Getting Started with WordPress
Anyone with Internet access via computer can use WordPress like an individual or group web publishing machine from anywhere on Earth.
Plug-ins let you update and edit your content output on-the-fly to the most popular social media sites including Twitter, Facebook or YouTube, and it's free!
What Is WordPress?
Anyone, novice or professional, can set up a personal blog or run full-sized, social media-rich business website, using WordPress's built-in content management system" (CMS) which is as easy to use as Microsoft word.
Social Traffic will help you build and customize the look and feel of your WordPress website, or you can do it for yourself.
Reasons to Use WordPress:
WordPress "Themes" make it very easy for us to customize the look and feel of a WordPress site using a pre-existing Theme templates (some free and some you buy) and new website page layout templates that include different images and cascading style sheets (CSS).
You do not need knowledge of HTML or any other website coding language to use this free web-based word-processing software.
You, and those to whom you grant permission can contribute to your WordPress website/blog from anywhere.
You Can Capture the Attention of Search Engine Robots
...hunting down fresh content by updating your website / blog frequently --- conversely, if you're able to engage readers into responding to what you posts with comments, likes, track-backs (links) or RSS subscriptions these interactions are going to generate free (organic) traffic into your website.
This is social media at its best because any traffic, paid or organic traffic, if you're able to get visitors to engage with your content, will build more traffic upon the initial traffic --- and you don't need programming skills to do any of it.
WordPress Does Things Differently
Because WordPress stores your content in a database, on a local or cloud server, you can change, edit, delete, and add new content using one set of template files.
If you want to take control of your web-presence and have content like calendar events that get updated often or if you just want to add a blog to an existing website...
You NEED WordPress!
WordPress Stores Content in a Database
The database is stored on a different part of a server, or another server altogether.
Static HTML websites, on the other hand, contain both the content and structure of its pages together.
This structure allows WordPress themes to envelop the content that is stored in a database around what's called a theme file - what this means to the average small business owner who just wants a website is...
... with WordPress you can easily inter-change, edit, delete, and add new text or multi-media content to your website using one set of template theme files... but you are able to change the current theme file governing the look and feel of your website.
With just a few clicks your entire website can look completely different under a new theme, yet all of the content already published within the website remains exactly the same.