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Why do we need a website?
Before we get into the technical side, let’s first talk about the advantages of a website:
1. Online presence: gives a business, organization or person a digital presence, allows customers and interested parties to find information about you or your business at any time and from any place.
2. Sales and marketing: Used as a tool to sell products or services directly to your customers, to present specials, for sales promotion and digital marketing.
3. Customer interaction: provides a way to receive customer feedback, offer customer service through chats, forums or forms.
4. Education and training: allows sharing knowledge, information, articles, tutorials and courses online.
5. Content Distribution: A powerful tool for bloggers, content creators and media to publish and share content, such as texts, video, podcasts and images.
6. Verification and credibility: building a reputation and proving a professional and business presence on the net, which can improve your image or that of your business.
7. Portfolio or Gallery: For creative professionals such as photographers, designers and artists, web developers, a website provides a platform to display work.
8. Community and support: creating communities around common issues or matters, and presenting support and resources to the target audience.
9. Expanding influence: For businesses and organizations, a website can help expand influence and reach new audiences around the world.
10. Advertising events: a platform for advertising upcoming events, online registration and presenting up-to-date information to participants.
Why do we need WordPress?
WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) used to create and manage websites. It started in 2003 as a simple blogging platform, but has since evolved into a versatile CMS that powers much of the web, from personal blogs to large-scale commercial websites.
One of the reasons for WordPress’ popularity is its user-friendly interface, which makes it accessible even to those with limited technical skills. Users can add content, manage media and customize their sites with relative ease.
Open source software: WordPress is free and open source, meaning anyone can use, modify and distribute it. The project is developed and maintained by a community of contributors from around the world.
Themes and plugins: WordPress offers a wide variety of themes and plugins, which are tools for customizing and improving websites. Themes allow users to change the design and layout of their sites, while plugins add functionality, such as SEO tools, security enhancements, contact forms, and more.
SEO Friendly: WordPress is designed to be SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly. It provides features that help sites rank higher in search engine results, such as clean permalink structures, tagging, and automatic meta tag generation.
Responsive Design: Many WordPress themes are responsive, meaning they automatically adjust their layout to look good on all devices, from desktop computers to smartphones. Community Support: Being open source and widely used, WordPress has a large and active community. Users can find support, tutorials and advice on almost any aspect of using or developing for WordPress through forums, blogs and social media groups.
You can watch the following video, in addition to the video we created a special article with screenshots that can be accessed by clicking on the title.
Also for this we have created a special article that can be accessed by clicking on the title. You can also watch the video.
Theme
What is more important to us than the visual appearance of our WordPress site?
WordPress themes are professionally designed templates that can be installed on a website to change its appearance. By default, every WordPress site comes with a basic theme. for example:
You can change the theme from within the WordPress admin system.
Go to Appearance and then to Theme and then click on the Add New button.
And upload the theme we purchased on ThemeForest
In order to be able to start using a theme on the WordPress site, we click on the install and activate button.
In order to be able to customize, click on Design > Themes.
On this page, the active theme is (Tweny Nineteen in our case) we click on customize next to its title.
On the left we will see a list of the available options and on the right a live preview of the site and how these changes will affect it.
Adding the logo to the site
For more comprehensive knowledge about themes, customization, menus, plugins, optimization, security and more, you can join the digital course we created for developing WordPress websites.
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Adding content to the site
WordPress comes with two default content types called posts and pages.
Posts are part of the functionality of blogs and they appear in chronological order (newer items are displayed first).
On the other hand, pages are displayed as static content such as about page, contact page, privacy policy, custom landing page, etc.
Installing plugins in WordPress
WordPress plugins are like apps for the WordPress website.
They allow you to add features and customizations to your WordPress website.
Plugins can be installed from the WordPress dashboard by clicking on the plugins page.
