What to know when creating your own personal website

Why is there an obsession with having a personal brand? I find these personal brands to be BS artist.
 
Not really helpful if someone is thinking about creating a site. I see no mention of using a decent Theme, which is one of the main things you'd need with WP.
 
Any suggestions for CMS and add-ons for starting with a new, basic e-commerce site.

It's a low volume, basic site so author doesn't want to start spending a whack on features that are freely available.

I think there are better options than wordpress + woocommerce

I'm looking at jumla and then zencart or opencart
 
The WordPress CMS is used by some of the biggest websites in the world, including TechCrunch, The New Yorker, and Variety and MyBroadBand
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FTFY
Looking at the MyBB home page source shows quite a lot of wp-content...
 
entrepr said:
Any suggestions for CMS and add-ons for starting with a new, basic e-commerce site.

It's a low volume, basic site so author doesn't want to start spending a whack on features that are freely available.

I think there are better options than wordpress + woocommerce

I'm looking at jumla and then zencart or opencart
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If you insist on not using WooCommerce then I recommend OpenCart and Shopify. But WooCommerce is my first pick by miles. Just because most people can't develop a WP site to save their life doesn't mean the platform sucks. It has the widest compatibility with other platforms and is almost infinitely extensible.

If you avoid bloated junk like Avada, Elementor, Beaver Theme (Beaver Builder itself isn't too bad), Elementor, Divi, Thrive Architect, SiteOrigin, WPBakery etc. you should end up with a fast website. I'd also recommend avoiding all Brainstorm Force products, including their hyper-popular Astra theme.

I disable the WordPress theme framework for the sites I build, but due to the number of small clients available State-side via my partners there, I have recently added a faster and more cost-effective mix of a basic, dev-friendly theme plus Gutenberg (the new WP editor). It means load times are still great, online stores don't have to cost a lot, I don't have to poison my soul with Elementor or similar, and it doesn't require nearly as many dev hours. If you have basic skills with HTML, CSS & PHP (JS a bonus), it's easy to adapt lightweight themes like GeneratePress or Genesis to your needs.
 
Bryn said:
If you avoid bloated junk like Avada, Elementor, Beaver Theme (Beaver Builder itself isn't too bad), Elementor, Divi, Thrive Architect, SiteOrigin, WPBakery etc. you should end up with a fast website. I'd also recommend avoiding all Brainstorm Force products, including their hyper-popular Astra theme.
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I'd say a Page Builder Theme would be fine for a beginner who doesn't want to get their hands dirty in code. It will have bloat, but I doubt it will cause much speed issues if a good server and the proper optimisations are used.
 
Do not forget your security controls as well.

Please also have a strong password and enable two factor authentication on your admin portal. Even better make it only available to your IP address if you have static for example.

Keep you CMS updated.
 
Security, speed... pffft! Rookies!

So what you do is forget about all that crap for your blog, point your domain to GitHub pages and use a static site generator along with markdown files.

1. it's free
2. you won't get anything faster
3. it's secure
 
entrepr said:
Any suggestions for CMS and add-ons for starting with a new, basic e-commerce site.

It's a low volume, basic site so author doesn't want to start spending a whack on features that are freely available.

I think there are better options than wordpress + woocommerce

I'm looking at jumla and then zencart or opencart
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Also give Prestashop a look. Bloody decent software that.
 
Hamster said:
Security, speed... pffft! Rookies!

So what you do is forget about all that crap for your blog, point your domain to GitHub pages and use a static site generator along with markdown files.

1. it's free
2. you won't get anything faster
3. it's secure
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Static site generators like Hugo work an absolute treat.
 
Hamster said:
Security, speed... pffft! Rookies!

So what you do is forget about all that crap for your blog, point your domain to GitHub pages and use a static site generator along with markdown files.

1. it's free
2. you won't get anything faster
3. it's secure
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This...bloggers don't need paid hosting and wordpress.

I prefer to use publii + netlify...which is also much better for noobs. Build you site with publii and upload to netlify...also free, secure and fast, plus noob friendly. The netlify upload option (and github) is build into publii.
 
Bryn said:
If you insist on not using WooCommerce then I recommend OpenCart and Shopify. But WooCommerce is my first pick by miles. Just because most people can't develop a WP site to save their life doesn't mean the platform sucks. It has the widest compatibility with other platforms and is almost infinitely extensible.

If you avoid bloated junk like Avada, Elementor, Beaver Theme (Beaver Builder itself isn't too bad), Elementor, Divi, Thrive Architect, SiteOrigin, WPBakery etc. you should end up with a fast website. I'd also recommend avoiding all Brainstorm Force products, including their hyper-popular Astra theme.

I disable the WordPress theme framework for the sites I build, but due to the number of small clients available State-side via my partners there, I have recently added a faster and more cost-effective mix of a basic, dev-friendly theme plus Gutenberg (the new WP editor). It means load times are still great, online stores don't have to cost a lot, I don't have to poison my soul with Elementor or similar, and it doesn't require nearly as many dev hours. If you have basic skills with HTML, CSS & PHP (JS a bonus), it's easy to adapt lightweight themes like GeneratePress or Genesis to your needs.
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Thanks for the background info. I'm going to recommend prestashop
 
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