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Wordpress is a database driven blogging program designed to make it exceedingly

easy to publish an online blog, sometimes also called a weblog or journal.

Once this package is installed, there are a few configuration items which need

to be performed before the blog is usable.  First, you need to establish a

username and password to connect to your MySQL database as, and make both

MySQL and Wordpress aware of this.  Let's start by creating the database and the

username / password inside MySQL first:

  # mysql

  mysql> create database wordpress;

  Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

  mysql> grant all privileges on wordpress.* to wordpress identified by 'wordpress';

  Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

  mysql> flush privileges;

  Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

  mysql> exit

  Bye

  #

Under certain curcumstances, you may need to run variations of the "grant"

command:

mysql> grant all privileges on wordpress.* to wordpress@localhost identified by 'wordpress';

   OR

mysql> grant all privileges on wordpress.* to wordpress@'%' identified by 'wordpress';

This has created an empty database called 'wordpress', created a user named

'wordpress' with a password of 'wordpress', and given the 'wordpress' user total

permission over the 'wordpress' database.  Obviously, you'll want to select a

different password, and you may want to choose different database and user

names depending on your installation.  The specific values you choose are

not constrained, they simply need to be consistent between the database and the

config file.

Next, you need to edit your /etc/wordpress/wp-config.php file to reflect the

values you've chosen.  These values will go in the appropriate places at the

beginning of that file.

Once that's done and the database server and web server have been started, 

open a web browser to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php and 

follow the instructions given to you on the pages you see to set up the 

database tables and begin publishing your blog.

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Wordpress ships with Flash and Silverlight plugins for the 'plupload' file

uploader and the 'mediaelement' media player embedder. The idea is to try and

be able to provide a multi-file uploader and an embedded video player when

HTML5 is not available (or does not support the video format in question).

These plugins are provided as pre-built binaries and there is no mechanism

for building them from source during Wordpress compilation. As the inclusion

of pre-built binaries is against Fedora policy - see

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre-built_binaries_or_libraries

 - these plugins have been removed from the Fedora package. As a consequence:

a) any Wordpress element or plugin that uses the 'plupload' will only present

an HTML5-based multi-file uploader if HTML5 is supported by the user's browser

or an HMTL4-based single-file uploader in HTML5 is not supported. No Flash

or Silverlight-based multi-file uploader will be provided.

b) If you try to embed media into a Wordpress post using the [video] and

[audio] short tags, the media player will be visible if the reader is using

a browser that has HTML5 support for the media format in question; if not, the

'Download Media' link will be offered. No Flash or Silverlight-based player

element will be included.

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Optional dependencies:

You may wish to install the following packages:

	php-pecl-imagick: optimize image transformation

	php-pecl-ssh2: for file transfert using ssh

An opcode cache is also recommended:

	php 5.5: php-opcache

	php 5.4: php-pecl-zendopcache

	php 5.3: php-pecl-apc

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