WordPress is a content management system that you can use to build a web solution without any in-depth knowledge of coding. With WordPress sky is a limit for customization. The first version of WordPress was created in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. It was initially introduced as a blog host and blog creation on the internet. Today it stands as an unbeatable software for any kind of web solution.
Wanna know how you can use WordPress? Here we go!
As mentioned earlier, we know that WordPress was a blogging-focussed platform. So, there’s no doubt that it offers a plethora of features for your blog. Some of its notable features are the easy-to-use editor, commenting and much more.
As mentioned earlier, we know that WordPress was a blogging-focussed platform. So, there’s no doubt that it offers a plethora of features for your blog. Some of its notable features are the easy-to-use editor, commenting and much more.
- Portfolios
- Affiliate websites
- News sites
- E-commerce stores
- Community hubs
- Business sites
If you aren’t that tech-savvy and don’t know much about advanced web solutions, you can simply start off with a website accompanied by a blog. If you want something advanced you can simply install plug-ins, extensions or even integrations to amp up with the performance.
The prime source of functionality for your WordPress website is nothing else but its very own Dashboard that you log into once you install WordPress. The dashboard is one heck of a master. You can control each and every aspect of your site from there. From here, you can access the editor for content creation, Go to settings or plug-in/extension shortcuts for customization. You can also navigate to SEO and other sight performance options right from here.
Now let’s get on with what WordPress is known for? Customization!!
It was mentioned earlier that there’s no requirement of coding for WordPress development, it’s true, but if you want your website to be a certain way and have style, you can add HTML and CSS commands in the editor and CSS settings respectively.
If you aren’t that tech-savvy and don’t know much about advanced web solutions, you can simply start off with a website accompanied by a blog. Talking about looks, no worries if you have no proficiency with HTML or CSS, you can always get a free or a paid theme from the WordPress library. Guess what! Each and every theme available in the WordPress library can be customised and the functionality can be modified.
Well,giving your site the looks is a part of web development. So, the best option to go in for after downloading a theme is going for a page builder! There’s over 200 options you can choose from. Then all you need to do is drag and drop the elements to get the site ready.
If you want something advanced you can simply install plug-ins, extensions or even integrations to amp up with the performance.
It isn’t enough if your site just looks rich! Making it feature-rich will be an added ‘wow’ factor. For that you can set-up a few plug-ins and get them running . Plug-ins can help you a great deal, they assist in building a store-front, enhancing security, SEO, forum creation and more. If you’re just going to start off with WordPress for your development duties, then before anything you can check out their theme directory and their plug-in directory.
Here’s how you can develop your very own WordPress website!!
Install WordPress.
Start your account on WordPress by finishing the registration.
Select a template.
Create and name the pages you want on your website.
Select a paid or free theme from the WordPress library. For this go to ‘Appearances’, click on ‘themes’ and select ‘Add New’.
Now install the theme.
Start adding the content to your website under the posts and pages section relatively. To create a page click on ‘Pages’ and select ‘Add new’, similarly for posts i.e. blogs or news.
Give your page/post a title .
Add text, videos, images and audio that you want on your website.
Hit the ‘Publish’ button to make your page/post live.
Now repeat the process for the rest of the pages and posts.
Let’s start with the customization!
First off the homepage.
Go to settings and select reading. Now select ‘Static page’ under the front page displays section.
Now change the site title and tagline from the general settings on the settings page.
Enable comments from the discussion category under settings
Setup the navigation on the menus page under ‘Appearance’ category. For this just select the pages and click on add to menu . You can also add a foyer menu by selecting it at the bottom of the menu settings.
Install the plug-ins required as per your preferences of features you want for your website.
It’s done.
That was the entire procedure. Simple enough isn’t it.
Now we’ll dive into the benefits of website development!
Simple usability
This is a feature that takes WordPress a step ahead than the others. You don’t need coding knowledge if you want your very own WordPress website. WordPress offers a library of its own templates and templates from other service providers also. You can take your pick.It will save the total time taken up for design and development.
Transformation and sturdiness
WordPress is always in-sync with the hot trends on-going in the information technology industry.We all know that likes and interests of people change. WordPress takes care of this too! The updates cater to everything be it new exciting features, relevant resources and resolving issues.
Design choices
As the title of the point explains, WordPress offers a great variety of dedicated themes. Most of them are free and that’s what makes WordPress a popular CMS. Each of the themes can be customized and modified best suited to your business requirements. See your goals meet with the website you’ve always wanted.
Flexibility
WordPress is one of the most flexible CMS of our times! Here’s why? It gets you over 58,000 plug-ins and thousands of extensions that will without a doubt manage to make your website very user-friendly and highly multi-functional. Don’t forget to pick only the plug-in that is the best suited and updated for your website.
SEO
WordPress isn’t just all web development and nothing elses. IT will be a great helping hand for marketing content creation too! It has inbuilt SEO which suggests content changes and search-engine friendly guidelines for your website as a whole and also individual reports for each of your website pages.
Infrastructure
Did you know? WordPress websites load quicker than the others. You know why? Because the basic site structure is super clean. Not just this! WordPress enables XML site-mapping that assists google in locating all your pages and if they can be crawled on and at what frequency!
Simple sharing
Sharing your content’s easier than ever when you go for WordPRess development. The software has various widgets, APIs and plug-ins that you can enable with various social media. So now, you can share your content across different social media within a few clicks.
Time for some extras!
Let’s delve into the lesser known things about WordPress!
Read on…
The facts of WordPress!
WordPress is older than Twitter and Facebook. It was launched in 2003.
A blogger suggested the name WordPress. It was Christine Selleck Tremoulet, a friend of the WordPress co-founder, Matt Mullenweg.
Nearly 27% of websites on the web are built and hosted on WordPress. That’s a lot isn’t it, considering the number of websites in the world today, isn’t it?
WordPress dominates the CMS market with 76.4% of market share.The others falling in line are Joomla and Drupal coming second and third respectively.
WordPress isn’t owned by any company. It is a non-profit organization, owning its trademarks and protecting freedom of the open-source license of the CMS.
It’s free and open-source. Anyone can download and start using it. The source code is available to everyone for studying, modification and development.
There’s no post of CEO at WordPress. As mentioned it’s a non-profit organization that is run by a community of developers all over the world.
There are over 58,000 plug-ins that WordPress offers. That’s not just it, the plug-in download mark crossed 1.48 billion in 2016 itself.
Even the governments use WordPress. Today there are thousands of governments using WordPress for their websites such as the U.S. Federal and State government websites.
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