Learning WordPress: Steps to Make a Website with WordPress for Beginners

For people who want to learn how to create a website, WordPress is the best choice.

There are almost no website owners who don't know WordPress.

The reason is because it's free, its features are unlimited, and the learning process is very easy. Even if you have never held a computer before, you will be able to create a website in 5 minutes.

That's just a span of greatness WordPress.

In this series of guides you will learn the basics of WordPress, from installation to mastering its features.

In the next 30 minutes, you will also be able to create a WordPress-based website.

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) that is open source. In a language that is easier to understand, WordPress is a piece of software that will make it easier for you to create websites and manage content online.

Currently, WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world.

You yourself consciously or unconsciously must have visited the WordPress-based website. Naturally, because more than 25% of websites on the internet are made with WordPress.

Even the biggest websites in the world use WordPress.

Here are some of them:

Then what about Indonesia?

Indonesian ranks third as the language most widely used on WordPress with a percentage of 2.4%. It only loses to English and Spanish, which is used by many countries.

This means that there are so many WordPress-based websites in Indonesia.

Why is WordPress so popular?

The main reason is because the manufacturing process is very easy, as I stated earlier. Even people who are new to computers can create websites in 5 minutes with WordPress.

Apart from that, it's also free.

But that's not all, this is the main reason why large websites use WordPress:

1. With WordPress, we don't need to build a website from scratch so that a lot of time and energy can be saved
2. WordPress can be modified freely and without limits according to the needs of the website owner, both in appearance and features
3. Many themes and plugins are available so you can change the appearance and add features even though you don't know anything about programming
4. The learning process is very easy
5. WordPress continues to be developed and updated by millions of programmers in the world
6. WordPress has the largest user community. If you experience difficulties, the answer can be found easily on the internet

For these reasons, since 2003 until now WordPress has remained the most popular CMS.

At first, WordPress was only used to create a blog ...

... but now WordPress is also often used as a website with other functions, such as community sites, buying and selling, directories, portfolios, company profiles, and others.

That's a glimpse of WordPress.

Without further elaboration, let's start with the first chapter of this guide.

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