If you want a business website that does everything you want it to do and doesn’t require custom coding, WordPress is awesome.
WordPress is one of the easiest and most robust ways to share your business on the web.
There are simpler platforms, but most don’t offer the functionality that WordPress does. And there are a few platforms that are equally robust, but they’re difficult to use for beginners.
WordPress, a content management system (CMS), is the ideal tool for entrepreneurs and companies to showcase their products and services, help their search engine ranking, and market themselves to prospective customers. It helps you share your written content, sell products and services in an electronic storefront, or even just share photos and videos of your work.
WordPress itself is 100% free, no fees attached, no strings attached, no guilt that you’re using something you should be paying for, like when you don’t pledge to your local NPR station even though you’ve listened every day for the last 20 years. (You know who you are.)
You can download the software from WordPress.org (note the .org), and it won’t cost a thing. You and your friends can get together and have wild WordPress download parties (socially-distanced and masked up, of course), and it’s all good.
The basic concept of hosting is pretty easy: You need to hold your actual website somewhere. You need a place to hold all your images, text, audio clips, brochures, white papers, and so on. Since you don’t want to house all that stuff on your own computer, you need someone else’s computer, also known as a web server.
Again, remember that this is the ideal setup if you want to fully take advantage of the benefits of WordPress.
The theme is the outer layer of your website — the face, the facade, the style, the part that makes it look pretty. With WordPress themes, you can change between any number of different styles and layouts without having to dig into the guts of your code.
Choosing a theme may be the hardest part of setting up your blog because there are literally thousands of themes you could choose from.
When people talk about web design and building a website, this is actually the part that freaks them out. They think there’s a lot of coding and design work that goes into making a single web page, and that adding the actual content is just a minor detail to be handled later.
But in actuality, most of that design work is already done.
As of this writing, there are 58,570 plugins on WordPress.org, and they can make your WordPress site do anything.
You can sell products and services, create an online community, set aside part of your website for members and subscribers, accept payments, display tweets from different Twitter feeds, or even display the standings of different sports leagues around the world.
– WordPress has been around for a long time, and it’s constantly getting better and better. What used to be a humble blogging platform has expanded into a powerful CMS that’s ready to take on any type of website. Once you learn a little about WordPress and what it can do, you’ll likely find it’s a perfect fit for your needs.