Tim February 23rd, 2007
This post is part of a series:
WordPress 2.1 Part 1 of 3 | Installing from scratch
Wordpress 2.1 Part 2 of 3 | Digging into the Administration Panel
WordPress 2.1 Part 3 of 3 | Customizing and Extending WordPress
Well well well, nice to have you back. If you’ve been tuning into our programming here at DemoMarks you would know that we’ve got a 3 part Demo of WordPress 2.1 going on. Yesterday we covered Installation of WordPress from Scratch. Today we are tackling the Admin interface of WordPress. From writing and managing posts and pages to plugins, links, and presentational elements, the administration panel has a lot of functionality built into a pretty clean and simple package. Let’s take it for a test drive.
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Tim February 21st, 2007
This post is part of a series:
Wordpress 2.1 Part 1 of 3 | Installing from scratch
WordPress 2.1 Part 2 of 3 | Digging into the Administration Panel
WordPress 2.1 Part 3 of 3 | Customizing and Extending WordPress
To kick off our reviews here at DemoMarks I’ve decided to take WordPress 2.1 for a test drive. WordPress is a blogging platform developed by Matt Mullenweg that has continually gained in popularity for the wide array of plugins and themes, large community base, and ability to customize every aspect. Many web developers are choosing WordPress as a content management system for client websites and, as you may have already noticed, DemoMarks is built on WordPress.
While installation is far from difficult, users who have no web hosting have the option of using WordPress.com’s integrated blogging platform that cuts out the middleman and allows anyone to sign up for a blog with hosting provided by WordPress. However, this demo will cover the installation of WordPress on your own hosting service. Part 2 will cover navigation of the administration panel and Part 3 with explore the customization options available to you using WordPress to make your blog unique.
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