CMS and WP Overview

The course serves as an introduction to utilizing Content Management Systems for web development. This course is designed to introduce and instruct students in setting up, designing, and maintaining CMSs. Using WordPress, Students will learn the concepts and structures relevant to building client websites, portfolios and blogs. Participants explore the fundamentals of planning dynamic websites, CMS analysis and selection, current web standards and conventions through the planning and creation of their own topic-based sites. By the end of the course students will be equipped to set up, manage content, and utilize themes and plugins.

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1. CMS & WORDPRESS OVERVIEW E R I C A S T E R L I N G - B U S H
2. WHAT IS A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS) • A program designed to manage the content of a website usually without having to know how to code • WYSIWYG Editor • User Roles, Permissions, Workflows, Approvers • Web Content: pages, posts, images, pdfs, multimedia • Hundreds available (cmsmatrix.org) – What do you want your website to do? • Open Source or Closed Source (SAAS, Enterprise/Commercial)
3. OPEN SOURCE OPEN SOURCE • Able to get access to the source code and manipulate the code • FREE (usually) • Addons/plugins made by other ppl in the Community* • Customization • Examples – Wordpress – Drupal – Joomla – Expression Engine
4. CLOSED SOURCE • Cannot get access to the source code • PAID - SAAS • Usually feature rich • Company offers support • None to limited Customization • Examples – Wix – Squarespace – Weebly – Google Sites – Jimdo
5. SELECTING THE RIGHT CMS Web Content Management Wix Weebly Squarespace Webflow Joomla Drupal Wordpress Blogging/News Wordpress Blogger Tumblr Ecommerce Shopify Magento* Big Commerce Social Communities Ning BuddyPress LMS/Courses Google Classroom Teachable Udemy Thinkific
6. MAGIC QUADRANT FOR WCM
7. CMS BY INDUSTRY COLLEGE CMS • Ingeniux • Campus Suite • Omni Update • Jadu • dotCMS • Drupal HEALTHCARE/HOSPITALS • Geonetirc • Care Tech • MediTech
8. WORDPRESS • Launched in 2003 as a blogging platform • Created by Matt Mullenweg @photomatt and Mike Little • Built on PHP and MySQL • Cost effective • No software required, just internet • Easy to Use/Learn • Communities by city and country,WCUS, WPTV
9. WP STATS • World's Most Popular CMS and Fastest Growing CMS – 18 Million sites (34% of all sites in the world) – 60.8% share of the CMS market • 500+ sites are built each day usingWordPress while only 60-80 per day are built on platform like Shopify and Squarespace • Over 11,000 themes • The WordPress Plugin Directory features 55,000+ plugins • Top websites include: The New York Times, Spotify, TechCrunch, The White House website, BBC America
10. WORDPRESS.COM VS. WORDPRESS.ORG WORDPRESS.COM • Hosted (https://automattic.com/) • Paid (SAAS) • Website could be deleted • Limited options • Can't monetize with ads • Can't upload plugins • Limited Themes • Subdomain name (yourdomainname.wordpress.com) WORDPRESS.ORG • Self-hosted (The Wordpress Foundation) • Open Source/Free/GPL • No limitations • Unlimited Plugins • Monetize Site to make money • Online Store • Complete Customizations • Your own domain and hosting
11. WP COMMUNITIES
12. https://2019.philadel phia.wordcamp.org
13. https://2019.us. wordcamp.org/
14. CMS ON THE RISE • Webflow is an unusual hybrid • SAAS (free until you go live) • Over 750,000 users in 2019 • Easy-to-use DIY site builder for those with no technical knowledge, • Superior alternative to WordPress. • Offers complex functionality to developers and designers and agencies
15. QUESTIONS