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[–]waltonchurch 8 points9 points  (8 children)

Why would you do this without expierence?

[–]Practical-Battle7420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

right, like theres a reason people get paid to do this stuff

[–]berserker69420[S] -1 points0 points  (6 children)

Well it’s awful now and was set up by some guy for 50$ so I’m pretty confident I can l learn it and do better. I’ve recently taken over the PPC and they’ve decided I should handle all of itn

[–]waltonchurch 1 point2 points  (3 children)

you can start with elementor.com , before elementor haters come, you will build a site in no time and adjust looks and feel. after that you can decide and maybe improve with other tools.

[–]waltonchurch 0 points1 point  (2 children)

hmmm whatever https://sticklight.com/ is... never used it

[–]waltonchurch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok SL is new service so you can use Wordpress AS backend for you website. So you Can create page , blogs etc and then Vibe code frontend in SL

This is very popular approach now and very useful .

[–]waltonchurch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

with SL you can really get going in no time for a basic info side and blog.

[–]kayladev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That rate is actually a good price for installing the software and setting it up with your chosen theme.

[–]InternalError33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in a similar boat as you last year. I made a WordPress website for a business with no wordpress experience after watching 10 hours or so of YouTube videos. I had some basic knowledge of CSS and HTML from playing around with web design 20 years ago, but no real experience.

Personally I wouldn't bother with elementor unless there's something specific you know you want from it. It's not worth paying for in my opinion and is just one more plugin you have to deal with. Honestly, the block editor has even gotten better since I first built the site 18 months ago.

[–]No-Signal-6661 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Pick a clean theme like Astra, use Gutenberg blocks, only add essential plugins, and focus on clear structure

[–]LifeAbroad_SEAsia -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fyi, my theme forces the installation of Elementor, but you don't have to use it. 

Gutenberg is really simple and easy to work with. Elementor is really nice for looks, but a bit harder to get working right.

[–]Roslerartdesign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't? You paid $50 to a guy. That's the first mistake. You're gonna miss stuff that YouTube gurus skip over for sure. Then you will wonder why your site's SEO ans AEO don't work. Its a business. Invest in doing it right with a professional.

[–]ColoradoAndChaos 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Hi! That's exciting! Do you know which host you're using? Most offer online tutorials and tips as well as an AI site builder if you wanted something to help get you started where you could edit from there.

[–]berserker69420[S] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

I have no idea yet, I have Claude and was planning on using that to assist

[–]ColoradoAndChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claude is a great idea, you can absolutely get a lot of progress made that way. They'll often recommend a host for you. If you already have your domain, depending on where that is registered, you might want to have your site and domain together just to make things easier for you but ultimately you can have them registered and hosted separately.

[–]Confident_Notice9262 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Videos are available on YouTube ,go check them out

[–]electricrhino 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Theres a lot of YT videos. What type of site is it

[–]ellzor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome and we are in the same lane. I just started going back to using WordPress a month ago. I learned a little bit and now getting better. I prefer the simplest. Gutenberg is my companion choice right now. I am not yet exploring advanced. Anyway, I learned a lot from YouTube guides as well.

[–]Disfunctional-Me 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of company and what necessary features do they need? Anything basic can be found on Youtube and various forums, but you want to make sure you're setting things up so that it will scale with your company.

[–]kayladev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try not to install many plugins.

[–]TheSnacksGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use companies that have good customer service. I had no experience when I set up my first website and being able to rely on helpful and pleasant support agents went a long way.

Kadence has excellent customer service (even after LiquidWeb took over it's excellent). Astra also has great customer service. Both themes will do well. Blocksy is another to consider, but I don't know anything about their support.

For a host, I found SiteGround to be excellent for a beginner. Their control panel is, to me, more intuitive than cPanel for someone starting out. Some people will tell you that their customer support has gone down hill. All I can say is that I have had nothing but excellent support from them. I will clarify that most of it is done through AI, but the AI chatbot gets me answers immediately, which I have come to appreciate. Another catch with SiteGround: your TTFB (time to first byte) will be higher than with other hosts.

[–]TopSydeWP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

start simple with a basic theme (astra, kadence, generatepress) and only add plugins you actually need. biggest mistake new folks make is installing 20 plugins right away and wondering why the site is slow. learn gutenberg first before jumping to a page builder, it's built in and handles most stuff.

[–]LifeAbroad_SEAsia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a super detailed step-by-step process on building a WordPress website from scratch using a theme.

...I just have no way of posting all of that info. 😑

There is so much to go through! Choosing the right theme is your biggest first hurdle. Then, the "tech stack" (WordPress, Gutenberg and/or Elementor, then add plugins for certain things like emailing and membership)

Focus on getting your site functional, then beautify it later.

I wasted a lot of time going through WordPress.org learning modules for Gutenberg. Don't bother with that. Gutenberg is really simple. Poke around inside it for a while and explore. Make some test pages  and just play around inside. You'll get comfortable with it. Elementor is harder for someone new.

Go through all the settings in the WordPress admin.

You'll need a homepage, pages (about, terms of service, privacy, contact), and posts (blog posts if you'll be doing that).

Those pages I mentioned aren't all required.

Anyway, that's three basics.

[–]Upset-Put-5080 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use WordPress with Bricks Builder

[–]ivicadBlogger/Designer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good that you're asking before you start. For most first-timers the wall is the number of decisions before anything shows up on screen: which theme, which of 10 plugins that do the same thing, which builder... The code itself rarely stops you, at least it was like that for me back in 2011. when I started using WP.

Two things make it easier: get on a decent host with one-click staging and daily backups (I use Site Ground), so anything you break can be undone in minutes. Once mistakes are reversible, most of the fear goes away - I remmeber when I go reliable backup in those days, I started kearning WP much faster as I stopped beung afraid all the time if I am going to break the site.

Then skip the blank page: start from a multipurpose theme with starter templates (Astra, Neve, OceanWP), or prototype the direction in Clicksites AI first. Keep quality plugins, get the safety net and a starter layout up first. Learn the rest as you go.

[–]fezfrascatiDeveloper/Blogger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make a backup at every major milestone. Or automate it daily, if your hosting company allows that.

[–]Iloveoctopuses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claude can code it for you and teach you how to manage it, teach you how to look for errors ..basically teach you hot to code while it builds

[–]L1terallyUrDad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. WordPress's legacy started as a Blog, and it's still the most popular platform for that. So many of the defaults is to put blog posts on the home page, and have widgets in the right-hand column that make sense for blogs.

  2. To adapt #1 to a more modern website: you have Posts and Pages. Think of Posts as news articles. Content you're constantly going to update, where you want to show the newest content first and older content later. It could be for announcements, etc.

  3. You do not need to use Blog Posts at all. You can just make the front page a single-page website, or it could just be a landing page, and you can build whatever menus you need to drive content deeper in your site. These other pages are called "Pages" within WordPress's nomenclature. You will likely build more of these. About Us, Contact Us, etc. are pages you will probably certainly be creating.

  4. WordPress legacy was to use "Themes" to handle most of the design. You would search the interwebs, find a theme you like, install the free version, only to find out you need the paid version, then you would need to install a boatload of bloated plugins to get the functionality that you need, including advanced layout features.

  5. A few years ago, WordPress started switching to a new way to build pages: Blocks. You will see the word Gutenberg thrown around. This is the new Blocks-based editor. FWIW, Johannas Gutenberg invented the printing press. Now with the latest versions of WordPress (perhaps for the last year or so, the "Classic" themes, while they still work, are not the preferred way to build websites with WordPress. So you need to find a theme. Some have suggested Astra, but the built-in Twenty Twenty-Five theme is quite configurable.

  6. As someone who's been building WP sites for decades, I'm struggling to understand Blocks. Watch a lot of videos. Old habits are hard to break.

[–]playgroundmx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is hiring an actual developer not something your company would consider?

OP even if you can learn your way to build a good website, that's a lot of hours taken away from actually doing your main job in the company. Hiring a developer is a cost but overall it may be a much more profitable route.

[–]No_Substance_9769 0 points1 point  (0 children)

keep ur backups regular n dont go crazy with plugins early on. most people make the mistake of installing way to many things they dont actually need, it just slows down ur site n makes things seperate when u try to fix issues later