Today is Day 2 in the “the 31 days for build a successful blog” and today your task is to choose and install your first CMS platform.
Used primarily by bloggers, WordPress is become in these years one of the most popular CMS software available out there – The better thing is that you can grab it for free directly from WordPress.org home page. However, there are other features that make me happy to using this great platform.
1. WordPress is free to use – All you have to do is to go on WordPress.org and download your copy.
2. Easy to install – I can not emphasize enough how much simple is to install. Also, If you use Bluehost how web hosting service, you can install your CMS platform in only three simple step without any PHP knowledge.
3. High quality themes – You have an high range of themes(free or paid theme) to choose from.
4. Flexibility – You can add an extra feature in a simple and quick way. All you have to do is to download the plugin, upload it through FTP then turn it on in the admin panel.
How To Does To Install WordPress
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Once downloaded latest WordPress version(Currently, there’s the 2.8.6 version available), just edit the config.php file, and using Filezilla(it’s free) to upload the file to run the installation. At this point you take at least 1 minutes to run WordPress.
Of course, as I said first, through Bluehost or others similar web hosting this might be simplified, too. In only three step you are able to run your site without effort.
Note: Whether you want to see how it easy to install WordPress with Bluehost, I suggest you to download my 62 pages book “how to make money online” that explain in details any step by step process to do it.
Now, once installed WordPress, the default theme provided with WordPress is based on the Kubrik theme. But honestly, if there’s on thing that does not convince me with this theme is that it’s used by thousand of bloggers out there.
Of course you can looking for a free wordpress theme. However, I admit that despite free theme can be a great thing for newbie, or who are starting an own personal blog. Instead, for those are going to start an business online like me, I reccomend to make a little investment and purchase an professional theme. Recently, for my new blog cabinrentalsideas.com I purchased Thesis Theme. This because that kind of themes have all the necessary tool to make you easily customize any aspect of the layout of your web page, and create SEO friendly theme for get indexed by Google and major search engines.
WordPress allows you to create SEO friendly web page but you can also easily installing one of their many useful plugins. Here, my favorite SEO plugin:
- All In One SEO Pack
- SEO Title Tag
- Meta Robots WordPress plugin
- Aizatto’s Related Posts
- Cross-Linker
- Sitemap Generator
- Google (XML) Sitemaps
- HeadSpace 2
Normally, WordPress very secure, all you have to do is to download the latest version and you’ll be secure enough. I recommend to subscribe to their release notification mailing list in order to keep up to date.
Conclusion
WordPress is the most great and popular CMS available out there, and is become famous for a reason – it’s free to use. Despite there are some aspects that can be improved, however there are many developers that providing every kind of plugins to resolve that problems.
This is the 2th of a 31-part series of “the 31 days for build a successful blog”. Previous parts included:
- Day 1: Choosing The Domain Name For Your Blog
- Day 2: Creating Your Blog By Using WordPress As CMS
