An Automattic Brainchild. Check out our Support site , then Search for:. Apr 29, at am I totally agree — it was supposed to be the easy one!!!! Apr 29, at pm Reply View forum topic Want less email? Unsubscribe from this topic Thanks for flying with WordPress.
You just want to complain. So noted. Apr 30, at am Am I getting into a world where grammar has no meaning? The core WordPress development and research team pushes out frequent updates to plugin any holes in the CMS. They are able to stave off attacks before they become a problem to WordPress users. Sometimes users of the CMS fail to secure their installation. They use easy passwords, fail to update their sites to the latest WordPress version, and at times give out their WordPress credentials to nefarious characters.
To keep your site secure, especially when starting out, always make sure you consult someone knowledgeable before making any changes. You can contact the support department of the hosting company signed up. Better yet, hire professional developers like Hog the Web to take care of the heavy lifting of website maintenance and security. If you want people to visit your website, and cash in, you need traffic. You can never have too much traffic. How do you get it? By making your website search engine friendly and mobile-friendly.
There are tons of responsive themes to do that, such as the Divi theme. Googling WordPress plus the problem reveals thousands of guides and tutorials, all offering a solution. There are also tons of forums dedicated to WordPress offering solutions to all kinds of problems. If you take a bit to learn about the WordPress ecosystem, everything becomes easy.
What used to take you hours or days to solve takes only a couple of minutes. You have an automatic updater to keep your site secure. They update automatically too. Lastly, if you take time to learn the WordPress core structure, you can make WordPress do almost anything you want.
WordPress is not the only CMS there. I have a lot of clients that think they can DIY. Instead they email me their changes. Good luck with everything! And in the sense, we are comparing apples to oranges. As much as we all like simple, I think there is another issue. We have put ourselves in that spot.
Or at least some have. People need to understand more the power behind WordPress and what it can do rather than just labeling it simple. There are other options for that and people need to understand their own needs and what the best choice for them is. I agree, Bob. This could be the start of companies seeing more value in professional services, but it could hinder the overall adoption of WP.
Only time will tell. I sat with a small business owner last week and together we set up her new site on wordpress. When she outgrows that site, we will move her to wordpress. Often clients come to me knowing they need a website, but not understanding all the other factors that make up digital marketing. No matter what platform you start with, the above it not simple or easy, but it is important for creating an effective website and this is what people need to understand.
How many ways do I love this post. Figuring out the differences between posts, pages, and widgets, well. Not easy at all. And many web designers want to hand over the site and its management to their client upon completion. Like Greg, providing all those services for my customers without overwhelming them with jargon is my business niche. This post and the previous comments are so awesome! I recently interviewed one of my favorite authors about moving her site from Blogger to wordpress.
She got help from a friend who was a developer who did some custom stuff on the home page but now she manages it herself. She made herself a second site in about an hour. I also love what Mike Schinkel said about business owners needing to care about technology.
I wanted to find whoever gave that small non-profit with a low budget, a site built on some obscure framework that they A can barely manage themselves and B will be really more expensive to maintain and more difficult to find developers, esp given that their mission mandates working with women. One person from my beta class actually finished her redesigned site already!
WordPress is easy because many business owners do not care about the technology behind the scenes and never will. Qualifications: I work with over clients a year that experience issues with their websites on various platforms and hate that I have to divert people to a forum because the WordPress gets upset a business is profiting off their inability to manage expectations of its user base.
What forum? The few free resources that exist for a website owner to get help with WordPress do not allow you to contact someone directly to help resolve their issue, and instead make you sit through a series of responses from people who cannot get the full picture of whats wrong with their WordPress based website, inevitably given them a bad impression of the WordPress platform as a whole when they were lead to believe it was supported and easy to manage.
To me, the question of making WordPress easier is akin to making car repair easier, or law for that matter, or medicine. WordPress, as several have already said is an amazing tool… when you know how to use it. Not everyone wants to change their own oil in their car, or build their own house, or be their own lawyer.
Most people want to run their business and not take the time to learn web design, layout, image optimization, information architecture, site navigation, internal vs external hyperlinks, etc…. For a while I was offering WordPress classes to business owners. My experience was, they would much rather just have someone take care of it all for them at a reasonable price tag which is an article unto itself. No cms is easy when you have no experience and you want to design, set up and maintain your own website the right way.
As an experienced application manager I am specialized in setting up and maintaining WordPress websites. And keeping these sites updated, safe and findable.
That only can be challenging at times. I sometimes advise people to have the website designed, set up and maintained by specialists, and only deliver the content to be put on ti.
Or only learn how to put the content on themselves, but only that. I think it is a good thing that WordPress is versatile. That is why I love it and do not need anything else.
But when building a website, you just have to keep focused on what you want and need, especially because the possibilities are seemingly endless. All the other possibilities? Internet technology will never be easy. It will only get more complex. And so does WordPress. As specialists just have to adjust, whenever new technology or functionality is implemented…. OR it is for people to just pay a professional to do every last bit of formatting for them, and have to call on a professional for every little website change except making blog posts.
I want to be able to change the appearance of my site, line up videos with headings and text effortlessly, add in buttons or pictures as I wish at the exact place on the website I want them positioned, and call on a professional only for modifying more complex back-end settings and plug-ins etc.
I can create sites with my eyes closed on Wix or Squarespace and make them look how I want faster than I could tell a Website professional to create what is in my brain, yet would still need them to optimaize my site and figure out more complex plugins and listen to my functionality wishlist and help bring my site up to a level that I envision.
Yet the situation I described is not conducive to WordPress. I tried WordPress a couple of times. I was hostage to a professional doing every last thing for me and sending messages back and forth just to get a photo to be the right size and lined up with the right content etc. The email correspondence was unmanageable to accomplish the tiniest tasks because it was like I was a designer with my hands cut off and he was my acting as my hands.
But on my end i felt like half of my work days were dedicated to communicating with him. It felt like I should just sign up for Wix and get it done myself until I hit dead ends and need a professional. I believe in paying professionals what they are worth and letting them do what they are good at he was amazing but the time commitment to work together just to complete the home page made me throw in the towel.
Again, I felt hostage by not knowing how to just go into the back-end and move things around and line up edges, and change font sizes etc. I thought it was easy to make my site. Install a new plugin, for instance, and you might find yourself fiddling around for a while as you figure out how it works. So there can be some trial and error, and sometimes this can get frustrating. But isn't a reflection on WordPress.
It's poor documentation on the plugin or theme developer's part. By itself, WordPress is very easy to use. So with that out of the way, I'd like to run through some reasons why you should be using WordPress. Let's take a look There are many great reasons to use WordPress.
What I've done is listed out some of the big reasons to use WordPress. Hopefully this'll help you determine if WordPress is right for you. And because WordPress is free, this means that anyone can get started using WordPress right away.
But as we'll discuss later, depending on how you intend to use WordPress, you might run into some expenses. For example, if you want to run what's called a self-hosted WordPress website, you'll need to cover the costs for your website's domain name and web hosting.
Sit tight, because again, we'll talk more about this shortly. But at the same time, WordPress is also powerful enough for more technical users to tweak, edit, and customize. Developers can dig into the guts of WordPress and get into it's background code. This allows anyone with the skill to fully customize WordPress and get it to do anything they want. This is because WordPress is modular and open source.
Think of WordPress like Lego bricks -- anyone can build anything they want with it. Or if you'd prefer, you can can remain blissfully unaware of the technical stuff and simply stick with WordPress's easy to use interface. Again, it's this flexibility that makes WordPress so popular.
It can be as big or as small, as technical or as simple, as you want it to be. Now, WordPress can be used to build any kind of website you want, from a small, one-page personal site to a portfolio website to showcase your work, to a full online store, news website, and even a massive corporate site.
If you can dream it up, WordPress can handle it! In fact, I have a video where I identify and outline the five different kinds of websites you can build for your business using WordPress. To actually write and publish content with WordPress, you'll use it's simple and easy to use built-in editor.
And the good news is, you already know how to use it -- it's that intuitive! So, no coding skills or anything highly technical is involved for you to start working with WordPress. So with WordPress, you're in good company! And all of this means that getting support and help if you get stuck with WordPress is easy to find.
You can turn to YouTube, forums, blogs and other readily available online resources to get answers. And if you ever need help with your website, there's an army of readily-available WordPress developers on sites like UpWork. So, being a WordPress user means you're a part of a very large, supportive community.
So these are some of the big reasons why you should use WordPress. Compare it to other web design tools like Dreamweaver, Wix, or SquareSpace, and it's easy to understand why WordPress is so widely used and loved.
So at this point, you're probably curious to know just how WordPress functions. We'll cover that next. Because of it's versatility, there are a different ways that you can go about using WordPress. Primarily, you'll either use WordPress. And, you can even install and run WordPress directly on your computer. But this third option gets more advanced, and I don't want to cause confusion here because WordPress doesn't function like traditional web design software, say like Dreamweaver.
Traditional web design software functions more like a word processor, where you simply open, edit, and save files. And with those sorts of tools, you'd build a website on your computer and then upload it to your live web server once it's complete. But WordPress works very differently. Unlike a piece of software that runs on your computer, WordPress runs directly on your live web server.
So with WordPress, you'd log into your website and then work there, live on the web. With a traditional tool like Dreamweaver, you create the files that become your website. But with WordPress, it is your website. To accomplish this, WordPress has a front-end and a password-protected back-end. The back-end of your WordPress website is where you do all your work.
It's here where you'll create new pages and posts, work with images, and customize your website's look and behaviour. Your website's front-end is what your visitors see when they navigate to your website. In fact, they may not even know that your website's running WordPress. So that's how WordPress works. You won't be opening and editing files with it. Instead, it's your website's platform. That's why there really is no comparison between old ways of building websites, say with Dreamweaver, and a much more modern approach with WordPress.
But, how expensive is WordPress? This isn't a simple question to answer, because it all depends on how you want to run WordPress. We'll delve deeper into this in the next section. A big question that's probably on your mind is, Is WordPress free? And the answer is, kinda! As we've discussed, WordPress comes in two flavours, WordPress.
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