Using WordPress

By Scot Hacker, Brian Aguilar
Published Jun 23, 2008 in Web Development

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Sections

  1. Introduction
  2. Creating an Account
  3. Write a Post
  4. HTML versus Visual
  5. What do the Visual icons mean?
  6. What do the HTML icons mean?
  7. Publishing a Post
  8. More publishing options
  9. Managing Your Content
  10. Managing Posts
  11. Managing Other Content
  12. Working with Comments
  13. Adding Media
  14. Adding QuickTime Video
  15. Adding Flash
  16. Related Links

Introduction

Though known primarily as a blogging platform, WordPress is actually a very capable  management system for certain kinds of sites.  WordPress is employed by many big-name publishers looking for a simple way to manage their content.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use WordPress to post articles, upload media (images, video, etc.) and to control your content in a way that makes sense for your users.

If you have  suggestions on other WordPress-related areas we should cover, be sure to let us know. 

Comments

1) ecreeds, October 8, 2008 at 7:15 a.m. [Link]

Wordpress can be used as CMS (content management system) it has everything you would to build a website, further if something is missing you can rely on their great developer community to have built a plugin to overcome any such short comings.

You can even build a high end news website on Wordpress using one those magazine style themes.

2) Scot Hacker, October 28, 2008 at 4:16 p.m. [Link]

@ecreeds - We do a ton of that here at the J-School. WordPress is the basis for nearly all of our publication sites (we have more than 40 WP installations in total). It's ideal for anything remotely resembles a publication. However it's not suited as a CMS for sites that have custom datatypes that don't fit the Headline/Body model (yes there are custom meta fields, and these can be very helpful, but definitely have their limits). And you can't use it to build much in the way of custom back-end tools.

The key is in knowing where WordPress leaves off and when it's time to pick up a more sophsticated / full-fledged CMS.

3) Burak Kona, January 26, 2009 at 6:29 a.m. [Link]

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

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4) Paola Corie, February 25, 2009 at 9:31 a.m. [Link]

Nice tutorial, thanks for the share :)

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