This is simply your website/blog name (www dot yourwebsitename dot com). It is the address where Internet users can access your website content. Behind a domain name is an IP address used to find and identify computers on the Internet.

This is basically storage on the internet where your website files will be hosted. Web hosting enables that you and other users can view, navigate and interact with your website the internet. Web hosting is achieved by the use of servers.

A server can be both software or hardware. In terms of software, a server is a computer program which manages access to a centralized resource or service in a network.

Whereas a server in terms of hardware is a physical computer with way higher stronger capacity in terms of storage space, computation power, physical resources such as ram and serves other computers (clients) in a network.

WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that we can use to create websites for free.

There are many other comment management systems on the internet just like there different cars like a Mercedes, Toyota, Mazda.

I choose WordPress because, today it powers the largest fraction of websites on the internet, the easiest to use for both beginners and advanced user and supports dragging and dropping.

32% of websites on the internet are running on WordPress, this makes it way bigger and popular than any other content management system or website builder out there.

WordPress is an open source project licensed under the general public license (GPL) and like I said, freely available for anyone to use around the globe.

You not only can create websites with WordPress but also it can act as a framework to run various other systems and platforms around the globe.

That’s how awesome WordPress is. But the most amazing, it is a WYSIWYG content management system, or call it a website design software that requires you no coding knowledge whatsoever to use it.

The most beautiful part, WordPress is free, open source, simple, secure, regularly updated and the most popular website creation and blogging tool on the internet.

A theme is a hub of files bundled together to create a graphical interface of a web structure based on the WordPress (CMS) core files. With a theme, you’re able to decide how your website will look like and work like. It enables you to have an abstraction layer and protects you from interfering with the base software. (CMS)

You can’t make a Website in WordPress without a theme.

Maybe you’re now thinking of the inventor of modern movable printing press, Johannes

 Gutenberg, you’re right but this time, No!.

Gutenberg is the new editor in the WordPress version 5.0. It replaces the classic editor with a unique way to write, publish and make websites in WordPress. It’s a complete game changer. Released into WordPress core on the 6th December 18.

Gutenberg is the first step for a bright new future for WordPress as Yoast puts it

With Gutenberg, you are able to create rich media pages and posts with use of blocks weather building your first site or an experienced developer, you’ll find the experience impressive. With blocks, inserting, rearranging, styling text content, images or videos is made easier.

Just like a theme, a page builder sits on top of a theme and is bundled with templates, sections, and tools that make your website design experience a lot easier.

The whole essence of page builder is to enable you to drag and drop elements in your design canvas. By doing this, you see how your website will look like in real time.

You can design a WordPress website without a page builder but the process of customizing a theme to suit your visual liking is made way simpler with page builder.

Page builders come sometimes bundled within a theme but most times, you’ll have to own it as a separate plugin.

Now, this is part of what I didn’t know when I started out then. And I don’t want you to go through the same.

A page builder simplifies 70% of your WordPress website design work by providing you with awesome free templates, tools and customization abilities and mostly, gives you the ability to drag and drop things around.

When you use a page builder to design your WordPress website, you cut a lot of hours customizing the WordPress theme from whichever developer you bought it, spending endless hours seeking for support and reading the theme documentation and so on

I will introduce you to the world’s best page builder today called Elementor and we will use it to create your first WordPress website step by step.

If you what to extend the functionality of your website further than what a theme could offer, then a plugin is something you need.

It is simply an extension developed to perform a specific feature when added to a WordPress website. Such as adding specific emojis, a contact form, opt-in form etc

You can add as many plugins as you like though not recommended more than 10.

A page is a WordPress pre-defined post type.  Pages are static and are not tied to the reverse chronological order of a WordPress blog post content. They’re majorly used to organize and manage the website content structure.

Menus form the navigational structure of a WordPress site.  They can be a single or combination of pages, post categories, tags or custom links  They’re found under the admin area  >> Appearance>> menu.

You can have more than one menu and you’re in a position to select which menu appears where and how.

Anything mentioned above can easily be done in WordPress by just a click or two.

Now, let’s create our first WordPress Website.

These are set(s) of content on a WordPress website appearing in reverse chronological order. Categorized, tagged and archived, posts are what makes up a blog and these are generally updates on a certain topic.