Thinking of making a WordPress website? It can be problematic to think of how to make a WordPress website if you are not tech-savvy. But don’t worry as you are not alone.
Hi, I am a digital marketing freelance consultant. I guide people to create beautiful fully responsive websites with WordPress website builder. In this article, I will explain how to use WordPress to make a website. Let us try to understand the WordPress website creation process.
Building a WordPress Website
There are two methods of website creation. One is coding in which some programs like CSS, HTML, JAWA, and some other programs are used. For that, you must know the coding language.
The other method which is far simpler is with a content management system (CMS) like WordPress, Wix, Shopify, and many more. In this article, I am going to explain one of the best and simplest methods to make a WordPress website which is WordPress templates.
WordPress is the most common and also popular content management system over the other platforms. Reports show that almost 43% of websites over the globe use WordPress for content management. It is fully customizable, fast, user-friendly, and has a vast library of plug-ins and themes. It is highly scalable, and therefore most suitable for blogging or business websites, and also for eCommerce websites.
The benefits of making a website with WordPress website builder are:
- It is free and open-source
- Comparatively fast and secure
- Most optimized and versatile
- Completely SEO-friendly
- Also, social media optimized
- Fully responsive on all platforms
Note: Remember to use WordPress.org Instead of WordPress.com, because the former is free and you have to pay for the latter.
WordPress Website Creation Process
Below are the steps for creating a website using WordPress website builder. Get started and follow these steps.
- Deciding your niche
- Buying a Domain Name
- Buying a space (hosting) for data
- Interlinking Domain and hosting with each other
- Installing the WordPress
- Installing the theme template
- Installing required plugins
- Creating pages and content for the website
- Publishing the website to make it live
- Marketing strategy
Let us try to understand the process of making a WordPress website with these steps one by one.
1. Deciding your niche
Before launching a WordPress website, you have to decide what kind of website you want to make. Whether you want a business or blog website or you want to make an eCommerce website.
2. Buying a Domain name
A domain is the name of your website. The domain name should be simple and catchy and without hyphens. It should be easily readable and represent your business. There are different domain name service providers. Login into their account and look for the packages that suit you.
3. Buying a space (hosting) for data
Hosting is the place for storing files on your website. There are affordable shared and dedicated WordPress hosting available with different hosting service providers. In shared hosting, you have to share web space with other websites while in dedicated hosting you get a dedicated host server for your website.
You can purchase the plan suited to you. After purchase, your c panel details are sent to your email address.
4. Interlinking Domain and hosting with each other
The next step is to link your domain name with the host server. Check your c panel details in the email. Look for the two hosting name servers in the c panel detail and paste them into the domain name service provider account.
5. Installing the WordPress
For installing WordPress simply go to your c panel detail and log in with the user name and the password provided and you will be directed to the WordPress installation dashboard. Look for the softaculous app installer and install WordPress.
6. Installing the theme template
Now the step to install the WordPress theme. There are free and paid themes available. A few best of them very light and easy to install are Astra, Hestia, WP Ocean, Divi website builder, etc. Select the theme template according to your niche. For example for digital marketing, go to the Astra theme and install a digital marketing template.
7. Installing required plugins
Plugins are the tools required for customizing and adding features to the website. They improve the functionality of the website. A few of them are wordfence for security, Yoast SEO for page SEO, Classic Editor for editing posts, and many more.
8. Creating pages and content for the website
Now after making a WordPress website, we are ready to create website pages and the content of pages and blogs/posts. Write the content of the pages related to your niches and make the necessary edits. Insert proper keywords across the whole content.
There are different pages like the home page, about page, services page, blog page, and contact page in a website.
To add a page to the website, go to the admin dashboard of the Website, click on the pages, and click add new.
9. Publishing the website to make it live
Please remember not to make your website live until you have sufficient data in the form of articles or blogs. Write as much content as possible. Add images to the content and put alt text to the images. Compress the image and keep it between 100 kb in size. Adding images with higher pixels lowers the speed of the website. Make it a habit to write content on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis as suits you. It would be much better to create a content calendar for your convenience.
10. Marketing strategy
This is the most vital part of your website. With a proper marketing strategy, you can get your website to rank on Google’s search pages. Do the required SEO, include keywords, and share on social media platforms to attract the maximum audience.
Thanks a lot for reading this blog. I have tried to explain in detail how to make a WordPress Website for beginners. Please leave a comment in the comment section if you have any queries.
