Here’s my new WordPress Site! It is a simple blog post site. For context, I have never used WordPress before, and building websites for me has always been through code. So initially, it was quite challenging for me to navigate through the features, instead of just coding it.
Let me start from the beginning. After installing WordPress, I tried to create an “About” page. I was confused on how I was supposed to do it. Usually, I would get the website template in code, and I would just look though and make changes. But this time, I was really lost on how to make these simple changes. So I quickly thought of an easy fix of just changing the “Sample Text” page into the “About” page, and putting in my simple biography. Next, I changed the theme, which I found through “Appearance” in the sidebar. The most confusing part was doing the CSS. I clicked on the tutorial, but my WordPress showed a different version. So I tried my best to follow the tutorial. I started clicking on “Styles”, but there’s nothing that said “Additional CSS”. So I clicked on the pen symbol, which shows more options but still didn’t show “Additional CSS”. There was this long period of me trying to search for it and redoing every single step–thinking that I did something wrong in the process, but luckily I found it after clicking on the three-dots: finally showing the “Additional CSS” button.
Here’s my CSS code:
body {
background-color: red;
}Personally, there’s a lot to do with this platform. But I think I would like to mostly use this as a hub for my projects. This could be a great place to showcase my coding and film projects. In addition, this platform could be used as my own archive for the things I did in the past.
A benefit when it comes to hosting your own website is that it gives you more control on what you want to show. Especially if you really want to have full control of what kind of design you wanted and how it’s all layed out, hosting it yourself would give you that. Not only that, but you can add niche things to your platform that paid services maybe cannot provide.
