WordPress, What is it?

You probably are searching for the best way to build a website and you stumbled upon WordPress (Wp), or you’r looking to convert your HTML website into a more dynamic website and follow the technology trend of the digital market, In-fact, most my new clients ask me about WP after their previous developer has chose it to be the main framework for the designed website. In this article I will explain more about what is WP and how you can have a website up and running in 5 easy steps. If you already have a WP website for your business and your questioning yourself, should I use WP for my online business, this article will give you a better understanding of what is word press and WordPress facts.

1. What is WordPress
2. Who can user WP
3. How To Get WordPress
4. How much does WP cost
5. Ways to Use WP
6. Should You use WP to build a business website

1. What is WordPress

WordPress is nothing like Wix or Weebly, Square space, neither a website builder platform. Wp is, the most popular open source Content Management System (CMS) and WP dominates 29% of the internet, in other words 75 million websites are setup on wordpress. You don’t have to install anything on your computer, unless you want to install WordPress on a local server (your computer), which you can still easily do.

2. Who can use wordpress

WordPress is not copyright free, It’s licensed in a way that allows everyone to use it. WP is used widely by Students, entrepreneurs, teachers, companies, startups and corporate, the reason why it’s so widely used goes back to the community it provides to sync developers, designer, software engineers, and WP users while each contribution made to the software is copyrighted.

3. How To Get WordPress

WordPress.com certainly makes is easy to get a Word Press blog setup, and provide users with three ways to work with word press.

1. Website on Wp(Free)
2. Paid account hosted with WP
3. Self hosted

1. Website on WordPress (Free)

Get a free site without paying for a domain or hosting but your site address will use a WordPress.com subdomain (sitename.wordpress.com).

Although WP is free, but at the end of the day it’s a profit-making business built on customer relation, where at the end of the line you’ll outgrow the limited functionality of your free blog and upgrade to have a professional domain. So you don’t get caught by surprise, I’ve prepared a list of what to expect down the line if you decided to go with a free Wp website.

2. Paid account hosted with wordpress

• Want a custom domain name?
  For $13/year you can host your site on your own domain instead of a subdomain  of WordPress.com, i.e. yourblog.com, instead of yourblog.wordpress.com .
  Instead you can get a domain starting at $8.90 from metropolitan host, or Get Your Domain, Hosting, and Unlimited Email for Just $3/mo at Hostgator.
  1and1 Hosting provide .com domain starting at $0.99 for the first year 
• Need a little more space for your blog?
  Starting at $4/month  you can add more space to the 6GB you get for free. 6GB might sound like a lot but you’re only allowed to upload any images, documents, spreadsheets, or presentations.You may not upload audio files without the space upgrade. Here is a link to WP support. Space upgrade support
• Don’t want third-party adverts appearing on your blog?
  WordPress.com reserves the right to display ads on your site. But for an extra bucks a year you can get the “No Ads” option and keep your blog ad-free. However even with this upgrade, you still have to keep copyright links such as “Blog at WP” on your site.  Per Wp Codex, “All WordPress.com bloggers are required to maintain the credit links, even our VIP bloggers.  Design support
• Need advanced design
  Worpress provides a plan where they allow you to redesign your website through CSS, but it’ billed yearly and sounds more like a lease as started on Design support. All upgrades on WordPress.com are renewed yearly. Should you choose to cancel your subscription, your custom fonts, colors, and CSS will no longer be applied to your blog. The revisions for your customizations will still be saved, but they won’t be visible on the blog’s front end unless you renew your subscription.
  
• Remove WordPress.com branding from the footer?
  WordPress.com reserves the right to display copyright links such as “Blog at WordPress.com” on your site.  Per WordPress.com, “All WordPress.com bloggers are required to maintain the credit links, even our VIP bloggers. Design support
• Want a professional email?
  If you’re going to want a company-branded email like “yourname@yourdomain.com” to show people you’re professional. WordPress.com does not offer email hosting of any kind. Therefore, you’re going to have to set up your email hosting outside of WordPress.com.
  Instead you can get Get Your Domain, Hosting, and Unlimited Email for Just $3/mo at Hostgator.

3. Self hosted account

Self-hosted Wp simply means that you install the free Wp software on your own server rather than hosting it on Wp. To self-host your blog, all you need to do is get a hosting account of your preference from a hosting provider which can costs less than $10/month including free domain and easy Wp installation processes. Here is a list of top Wp hosting providers.

• Hostgator
• Blue Host
•  1&1 Hosting
• Metropolitan Host
• Just Host
• Hosting 24
• Ipage

4. How much does Wp cost

WP is free to install, deploy, and upgrade. Thousands of plugins and templates power a flexible andsimple interface, which reduces development costs and deployment time. The only cost is web hosting and domain. You can get a domain name and web hosting for as low as $3.95/month from Bluehost or hostgator (both officially recommended Word Press hosting providers). Additional costs would be commercial WP themes and plugins.

5. Ways to Use WordPress

No matter what kind of site you want to build (Blog, E-commerce website, personal website) you can do it on Word-Press in five simple steps . You can find Millions of tutorials online to assist you with building your website/blog.

6. Should You use word press to build a business website

Word-Press is powerful, easy to use and update and provide full control and ownership to the user, additionally, there are plenty of affordable Word-Press specialists available online who can help you if needed.  Learn how to Install WordPress – Complete WordPress Installation Tutorial 101. You can read additional article on 10 Reasons Why You Should Use WP To Run Your Business Website.

6. How to Install a WordPress website

WordPress is simple and easy to setup. Read the Complete WordPress Installation Tutorial 101, to learn more how to install a WordPress website on different hosting providers, on your personal computer (Local Host) and through File Transfer program (FTP).