apologies, but that’s also the joy of discovering new facts in a culture of participatory media).</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Where do you get started?</b></li> </ul> wordpress.org is the home for the current released and in-development versions of the code. Click down to wordpress.org/extend for a starting point in finding plugins, themes, and wish lists of ideas and features to be implemented.<br /> wordpress.com has both free and paid hosting services. Over at wordpress.org/hosting you’ll find a list of hosting providers that support WordPress and often include some additional first-time installation and configuration support in their packaging of the code for delivery as part of their hosting services.<br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: red;"><u>Please Comment Here</u></span></b></div> </div> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> </ul> </div>

What is Wordpress? , A Short History: Word Press and Friends, Word press use current state, Where do you get started?

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