{"id":101,"date":"2012-11-06T21:40:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T05:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/?p=101"},"modified":"2013-10-04T23:29:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T06:29:09","slug":"wordpress-01-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/wordpress-01-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 01: Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/files\/2012\/11\/wordpress-essentials.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wordpress-essentials\" width=\"590\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/files\/2012\/11\/wordpress-essentials.jpg 590w, https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/files\/2012\/11\/wordpress-essentials-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><br \/>\nOver the past 6 years WordPress has steady grown in popularity into the most used Content Management System (CMS) on the web.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of reasons why WordPress is so widely used and such a great choice for a CMS:<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Ease of Use<\/strong>: WordPress is not only easy to use for administrators to manage content, install plugins, and themes but also for developers to create new themes and plugins.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Modular Design<\/strong>: WordPress is built with modularity in mind, the code is clearly organized and easy to build upon using themes and plugins.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Vibrant Community<\/strong>: Since its inception WordPress has had a great community of designers, developers and administrators supporting the platform.<\/p>\n<p>In this course we&#8217;re going to slowly ease you into using WordPress. We will install WordPress locally on a Mac and begin by trying a few plugins and themes. Follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/installing-wordpress-locally\/\" title=\"Installing WordPress Locally\">Installing WordPress Locally<\/a> link to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good article about WordPress:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onextrapixel.com\/2009\/07\/17\/the-autopsy-of-wordpress-as-cms-with-25-great-wp-plugins-designs\/\">Why use WordPress? &#8211; Autopsy of WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 6 years WordPress has steady grown in popularity into the most used Content Management System (CMS) on the web. There are a number of reasons why WordPress is so widely used and such a great choice for a CMS: 1. Ease of Use: WordPress is not only easy to use for administrators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/isma309\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}