WordPress Tutorial

WordPress is a free web application that can be used to create elegant and professional websites. The platform is, without a doubt, one of the most popular open-source applications online. The user-friendly admin interface and the primarily free and easy to use themes and plugins all contribute to this.

At first, millions of people used WordPress as a blogging platform. The platform quickly established itself as a reliable base for numerous businesses, social networks, and even eCommerce websites. That popularity lead to the application evolving into a fully manageable CMS built on PHP and MySQL.

Hundreds of millions of websites hosted on the Internet already use WordPress, and this number is growing every minute. With our WordPress Hosting Packages you can launch your WordPress website with just a few clicks. To make your website feel at home, our services are protected by robust and reliable suite of malware and malicious attack blocking systems. Together with the newest versions of PHP, which are optimized for speed and security, your website will be both secured and flying at the speed of light.

To compliment our WordPrpess Hosting Packages, this tutorial will go into detail about everything WordPress. From how to install it, to the administrative dashboard, how to configure it and many more things. That is not all! On top of all that, we will also elaborate on the WP Toolkit, which is an invaluable tool in any WordPress host's arsenal, as well as some of the most popular plugins for the platform. Before all of that, though, let us quickly go over the four key points why people choose WordPress.

Free - The WordPress software itself is totally free to download and use. You can, at any point, go to their website and grab the latest WordPress release. Alternatively you can use an applications installer like Softaculous or the specialised WP Toolkit that our services offer. You can even install WordPress via SSH with a simple command. All of those solutions are free. Of course, you still need a web hosting account and a domain name, but the WordPress software itself is free;
Highly Flexible and Customizable - WordPress may be used to create a variety of websites: portfolios, blogs, or even online stores. Because it is also open-source, a lot of the community is involved in expanding the platform's capabilities. As a result, the official WordPress library and other third-party repositories offer a wide variety of themes and plugins that can change how your website looks and functions. With WordPress, you can build almost any type of website;
Scalable - As long as the web hosting package provides the necessary resources, WordPress can manage websites of almost any size. You will not have to switch to a different platform for a long time. Only when your website becomes truly massive should you consider a more custom solution;
Easy to Use - WordPress demands a lot less technical expertise than using a framework (like Laravel) or another more hands-on approach to creating a website. WordPress offers a graphical user interface which can be used to create stunning, fully working websites without any coding knowledge required. You can still modify the code if you want, in case you want to insert something custom, but 99.9% of cases such intervention is not required.

Keep in mind, however, that there’s a big difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com. WordPress.org offers only the WordPress software without hosting or domain services. WordPress.com, on the other hand, is a hosting service which you can subscribe to, saving you the need to buy a hosting account and domain elsewhere. In this tutorial we will focus on the software you can get from WordPress.org.

Requirements

To run WordPress there are just a few requirements your system must cover:

PHP version 7.4 or higher;
MySQL version 8 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.5 or higher;
HTTPS support.

It is recommended the server you host your WordPress website is based on Apache or Nginx, but any server that supports PHP and MySQL will be sufficient. All the servers we offer here at FastComet cover those requirements and you will be host your WordPress website without issues.

These rather common requirements are part of the reason why WordPress is such a popular platform. Its ease of hosting combined with its ease of use are what makes WordPress the choice for hundreds of millions of people around the world. Follow this tutorial if you want to learn all about this robut and scalable website solution as we dive deep into it.

In this WordPress Tutorial:

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