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Since there are a lot of different moving parts and systems that need to work together creating a complete

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business as a WordPress web site developer is pretty complicated in this course.

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You'll learn how to implement all the moving parts into a working whole without having to program or

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code any of it yourself.

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The phrase Web developer has a wide range of meanings but in this course you'll learn how to be an expert

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WordPress implementer making functional custom web sites using the tools presented here and you'll be

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able to troubleshoot and fix existing WordPress Web sites whether you built them or not.

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By the end of this video you'll have an understanding of all the systems that work together to deliver

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WordPress websites through building more than 10 Web sites yourself.

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You'll have an example of any kind of web site imaginable and be ready to venture off on your own to

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build hostes maintain and sell Web sites to clients to implement a WordPress Web site.

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You need these three main things the Wordpress files a server to host them and a database.

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The files are built into programming languages DHP and Javascript.

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The server reads these files incorporates data from the database and delivers web pages to a browser

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using two other languages.

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HDMI L and C Ss as a WordPress implementor you don't need to know much about these programming languages

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but you do need to know how the systems work together will be setting up development environments that

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contain the word press corps files and the database inside the server.

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These can be on your local computer or at a hosting company ready to deliver your websites to the world.

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Let's take a look at a simple local development environment.

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First self-contained.

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On my computer here I'm opening a program that you will be using soon called Map.

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It's a server just like hosting companies use but it's freely available to use on your local computer

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to develop web sites without being connected to the Internet.

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Map stands for my apache My sequel THP.

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Apache is an open source web server that's used by many hosting companies.

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It's enabled to use Add-Ons like my sequel databases and HP on which Wordpress is built.

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Installing map on your local computer means that you can build and test web sites without needing to

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buy hosting or be connected to the Internet.

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If I started the server by clicking here you'll see the Apache server light up as well as my sequel

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server.

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Once I have these running in the background I can navigate to a predefined address at the server through

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any browser and open my WordPress website.

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Take a look at the address bar.

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I'm not on the internet.

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I'm just navigating to the server on my local computer through map.

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I can log into the Wordpress dashboard here by opening up the log in page in another tab and using the

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credentials I set up as the administrator of the site when I installed WordPress.

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Now if I change something on the site using the Wordpress dashboard I can save my changes and open the

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website tab refreshing the page to see my changes.

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I'll just open.

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Hello world.

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The first post that comes with the default WordPress installation and instead of welcome to WordPress.

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I'll type local for web site enabled and click update.

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Now once I get the update post has been updated message I can navigate back to my Web site tab and refresh

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the page and you'll see local for web site enabled.

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Wordpress is communicating with the server using Apache and connecting to the database in the background

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and then delivering the Web site pages to my browser.

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All through my local map server environment.

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Now if I open windows explorer I can show you the files that the server is using to surf the Web site

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pages to my browser.

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Here's the word press corps file structure and if I use the map interface inside my browser I can show

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you the database.

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Let's go to man and if I click Open start page inside my browser.

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It will open a map page that's again hosted locally on my computer and under my sequel I can click THP

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my admin by using this utility built into the server called P-H PMI admin.

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I can show you the database tables and here's where I made that change just now.

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Under the local for database I can go to W.P. posts and all the tables under there are right here and

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here is the change I made.

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Local For web site enabled WordPress.

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Though it started as a blogging platform has grown into a content management system or a CMOS.

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A blog is just a Web site that's set up to deliver periodic posts and display them in reverse chronological

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order because so many features and functions have been added to the Wordpress platform.

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It's become the most popular CIMS in the world.

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Powering more than 25 percent of all the Web sites on the Internet it's the convenience of managing

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the Web site through the Wordpress dashboard combined with the huge community of developers that create

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themes and plug ins for Wordpress that has let it to become so ubiquitous it's structure keeping the

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content in a database while separately delivering files like web pages and images with design elements

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through themes and functionality through plug ins allows WordPress websites to be easily managed by

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non-programmers.

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My clients appreciate that I can give them the keys to their website so to speak and allow them to make

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changes and manage the content of their site themselves.

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If we go back to the Wordpress dashboard I'll show you how you can manage and customize WordPress Web

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sites using the systems already in place allowing you to build a business around WordPress web site

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development without having to program or code anything from scratch.

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Here's where the themes are managed.

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After they're installed into WordPress you can see that I have a few themes here and I can enable a

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different theme to completely change the look of my web site.

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Without changing the content it all take a look at the difference same Web site different look and feel

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if I go back to Windows Explorer I can show you where the theme files are located in the WP content

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folder and in the themes folder Here's W.T. content and there's a folder called themes and I've just

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enabled the 2014 theme.

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The theme I had enabled before was called 2016.

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These are some of the default themes that come with wordpress.

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If I go back to W.P. content you can see that there's also a plug ins folder here.

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And yes you guessed it that's where the plugin files are located.

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While themes control the look and feel of a Web site built with wordpress plugins are used to control

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functionality allowing the Web site to do things.

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For example here's a contact form plug in and I can show you where it's managed within the Wordpress

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dashboard and the functionality it provides the Web site.

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Back at the dashboard here's the plug in Section.

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You can see the corresponding contact form plug in here.

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The plug in provides a settings panel within the Wordpress dashboard located here.

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And if I open that up I can manage my contact forms.

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The way this plugin works is that I can copy this short code including the brackets and paste it anywhere

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I want to get a functional contact form to appear on the Web site.

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When someone fills out the form the plug in and wordpress combine forces to send me an email with the

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contact forms contents and delivers a message to the user that the form has been sent successfully here.

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Back in wordpress under pages you can see I've created a page in wordpress It's called contact me and

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you can see the short code there.

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Here's where I've pasted it from the contact form plugin.

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If I open the web site in my browser and I browse to this contact me page you can see the page I created

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and how it contains the functional contact form itself.

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Now since this website is being developed locally I'd have to have another add on for Apache server

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to be able to test the email delivery here.

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WordPress has a robust transactional email delivery system that controls things like contact form emails

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sending email to new users with their log in information and the forgotten password system so users

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can reset their passwords securely transactional email is just email sent by the Wordpress system itself

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to accomplish the things I just mentioned.

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There are other systems that will get into later to like domain name configuration client billing and

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support systems.

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For now take note that we are using a web site address on our local server just for development purposes.

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When you set up Web sites for clients you'll need to connect their domain names like exampled dot com

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to their Web site.

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We do this by pointing the domain through the domain registrar like go daddy dot com or another service

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to the web server.

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When we set up a live internet server at a hosting company we'll explore how to do this.

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As you build more than 10 Web sites in this course you'll learn to connect the systems together to create

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a whole bunch of different Web site functionality and design enough to know how to fulfill any client's

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needs in the future.

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To wrap it up in this video I've discussed how Wordpress is a content management system that contains

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lots of moving parts.

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The main systems working together are pretty simple.

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However a server with the ability to deliver web pages using both a file system and a database.

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Next you'll get all the tools set up to get started building web sites yourself.

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Will look at all the specific files in the word press corps file structure set up all your developer

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tools including the code editor FCP program browser and image editor.

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Then we'll get started with business tools like invoicing using a spreadsheet template how to take one

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time and recurring payments using PAIP how and how to keep up with the latest developments around WordPress.

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To stay on top of trends see their