Comments on: Beginner’s Guide to Starting a WordPress Blog

By: Himesh A.

Himesh A. — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 06:09:36 +0000

Hi Rahul, your blog really makes the concept of starting a WordPress site really a cup of tea for the newbie. I have installed WordPress on my domain after considering points you have mentioned. I wonder if you have steps/blog to make my WordPress site faster…?

By: Rahul V

Rahul V — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 06:08:43 +0000

In reply to Ashish.

Thanks for your comment, Ashish. Yes, CDN will definitely help you even for a single location. It actually delivers the static content to site visitors from their nearest CDN POP server. For example, your site visitors are in the USA and we assume that the server which is hosting your site is in Canada. Now, when the visitor browses your site, all static content will be delivered from CDN server which is in the USA instead of the hosting server in Canada. This ensures the faster delivery of your web pages.

By: Rahul V

Rahul V — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:08:15 +0000

In reply to Lord Bokeh.

Thank you Lord for your valuable suggestion! We review many plugins and put our best recommendations. WordPress installations are customized at very extend. This also explores the possibilities of plugin issues which sometimes breaks CSS and JSS. That’s the reason we mention at least 3-4 good plugins so the visitor can go with the second plugin in case first doesn’t work.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:29:57 +0000

This blog post is holding very useful information.I will certainly give a try to some of the mentioned tips. Thanks for sharing!

I have a question regarding CDN, Is the CDN really effective if I only target the single location audience?

By: Lord Bokeh

Lord Bokeh — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 02:57:53 +0000

It’s an excellent guide for newbie bloggers. Thanks for sharing. You’ve listed some of the necessary WordPress plugins required for a blog. Though, it’s my personal experience when you start a blog as a newbie you try to setup only the best. At that point of time, bloggers need clear recommendation rather a list of plugins. Hence, IMHO you should recommend your choice of essential plugins to run a blog. FYI, I use W3 Total Cache, JetPack, Akismet, Google Analytics, iThemes Security, Contact Form 7, WP-Smush, Duplicator, etc. Since there are lots of plugins available for each functionality, new bloggers get confused as which plugin is the best.

By: Rahul V

Rahul V — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 09:17:54 +0000

In reply to Jim.

Thanks Jim for your valuable feedback. Undoubtedly, WordPress has now become a universal CMS powering over 25% of the world’s ten million websites and over 59% of all websites using a CMS. These statistics tell the popularity of the WordPress CMS. Since this post solely focuses on how to get started with WordPress, we did not include the security part, though we’ll certainly look forward to considering it in future posts. Thanks again.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 02:08:57 +0000

Great article. The step wise approach mentioned in the article ensures that you are never lost if you are planning to start a new website development project with WordPress CMS. WP is one of the most versatile enterprise web content management services that ease the website development and management tasks for a company with its easy to use and customable features like built-in, responsive and scalable themes, modules and plugins.
You should also add a point for security like changing the dashboard login URL and two factor authentication.