WordPress - a beginner's guide

Having decided to create a website for the sale of goods or services, it is important to correctly approach the choice of CMS. How your web resource will work depends on this step. A popular option is WordPress. Not everyone knows the advantages of developing a portal on WordPress and how to make it. Let's take a look at what WordPress is, why you need it and how you can use it to your advantage.

What is WordPress

WordPress is a popular, free CMS with simple and open source code. 42% of sites that can be found on the Internet are created on this platform. CMS WordPress is suitable for creating such web projects:

• blogs
• landing pages
• thematic sites
• multipage information Internet resources
• simple online stores
• ad sites
• thematic portals
• business card sites, etc.

WordPress is not designed for "weighty" projects with huge amounts of data and complex structure. Here you can create a website of any subject without large investments. The service has tens of thousands of themes, tools with different functions, plugins. This popular platform is a versatile tool for developing functional and beautiful websites. With skillful use on this CMS, you can, for example, create real masterpieces for the Internet space.

Consider sites made on WordPress. By their example, you can understand that on this free service you can really create beautiful and high-quality sites that attract the attention of users. Here are 6 examples:

1. https://modpizza.com/ — pizza delivery site

2. obama.org — Barack Obama website

3. https://www.iphones.ru — site dedicated to Apple technology

4. angrybirds.com - site dedicated to Angry Birds games / movies

5. https://fortune.com/ — business magazine

6. https://www.newyorker.com/ — online magazine

It may seem to some that even a beginner can create WordPress sites. If you haven’t made websites on WordPress before, you can simply get lost in this engine. It is not difficult to work with CMS, for this it is enough to have sufficient knowledge in this area, to know how to install and configure the engine, to understand the creation of databases, to be able to use FTP.

Overview of site features on WordPress

• Versions are constantly updated, this allows you to introduce new trends, make resources modern and relevant;
• Most providers allow installation of the engine from the control panel. Therefore, the basic version can be used within a few minutes. For a more advanced option, it is better to turn to professionals who will be able to unleash the possibilities to the maximum;
• Standard templates and themes are available, as well as the ability to develop unique custom options;
• WP, through the installation of plugins, provides the functions of payment on the site, real-time communication, integration with services, and many other practical additions;
• Guaranteed restoration of the previous version of the project with the setting of automatic backup of resource files and database.

Benefits of WordPress:

• Free "engine". You can safely use this product for personal and commercial purposes. You don't have to buy anything. But keep in mind that you will most likely have to spend money on the work of developers and designers.
• Easy to administer. You do not need to have special knowledge to manage content on the CMS. The principles of working with WordPress are intuitive.
• Regular updates, improvements and improvements to WordPress. This allows you to constantly improve and refine the web resource.
• Minimum time to create a website on the engine.
• Almost unlimited possibilities. The engine provides everything you need to create and promote online stores, personal blogs, corporate websites, information portals, etc. You can use plugins to change the visual part of the resource. Plugins can be paid or free, they make websites user-friendly.

How to create a WordPress website from scratch

For this purpose, we need to do the following things:

1. Register hosting;
2. Pay for hosting (cost no more than 100 UAH);
3. Install WordPress;
4. Connect domain to site

These steps are enough to create a new web resource on the network.

Step 1: Hosting Registration

We recommend using TimeWeb hosting - it works perfectly, no problems arise with it. Next, select the Year + or Optima + tariff. The latter is suitable for those who plan to create multiple sites. You will get 10 days of completely free hosting, so you will have time to test everything.

After clicking on the "register" button, you will see a window where you will need to enter your name, email and indicate the payment period. Once you click the Order button, you will automatically be taken to the created hosting account

Step 2: Pay for hosting

After successful registration, you will be transferred to your account. Access will come to the email that you specified when registering. Now it remains to pay for hosting. To do this, you need to find the section "Payment for services" in the left column.

After that, you will be taken to the "Payments" page. Here you will need to select the payment period, payment method and proceed to payment for services. If you wish, you can link your card. After successful payment, you can start installing WordPress.

Step 3: Install WordPress

After paying for hosting, you will be taken to the control panel. Now you can start installing WordPress, it will take about 5 minutes.

First of all, click on the "CMS Directory" section and select WordPress. Next, a window will appear where you need to click on the "Install" button. After clicking on this button, another window will open. Then you need to click "Install Application", select a domain, a new database. Only then click the Start installation button.

After these steps, installation on our hosting will begin. Login, password and a link to enter the site will be sent to you by email.

Congratulations, the site on the free engine is ready. Now it remains to log in and configure the resource on WordPress for yourself.

Order a WordPress web project from Ocean Agency developers in Odessa

We hope we have answered the question "What is it - Wordpress" and now you understand how to use this service to your advantage. It is a popular and simple website builder that you can get started with today. Moreover, it is not difficult.

But if you do not want to bother, we suggest entrusting the creation of a web project on WordPress to our studio. It will take from 2 days to 3 weeks. At the end of all the work, you will have a decent, high-quality product on hand. We will help with setting up and optimizing the site for the requirements of search engines. We guarantee professional support and advice.