Teach you to use WordPress to easily build your own website

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Graduation season means the beginning of a job search, do you want to add points before the interviewer? Build a website chant. No code? In fact, a lot of methods, today introduced one of the world's most popular building personal blog method, the tutorial is simple and practical, the novice can soon be done.

Blog building is not complex, but the process is a bit cumbersome, suitable for those who like to toss, mainly have the following several steps:

1. Create a new blog file

In the process of building a blog, we need to create a file to store information about the blog. This information includes domain name information, host Space server IP,FTP login name and password, space panel login information and so on, as long as it is related to the blog information, all exist in this file, easy to view later.

2. Purchase domain name

Domain name suffix is recommended to buy a domain name ". com", although the ". com" domain name is more expensive than the other.

3. Register a host space

Host space is the place to store blog programs, geographical location for the mainland space, Hong Kong space and foreign space, the advantages of the mainland space is the speed of access, the shortcomings of the need for record; Hong Kong's spatial access is between the mainland and abroad; The choice of space to see personal situation, space size words novice hundreds of m enough to use, and so after writing more than enough to consider the replacement.

Domain name resolution generally uses dnspod to parse. There are three steps to using the Dnspod:

(1) Add the record in Dnspod, add the domain name after registering.

(2) Modify the DNS address of the domain name Dnspod, login to GoDaddy website, click "My Account", click "Domain" to the right of "Launch", enter the domain Management page, in the "Nameservers" column Click "Set Nameservers ", in the popup dialog box in the first two name server, fill in the Dnspod Domain Name service" f1g1ns1. Dnspod.net "," f1g1ns2. Dnspod.net ".

(3) The domain name to the host server's IP, that is, add "a record" in dnspod, note to add with "www" and without "www" two records, added after the see:

Domain name after the resolution can be accessed, at this time we enter the domain name in the address bar can see the information on the host space, the next thing is to install WordPress.

4. Install WordPress

Different host space has different virtual host control system, installation process is not the same, but the steps are similar, I purchased the host space using the Cpanel panel, the following for cpanel installation WordPress To do a brief introduction.

(1) Log in to the Cpanel panel, locate the "database"-"MySQL database", create a database, then create a user, add the user to the database, tick "All rights", click "Change" to complete.

(2) Upload wordpress, download the latest WordPress Chinese version from the WordPress website, go back to cpanel home page, click "File"-"File Manager", select "Web Root" and click "Go", select "Upload", select the compression package upload just downloaded. After uploading back to the root directory select the package, click "Unzip", after the decompression is completed in the root directory more than a WordPress directory, enter this directory, click "Select All", and then click "Move Files", remove the directory of WordPress, the file moved to the root directory.

(3) Set WordPress basic information, in the browser to access your domain name, followed by the cue point button, until the Input Database Information page, enter the database information previously created, so that WordPress installation is complete.

5. Install wordpress Theme

After the installation of WordPress, you need to install a theme to the blog, that is, our page template, go to the admin page of WordPress, choose "Appearance"-"Theme", click "Install Theme" to select the theme installation, you can also upload other topics to download, The best free official theme can be seen here: the Theme.

6. Set up a fixed link

Fixed link refers to the URL display of the article, the default is the question mark and the number, modified into a custom structure "/%postname%/" can better let the search engine find your article.

7, install the plug-in

In order to better use WordPress, some good plug-ins are essential, the following list of personal use of some plug-ins.

Akismet

Akismet plugin can help clear a lot of spam and comments, keep the blog clean, using the plugin need to use the API key, can be requested by the host provider.

WP Super Cache

Excellent cache plug-in, can be static blog, on the one hand can improve the SEO rankings, on the other hand can improve the access speed of the blog, ease the pressure of the server.

Google XML Sitemaps

Good SEO plugin, let search engine better ingest your site.

Dynamic to Top

Click Back to the top, the article is very useful for a long time, you can customize the display effect.

WordPress related Posts

This plugin displays related articles or random articles under each article, which facilitates the SEO of the blog.

Wp-pagenavi

Very good paging plug-in, speeding up the Quick Browsing blog articles.

Smart Archives

Article archive navigation plug-in, install the plug-in, create a new page, in the content area of the page input "" Smart_archives "" (brackets modified to English brackets), save, and then create a new menu, add the page, a Good Article archive menu is complete.

8. Image Storage

Novice Build Blog, the general host space capacity is small, if the picture in the article more, the image storage becomes a problem. Looking for a stable and easy-to-use picture bed, convenient for image usage and storage, is something to focus on. Here is recommended a good foreign free photo bed: Photobucket.

Photobucket is very famous abroad, quite stable, the domestic access speed is also very good. Free support picture outside the chain, provide 500M of picture space, 10G of monthly image access to traffic, the personal blog image storage for these functions is enough. There is also a very heavyweight feature, that is, the uploaded image will not change the name of the image, it is because of this feature let me choose Photobucket.

Why is this feature so important?

For example, if I upload a picture, the name of the picture is wp.jpg, the image's outer link address is http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh519/username/album name/ Wp.jpg, I also backed up a copy of the image in Dropbox and locally, and the directory structure was consistent with the album. If the photobucket can not access the blog, the picture can not be displayed, at this time I only need to upload pictures to the new server, and then go to the database batch modify the image of the link for the new server image storage address, you will be able to restore all the image display.

9. Add website icon

Website icon is displayed in the front of the URL of the small icon, can be customized, the easiest way to get the icon is to download the site favicon.cc, or do one yourself, the site icon recommended to use the. ico file format.

After downloading the icon, upload to the root directory of the host public_html, then go to the WordPress admin page, select "Appearance"-"edit", open "head.php", add the following code (make sure the icon name is Favicon.ico):

After saving, refresh the page to see the icon.