{"id":15,"date":"2007-03-30T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T16:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/05\/introduction-to-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T13:03:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T18:03:33","slug":"introduction-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/30\/introduction-to-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog was created with the free blogging tool <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> and since this is my first time using a content management system of any type, I thought I&#8217;d note my first impressions with the hope of encouraging others to follow along.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;m quite impressed with WordPress&#8217;s sheer number of options, overall power and most importantly, its ease of use.  Installation was a snap since my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/\">web host<\/a> has something called <a href=\"http:\/\/netenberg.com\/fantastico.php\">Fantastico Auto-Installs<\/a> which makes installing applications like WordPress as easy as <!--more-->logging in to your web host&#8217;s Administration panel, clicking &#8220;Fantastico&#8221; >> &#8220;WordPress&#8221; >> &#8220;New Installation&#8221;  and setting yourself up with a nice new <strong>strong<\/strong> password.<\/p>\n<p>Once setup and secured, try generating some content.  Make a post, write a page, add a comment or two&#8230; woohoo&#8230; you&#8217;re blogging.  But alas, your blog looks just like everyone else&#8217;s blog, and if you&#8217;re just like everyone else, you&#8217;re driven to be different.  So what you need to do is go out there and download a theme that suits your style.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a title=\"Change the Appearance of WordPress with Themes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/changing-the-look-of-wordpress\/\">changing your WordPress theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow along and get to know WordPress from a new user&#8217;s perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19,43,20],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-development","tag-bluehost","tag-themes","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}