After reading this article, you have probably heard of WordPress. You know it can be used to build blogs and corporate websites. So, what is it? How does it work to generate website pages? Without programming technology, can ordinary people use WordPress to build websites?
WordPress is a website building program
The traditional way to develop a website is to let the designer produce a website design draft first, and then let the developer write the code. Therefore, we have the impression that website construction is a very high-end career with high technical requirements and high costs.
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Every website needs to write code and debug so much, and the cost is high, so it is certainly not easy to promote, and it is also a restriction on the overall development of the industry. So talented people are thinking about how to solve this problem, so a series of programs to help you build a website have emerged.
Common station building procedures
Because foreign countries are lax about speech management (different opinions have different opinions), and foreigners are more talkative, the demand for individual website building is relatively strong, which has correspondingly led to the prosperity of website building programs. WIX, Squarespace, WordPress, etc., which we often see on the Internet, are all excellent website building programs. We also have Vanke, online, takeoff page and so on in China, but the size is far less than that of foreign countries.
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Why choose WordPress among so many website building programs?
Because it is free, WordPress is an open source website building program, and its own code is open for download. After years of development, WordPress has a very high-quality developer community. Developers around the world have developed tens of thousands of plug-ins on the basis of WordPress, which has expanded the functions of WordPress, making WordPress can be used for almost any website, such as:
Forum website: bbPress, with this plug-in, you can create a forum for your school; Online Mall: Woocommerce, yes, you can build a website similar to Xiaomi Mall with this plug-in. Form submission function: For example, if you need to collect visitors' mailboxes, it is good to push them to subscribers when you update the article next time, then you can use WPFORM+Mailchimp plug-ins
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How does WordPress work?
The website building program allows you to build a website without writing code. Its essence is that you set what the website should look like in the program, where to display what text, here is a button, there is a picture, there is a navigation bar at the top, etc., and then the program automatically generates the website code for you.
How to set the tone, font size, line spacing and layout of the website—— WordPress Theme
Generally speaking, the website has a main color, // jiqianhanre.com The main color of is blue, which is the theme (I use Astra's Free theme ）It is adjusted inside. I set blue here, and it will automatically display all the key positions of the website in blue.
More complicated websites will also set many auxiliary colors, display styles of buttons, and text sizes of titles, paragraphs, etc., such as the following design draft examples. These effects can also be set on the theme customization page.
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How to expand website functions -- WordPress plug-in
WordPress itself provides the basic creation page and article creation function. If you need to use complex functions, such as creating an online form, creating an album, helping the website optimize its SEO search engine, and helping the website achieve https encryption and secure access, you need to download the corresponding plug-ins.
I want to build a website. How do I install WordPress?
See here, you're right WordPress I know more than most people. If you want to create your own personal blog or photo sharing website through WordPress, you can check my Site building series tutorial 。
In short, website files (i.e. WordPress programs) are installed on ECS. We enter the domain name in the browser, and the computer automatically finds the ECS IP corresponding to the domain name and accesses it. After the ECS receives the request, the WordPress program will automatically generate the website code and transmit it to our browser, so that the browser can display the webpage.
General guidance on the process of building a personal website from 0-1. If you want to build your own personal blog website, or photo sharing website, you can refer to this tutorial. In simple terms, you can be satisfied!
1. Purchase ECS and domain name
2. Build the simplest blog website
3. Publish the first blog post
4. Personalize your website
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