Building a Website With WordPress is one of the easier ways to do it. There is a learning curve with everything.
WordPress has simple-to-follow instructions, is efficient, and is the easiest to do when you are starting out. All you have to do is search for help and you can find it from a wide variety of online sources.
Do you own a business or want to learn Internet Marketing? Well, it’s about time that you had a website to showcase and advertise what you do and how well you do it.
When it comes to building a website, there are several options. Some of the work won’t be easy. There’s a learning curve. For the smallest learning curve and also fun during the process, we suggest building your website using WordPress.
What Is WordPress?
For those who don’t know, WordPress is open-source software that can be used to start a blog (WordPress.com) or a self-hosted website or blog (WordPress.org). We’ll be speaking about the latter today. While there is some coding knowledge required, it can all be learned as you set up the website.
WordPress comes with everything you need. In fact, it is the most popular content management system around, with almost 60 percent of business websites using WordPress as their platform. Better still, a lot of the themes and the plugins are free to download.
The Advantages of Using WordPress
The internet is loaded with technicians who are very good at building a website with WordPress. This knowledge is a great source for those who are just beginning to get into the internet business. Usually, whatever your question is…all you need to do is key it into Google search, and you will get your answers.
WordPress has been worked on by hundreds of designers and programmers for years to build a competent platform for anyone to use. It is versatile, expandable, flexible, and can grow in any direction that your business wants to grow.
In today’s world of responsive design, WordPress makes it easy to kill two birds with one stone (figuratively speaking). Each website you create is mobile-ready. You don’t have to adapt to your website later.
The WordPress content management system makes it easy to upload, edit, share, and schedule content for your website. Integrating needed plugins is also easier here. And, when you get stuck, there is a community of professionals and novices ready to help with their experiences.
So, What Are You Waiting For?
Before you can get started you will need a name. Your domain name is your address in cyberspace. The name needs to communicate something about your business and be relevant. Register that domain name with your web hosting company. Depending on the size of your website and what it will be used for, choose a hosting company with enough server space to accommodate you now and in the future.
Now it’s time to install WordPress. WordPress.org can walk you through the installation process step-by-step. And, support is always available at any time.
Ready, Set, Go…
You are ready to begin creating that site. One important feature of WordPress is its plugins. Plugins are like performance enhancers. While frowned upon in sports, they are heavily recruited in website usage.
Thousands of free plugins can be found in the WordPress directory for download. Here are a few of the many available:
- Contact Form 7 – Easy form for use on your website *free WordPress Plugin
- Google XML Sitemaps – Generate a sitemap to help search engines index your site better
- Akismet – Check comments for spam
- Yoast SEO – Improve SEO of your content on the site or RankMath *I am using RankMath now and it gives more clarification for me.
- Jetpack – Protect yourself from hackers, check stats and load your website faster
- WooCommerce – Add an e-commerce component to your site seamlessly
Using WordPress as your platform and CMS provides a lot of power and functionality in one place.
You may also view – How To Build A Website From Scratch
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