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In this video you're going to get introduced to WordPress.

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So what is WordPress.

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Wordpress is a software package that we can use as a content management system we can use Wordpress

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to build a blog.

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We can also use Wordpress to build an e-commerce Web sites or even a traditional static web site.

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Wordpress is very easy to learn and very easy to use and we don't have to do too much programming.

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When we use Wordpress.

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OK so it started in 2003 and today is trusted by millions of users around the world.

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It's powers more or less one quarter of the Web sites around the globe and it's used by some of the

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big companies in the world like eBay Forbes or CNN an example of their websites using WordPress is the

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Google Ventures Web site.

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So this Web site is powered by WordPress.

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OK.

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So WordPress comes with many templates that we call themes.

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So a theme is a template that we can use in wordpress and customize with or without our own content

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.

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So we can do anything we want like text pictures and so on to build our own websites.

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So this is a WordPress theme.

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This is another example of a Webers theme.

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Okay.

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And then another one.

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OK.

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So using WordPress we can build static pages with some static content and also we can create something

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we call posts which are time driven.

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And you can decide how frequence or how frequently you want to add posts your websites so you can add

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them on a monthly basis weekly or even daily if you want to.

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OK.

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Also WordPress with cum will come with some widgets which are usually the boxes we see on the right

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hand side or the left hand side of the page.

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And these we just show will show for example our recent news archives and sometimes they will offer

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a newsletter subscription box.

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OK an example of a Web site we're going to be building later on in our project section using WordPress

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.

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So there is something else in her breast that we call plugins.

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So plugins.

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They are just ready pieces of code that we we can use to create some components in our web pages without

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having to write any code so an example is this Google map.

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So we going to use a plugin to create this without having to worry at all about any code context forms

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.

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There are many plugins to use in wordpress to create some really nice looking context forms.

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And another example are going to be using is going to be a game like this which is going to pop up by

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video in our screen.

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OK.

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So that was a quick introduction to WordPress.

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In the next video we are going to install WordPress