Installing a Worpress Blog Is Easy

There is absolutely nothing difficult or in any way complicated installing WordPress onto a new domain. You don’t need skill experience or anything else. Quite simply if anyone needs instruction you can get it from you hosting company and if you followed our advice you will also get very quick responses for assistance.   The reason it is so easy is a little piece of software called Fantastico that you can find on you cPanel close to the bottom right hand corner of the page.

In these pages and included in recommended products the is a vast quantity of coaching and instruction about WordPress installation. But that is not the purpose of this post. What I wanted to spend a few words saying is not in any way meant to be promotional but practical.

WordPress is the most popular, best supported and easiest platform in free use. There are 100s of free themes, thousands of free plugins and perhaps just as important some brilliant very inexpensive ones too. The plugins that I use on every wordpress website (blog) I build are mostly free and can be directly uploaded from the WordPress plugin or themes area. These are the links to my favorites.

All in one seo pack. This plugin ensures that your keywords and meta tags are set up properly. Don’t go for the Pro version it is not worth it.

Akismet is an anti spam (and more) plugin and WordPress gives you an API key to activate it. Akismet always comes with the WordPress installation.

Google analytics. To examine your traffic statistics.

Google XML Sitemap. Essential if you are to impress the spiders and get your website and pages indexed and ranked.

CB Net ping optimiser. To send messages about your website changes all around the Internet.

WP sticky. Allows you to manage the position and status of all your pages.

Slick contact forms. This is a great plugin to manage your Contact us page.

SEO Pressor. This is a paid plugin but absolutely essential if you want to build posts and pages that absolutely conform the SEO best practice. It even tells you what to do. It is cheap too.

I use these plugins on every website but there are others that I use when the application requires. While navigating this website it is likely you will bump into most of them as we cover different aspects of online activity.

These are the themes that I use the most. All free with one exception.

Flexibility 3 is my all-time favorite. It has a brilliant options section that gives intimate control over everything that needs to be changed, edited or added. This website is built on Flexibitity 3. There is a free version that is great but the paid version is much easier to navigate around!! It is only $47 and worth every cent. Click here to view more details

I find it hard not to over enthuse about this theme, the paid version has to be the easiest and most versatile theme around. There are many claims and this one does more for you than you would possibly expect.

Other themes I use are Gunshot Money, Lightworld, Cutline and Prosence blue. These themes can be uploaded form the themes admin section.