Building a WordPress Powered Website

In this chapter Hay talks about using WordPress as a place to build a website.  The chapter covers many of the features WordPress offers and how to use/install them.

Hay explains the “anatomy” of the WordPress site, from the header down to the footer and everything in between. I actually found the section on “Widgets” interesting, because I didn’t know you could create your own or find others that didn’t exist already on the site.  For example she shows a WordPress blog with a “Flickr” account that has pictures showing on someone’s blog.

Hay then explains how to get a “hosting account” for your site if you so choose and how to get “FTP” access which would allow you to upload files to your hosting site.

Hay then talks about how you should browse through themes and choose one you like and then install it.  Another thing she likes about WordPress are the plugins.  She says that they give WordPress “tremendous power and flexibility.”

The following sections are about installing Widgets, plug ins and how to build “static” pages.

This chapter was helpful to me especially because I am about 2 weeks new to WordPress and I had not yet thought about plugins but will certainly be checking into them now!