Contemplating the Structure of Your WordPress Website
Jackson Dunagan
Digital Influencer, Speaker, & Founder of Bright Vessel | Bright Plugins | Bright Hosting | Co-Founder of Print Mavericks | Flawless WordPress management & plugins for eCommerce brands
In this digital age, it’s become increasingly important to have an online presence. You also have to be able to distinguish yourself from everybody else by showing off your own brand’s unique personality and engaging your audience with interesting content. How do you accomplish all that? One great way that can help is creating your personal blog website. In the old days, you would need to know how to code, which would mean learning programming languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, to do that. Or you would have to hire someone else to design and develop the website for you. Luckily for those of us who didn’t major in computer science, you don’t need to do either of those things nowadays.
Thanks to the introduction of Internet hosting services and website builders, creating a website has become as simple as choosing a template and filling it with your own content. Maybe the most popular of these web hosting services is WordPress, which is a free and open-source platform you can utilize to host a blog website. But before you go about creating your blog on WordPress, you might want to think about how a WordPress blog is typically structured. It’s always better to go into a process knowing what to expect, right? That’s why this article is here to provide you with some insight into the essential components that make up a WordPress blog and some of the things you’ll need to get started on putting together your own.
In its most basic form, a WordPress blog contains four main areas. WordPress offers a free version to registered users, as well as three different paid plans: Personal for personal use, Premium for entrepreneurs & freelancers, and Business for those looking for a website for their small business. Each plan offers a variety of WordPress themes to choose from for your blog website, but the following four areas are in the default theme no matter what version of WordPress you’re using:
- Header: This area is typically the first that visitors to your blog will see. It is located at the top of the web page, and it will usually contain the name of the site, as well as a tagline or slogan for the site. The header section will also sometimes include some type of graphic or image. All of these are things that you’ll be able to fill in when putting together your blog site.
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