What is WordPress?
WordPress was initially released on 27th May 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. WordPress was announced as open source in October 2009. WordPress is an open-source Content Management System (CMS), which allows users to build dynamic websites and blogs. WordPress contains plugin architecture and a template system, WordPress is the most popular blogging system on the web and allows updating, customizing and managing the website from its back-end CMS and components. so you can customize any website to fit your business, blog, portfolio, or online store.
- Blogs
- Business websites
- Resumes
- Forums
- eCommerce stores
- Portfolio
- Social networks
- Membership sites
CMS Means ?
The Content Management System (CMS) is a privet limited software company that stores all the data such as text, photos, music, documents, etc. and is provided to you on your website. It helps in editing, publishing and modifying the content of the website.
Here are the key details about WordPress:
- it’s open source
- it’s free
- it’s the ultimate DIY solution for website building
- it’s extra versatile – can run any type of website
- it’s fast, optimized, and secure
- it’s SEO-ready – makes promotion easier
WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
In simple word definitions of WordPress .com and .org.
WordPress.org –
Often called self-hosted WordPress, this is free, open-source WordPress software that you can use to create your own website by installing it on your own web host. At present it is very little used.
WordPress.com
Is a for-profit, paid service powered by WordPress.org software. It’s easy to use, but you’ll lose the flexibility of self-hosted WordPress.
| CHEAPEST PLAN | COST | CUSTOM DOMAIN | CUSTOMIZE FEATURES | CAN MONETIZE | UNWANTED ADS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress.com Free Plan | Free | Must use subdomain | Very limited | ❌ | ✅ |
| WordPress.org on Bluehost | $2.75/month | Your own custom domain | Unlimited | ✅ | ❌ |
Features of WordPress
The WordPress company provides many benefits.
Example for:
Media Management:
We use a lot of media files in WordPress, this is a tool to manage media files and folders, in which you can easily upload, organize and manage media files on your website.
User Management:
He will provide one admin user, so can manage all. It allows for managing user information such as changing and creating user roles – customers, contributors, authors, editors or administrators.
or deleting a user, and changing passwords and user information. The main admin role of
The user is manager authentication.
Theme System:
It allows for the improvement of the look and functionality of the website. Included in this are Images, stylesheets, template files and custom pages, and Waitage pages.
Extend with Plugins:
Plugins are provided in the form of software to beautify the website. There are many plugins available that provide custom functions and features as per the user’s needs.
Search engine optimization:
It provides many search engine optimization (SEO) features. Tools that make on-site SEO easy.
Importer:
Multilingual:
this is used only for language purposes. It allows the entire content to be translated into the language of choice user.
Advantages & Disadvantages of WordPress
Advantages
- It is an uncut source platform and misogynist free.
- It allows users to create diverse roles such as admin, author, editor for the website and contributors.
- Media files can be uploaded manually and quickly.
- It offers several SEO tools that make on-site SEO easy.
- The CSS files can be modified as per the user’s needs like Diamond.
- Customization is easy and according to the user’s needs.
- Editing content is very easy as it uses a WYSIWYG editor
- Many plugins and templates misogynist are free.
- Users can customize Various plugins according to their needs.
Disadvantages
- the main problem is plugins, Using several plugins can make the website heavy to load and run.
- Modifying and formatting the graphic images and tables is difficult.
- Take manual backup.
- Always keep updated and use up-to-date plugins and themes.
How to Build a WordPress
After buying the domain plan WordPress Tool is Available free of cost. Every Host provides this tool freely, So no need to buy externally. i will guide you step by step.
Visit your Host Provider Site.
Ex. for
enter Your Gmail ID and Password.
They opened the Dashboard. Click On Website/Auto Installer – Select WordPress
After WordPress Installation, Click on Admin Panel, This Option available in website section.
Auto open WordPress Admin Panel either type https://xxxxx.com/wp-admin/
Opened this Windows, and login WordPress Admin Panel
This type of showing your admin panel Dashboard
Fun? Is WordPress easy to use,
then?
Not really. But we’ll show you everything you need to know to make the process as easy as possible. I will introduce more important settings required in the Dashboard. Let’s start with WordPress basics by going through your dashboard.
As you can see in this screenshot, it is showing multiple options around 15 options are available. But about 10 options are important in this.
- Dashboard: Briefly show what you have done on your site.
- Post: In this, you have to go to write the article. All articles and posts appear in this.
- Media: In this option, you can upload some images and other media related to your site.
- Pages: In this, you get to create leaves, ex. Home Page, side page, header, footer.
- Comments: to observe.
- Appearance: Change the design and customize how elements are displayed.
- Plugins: It has some tools that can be used. they are add-on software to customize your website. They can help you to improve security, optimize your SEO, integrate live chat, and many others.
- Users: This includes giving the owner and anyone else access to work on your site.
- Tools: Checking site health, importing and exporting posts or comments from other systems.
- Settings: This includes general settings, as well as reading, discussion, media size, permalinks and privacy.
In Dashboard, Click on Setting/General (Complete all settings)
Following are the details of the fields on general settings page.
Site Title: It displays the name of the site in the template header.
Tagline: Displays a short sentence about your site.
WordPress Address (URL): It is the URL of WordPress directory where your all core application files are present
Site Address (URL): Enter the site URL which you want your site to display on the browser.
E-mail Address: Enter your e-mail address which helps to recover your password or any update
Membership: Anyone can register an account on your site after you check this checkbox
New User Default Role: The default role is set for the newly registered user or members.
Timezone: Sets the time zone based on the particular city.
Date Format: Sets the date format as you need to display on the site.
Time Format: Sets the time format as you need to display on the site.
Week Starts On: Select the week day which you prefer to start for WordPress
Calendar: By default it is set as Monday.
Site Language: Sets the language for the WordPress dashboard
SAVE AND EXIT
In Setting Options Click on Permalinks Check mark on Post Name
WordPress Theme
As I mentioned, WordPress themes are out-the-box design packages that define the way your website looks. You can install them quickly.
You can find them under the Appearance tab on your dashboard. There are plenty of free themes and premium themes, so you can browse around until you find your perfect match. Before install theme, Click on Preview Buttons. You can see this in your website sample view as per your design.
Go to Appearance → Themes from you see the WordPress dashboard and then click on Add New. ( Choose your theme and install.
Important WordPress Other Settings
- Theme:- Astra
- Install Required Plugins:- (Elementor, Elementor Pro, LiteSpeed Cache, Rank Math SEO, UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore)
- Costomize theme:- go to Appearance / Customize
- Homepage:-
- Page:- About, Turm & Conditions, Home, Policy, Contact Create This Pages in Pages Options.
- Customize your site:- Colors, Menu Tab, Additional CSS, Widgets, Site Identity, Header, Footer, Single Page Web site.
