Why you need a WordPress website

Why you need a WordPress website

While there are many options for getting your idea online, I strongly believe you should have a WordPress website to call your own! While you have been considering what your passion project will be, you may not have spend much time thinking about how to promote it,...
WordPress Themes

WordPress Themes

I often explain that WordPress themes are a lot like clothing. WordPress itself is perfectly functional out of the box, and comes with a couple of stock themes already installed, but just as you wouldn’t want to show up to an event looking like dozens of other...
Nameservers

Nameservers

When you buy hosting you will also be provided with information about your nameservers. These look like an email address, and are usually a sequence of letters and numbers, followed by your host’s site name, for example, “bt1234@hostgator.com” Keep...
Planning your website

Planning your website

Planning your website is the next step as the idea of having a site of your own becomes more real. While you are in this mode, read through to see what you will need, and what the costs will be, as they are recurring. For the most part a domain name and hosting costs...
Hosting

Hosting

Now you have chosen an address – or domain name – for your site, you need to find hosting – or a home – for your site. Again, there are many options, and have most of my domains hosted with HostGator. For about $6 a month you can host your site...
WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

As you have started to read about WordPress, you may have found some of the information to be contradictory. This may be due to there being two versions of WordPress… both of which are different, and both of which are referred to as “WordPress”. Let...