1.What is WordPress?
2.What is a is WordPress Themes?
3.What is WordPress requirements?
4.What is WordPress Features?
5.Where can I find some good WordPress templates?
6.Do I need to know PHP to use WordPress?
7.How do I stop HTML in comments?
8.Why Would I Choose WordPress?
9.How can I stop someone from seeing my WordPress blog?
What is WordPress?
WordPress is powerful software that is easy to set up and easy to use for maintenance of a blog. There is no question that WordPress is one of the most popular blogging software platforms because it focuses on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. You can visit the official site of WordPress at
Wordpress to download the software free of charge or to find out more about it.
What is a is WordPress Themes?
A Theme is simply a web template that runs in the WordPress content management system.
What is WordPress requirements?
The WordPress server requirements are listed below:
You can find more information about WordPress documentation at:
http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
What is WordPress Features?
- Full standards compliance — We have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for interoperability with today's browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation. Your web site is a beautiful thing, and you should demand nothing less.
- No rebuilding — Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.
- WordPress Pages — Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so for example you could have a static "About" page that you manage through WordPress. For an idea of how powerful this is, the entire WordPress.org site could be run off WordPress alone. (We don't for technical mirroring reasons.)
- WordPress Links -- Links allows you to create, maintain, and update any number of blogrolls through your administration interface. This is much faster than calling an external blogroll manager.
- WordPress Themes — WordPress comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake, and you can even have multiple themes with totally different looks that you switch with a single click. Have a new design every day.
- Cross-blog communication tools— WordPress fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards, and we are committed to supporting future standards as they develop.
- Comments — Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis.
- Spam protection — Out of the box WordPress comes with very robust tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog, and there is also a rich array of plugins that can take this functionality a step further.
- Full user registration — WordPress has a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow people to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally close comments for non-registered users. There are also plugins that hide posts from lower level users.
- Password Protected Posts — You can give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author.
- Easy installation and upgrades — Installing WordPress and upgrading from previous versions and other software is a piece of cake. Try it and you'll wonder why all web software isn't this easy.
- Easy Importing — We currently have importers for Movable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Work on importers for Nucleus and pMachine are under way.
- XML-RPC interface — WordPress currently supports an extended version of the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and finally the MovableType API. You can even use clients designed for other platforms like Zempt.
- Workflow — You can have types of users that can only post drafts, not publish to the front page.
- Typographical niceties — WordPress uses the Texturize engine to intelligently convert plain ASCII into typographically correct XHTML entities. This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands. For information about the proper use of such entities see Peter Sheerin's article The Trouble With Em ’n En.
- Intelligent text formatting — If you've dealt with systems that convert new lines to line breaks before you know why they have a bad name: if you have any sort of HTML they butcher it by putting tags after every new line indiscriminately, breaking your formatting and validation. Our function for this intelligently avoids places where you already have breaks and block-level HTML tags, so you can leave it on without worrying about it breaking your code.
- Multiple authors — WordPress' highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.
- Bookmarklets — Cross-browser bookmarklets make it easy to publish to your blog or add links to your blogroll with a minimum of effort.
- Ping away — WordPress supports pinging Ping-O-Matic, which means maximum exposure for your blog to search engines.
has made two customizable WordPress templates. To use these templates you will have to replace the index.php as well as the stylesheet (wp-style.css). More instructions are available at the following websites :
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The only time you would modify your WordPress blog with PHP would be when integrating some of the plugins. In this case, clear instructions are given within a text file with the plugin.
Other than that, you would not be changing any of the PHP files.
How do I stop HTML in comments?
You need to edit the file ‘kses.php’ which is in the wp-includes folder.
Open that file, and at the top you will see the allowed HTML.
Comment out those tags that you do not want used.
A line of PHP is commented out - and therefore ignored - by placing // at the start of that line.
You can, of course, just delete the line too
Why Would I Choose WordPress?
One of the principle advantages of WordPress is that
you are in control. Unlike remote-hosted scripts such as Blogger and LiveJournal, you host WordPress on your own server. Installation is very simple as is the configurationunlike some other software programs out there, there arent a million files to chmod nor are there dozens of templates to edit just to get your site set up and looking the way you want. Blog pages are generated on the fly whenever a page is requested, so you dont have multiple archive pages clogging up your web space. Template changes are completed in scant seconds, because you dont have to wait for your site to rebuild itself.
WordPress is built following W3C standards for XHTML and CSS, ensuring that your site is more easily rendered across standards-compliant browsers. Other browsers are supported with a few hacks; it’s a reality of the web in which we weave that hacks are necessary. Aggregator support is built-in with a number of standard RSS configurations already done for you, as well as Atom. Following standards makes your WordPress site easier to manage, increases its longevity for future Internet technology adoption, and helps to give your site the widest audience possible.
How can I stop someone from seeing my WordPress blog?
There is no guaranteed way to do this.
You can use the .htaccess file (which also contains your permalink code) so check for certain IP addresses and prevent them from viewing your site.
A .htaccess can also prevent others ‘hot-linking’ to your images (bandwidth theft) or to set up a password protected blog.
One tutorial for this is located at
http://www.clockwatchers.com/htaccess_intro.html
This file only stops the IP, not the person, so if they have access to another IP, they can get to your page.
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