A lot of people are now deciding that WordPress is their preferred choice when it comes to selecting a content management system due to its versatility, cost effectiveness and endless other benefits. So we thought we’d compile a list of some great external resources and WordPress links that we’ve found that will help you get to grips with maintaining and building your website in WordPress. We will throw in some of our own content / resources where applicable too!
A selection of our recommended WordPress links
Getting Started with WordPress
Getting started can be quite a daunting undertaking. However, once you get stuck in you’ll notice that things are a lot simpler than you anticipated due to the intuitiveness of the CMS in general and the ease of installing extra functionality. The troublesome part tends to be getting the ball rolling and getting things up and running. Here are some resources we suggest taking a look at if you are thinking about (or are in the process of) setting up your website.
How to install WordPress – Complete installation Tutorial
Getting Started with WordPress Blogging: 16 Resources to Boost Your Blog
WordPress Basics – The Simple Guide to WordPress
How to Use the SEO Writing Assistant in WordPress to Improve SEO
Securing Your WordPress Website
Let’s start by listing some great resources to help you secure your WordPress site. This can be both in terms of general security and site backups. It’s very important to not only build a solid website but to secure it should the worst happen. Security features can be added that assist in automatic, automated ways allowing websites to be backed up at certain times to certain locations and much more. You can even backup to Cloud based services such as Google Drive and Dropbox automatically in some cases.
7 Best WordPress Backup Plugins Compared (Pros and Cons)
How to Backup WordPress (Manually & Using Plugins)
How to move WordPress to a new host or server with no downtime
The 6 best backup and restore plugins
Search Engine Optimisation
Obviously being found in search is very important – particularly when it comes to business websites. Luckily, WordPress has always been a great platform when it comes to SEO support and having high quality plugins that give you the best shot at appearing in Google and other search engines is a must. Here are some essential resources we suggest you take a look at or bookmark for future viewing.
12 Best WordPress SEO Tips & Techniques to Boost Rankings
How to Install and Setup WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast
Best SEO Plugins for WordPress (And Must-Have SEO Tools)
Site Customisation, Themes and Visual Enhancements
Site customisation is obviously essential for personal and business websites. It doesn’t have to be overly complicated to visually customise your website though! Check out the below resources that help with making your website truly unique to you and your brand.
60 Best landing page templates for WordPress (2019)
21 Best WordPress themes for non-profit organisations
Use these 4 Widgets for Pinterest on WordPress
5 Best WordPress popup plugins of 2019
Getting started with Divi Builder
Utilising and Expanding WordPress
Part of the CMS platform’s appeal is its versatility and ease of use. With that being said, here are some great resources allowing you to customise and expand your WordPress CMS without having to be a coder or designer.
How to create an online marketplace
How to create an online course
How to move custom domain Blogger blog to WordPress
WordPress basics for beginners in 2019
20 free WordPress plugins your website can’t be without in 2019
How to choose WordPress plugins
How to properly switch from Wix to WordPress (Step by Step)
How WordPress compares to the competition CMS platforms
There is a lot of competition in the CMS space at the moment so It’s important to be able to distinguish the positives and negatives between the options on offer. The below links should help inform you on how WordPress stacks up to the competition in 2019 and what you can expect from other platforms.
WordPress competitors – 19 popular alternatives
13 Free Open Source Content Management Systems
Why to choose a WordPress Web Design over a Yell website
The advantages & benefits of using WordPress as your CMS
Benefits of using WordPress for business
Adding eCommerce
As WordPress is so versatile, it can also be used as an ecommerce platform. There are many plugins and services that integrate perfectly with WordPress so we thought we’d include a list of resources to help you best utilise eCommerce.
An Introduction to eCommerce for WordPress – WooCommerce
5 Best WordPress Ecommerce Plugins Compared – 2019
10 Tips for Making Your WordPress Ecommerce Site a Success
10 surprising things you can do with WooCommerce
5 Best WooCommerce Alternatives
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As well as our web design links, below, we have included links to various other pages and topics we think you might find useful:
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Conclusion
We hope that you have found our list of compiled resources and links useful. Feel free to bookmark this page and when you need assistance with adding functionality to your WordPress site, check back to see if there’s a link relevant to what you are trying to achieve.
As always, if you need help, be sure to get in touch via phone at 0121 222 5757, or by filling out the contact form on our website.
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