Today we will see how to create a WordPress site. This tutorial will teach you how to choose your domain name, your hosting, install the CMS, customize WordPress, manage your pages, create your content and install the widgets essential to the good management of your site.
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What is WordPress and why choose it?
Create a custom WordPress site effortlessly
Before creating a WordPress site
1. Buy a domain name and a server for your site
Choose your domain name
Choose your web host for your WordPress site
2. Install WordPress
3. Choose and install a WordPress theme
4. Create the structure and pages of your WordPress site
5. Write the content of your site
6. Install the plugins needed to create a WordPress site
WordPress SEO
Promote your WordPress site
Newsletters on WordPress
Layout and performance
WordPress super cache
What is WordPress and why choose it?
Created in 2003 and edited since 2005 by the American company Automatic, WordPress is a CMS (meaning Content Management System or French Management System Content ) open-source (software that can be downloaded for free).
WordPress is the bloggers' favorite CMS, appreciated for its harmonious themes and its very functional side, well suited to writing and layout of articles. WordPress and Joomla are often compared for creating a showcase site or blog. But unlike its competitor, WordPress has a very active community and you will very easily find plugins to transform its use.
Indeed, it can easily adapt its appearance to become the showcase site for your business. It is even possible to modify WordPress in e-commerce with plugins. It also allows rapid deployment of site networks with WordPress multisite.
Create a custom WordPress site effortlessly
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Before creating a WordPress site
You need to know the steps before you start.
- Buy a domain name and a server for your site
- Install WordPress
- Choose and install a WordPress theme
- Create the structure and pages of your site
- Have the content written
- Install the necessary plugins for a WordPress site
- Follow our tips for SEO WordPress
- What is the price of a WordPress site?
1. Buy a domain name and a server for your site
Choose your domain name
The domain name is the domiciliation of your site. Very important for SEO, the domain name must reflect your activity with the corresponding keywords or simply be named by the name of your company or your brand.
It is better to choose a synthetic domain name so that Internet users remember it better.
You have the choice between several domain names namely: fr. , .eu , .org , .biz , .net and of course .com . Do not forget to " reserve " your domain name in order to be the only user.
Choose your web host for your WordPress site
You have two options for hosting your site: the shared server or the dedicated server. There are many web hosts out there, you will be spoiled for choice.
2. Install WordPress
Before you can create a WordPress site, you must install the files on the server. To install WordPress, go to our step-by-step tutorial.
3. Choose and install a WordPress theme
In your dashboard, click on " Appearances" then " themes", and then choose a free theme by clicking on "add". There are many sites to find free WordPress themes. For more details, take a look at our tutorial How to install a WordPress theme?
You can thus decide on the design of your website using the many templates offered by WordPress. The choice of theme is very important because it must be representative of your universe. On WordPress, you can change the colors of the template, insert a background image and a logo, as well as modify the header.
4. Create the structure and pages of your WordPress site
We then come to the sinews of war, namely the management and creation of the pages of your WordPress site.
On your dashboard, click on "article" then "add".
You will see that article creation presents a fairly simple interface for editing your articles.
You can also classify your articles using the "Categories" tab and optimize your referencing by clicking on edit the category that you have carefully chosen beforehand. You also have the option of linking the articles together. This tab will allow you to organize your blog well.
Then click on "Pages". This tab will allow you to organize the different static pages of your WordPress site, in particular by saving grouped changes.
The structure of your pages will be for example:
- Home
- Services
- Achievements
- Blog
- Contact
5. Write the content of your site
You've created a WordPress blog to express yourself and share content, so it's time to create that one if you haven't already.
6. Install the plugins needed to create a WordPress site
Now is the time to install the WordPress plugins that will complete the creation of your WordPress site to make it even more efficient.
WordPress SEO
Yoast SEO
Yoast Seo is the basic SEO plugin for your site. Thanks to this tool you will be able to manage the different tags and titles of each article. Yoast is extremely practical because when your site is poorly referenced, it tells you what you need to modify so that your site becomes Seo friendly.
Yoast also allows you to manage the social networks linked to your site. Undoubtedly the most complete natural referencing tool on WordPress.
Google XML Sitemap
A sitemap (i.e. a sitemap) allows the robot from different search engines to recognize your urls to index them in the search engine. With this tool, the robot is informed as soon as new content is published, which is in a way a watch of the referencing of your site.
Google Analytics for WordPress
Google Analytics for WordPress is also a valuable SEO tool for your WordPress site. Indeed this plugin allows you to connect to your Google Analytics account, but with an interface and options especially designed for the CMS. In particular, you can be informed of the number of Internet users who visit your site.
Promote your WordPress site
Shareaholic
Thanks to Shareaholic, you will be able to share the best posts on your blog with your readers by posting them on various social networks. For WordPress, which is a very visual CMS, users will particularly appreciate the aesthetics of the share buttons.
Tweet this
Thanks to this plugin you will be able to share quotes from your articles on Twitter. Tweet This allows you to encourage your Internet users to share the content of your texts by placing a Twitter button in each article.
Newsletters on WordPress
Mailchimp is an email manager. You will be able to manage the contacts who will receive your e-mails, create forms to your liking, and especially receive reports on your communication campaigns. This tool is therefore very effective in managing your advertising on the web.
Ninja Popup
Ninja Popup allows you to collect emails. Indeed Ninja Popup offers many themes for the creation of advertising pop up on your site.
Layout and performance
Q2W3 Fixed Widget
Q2W3 Fixed allows you to constantly leave the plugin of your choice on the screen. This widget can be great for enticing your site visitors to share your content anytime they're reading.
Contact Form 7
Very rich visually, this application will allow you to create superb forms and add the options you want. You can therefore easily create quotes, invoices, or even purchase orders
WordPress super cache
WordPress Super Cache allows data to be stored in memory so that the server does not have to read it again. This extension, therefore, ensures, among other things, to technically optimize the loading of pages.
Don't forget to secure it or even update it to avoid any unpleasant surprises! We also advise you to create a WordPress staging site to be able to test your updates and developments safely. Check out our tutorial if you need to delete a WordPress site.
Post your questions in the comments of this post and feel free to ask our WordPress experts if you need help.