Saturday, February 6, 2016

Domain & web host buying then developing website with Wordpress

To buy the domain, the following information is required.
Name:
Organization if any: one may write just private organisation
or personal
Address: any address would do, better work address.
email: it is a must as all communication will be made with it.
Phone: not mandatory but if web hosting people like to communicate they may need it. No formal signature like thing is required or no photocopy of the documents are required.

after buying the domain, username and password are sent. Username is usually the email. After logging into domain control panel one may change it as he likes.

Write down the domain name in the domain field and press enter.Now different things related to domain name could be done.

For web hosting separate control panel is used. The common one is Cpanel.Its username and password would be different than domain one. After entering one may select Softaculous for one click wordpress installation. It comes near software other thing. After entering select wordpress. During installation it would ask the domain name. Also it asks whether you would like to put www before the domain. https is encryption for financial transaction, so usually that is not the case for general site owners.Keep directory blank so that it is installed in the domain name directory. If you put any directory then it would appear in the final website different pages url.

Select a theme, give a name, tagline that's it. Click install and it would take around 5 minutes.

An excellent guide with screenshots about installation of wordpress with some common helping softwares used by hosting companies is provided here:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-install-a-wordpress-theme/

In wordpress, the default homepage or frontpage comes up as blog. There is no home page layout formatting option in wordpress. So one needs to create a page and in the setting>reading select a static page as the frontpage.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-home-page

In the wordpress software logo option is not there(In wordpress.com, when you create free blog or website, they give logo option just after name and tag). To do so you may have to edit some code as mentioned here.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-a-logo-to-the-site-template

In the wordpress, usually when you create page it becomes a menu tab.Further you may convert category and custom link as well as tags to menu tab with the options provided left hand side while you click menus option under appearance. Give a name to your menu like Main. I reckon several menu may be created and you may use one.

In the menu structure, drag to position one below or front and for submenu put one inside the parent one.

While you create page, you may select a parent page. Order 0 means parent page, the subsequent pages could be numbered as order 1, 2, 3 etc.

Category may be used when you like to keep your post like blog. Here name of the author and datestamp will appear.

Page is like a normal page where authors name and datestamp are not put on.

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