What is WordPress? Why use WordPress?

What is WordPress?

WordPress is an open source software (Open Source Software) is written in the programming language PHP website (Hypertext Preprocessor) and user management system MySQL database. WordPress was first launched on November 27/05/2003 by Matt Mullenweg and author Mike Little. Currently WordPress is owned and developed by Automattic company headquartered in San Francisco, California of the United States.

                  New WordPress user interface development time

The role of WordPress is an open source PHP language to support creating personal blog, and it was a lot of users supported on ease of use, many useful features. Over time, the number of users increases, the collaborators are also involved programmers to develop numerous WordPress additional source of great features. And by the time this article was written in 2015, WordPress has been viewed as a content management system (CMS - Content Management System1)) superior to assist the user can create many different types of websites such as blogs, websites news / magazines, business introduction, website sales - e-commerce, even with the kind of highly complex websites such as hotel reservations, car rental, post project property ... yes ... yes ... Almost all forms of small-scale sites are small and can be deployed on the WordPress platform.

But that does not mean that WordPress is only suitable for small projects, which currently owns around 25% of the sites in the list of 100 largest website using WordPress source code. Eg magazine pages TechCrunch, Mashable, CNN, BBC America, Variety, Sony Music, MTV News, Bata, Quartz, ... so many can not tell the full.

The achievements of WordPress

When you learn about WordPress, you would be proud to know that source that you're looking out immediately following achievements are extraordinary and is a popular open source CMS on the planet. To verify this, you need to know is:

Worldwide, there are about 25 articles posted to the website using WordPress every giay2).
The number of websites using WordPress as 23% of the total number of sites in the world.
Of the 100% of website use source CMS, WordPress account for 60%.
WordPress version 4.0 reached more than 16 million downloads in just two months.
WordPress has been translated into 52 different languages. But again no official Vietnamese version, but you can easily Vietnamese goods by finding blog posts with the keyword "Vietnam of WordPress".
There are more than 80 programs for WordPress meeting was held in 2014.
Powered WordPress currently has about 785 programmers and development cooperation.
Only interfaces (aka theme) free on WordPress.org, the library has over 2,700 different themes.
You see, WordPress is great is not it?

The reason you should choose WordPress

If you are still wondering about WordPress, I would like to show you some great reasons to choose WordPress as the platform for building your own website.

Ease of use

WordPress was developed to serve the common user object, without much knowledge of programming enhanced website. The manipulation of WordPress is very simple, intuitive administration interface can help you understand the structure of managing a WordPress website in a short time. How to install even easier, you can install a WordPress website on the host (server) itself and operate it themselves after a few clicks. You're worried about how how to install, host what? No problem, the next part of the series of its basic WordPress school has said very detailed.

Community support large

As a popular open source CMS in the world, this also means that you will be using the WordPress community to support the difficulties you encountered during use. If you have good English skills, you can easily find answers to the problems you are having with a few words on Google search.

Currently in Vietnam, is considered the source Thachpham.com website user guide with hundreds of the best WordPress tutorial from basic to advanced. On Facebook, there is a group called Vietnam WordPress has thousands of participants so that you can request assistance, discussions, social acquainted.

Many packages available interfaces

While using WordPress, the concept of interfaces for websites WordPress theme is commonly referred to from this section, I will call it a theme. Currently WordPress has many different themes free so you can easily change the "skin" of your website with just a few clicks without having to worry about how to design your own theme. If you want beautiful and professional website, you can buy premium theme with prices ranging from $ 30 to $ 65.

But if you are a beginner familiar with WordPress, please forget to use premium theme for installing it can be not easy for a beginner, but I will have tutorial lesson at the end this.

Many plugin support

Plugin means a website to plug in additional functionality that you need. For example, the default after installing WordPress website, you can not function displays related posts at the bottom of each article, but with many free plugin support, you can easily install a free plugin for website I have this function. Similar to the theme, there are many plugins premium features the unique and beneficial to the website and it will cost about $ 10 to $ 80, depending on complexity.

Ease of development for programmers

If you are a person with knowledge of the website as proficient as HTML, CSS, PHP, you can easily expand your WordPress website with a lot of extremely useful features. How developed is very simple because WordPress is an open source so you can easily understand how its activities and develop additional features.

Can do many types of website

Using WordPress does not mean you can only do personal blog, which you can turn your website into a sales page, a website introducing the company, an online magazine by using a combination of theme and plugin together. But to do it, you should definitely understand WordPress but do not rush to get a step up clouds of frustration because of its complexity.

Epilogue

In this article, be sure you understand how WordPress is and can then start with it if you feel interested. Please see the article pointing through the next section, you will learn more about WordPress and go down into the setting.

8 tips to speed up for your WordPress Blog

When you operate a WordPress website, what do you most worried about? As security or accelerate it? In general, both the two issues are very important to us. Secure your blog to help long-term development and minimize the risk of attack to affect the path of development, accelerate blog to help minimize the potential loss of visitors and help search engines easily indexing your website more.

To help your website has good speed, the first thing you have to do is choose a good hosting provider and if the object of your readers in the country, choose the hosting server located in your country. But if for any reason, you use a foreign host and initial speed nor by the local hosting, but you have to install the plugin makes a lot of blogs has slowed even more sluggish. Therefore, now I will tell you some methods to improve speed through some blog plugin, advice and some services use. We started yet.

Testing Tools website

Here are some free tools to help you speed test website, and check the query to the server to be able to know their website weighs anywhere to optimize it.

WebPageTest
Pingdom
Web Page Analyzer
8 ways to accelerate your WordPress blog

Using the cache (cache)
Reduce the size of the image
Erase the unnecessary plugin
Using CDN Service
Select appropriate theme
Optimize database
Analyzing the page loading speed
Minimize ad on page

1. Using the cache (cache)

If you are using WordPress without installing the plugin cache for website creation, you lose 50% efficiency in speed and website. By saving the file as a static HTML website and will be accessed when visitors to the website instead of having to execute the query submitted to the server as usual.

WP Super Cache is a WordPress plugin to make the best cache up to this point, so I think you should set it to your website right away if you have not already.

2. Reduce the size of the image

WP Smush.it is the first choice if your blog using multiple images. This plugin will optimize image size down low but does not affect the image quality. Of course, this blog is only useful when you upload photos directly to the host. In addition you can also delete the image conducted unused by Image Cleanup plugin.

3. Remove plug and unnecessary things

Please proceed to delete the plugin and widget are not really needed or not in use to save space on your host file and remove the javascript, CSS plugin that comes if used.

When you delete the plugin, can the table in the database still intact and so will do more heavy database, at which point you can use the plugin Clean Options to detect and delete the table is not used to. The peace of mind you, but this plugin is quite long but appeared to present time (WordPress version 3.4.2), it still runs fine.

Warning: Be careful when using the plugin Clean Options because you can lose data if deleted by mistake.

4. Using CDN (Content Devilery Network)

If you have the condition, use the CDN service to accelerate blog. This is the best way to improve website speed based on the data is copied to the server near the visitor, more caching feature to create and optimize CSS and JavaScript files very well.

Most of these services are paid, but you can also use a free service CDN CloudFlare which is pretty good, but sadly this service is subject to a number of scandals, so please refer to the Google reviews before you use it.

And another important thing is that if you use multiple blogs Javascript you can use the plugin Use Google Libraries to automatically replace the javascript file that Google supports to reduce the burden for the blog page load and save tapes information. A plugin is similar but only work with CSS and Javascript files that jsDelivr CDN WordPress Plugin

5. Select the appropriate theme

If you use too many themes CSS or Javascript, the page loading speed will be reduced significantly. Please use the simple theme if your hosting with low speed, while limiting the embedded javascript file in the theme.

6. Optimize database

File too large database is one reason why your blog becomes slow or less. After each post, WordPress will automatically save a draft in the database, and if you have 100 blog posts which do not clean up the database once the blog as you have 200 posts. Plugin good job is WP-Optimize.


7. Analyze the page loading speed

After you have applied 6 on the way now is the time you should verify the page loading speed and see where analysis is not really optimal. If you are scratching your itch does it new coffee place, are not you. And that is why its recommended that you use one of the following plugins to track statistics and page load speed.

- GTmetrix for WordPress
- P3 - Plugin Performance Profile

8. Minimize ad on page

The promotional code will usually form slowly Javascript or Flash media as it will greatly affect the speed of loading pages on the website. So if possible, reduce the number of ads on each page, it's best to just 2 or maximum 3 ad to avoid affect the website.

Hope to 8 above methods will help you improve the speed of the blog. But if you want the best blogs have a stable and fast speeds, you should choose the reputable hosting provider and fit.

The plugin needed to install for your wordpress blog

You already know how to install the plugin and use the plugin and then, and this is the superior characteristics of WordPress.Org than WordPress.Com. But avoid installing plugins you do not know or do not know how many plugins, I have a list of instructions for each plugin that they deem essential and you should install your website though nothing in the fields.

List of plugin to be installed

The following plugins are detailed instructions in Thachpham.com, please click on the plugin to see the detailed instructions.

JetPack - The collection of useful tools for WordPress (not installed on localhost).
Akismet - Anti-spam comment powerful.
TinyMCE Advanced - Additional buttons on the WordPress editor.
SEO by Yoast - Support for WordPress SEO best.
WP Super Cache - Create caching to speed up the website.
iThemes Security - Security Plugin for WordPress the most popular.
Contact Form 7 - Creating the best contact form.
Responsive Lightbox by dFactory - Create lightbox effect when clicking on image to view larger image.
ReplyMe - Send notification when someone replies to a comment.
Disqus - If you want to use as Thachpham.com comment system is installed.
It is the plugin that I think you should install on any website though as yet, of course, in addition to the above plugin you can install plugins that you deem appropriate.

How to find and install wordpress plugins?

Unlike theme, plugin you may not need to pay for library plugin free plugin available was very good and so here I will focus on finding and installing plugins available through the library.

How to find and install the plugin is very similar to installing a theme, which is that you can install over 3 way directly from the libraries installed on the dashboard, upload the plugin .zip file or upload plugin in the directory / wp-content / plugins on localhost / host.

To find the plugin, you access the Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New

Once in there, you can also search through plugin names by entering the name in the right hand pane Search Plugins and Enter, or view the list of plugin through the filter as Featured (highlight), Popular (common) , Recommended (recommended). If you are a beginner, you should skip Popular section and install the plugin in it.

You do not just click on the Install Now button, click the plugin name to view detailed information as described (to know what plugin function), Screenshot (photo) and Installation (installation).

A plugin information, please read before installing


For better or plugin that you look at the numbers Downloaded (downloads) and Average Rating (evaluation of the user), if it has high scores, download the install because many were many who believed not a great use for other plugin is installed and working. But with the popular plugin, there is almost no error, if an error occurs, it is only in your host does not respond duoc1).

After making sure the plugin you want to install, press the Install Now button to start the installation and click the Activate button to activate.

Or if you have a plugin that under your computer, on the Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New -> Upload plugin .zip file and upload the plugin to. Please note that this plugin must be compressed in accordance with the structure /ten-plugin/ten-file.php not /ten-thu-muc/ten-plugin/ten-file.php.

To find a richer plugin, you should visit the address and search plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/ by name, tag, ... and Falcon which is to copy the name Dashboard plugin to then find that out as soon as the library plugin which is taken from here that.

Ok, I temporarily ended instruction plugin here because of what I said in the post was enough. In the next part of the plugin tutorial, I will teach you how to use a typical plugin so that you will have platforms that use the plugin more complex, because the plugin is installed we have set the parameters for it to work properly it will. There are many complicated plugin must say very violent so using a plugin sometimes have to learn that home.

Setup and manage comments (comment) on Your Wordpress Blog

The original WordPress blog is an open source code which should also include a feature commentary and strong management commentary to all readers can post comments to best interact with the author, which is an advantage the blog that is not the type of website has been.

In this article I will explore with you through the features and guidelines set features the best for yourself and convenience of the reader post a comment. By default WordPress comments feature will require you to enter your name, email and website link (optional) to be able to post comments and submit comments bracket will look like this.

Features submit comments in Wordpress

Default in WordPress, it will proceed to raise all the comments from readers on standby browser and also will have a notification sent through email alerts as new comments recently. To view and test the commentary is in standby mode browser, you will see the Comments section as follows:

If you want to browse public comment, simply push a button to approve comments that are. Where not want to display it, or delete it, you can click on the Trash or Spam. If you want their comment will be displayed immediately without having to wait, you can browse to Settings -> uncheck Discussions and two lines in vẻ Before a comment.

Prohibition of the sensitivity to comment

Assuming you do not want to blog with some commentators mention some phrases sensitive, you can still use banned readers using the Comment Blacklist feature in the Settings -> Discussions. Please enter the word or phrase should be banned and each of you separated by a line as below.

Avatar appears in comment

Default WordPress supports only display avatars in http://gravatar.com service, which means if you do not already have an account at Gravatar then it will randomly display the default avatar.

If you want to own avatar then go to the home page and register Gravatar account, or sign in with your WordPress.com account, then add the email to attach and upload an avatar to avatar from your computer to be completed. Then, make sure that your email in Users -> Your Profile using email identical to the registered email avatar.

Anti-spam comment

State of comment spam in WordPress really is a disaster for the popular WordPress should have a lot of spam software supports the use WordPress website easily. Sometimes you just installed web only, no time to promote the spammer has "visited". To prevent comment spam most effective, install Akismet plugin follow this tutorial is finished.

Epilogue

Above are some notes on how to use the WordPress comment system and how to customize it really optimal. Please remember that the comment is a support interactive features strongly in the blog should regularly check and reply comments to the readers offline. ;)

The difference between the Post and Page in Wordpress

You already know how to create and how to create a Page Post, but can many questions you will have different Post and Page how, when using Post that when using Page. To answer this question for you, I'll answer for you about the difference between the Post and Page because these are actually two completely different concepts and uses completely different as well.

Common Post and Page

Post and Page have one thing in common is that both in the form of Post Type in WordPress, meaning the content so that we can enter into the material through the draft and published on the website. By default, WordPress has two post type the Post and Page and if later you learn through Advanced WordPress will learn how to create a post according to their type 1).

In addition, features such as comments, Featured Image, Slug, Custom Fields, ... v ... v..deu on the Post and Page.

Post and Page Different how?

There are many different views, namely:

Post category and tag support for sorting, Page did not.
Page supports hierarchical parent page - the page, Post does not.
Page Page Template support, Post does not.
When you sign up, Post will display automatically on websites, Post does not.
Post has displayed in RSS Feed, Page did not.
Purpose of use

When using Post

Post to your bulletin post / article that you want it to be classified by a certain category and automatically show out website; such as diaries, news, articles, ... etc ..

When using Page

Page Do not be classified by category or tags, and do not show themselves to be the best website we will use it as an introduction to information and non-updated frequently, such as Page Contact Us, About Us, ... v ... v ...

Epilogue

Hopefully with a few brief explanation, you will be able to understand the nature of Post and Page how to avoid misuse purpose because if you later need to change it would be very time consuming so the best you should define use cases fit Post and Page now.