WordPress Website | Creating Website using Local for Free | Installing Themes & Plugins

WordPress

WordPress is an open-source website creation platform that is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database. In non-geek speak, it’s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today.

What is a WordPress Website?

A WordPress website is any website that uses WordPress as its CMS (content management system). WordPress powers both the backend of the website (the interface where a user logs in to make changes or add new content) and the frontend (the visible part of the website that your visitors see on the web).

Benefits of Using WordPress Platform:

• ·       Flexible and Adaptable for Changing Needs
• ·       User-friendly—Even for Beginners
• ·       Themes Offer Multiple Options
• ·       Plugins Extend Functionality
• ·       WordPress Sites Rank High
• ·       WordPress Sites Are Mobile Responsive
• ·       WordPress Sites Have a Built-In Blog
• ·       The WordPress Community Offers Support 

Some Popular sites created with WordPress:

• ·       Katy Perry
• ·       The official Star Wars Blog
• ·       TechCrunch
• ·       Sony Music
• ·       BBC America
• ·       MTV News
• ·       10Web
• ·       The New York Times
• ·       The Walt Disney Company
• ·       The Rolling Stones

Creating a Website using Local:

• ·       Download and install Local

• ·       Click on Create a new site

• ·       Write your website name and click on continue

• ·       Choose as environment as Preferred and Continue

• ·       Setup WordPress, Write your user name, password and email. Then click on add site.

• ·       It will process for few seconds and give required permissions if asked

• ·       We can start or stop our site from upper right corner option

• ·       Then click on admin to go to your site in editing mode
• ·       Login on WordPress using user name and password

• ·       Finally, you reached to your website in editing mode. 
•       There you install themes, plugins and do much more things.

Themes in WordPress:

A theme is a collection of templates and stylesheets used to define the appearance and display of a WordPress powered website.

Installing Themes In WordPress:

• ·       Click on Appearance » Themes. Then click on add new.

• ·       Search Astra and click on install and then click activate

• ·       Click on Get Started then it will activate automatically

Installing Plugins:

• ·       Under Plugins click on Add New

• ·       Search Astra Starter Sites and click on install as shown in below screenshot.

• ·       Then click on Activate
• ·       Under Appearance click on Starter Templates. Then select Elementor.
• ·       Select the website of your choice. I’ve chosen Outdoor Adventure.
• ·       Then click on Import Full Site.
• ·       Then again click on Import in next pop up window.

• ·       It will take only few days, then click on view site.

• ·        Now view your site and enjoy. 😁😋

In Later posts, I'll tell about customization and other stuffs.😊