My daughter, like a lot of other young female teens, love expressing herself both by drawing/painting and writing.
Seeing her sharing her pictures and writings with friends on whatsapp with her friends, I suggested she create a blog where she can post proper sized images and write around those. Then she can direct her friends to the blog for new posts
She liked the idea so I started looking at how I can help her setup something that does not cost and arm and a leg. Searching through multiple articles and pages on the web, it soon became apparent that WordPress might be the easiest and initially most cost effective option. Below is a list of things that make WordPress ideal for just this purpose. Have a look through them, it might just spark something in your creative side too
User-Friendly (even for beginners)
In WordPress you are presented with an intuitive interface with which you can do almost everything required to create and manage your website requiring very little technical knowledge or coding skills. Page creation, editing and publishing can be done using the standard built in visual editor that makes these tasks a breeze.
A WordPress site can be setup and ready in a matter of minutes, all a user needs apart from WordPress itself is a domain name and an active web hosting service Hosting providers have different options on how you can work with WordPress, some of them allow you to directly install the latest version from their web console while with others you may need to upload the latest version and then install it. Regardless of the method used, once you’ve got it installed WordPress presents you with an admin dashboard that will present you with all the features required to customize a site to your heart’s desire
There’s lot’s of useful information online to help you getting started
WordPress is free and open source and have sparked an immense WordPress community that support it globally. The community of WordPress enthusiasts take responsibility keeping it updated and secure. The global WordPress community also engage in a miriad of outreach oppertunities to existing and potential users, in multiple different formats eg. WordPress camps, user groups etc.
Currently WordPress has over 40% market share in CMS-based websites globally. This exceptional uptake can easily be explained by the fact that Wordress makes all the essential tools to create a website available to the public and those tools can enable anyone to create something like a simple landing page to a complex corporate online portal, with ample features such as themes and plugins to further extend the standard functionality
There’s many themes that make it real easy to get your layout right even if you’re not a designer
Thanks to its huge directory of both basic and premium themes, WordPress offer users an array of choices for fine-tuning the look and feel of a new site. Many of these are instantly available to a new site owner through the WordPress theme directory, and thousands more can be purchased through design marketplaces and third-party designers from around the world. Themes can be previewed live and installed at any time to change the look and layout of a WordPress site.
There’s a plugin for almost anything you can think of that should be on a webpage and a lot of the basic features are free too
WordPress includes all the elements needed to create a basic site, but many users want more specialized functions related to a site’s specific needs. The WordPress plugin directory includes hundreds of plugins—small pieces of code designed to perform specific tasks—that allow users to add features such as shopping carts, galleries, contact forms, and more to any compatible WordPress site. Users can also purchase and install hundreds of custom plugins from third-party developers. WordPress plugins can be activated or deactivated and uninstalled as needed as a site evolves. This versatility enables you to customize your website to meet your specific needs.
WordPress have a built-in blog
Since WordPress is a content management system software, it has multiple features that make publishing content easy. One of these is a “built-in” blog feature that can be accessed from any device, at any time, so that users who want to add a blog to their website don’t have to create one separately. That makes it possible even for sites unrelated to blogging to use the blog feature for adding updates or announcements.
WordPress sites are mobile responsive
With the ever increasing popularity of mobile devices, being able to present a mobile-responsive website is imperative. Most WordPress themes are designed to be mobile-friendly, ensuring that your website looks and functions well across various screen sizes and devices.
Mobile responsiveness also plays a role in search engine rankings, thus websites need to display visually sound on any device. WordPress offers a variety of existing responsive theme designs and users can further also create static pages that are mobile-friendly with the use of plugins and adjustments to theme files.