What features does WordPress include?

If you are thinking of creating your own website for your business, or if its just a personal blog then you will be thinking how WordPress can help you. In this blog we will show you how WordPress can benefit you along with the other millions of users that currently use it and the features to make your website look great! Domain & Hosting First thing you will need so you can start to create your WordPress site online is a domain and a web hosting package, you can get this from Directadmin Web Hosting with a one click WordPress insaller to get you up and running without all the confusion. Once you've bought your domain and hosting install WordPress using their one click application installer. Why Choose WordPress? WordPress is used by millions of users across the globe, its a content management system (CMS) which is computer software used to manage the creation and modification of digital content. The WordPress CMS is also used for big and small companies including some of the top fortune 500. WordPress Dashboard The WordPress dashboard shows a brief overview down the left hand side of all your features and settings including post and pages. What's the difference between a post and a page I can probably hear you say? A post would be generally used within a blog and the pages section for the main pages of the site, these can be setup differently depending on the setup and layout. Other features you may of noticed are plugins are themes which we will go more into depth below. WordPress Themes One of the great advantages of WordPress is the themes section, great for those who don't understand how to build framework from the ground up, the themes section saves you the time and effort of having to do this. They is literally hundreds of free themes to choose from and something for everyone from business themes to blog themes. Not only that but also the option of buying a premium theme from ThemeForest or Envato and uploading your chosen theme within you WordPress site, one of the many great features that even a basic user can do. WordPress Plugins You've created your website but think something is missing or you want to fancy it up a bit, check out the plugins section! They is thousands of free and paid plugins you can integrate into your website. Plugins such as Facebook widgets to show comments from your Facebook page to increasing the security of your website with Wordfence, or even increasing the SEO of the site with the guide of Yoast! This is one section to definately check out and integrate some of your favourite plugins into your website. Adding media WordPress has a cool media section where you can manage and upload your chosen files and images. All images are stored where you can add them into your pages and blogs sections. They is also plugins for file management and other users that can view and edit the files. Users If you are a larger company or they is more than one that you'd like to register to use the backend of WordPress you can add more than one user under the users section. Head over to the users section where you can give them the right permission, these include:

• Administrator
• Editor
• Author
• Contributor
Subscriber

Note: Don't give anyone excet the users you trust full administrator access as these have full control. Settings The settings section has all the basic setup including the ability to edit your:

• Site title
• Tagline (your slogan)
• WordPress URL - We recommend not changing this unless you've changed your domain
• Email Address
• Membership
• New user default role
• Site language
• Timezone
• Date format
• Time format

If you make any changes to any of these just press save changes at the bottom to update. Summary If you are looking to create your own site WordPress is the recommended option among many. It includes lots of features and plugins to add and its easy to use once you get the hang of it. WordPress was released in 2003 and continues to grow and is the world's most popular content management system powering over a third of all websites on the internet. On top of that: WordPress has over 60% market share in the CMS market. WordPress powers nearly 15% of the world's top websites.