Lab 07 - Content Management Systems

Goals of the exercise

• Learn how to create a new subdomain and secure it with SSL/TLS.
• Learn to install Wordpress on the host server.
• Learn to configure Wordpress, its database, its themes, and being able to personalize an entire Wordpress website.

Description

For this lab we need to configure an entire Wordpress instance, and deploy it on our own hosting account. This includes Wordpress itself, its database, its themes, as well as a menu and some basic blog posts, to demonstrate we can actually publish posts.

Related links

Some of the websites I've consulted while developing:

• Wordpress Developer Documentation
• Wordpress Support Documentation
• Stack Overflow

Reflection

• Woaw!

  I was surprised at how straightforward the entire process was. I had expected more difficulties...

• Aauuw!

  Setting up the database is still sometimes a head scratcher, but it also went easier now that I've done it before.

• Not sure?

  Everything went great; Wordpress is probably the best choice for websites that have to be updated by non-technical people.