How to Build a Website with WordPress
If you want to build a personal website, it's way easier now than it was even years ago. WordPress is hands down the most powerful and flexible platform out there. Over 40% of the internet runs on WordPress, and that's not by accident. Let me walk you through how I'd actually do this if I were starting from scratch today. WordPress.com vs WordPress.org Here's where a lot of people get confused. WordPress has two completely different versions, and they're nothing alike despite the name. WordPress.com is the hosted version. You sign up, WordPress handles everything else—servers, backups, updates. It's dead simple, but you're basically renting. You can't install your own plugins, you're stuck with their themes, and if you want to do anything creative, you're out of luck. WordPress.org is where the magic happens. This is self-hosted, which sounds scarier than it actually is. You're renting space on a server and running Word...