Building with WordPress
Step-by-step guide to installing, designing, and maintaining a WordPress site on shared hosting.
Richard Sutherland
Beginner
WordPress makes more sense when you understand all its moving parts. This opening tutorial explains how the software, hosting, themes, plugins, and database fit together, and why that setup gives you so much control.
- #CMS
- #MariaDB
- #MySQL
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- 10 min
Richard Sutherland
Beginner
WordPress and site builders can both get a site online, but they give you very different kinds of control. We look at what happens to your content in terms of flexibility and future options once the honeymoon period is over.
- #ClosedPlatform
- #PluginEcosystem
- #Portability
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- 8
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- 8 min
Richard Sutherland
Beginner
A first WordPress site gets easier once you know what job the site is supposed to do. This tutorial helps you separate the differences between brochure sites, blogs, and stores and how you might choose to set each up differently.
- #Blog
- #BrochureSite
- #OnlineStore
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- 10
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- 7 min