WordPress Getting Started

WordPress is open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app.There are 28% of the web uses WordPress, from hobby blogs to the biggest news sites online in the world. Beautiful designs, powerful features, and the freedom to build anything you want. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.Extend WordPress with over 45,000 plugins to help your website meet your needs. Add an online store, galleries, mailing lists, forums, analytics, and much more.

If you have installed Websoft9 WordPress, the following steps is for your quick start

Preparation

1. Get the Internet IP of your Server on Cloud
2. Check your Inbound of Security Group Rule of Cloud Console to ensure the TCP:80 is allowed
3. Get default username and password of WordPress
4. Complete Five steps for Domain if you want to use Domain for WordPress

WordPress Initialization

Steps for you

1. Using local Chrome or Firefox to visit the URL <http://domain name> or <http://Internet IP>, you will enter the WordPress

2. Select your language, then go to next step

3. Set administrator user, password and mail, then click Install WordPress

4. OK, it has been installed successfully.

5. Use <http://domain or Internet IP/wp-admin> to login to WordPress's dashboard

More useful WordPress guide, please refer to WordPress Documentation

Having trouble?

Below is for you to solve problem, and you can contact Websoft9 Support or refer to Troubleshoot + FAQ to get more.

WordPress QuickStart

The following is xxx as a task, it helps users get started quickly.

WordPress Setup

SMTP

1. Get SMTP related parameters in the mailbox management console

2. Log in WordPress Console

3. Go to Setting->General Settings, set your email which will diplay in the email sended for users

4. Install the plugin: WP Mail SMTP by WPForms

5. Start to configure the WP Mail SMTTP(This sample is SendGrid)

6. Click the Send Email, you can get the feedback "Your email was sent successfully!..." if SMTP is useful

DNS Additional Configure

Complete Five steps for Domain ，Set the URL for WordPress：

1. Connect Cloud Server, complete the Domain binding

2. Save it

If after changing the domain name, some of the picture addresses in the website are still the original domain name, you need to manually correct them one by one

If you cannot access the background operation in step 3 after step 2 is completed, please visit the WordPress database and change the home and siteurl attributes in the option table to [new domain name]

Through the MySQL visualization tool phpMyAdmin that has been configured in websoft9(http://ip:phpmyadmin or http://ip:9090)Perform shortcuts

HTTPS Additional Configure

Standard HTTPS configuration After completion, the following exceptions may be encountered:

• After HTTPS is configured, some resources of the website cannot be loaded?

WordPress File type limit extend

WordPress supports uploading of most image formats such as images by default, but some file formats are not supported. According to personal needs, we need to add some formats. Of course, some formats can be prohibited from being uploaded.

1. Edit function.php file on your Theme directory
2. Copy the code section to functions.php file

function edit_upload_types($existing_mimes = array()) {

// Allowed file types to upload
$existing_mimes['woff'] = 'application/woff';
$existing_mimes['rar'] = 'application/rar';

// To add more file type support, add code later.

// File types that are not allowed to be uploaded
unset( $existing_mimes['jpg'] );

return $existing_mimes;
}
add_filter('upload_mimes', 'edit_upload_types');

Add record number

If you use WordPress with its own theme by default, you need to add ICP filing and links at the bottom of the page. The specific operation steps are as follows:

1. Log in to WordPress background and open 【appearance】> 【gadget】 in turn

2. Drag a text widget from the available widgets on the left to the footer 1 on the right

3. Fill in the relevant information of the record number, add a link, and click the 【Enter】and the【save】respectively

4. Refresh the page to see the effect

Managing Plugins

Plugins are ways to extend and add to the functionality that already exists in WordPress.

For instructions and information on downloading, installing, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing your WordPress Plugins, see Managing Plugins. If you want to develop your own plugin, there is a comprehensive list of resources in Plugin Resources.

Looking for plug-ins

There are three ways to find the required plug-ins:

1. Through WordPress background - appearance - install plug-ins,Get WordPress plug-in library Online
2. Search "WordPress plug-in" on Baidu, Google, etc., and find your favorite theme
3. Purchase powerful plug-ins through the plug-in trading market, such as:codecanyon.net

Add new plugins

1. Administration Screen > Plugins > Add New

2. Search the plugins which you want,and install it,active it

3. you can also add plugins by upload you package of zip

Top20 plugins

The following plug-ins are often used in WordPress:

Name	category	purpose	paid or free
Woocommerce	e-commerce	expand WordPress into an e-commerce website	free
Woocommerce tab manager	e-commerce	e-commerce page tab extension	free
Updraftplus WordPress backup plugin	backup	automatic backup of WordPress	free
Visual Composer: page builder for WordPress	typesetting and layout	customized editor	charge
Slider revolution responsive WordPress plugin	layout and layout	powerful round robin animation production and management	charging
Ninja forms – the easy and powerful forms builder	forms	form plug-ins	free
Duplicator – WordPress migration plugin	system management	website overall packaging tool with backup and migration	free
All in one WP migration	system management	website overall packaging and recovery tool	free
Download monitor	download management	download management	free
File manager	file management	online file management tool	free
Yoast SEO	SEO	SEO optimization suggestions and settings by page	free
All in one SEO	SEO	SEO optimization suggestions and settings by page	free
Remove Google fonts	system management	block Google fonts and improve speed	free
WP optimize	system management	system optimization and slimming	free
WP job manager	business application	recruitment and position management	free
WP mail SMTP by wpforms	business application	SMTP mail sending settings	free
Wedocs – the documentation plugin	business applications	online documentation tools	free
Smartideo	business application	video insertion such as Youku	free
Essential grid	typesetting and layout	article and page grid tools	free
Post grid, list for WordPress – content views	typesetting and layout	document and page calling tools	free
Fat rat collect	data collection	open source plug-in for bulk collection of article data, including wechat, Jianshu, Zhihu, list details, etc.	free

Adding New Themes

1. Download or prepare a theme which has been packaged and the suffix of the package is zip
2. Login to the WordPress,go to Administration Screen -> Appearance -> Themes -> Add new
3. upload Themes or one Click the online themes,you can install the theme
4. After installation of theme,you should active it by Administration Screen > Appearance > Themes
5. From the Themes panel, roll over the Theme thumbnail image for the Theme to activate the Theme click the Activate button.

Woocommerce payment configuration

Woocommerce is an e-commerce plug-in for WordPress. By installing this plug-in on WordPress, you can transform your WordPress into an e-commerce website. It is said that woocommerce has been downloaded more than 100 million times, and its market share is ahead of similar software.

Woocommerce officially provides a theme market and a plug-in market to expand woocommerce's functions.

Woocommerce provides mainstream foreign payment plug-ins by default. The following focuses on two payment configurations for localized payment in China

Alipay instant payment

1. Apply for a Alipay merchant account, and apply for instant arrival;

2. Install the Alipay payment plug-in in the mall (if there is no Alipay plug-in, please buy it here)

3. Configure Alipay parameters in the mall. The configuration interface is as follows:

Wechat scanning payment

The woocommerce wechat payment plug-in is very simple to use. You can add wechat payment function to your WordPress mall just by following the steps below.

1. Install wechat payment plug-in (if you don't have Alipay plug-in, please buy it here)

2. Obtain wechat official account appid, key, wechat payment key and wechat payment authorization directory -Get appid and appsecret of wechat official account application IDand application key are the authorization ID and password for wechat official account to communicate with the third-party website (WordPress). They are very important and must be filled in. Please log in to wechat public platform, Click development-configuration to get appid and appsecret -Get wechat payment key and log in to wechat payment merchant platform Find and set the key in account settings-API security. The key is 32 bits. Please note that it is reserved for use after obtaining the key

3. Add authorized payment directory on wechat public platform.Click wechat payment-development configuration, and set the authorized payment directory. The authorized payment directory of wechat payment plug-in is: (<https://your domain/WP content/plugins/wechat> Weixin payments for woocommerce)

4. Set callback domain name on wechat public platform. In development-Interface permissions, find Web Services-web account modification authorization callback page domain name. The domain name is your website domain name. Pay attention to distinguish between WWW and without WWW;

5. Configure wechat payment plug-in. Find wechat payment settings in woocommerce settings and fill in wechat official account appid and wechat payment key

Manage WordPress Password

We may Modify or recover WordPress administrator password

Modify WordPress administrator password

Log in Wordpress, go to Users->Your Profile,update your password

Recover WordPress administrator password

If you don't remember the WordPress administrator password, you can retrieve it in the following two ways.

Recover by Email

WordPress can retrieve the password by sending an email, but only if your WordPress site has already configured SMTP.

Recover by database

If the server does not support the function of sending email passwords, the database management panel phpmyadmin will modify it.

1. Log in to phpMyAdmin, find the wp_user table of your WordPress database

2. Edit the user(e.g. your username is admin)
   

3. Replace the data with 21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3(MD5)

4. Click run

5. The new password is admin now

Reference sheet

The below items and General parameter sheet is maybe useful for you manage WordPress

Run docker ps, view all containers when WordPress is running:

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS          PORTS                                       NAMES
2fe10a179a6c   phpmyadmin:latest   "/docker-entrypoint.…"   16 seconds ago   Up 16 seconds   0.0.0.0:9090->80/tcp, :::9090->80/tcp       phpmyadmin
d43ecff5608c   wordpress:latest    "docker-entrypoint.s…"   39 seconds ago   Up 38 seconds   0.0.0.0:9001->80/tcp, :::9001->80/tcp       wordpress
9f4aa7ad771b   mariadb:10.4        "docker-entrypoint.s…"   39 seconds ago   Up 38 seconds   0.0.0.0:3306->3306/tcp, :::3306->3306/tcp   wordpress-db

Path

WordPress installation directory: /data/apps/wordpress
WordPress configuration file: /data/apps/wordpress/data/wordpress/wp-config.php WordPress data directory: /data/apps/wordpress/data/mysql_data

Port

In addition to common ports such as 80, 443, etc., the following ports may be used:

Port	Use	Necessity
3306	Remote connect MariaDB	Optional
9090	Web managment GUI for MySQL	Optional

Version

WordPress view it on console

Service

sudo docker start | stop | restart  wordpress
sudo docker start | stop | restart  wordpress-db
sudo docker start | stop | restart  phpmyadmin

CLI

wp-cli

API

REST API