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WordPress

Mary Mae Miral
Mary Mae Miral
2,166 Points
Posted by Mary Mae Miral
Mary Mae Miral
2,166 Points

I want to create a Wordpress website, I don't know where to start. How?

I know basic HTML and CSS and can create a simple website. However, I want it to be a Wordpress website. What should I do? Do you know an affordable hosting service for a beginner website?

Ashish Mehra
Ashish Mehra
523 Points

https://teamtreehouse.com/tracks/learn-wordpress I think you should go with this track to learn how to create wordpress website.

Thank you !

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

don't really know. maybe wordpress itself (https://wordpress.com/pricing/ ) or 'a small orange'. Regardless of who you go with, you should probably talk to them to make sure the tier/plan supports the level of customization/control/access you want (if you've taken the wordpress courses, you should have a pretty clear idea of some of the features you want). Obviously while learning, you can just run wordpress on your local machine.

Just a note of caution. You don't want to commit to something that doesn't do what you need it to do, and a lot of hosts list prices that jump after a set time

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barry abrams
barry abrams
465 Points
barry abrams
barry abrams
465 Points

Mary:

I'm a newbie when it comes to the Content Management System WordPress.

I did look into it because someone wanted me to create a WordPress site for them.

I went with HostGator https://www.hostgator.com/apps/wordpress-hosting after doing several searches about broadcasting the website to the world.

I compared HostGator's services offered and prices to Blue Host https://www.bluehost.com/wordpress which were the two most referenced in my search.

Both have 1 click install for WordPress on the server.

The key is to determine should you go with a shared server or dedicated server plan which is based on the amount of hits you expect your site to get (delivery speed of server to fulfill requests) and whether you site info is too sensitive to be co-mingled with other websites on the same server.

All these things you can contact the host company to discuss.

Price plans are different between companies and based on the services you need.

Many developers I read about said don't go with GoDaddy because their prices are higher given their advertising budget.

You will also have to purchase the domain name for your site.

Lastly, if you simply want to develop a WordPress site, you can do it locally on your laptop or desktop by loading MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) Server https://www.mamp.info/en/ or XAMPP (Windows version of the same thing) https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html.

You simply download one of these packages that will provide the Apache Web Server, MySQL Database and PHP scripting on your machine.