Introduction to WordPress
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Do you have a blog?
If you are in this course it is because you are interested in having your own website. For that alone you are on the right track 😎
Having a blog is one of the best things you can do for yourself. And I am not referring to a professional level (also) but to what a blog can do for your personal improvement.
How many times do you learn something and forget it? How many thoughts go through your head fleetingly? Having a blog can help you capture all those wonderful ideas and keep them forever.
Whether you are looking for a job or if you do it as a hobby, a blog will help you show the world everything that is behind your eyes. Don't let something so wonderful go to waste. Leave this course and run away to write 🚀🚀🚀
Difference between a Blog, Twitch and YouTube
I know, Twitch is so cool and it's where everyone is going. There are streamers who are making money by the bucketload.
There is an important nuance between your Blog and YouTube regarding Twitch
Synchronous
When you write an article for your blog or make a video for YouTube, this content continues to work for you for years.
On the other hand, to succeed on Twitch you need to be live, without doing anything else and after a while the live disappears forever 🤯.
If you want to succeed on Twitch you have to work continuously and synchronously.
Asynchronous
Creating good content on your blog has a wonderful advantage.
You write it today and people can enjoy it while you sleep, you're on the beach or you're writing the next article.
Creating good content helps you build your future without having to be present all the time.
I'm not saying you have to leave Twitch aside, but you have to think about it and know what it means to bet on Twitch.
Now yes, we get fully into WordPress
What is a Content Manager
WordPress is a Content Manager Free Software.
A while ago there were no content managers so if you wanted to make a website you had to program it by hand 😅.
Beyond the difficulty of doing it, there was a problem, if you wanted to change a part of the web you had to go page by page to do it.
For example, did you need to add a new menu item? Well, you had to go page by page to add it. Unthinkable right? Well, not so long ago you worked like this 😎
WordPress is a Content Manager so it allows us to create content in a very simple way and with the advantage that being a content manager we do not have to know how to program.
And it is not only a content manager, it is also a content manager of Free software. This means that if you have programming knowledge you can modify “the guts” of WordPress to your liking and build your own custom tool.
This has meant that the community of users and programmers has not stopped growing and WordPress has become the most used tool in the world to make web pages.
In Content Managers, the design and programming are separated from the content.
This is wonderful, because if one day you want to change the design of your website, you don't lose the content, you change the template and all your content will look as nice as the new template.
Difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
There is a huge difference between using WordPress.com and using WordPress.org even though it may seem like the same thing.
At WordPress.org we have the free and downloadable version for us to use as we please, however, WordPress.com is a company that offers commercial WordPress services. Get paid to give you support, hosting and Extra services
There is nothing wrong with WordPress.com, it offers us the hosting and maintenance service for our website. But we have to be aware that it is not the same and above all that we do not have the same freedom.
Other options
Just as WordPress.com offers cloud services to manage our website, there are other services with the same philosophy:
All of them are professionals and they charge you a fee for having your website on the internet.
Do you want control or get rid of problems? If you don't want problems, these options will make you very happy.
If what you want is total control, there is no doubt, you have to opt for WordPress.org and this course 😎