The use WordPress requires a web server with PHP and MySQL!

How to set up your website using WordPress in few steps.

• Domain Name: The first step that you have to take, before you start creating a website, is choosing a domain name that is relevant to your business.

• Hosting: Choose a hosting package, including at least 1 database and enough space to host a WordPress. With wrong hosting packages your website will suffer. A host should empower you, never limit you.

• Download WordPress: Once you have activated the hosting, you can download the application on your computer, so that you can have an easy access. Follow installations instruction or use this video as a guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3UB54eA2S4.

• After installing the software there are a few steps that you need to do before you can start.

1. You need to set the title, tagline and time zone.

The title and tagline will be automatically shown on your page.

2. Personalization: Delete the standard messages and pages from the website.

3. Appearance: Delete the standard themes that are installed.

After installing WordPress there are three standard themes installed. You can use one theme at the time, so by deleting the other two you create more space on the hosting package. You can pick new themes here: https://es.wordpress.org/themes/. One important tip is to choose a responsive template, with colors and layout that can be easily adapted to your corporative image, and with all the widgets and functionalities that you need to have in order to carry out your business activity. It is better to spend some time picking the perfect template, than have to start from 0 a billion time because you have not thought that you needed a calendar, a gallery or any other section.

4. Plugins: Delete the Plugins, and install new ones according to needs. Careful, some plugins work better than other and sometimes they are non-compatible with your WordPress version. You will probably have to install a number of them before getting to your favorite one. There are plugins for almost everything: weather, set optimization, newsletters subscriptions, forms, etc.

5. Security: Install a safety plugin, the safety of your website is very important. A plugin that is good to have is Limit Login Attempts, it makes sure that with too many login attempts it (temporally) blocks your account.

6. Positioning and internationalization: Install SEO- plugin, SEO- plugin helps you to position your website on the internet, whereas in terms of internationalization there are a lot of plugins to translate your website automatically or manually.

7. Backup: Installing automatically backups, make sure that you do a regular backup of your WordPress website. This is important because when your website is broken for some reason, it is easier for you to restore it by pushing a button. The weakest point of WordPress is definitively security that is why we strongly recommend keeping a backup copy.

• Website layout: After downloading the software and going through the steps mentioned above, it is important to start thinking about the layout of your website. Your layout is the first thing that the visitor of your website sees, therefore it is important that there is a good and easy to use structure.

• Contents: After you have decided how your layout is going to look, it is important that you think about the content. The content is also an important part of what the customer thinks when the content is not focused on the right target audience; they can decide to go somewhere else. Actually, the easiest way to implement a WordPress is to have all the structures planned before creating menus and categories so it gets easier to insert contents and you do not have to struggle against the application.

• Data: Some publishing platforms lock you in with proprietary data formats. Not here. WordPress relies on open standards to allow you to take your data with you, and even comes with tools to import from many popular sources. It’s your data, and you should be able to do what you want with it. We currently have importers for Movable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Work on importers for Nucleus and pMachine is under way.

• Software: WordPress is designed to be installed on your own web server, in the cloud, or in a shared hosting account. You have complete control. Unlike commercial software or third-party hosted services, you can be sure of being able to access and modify everything related to your site. You can even install WordPress on your personal computer, or on a corporate intranet.

• Dynamic page generation: No rebuilding of all your pages each time you update your site, or any aspect of it. All pages are generated using the database and the templates each time a page from your site is requested by a viewer. This means that updating your site, or its design is as fast as possible, and required server storage space usage is minimal.

• Allowed html tags: Not everyone is evil, but keep those who are in check by limiting which html tags are kosher on your site. The default html tags allowed by WordPress are a sane choice to let people use html in their comments, without compromising the safety of your data or server.