ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with setting up a free site on WordPress.com and provides a self-hosted site on WordPress.org. It discusses selecting and activating themes on both.com and.org and also buying and uploading commercial themes specifically for.org. The process for activating a theme, however, is the same for both platforms. WordPress is a Content Management System — a user-friendly system which offers anyone the chance to create and manage a website. Many journalists use WordPress.com for personal blogs away from their employers. WordPress uses two things — PHP code and an SQL database to store the data. Each WordPress site has one database. WordPress source code — the code that actually makes the site function properly — consists of PHP, JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheetscode. Sometimes the theme files are too large for the automatic upload and will cause WordPress to time out.
