As we continue on with our Basics of Blogging series, we have arrived at the topic of installing WordPress on your new website. WordPress is the most-popular content management system, or CMS, in the world, and it is the obvious choice for anyone starting up their own blog. Before you can take this step, be sure that you have followed along with the previous two posts in this series on how to pick a web hosting company, and how to add your domain name to your web host.
Why Use WordPress?
When you first start thinking about building a blog, you will notice that there are plenty of content management systems to pick from – and most of them are free. Yet, despite the presence of many options, it seems that nearly everyone who starts a website chooses to use WordPress. Why is that? Once you get started, you will quickly understand why it has become so popular. The combination of user-friendly features and powerful capabilities is what has made this free platform so incredibly popular and useful for so many people.
With WordPress, you can take a great looking website and present it to the world without knowing how to write a single line of code. You aren’t going to need to dive deep into HTML or CSS or anything else in order to make a great site with WordPress, yet it still has the power to allow your site to include countless different features. We will get farther into some of the features of WordPress in the next post in this series, but rest assured that it is almost certainly going to be the best bet for your needs.
Installing WordPress
If you are going to use WordPress for your website, you will first need to install the application that allows your site to run the WordPress platform. Many new website owners get tripped up at this point, but the process is actually…