1. Intro
2. What is
Wordpress?
3.
Benefits of Using Wordpress
4. How to
Build a Website with Wordpress
5. Conclusion
- Intro
This is not a question
of “how to build a WordPress website”. This is something that you should be
able to do even if you are not experienced with WordPress. There are many ways
to do it, and this tutorial will cover some of them.
A WordPress website is
like any other website in that it needs to be coded and designed for it to
function properly. That is what this article aims to teach you, but also gives
some tips on how this can be done without just relying on existing design
skills.
2. What is WordPress?
“WordPress is the
world’s most popular blogging platform.” That’s a quote from WordPress.com,
which has been around longer than Google.com and whose market share has
remained steady over the last few years at 33% of the market (compared to
Google’s 78%)
There are two main
ways by which WordPress works: open-source code and plugins (which are free).
The open-source nature of WordPress makes it easy for developers to build
extensions. Plugins and themes to enhance its functionality. In other words,
you can download plugins and themes from anywhere on the web and create a whole
new experience with your blog.
For example, if you
have some great photography on your blog, why not use Flickr to store it? Or
you can use one of our host sites like Blogger that can host your blog for free
or pay for a number of them, including WPEngine ($99/year) or Bluehost
($5/month per domain). These range in price depending on the features they
offer but generally start at $7–$10/month.
While WordPress is not
an ideal solution for everyone, there are still plenty who prefer their blogs
hosted by WordPress to using another e-commerce system (which they don’t want
to manage themselves). If you do want to go with another solution, use a
dedicated hosting site like Digital Ocean ($5/month) or Amazon Web Services
($5–$15 per month), or some provider like HostGator ($4–$8 per month). You
don’t need to spend much money on these services as they all offer pretty good
service as well as having solid uptime and security levels too.
If you want to build
something more substantial like a website (i.e., something that is fully
functional), we recommend using e-commerce powerhouse WooCommerce ($29/year).
WooCommerce offers many different features such as payment gateways like
PayPal; custom fields where users can add any kind of data they want; payment
integration via Stripe through an API; pricing control via Widget Builder;
custom products; multilingual support; multi-site support; popular integrations
with WooCommerce users such as Shopify; and more … This is one area where we
strongly recommend Shopify! If you do decide to move over instead of building
your theme from scratch, take note that this requires extra work, which may be worthwhile
if you know exactly what you want
3. Benefits of Using WordPress
As many people will
agree, WordPress is one of the most widely used, powerful, and widely trusted
IT systems out there. We use it daily for our business. For us, this has
provided us with a huge amount of value:
• We are using our
content in a way that we control
• We are publishing
stories, images, and other content that others have contributed to (which
contributes to the value of our content)
(To learn more about
how we use WordPress to publish our marketing content, check out this post.)
Most importantly, however: This is not the only way to publish. There are lots of other ways to go about it — some you may even consider better than WordPress! So here’s how we do it…
4. How to Build a Website with WordPress
WordPress is a very
well-known platform for building and hosting websites. There are many tutorials
on the web about how to do it, with some good examples and introductions to why
you should use it.
But most of them
neglect to build a website from scratch (which is the most important part of
the whole process).
In my opinion, this is
an unnecessary step in the process: You still need to register a domain name
(or at least find one), set up an email account, sign up for your hosting
provider, install WordPress, and then start building your site. Oh yeah, sure,
you need to create content on your site now too — but you can’t do that until
you’ve purchased a domain name and set up an email account.
You don’t need to be a
professional web developer to build a website with WordPress; there are plenty
of tutorials out there that teach basic techniques; if you want more advanced
features such as customizing colors (and maybe even CMS support), there are
free plugins out there that do exactly what you want; or if you just want a
fresh start, then go ahead and use one of those templates from time-to-time.
The point isn’t just that it’s easy to build something on WordPress — it’s also not necessary. But I will go into more detail about why I think it is necessary for another post: How To Build A Website With WordPress.
5. Conclusion
A WordPress website is
a top-class asset for any start-up. It’s also a great way of getting your
product noticed, even in the early days. The problem is that it can be hard to
design and build one (or even find someone who knows how). Go through this post
and you’ll find some excellent advice on how to go about it.
Now, if you want to
get the most out of your web presence, you might need to hire somebody (and pay
them) to build you a site. Don’t do that! You want to run your show!
I should also point
out that I didn’t include on this list an example of a site that has been
around for (at least) 2 years already. I chose not because it does X but
because it does Y. A good starting point is this post from Peter Norvig which
provides useful advice on both building and running your site: How To Build A
WordPress Website.
To sum up: there are
many ways of building websites for companies; some are better than others, but
there isn’t one right way. What matters is that you decide what works for you,
the people who will use the site, and make sure they understand the difference
between building sites and running businesses online.
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