Use WordPress to build a blog site to pay attention to the problem

Wen/renfei Song

First choose a good domain name and host, these two are the most basic "hardware" factor. Now many host dealers sell domain names, so you can buy your own host at the same time the domain name also bought, remove the trouble of configuring the domain name alone (in addition, many hosts also have to buy the host to give 1 years of preferential policies for the domain name, but to pay attention to the next year's renewal price you can accept). Of course, if you choose the host business does not sell domain name, you can also buy a single domain name in GoDaddy. Domain name is not recommended in the domestic purchase, because the transfer out may be more troublesome.

Here, the domain name privacy protection. When you purchase the domain name, you need to register the holder's name, address, phone number, email, and so on, and then through the WHOIS query can be publicly found (we check the google.com whois information). Some domain registrars provide fees or free domain privacy protection to prevent others from using Whois to find your real information.

Select the host. Foreign host advantage is not required to record, and the same configuration under the general will be cheaper than the domestic host. In addition, many foreign hosts also have the Asia-Pacific room, speed is very fast, such as Digitalocean and Site 5 are good. But foreign host payment is not very convenient, generally do not support Alipay or China UnionPay card. If the host business allows PayPal to pay the words, you can register a PayPal account, and and your bank card binding, through PayPal from the bank card direct payment Past (bank responsible for the swap). It may be troublesome for a host to receive credit cards only. Note that if you are going to borrow your friends ' credit card to help you pay, be sure to greet the host in advance. Otherwise they found that your account name and credit card name does not match, it is likely to directly treat you as payment investigative (payment fraud) processing, some direct refund is not sent, some require you to send driving license and other scanning pieces of the identity of the verification, and some have to call, in short, quite troublesome.

Another point, your foreign host if the use of shared IP (a number of users of the site using the same IP address), there is a certain probability of IP is blocked caused your site from the domestic inaccessible situation. This situation is basically not because your site has been checked, but with you share the same IP of the friend on his site put illegal content, was found, resulting in this IP under all the sites are blocked together. If your host provider provides a standalone IP (dedicated IP) then this is not a matter, or they provide a service to replace the IP.

If you do not mind the record, you can also choose domestic host, such as Qingyun (Qing Cloud) on the good. The advantage of domestic host is often very fast, payment is convenient, and with customer service communication in Chinese may be more comfortable for many people.

Another point to note: The host is roughly divided into two types, Shared host and VPS. The former (Shared Host) will generally help you configure PHP, MySQL and other environmental and phpmyadmin tools, while the host chamber of Commerce provides a control panel, you can directly through the graphical interface to set a variety of server options, very convenient While the latter (VPS) is actually a virtual stand-alone server, the above programming environment and tools are required by you to remotely use the command line SSH to install and configure. Configuring a VPS requires familiarity with the Apache server (assuming you use Apache) and Unix command line knowledge. Although the VPS is troublesome, but gives the developer the biggest freedom and the privilege, therefore if you have the ability to choose the VPS, otherwise recommends the choice Shared Host. Of course, not all of the host is one of these two routines (some VPS is the auxiliary Configuration service), you can buy before you ask the customer to know.

Select the blog program. You have assigned WordPress. WordPress than pure static blog (such as Jekyll) speed may be slightly slower, but the number of users of WordPress, Plug-ins are also relatively rich, the problem is relatively good to solve, it is recommended. Then about the template, you can use others do well, but it is inevitable to do some of their own changes, install Plug-ins are also likely to modify the template, so some basic php/css/html/javascript knowledge is necessary. Of course, if you are familiar with this knowledge, you can also write their own templates and plug-ins to maximize the customization of WordPress.

Install site statistics. Through the statistical data you can know your site's browsing volume, unique access, access statistics, guest operating system/browser version of the statistics, and so on, for the blog's effect and promotion direction is first-hand reference. Site statistics of course recommend Google Analytics, the most powerful not one. In addition, domestic services such as Baidu statistics are also good.

Use webmaster tools. Baidu and Google have the corresponding Webmaster tools, the tool will tell you your site in their search engine performance (such as display, click, Crawl/include the situation, etc.), is also an important reference for website promotion.

Search Engine Optimization. Since then, if you want to further improve the search engine and rankings, you need to do some seo (SEO). SEO is a pit, plainly is the webmaster and search engine ranking algorithm between the game, carefully studied to find a lot of content. And because the search engine ranking algorithm is actually not open, so many so-called SEO articles on the web are not necessarily reliable. Personal Suggestions for appropriate SEO (Google and Baidu have the official SEO guide), so that your site can be better by the search engine found, is enough. Do not overly SEO, especially do not fake (stack users can not see the keywords, etc.), once the search engine found the consequences are very serious.

Backup。 Regularly back up the database and your Web folder, God knows which day you accidentally wrong or your host business out of the problem, don't all the data lost when regret.