29/11/22 - WordPress

In today's lesson, we began working on our WordPress websites. To do this, we first had to install WordPress onto our computers.

We did this, by first opening the PuTTY software and typing in our Host Name and port number, which then took us to a page, where we would have to enter our usual Canvas/Studynet usernames. This triggered the opening of our MySQL details to become available for us to use. We then had to open FileZilla, to look at our files in. Once in FileZilla, we had to enter our Host Name, Username, Canvas/Studynet Password, and Port Number, to open up our online directories, which let us see our 'public_html' files, which we would need to set up our WordPress Sites.

After we had done this, we then had to download WordPress onto our computers, by following a link and pressing the download button. This created a new folder on our devices, which we had to extract to unzip, so that we could use its contents, and then move the file to wherever we wanted it within our regular files. We then went back to FileZilla, and dragged this newly downloaded WordPress folder into our 'public_html' file. Within this new folder, there was a .php file called wp-config-sample.php. We had to open this item on Notepad, so that we could alter it. In the text that appeared when this file was opened, there were a few sections where we had to replace the text with our own personal information, such as our usernames and MySQL passwords. We then had to save this as a new file called wp-config.php, and place this new file in the same place as the original WordPress file.

We then had to follow a link to a WordPress admin login page, however we had to alter the URL to contain our usernames, where a certain placeholder piece of text was. This link, led us to a login page, where we then had to enter our usernames and MySQL passwords once again. Once completed, this saved all of our data, so that whenever we followed our login links in the future, it would send us to a normal login page, where we could sign in, and it would take us to our WordPress Websites.

We then got to look around our WordPress websites, getting used to the layouts, and understanding what the different menu buttons lead to and do.





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