This post is to give you a detailed guideline on setting up a WordPress website from scratch to finish and as well build any type of website you want using just Wordpress. some of the websites include

Blog
E-commerce website
forum for social connections
small business website
A dropshipping website, etc.
WHAT IS WORDPRESS
WordPress is an open-source Content Management System (CMS), which allows users to build dynamic websites and blog. WordPress is the most common blogging system on the web and it makes creating and managing content hitch-free.

You don’t need to know how to write HTML or CSS to set up, run and manage a WordPress website. WordPress powers about 25% of the world’s websites making it the most popular CMS.

Content Management System (CMS) is software which stores all the data such as text, photos, music, documents, etc. and is made available on your website. It creates the avenue for editing, publishing and modifying the content of the website.

WordPress first release was on 27th May 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. And finally, it was announced a free open source in 2009.

ADVANTAGES OF WORDPRESS OVER OTHER CMS·

It’s well documented and still in continuous support.
Is open-source and free to use.
Is easy to install.
They give users the option to customize the look of their websites, plugins, themes or virtually anything that you can find on the website
It is search engine friendly so SEO is not a headache with WordPress
In case you didn’t find the plugin or theme that suits your need you can easily create one or contact developers to do that for you.
It powers about 30% of all the blogging websites online this means that you can always get help from other users. It has vast plugins for majorly anything users will want in a website.
It is very easy to edit the content as it uses WYSIWYG editor
You can easily modify the roles of your website admin by creating admin, editor, author and so on as you might within your admin dashboard
Though WordPress has some few limitations the limitations are not extensible to hinder you from trying it out.

The following are a few limitations you may encounter while using WordPress.

LIMITATIONS TO USING WORDPRESS

The website tends to get heavy and run slowly if you install too many plugins just to achieve all you want the website to function.
Though it’s free and allowed to modify the plugins and themes. It’s not what you can do without the knowledge of PHP, HTML and CSS.
Now that you have seen a few of the features including the advantages and disadvantages of WordPress let’s get into the business of how you can benefit from this awesome CMS called WordPress.



To be able to use WordPress you need a custom domain of your own. With a custom domain, you will be able to have access to what is called Cpanel.

Cpanel is the backend of your website where you have access to customize anything that is being displayed on your website.

To know more about how you can get your hosting and Cpanel see this detailed article on how to get a hosting and domain name.

If you already have your domain name and hosting let's go-ahead to installing WordPress on our website



WordPress – INSTALLATION

There are different ways to install WordPress. But since I assumed that you are using shared hosting with Cpanel the procedure will be almost the same, the difference will probably depend on the version of Cpanel your hosting provider provided you.

But notwithstanding this tutorial will serve you the necessary knowledge you need to have WordPress up and running on your website.

This guide is based on the hosting provider that I’m using and it’s one of the best hosting providers in the world, everything you need to set up your website is all set up for you and you have unlimited support with them. The company is server and they are very nice so you can check them out to get your domain name and hosting.

TO INSTALL WORDPRESS USING SERVER HOSTING

Login to your Cpanel account using the link provided to you by QSERVER upon registration. This is also the same as any other hosting provider using shared hosting.

You will have to log in with the default user name and password which was sent to you by email.
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