Tips for Building a Website with WordPress
WordPress is an extremely popular CMS (Content Management System) used worldwide. Known for its high customizability and many features, WordPress has become a standard in Web Development. This article will serve as a guide for everything you need to know to build a website with WordPress.
WordPress was developed in 2003 and has since become the most extensive website publishing and hosting a website on the internet. Anyone can expand their online business by creating blogs, ads, and websites on WordPress. The fame and continued success of WordPress comes down to its features like plugins, themes, patterns, and many more. So, let’s get started.
The Basics of WordPress
To start website development with WordPress, you first need to head on to the WordPress website, either wordpress.org or wordpress.com. The former will give you total control over your website (domain and hosting), whereas WordPress will provide its domain and you're your website for you. In other words, one is simple, whereas the other one is hands-on.
Domain and Web Hosting
Afterward, you must choose the website host and get a domain for your website. The domain name will be the URL for your website (in simple words, it will serve as an address for your website). The web host will store all the data concerned with your website.
Many web hosts also offer you an option to buy a domain name. The most popular posts on WordPress are BlueHost and DreamHost. Alternatively, you have to purchase a WordPress plan if you want it to host your website and provide you with a domain name.
Installing the WordPress Application
After you have chosen and purchased the web hosting plan and the domain name, you can install the WordPress application. After the installation, you must connect your web host and domain name to WordPress to create your website; this will register your website on WordPress.
Creating and customizing your website
Creating and styling your website is the most significant step. Thankfully, WordPress helps you immensely. WordPress offers its users themes, plugins, patterns, and Open verse. With themes, the user can style and change their website's appearance following the user's type and choice.
Patterns are a variety of layouts that you can use on your webpage. A new feature added to WordPress is the Open verse, a vast library or gallery of stock images and audio for any WP user to use.
Adding Plugins
Lastly, on the WordPress development website, some plugins are the functionality providers for your website. There are more than 60000 plugins available on WordPress, free and premium. Note that the user might need to buy some plugins as not all people upload their plugins on WordPress for free.
We recommend that you add, in addition to plugins that provide basic website functionality available in all, SEO plugins, a translation plugin, forms, live chat, and pop-up plugins. Moreover, you must also add plugins for optimization, such as the WP Rocket, that improve your website by increasing its speed.
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