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This article shows you how to use WordPress to build a free personal website, the content is concise and easy to understand, can definitely brighten your eyes, through the detailed introduction of this article, I hope you can get something.

The biggest advantage of WordPress lies in its freedom and openness. There are numerous plug-ins and themes that accompany WordPress, so although WordPress appears as an open source blogging platform, you can make it whatever you want. How's it going? This is definitely more interesting than changing skin or a few fixed plug-ins in ready-made blogs or websites or spaces.

The editor teaches you to build a free personal website.

I first came into contact with WordPress when I was in college in 2007. At that time, WordPress was already very simple to build its own blog platform, but from now on, there are still some barriers. For example, you should master at least some knowledge of MySQL database, use FTP tools, and understand how to use Web service software such as Apache. Of course, in the end, you have to spend some money to rent a server, and whether the overall experience of the final WordPress is good or not, such as whether the opening speed is fast and stable, depends on how much you are willing to spend to rent the server.

Therefore, it can be seen that in the past, if you wanted to play WordPress, even if you were willing to rent a server and use FTP software, you had to at least cross the hurdle of "MySQL database" and "using Web service software such as Apache" in order to ensure the smooth construction and operation of a WordPress.

WordPress is the most interesting open source blogging platform.

With the passage of time, the arrival of the cloud era has made a lot of things simple, and the gradually forgotten WordPress has also ushered in the opportunity of rebirth. Baidu Cloud, Aliyun, Jingdong Cloud and other cloud services all provide a foolish operating environment for WordPress, but relatively speaking, JD.com Cloud engine (JAE) is the simplest and most cost-effective solution, because it is not only easy to operate, but also completely free.

But in my opinion, between all kinds of cloud and WordPress, there is always a kind of "you Sheng I have not been born, I have grown old" regret. In this era of fragmented information sharing dominated by Weibo and Wechat, the word "blog" feels a little old in any way, but JAE's free plus WordPress's open source, I think it still has a high degree of fun.

For example, you can use WordPress to experience the fun of being a personal webmaster; for example, you can build a "cozy cabin" that belongs to you and your lover, and put your photos and logs in it; for example, you can turn it into a personal resource-sharing website, and so on. The open source of WordPress is destined not to be eliminated with the tide of time. Today, it is still the simplest and most fun open source platform in my opinion.

OK, without much gossip, please cheer up and take a look at how to use JD.com Cloud Rock (JAE: JAE abbreviation) and WordPress to build your own website for free.

PS: when you see a problem with some friends' deployment, make sure that the downloaded WordPress installation package is packaged in the root directory, as shown in the following figure:

The installation package looks like this after it is opened. Do not put these files in the folder.

First acquainted with Beijing East Cloud Rock?

The reason why it is a course that primary school students can understand is mainly due to JD.com 's easy to understand. Let's first get to know JD.com.

If you want to use JD.com Cloud Rock, of course you must have a JD.com account. When you go to the home page of Cloud Rock, you can see the description of the function. The reason why it can become a stupid WordPress platform is mainly because JD.com Cloud Rock integrates the most basic conditions for WordPress operation, such as PHP, MySQL database and Apache, and these elements are integrated in advance, so users do not need to do any technical debugging. Just bring it here and use it.

Jingdong Cloud Rock (JAE)

JAE is characterized by simplicity and ease of use.

When you have a JD.com Cloud engine account, do you see the console button in the upper right corner of the first picture? That's right, don't think about anything, just click in. JD.com Cloud engine's biggest advantage is easy to understand, young and old, the above picture is the first time to enter JD.com Cloud engine page, is not very simple? Definitely can be understood by pupils who have studied pinyin and Chinese characters, right?

What? Primary school students don't understand what php and Apache are.

NoProblem! Because you don't need to figure out what they are!

Create database and application service in a few simple steps

To build WordPress, we must first provide it with a running environment. WordPress is an open source platform based on PHP and MySQL, and JAE provides these two databases, so the first thing we need to do is to build two databases for WordPress.

Create a database for WordPress

First of all, we click the "Cloud Database" button in the left menu bar to enter the cloud database console. Find the "New Database" button on the right and click directly to pop up the page shown below, where MySQL is the type of database we need, and from the basic information point of view, its space is 5G, and it is permanent free, which is large enough for the general WordPress site. We should know that the WordPress space built by the author at that time was only 500MB, and the hard-pressed students had no money, which was so beautiful as it is now.

The MySQL database of Jingdong Cloud Rock is forever free.

After clicking create, you can see the created MySQL database in the list of cloud databases.

After setting up the database, we are going to give WordPress a running environment, so we click the "Application engine" button in the left menu bar to enter the application server console and click the "New Application" button directly.

Create a PHP application service

Build PHP service environment

After clicking "New App", the web page shown above will pop up. I have to say that JAE is still a very powerful cloud service, providing common service types such as Java, PHP, Ruby-Web and so on.

According to the author's trial in the past few days, there should not be many people using JAE to build a website, and many short secondary domain names can be registered. In order to facilitate everyone's understanding, the author takes "ZolWordPress" as the name and secondary domain name, so you can fill in it more briefly to make it easier to remember. After the second-level domain name is filled in, the WordPress website address you carry will be generated, for example, the author's website address is zolwordpress.jd-app.com. In addition, you can also adjust the following memory quota parameters according to your own needs.

At this point, your own WordPress website will have its own operating environment.

Deployment of personal websites that can be understood by pupils.

Since you are building WordPress, you must first have an installation package for WordPress. I will not provide this here, you can go to the official website to download, of course, you can also find some self-optimized installation packages. JAE supports installation packages in RAR and Zip formats, so most of the downloaded packages can be used directly.

Deploy WordPress

We have already set up a PHP server for WordPress to run. When you see its running status as "normal", it means that you can deploy WordPress. In fact, the process of deployment is equivalent to the process of uploading using the FTP tool before.

Upload package deployment

Click the "upload package deployment" button shown above, then find the location of the WordPress installation package, and upload it directly.

Upload the WordPress installation package you downloaded without unzipping it

The upload process needs to wait a little while.

After waiting patiently for the upload deployment to be completed, its status will be displayed as "normal" so that we can move on to the next step. If there is a problem, you can debug it repeatedly, or simply delete the previously established database and re-establish it and upload it.

Click the database name

Remember the corresponding content

In fact, after the deployment of the WordPress installation package, your WordPress has been built, and then you only need to improve the settings of WordPress, you can really have your own website. However, before perfecting the settings, we click to enter the cloud database, and then click on the name of the newly created cloud database to bring up the database service information page.

Easily create database link information

After calling up the database service information page, create a new tab in the browser, and then enter the secondary domain name you just applied for in the address bar, for example, the author's secondary domain name is zolwordpress.jd-app.com, and then the following page will pop up after entering the URL. It doesn't matter, this is actually the beginning of success.

Open a browser to enter a secondary domain name

Ignore its prompt and click the "create profile" button to proceed to the next step.

Remember the relevant information

Before there are no cloud services such as JAE, you have to manually fill in the information in wp-config after setting up WordPress, and if you don't have a certain foundation in html, you may not be able to find out where to fill it.

Fill in the relevant information

Have you turned off the "database service information page" that you opened before? Why don't you open it when it's off? After clicking the "start now" button, you will go to the page shown above, and you can fill in the relevant contents of the "Database Service Information Page" here, including the database name, user name, password and database host. Remember that the host bar should fill in the port in addition to the IP address, that is, 4066. The content in the last item "table prefix" does not need to be moved.

It's really convenient, isn't it?

Only one step away from success

After filling in the above content, click the "submit" button at the bottom left to enter the page shown above. Without looking at the content, click the "install" button to move on to the next step. Isn't it fun to build your own website? Although JAE simplifies a lot of processes, it's not as interesting as it used to be, but it's still interesting to be able to build a website yourself, isn't it? We are only one step away from success. Are you guys ready?

Be your own webmaster and release your personality.

Before installing WordPress, you will go to the page shown below, where you need to fill in some information, which is actually signing up for your own account, but this account is authorized by the webmaster. Site title if you do not want to first casually fill in one, later enter the WordPress console can be changed at will, the user name, password, mailbox will not say more, everyone to solve it.

Fill in the relevant information

After filling in the registration information, click the "install WordPress" button, and then you will go to the page shown below. I always feel that the sentence is a little cheap, but WordPress is indeed a very simple open source platform. You can just ignore this page and click the "sign in" button below.

Please ignore this page.

Do you think you will log in directly to the established WordPress website after logging in? Just messing with you, here is the real login page. Say no more, enter the user name and password to enter.

There's no need to say more about this.

The first person to enter is the console of the WordPress website, but it is translated into the dashboard in Chinese. There are no more complaints here. You can see a string of buttons on the left to manage and optimize the WordPress site, and you have the highest authority. It's up to you to decide what the site looks like and what to do, isn't it Cool?

Console page of WordPress

If you want to see what your initial WordPress site looks like, you can click on the site name in the upper left corner. And the picture below is the initial form of the WordPress website I built, isn't it very crude?

WordPress initial page

It doesn't matter, the reason why WordPress is fun is that it is very open, and all kinds of templates can be found on the Internet, changing the WordPress website into all kinds of appearance. Of course, before that, you'd better think about what kind of website you want to make, and then choose the corresponding style before. However, personal advice is best not to do video sites, on the one hand, JAE provides only 5G free space, on the other hand, it will also involve copyright issues.

In addition, from the actual experience, the speed of JAE is very ideal, other networks are not clear, but the author's personal use of 10m Unicom fiber can open the web page almost instantly. At the same time, the stability of continuous operation is also guaranteed, but I don't know whether JAE limits the continuous running time of the database, which you can all experience and tell the author in the comments at the bottom of the article.

What should I do in the first step of playing WordPress?

In fact, building WordPress is only the most basic step, and only after building it is the real beginning. You can think of WordPress as a piece of uncultivated virgin land, and if you want to make it more practical, you need to improve it step by step. Of course, if you are new to WordPress, the first thing you need to do besides the basic settings is to install plug-ins for WordPress.

You can find plug-in options in the list of dashboards on the left, and click to enter the plug-in installation page. You can get the plug-ins you need through keyword search, so the author first recommends several plug-ins that WordPress needs most in the early days.

First of all, install the plug-in according to the requirements.

1.GoogleXMLSitemaps: add xmlsitemap plug-ins to blogs, generate them automatically, and update them automatically after posting articles.

2.Akismet: prevent blogs from being spam plugins and automatically delete malicious comments, which is more effective for mass advertising and malicious comments.

3.PlatinumSEOPack:WordPress 's SEO plug-in, whether your website can be known by everyone depends on it.

4.SEOtitleTag: is also a SEO plug-in, so that each article contains the corresponding keywords and description, so that each article conforms to the SEO specification.

5.WordPressDatabaseBackup:WordPress very much needs a plug-in, after installation, set mail, you can automatically send the database to mail, eliminating the hassle of manual backup, send time can be chosen, every hour, every day, every two days and so on.

6.WPKeywordlink: let keywords automatically connect to the address, enrich the internal chain of the site.

7. Automatic truncation of logs: Chinese plug-ins, formerly known as wp-limit-posts-automatically, this plug-in can control the number of words displayed on the home page, omitting the trouble of adding "more" tags to each article, very practical, the original English plug-in only supports English words.

8.WordPressRelatedPosts: can be called directly in the gadget, as the name implies, is a plug-in that allows the page to display the latest article, can be called in the sidebar or at the end of the article, I think the call at the end of the article is more in line with UE.

9.WP-PageNavi:WordPress paging plug-in, which is supported by general topics, adds a paging plug-in to the list of articles. Without this plug-in, only "older articles" can be displayed. After installation, it can be displayed as "first page, second page, etc."

10.WP-PostViews: this is also necessary. Many topics need to be used.

With these ten basic plug-ins, your WordPress will be even more perfect. Of course, there are thousands of plug-ins for WordPress, and you can match them on your own.

How to make WordPress more beautiful

After installing WordPress, the page we see is very simple, but WordPress provides us with theme change permission to enter the theme page through the "appearance" button in the left menu bar. There are three pages preset here, all of which are not very good-looking. If you have the ability, you can design and make your own theme, of course, I think more friends are rookies like the author, then we can go to WorPress special theme website.

Theme can make your WordPress more cool.

The installation of the theme of WordPress is simple, and the downloaded Zip package can be uploaded directly. Here are a few examples to see what kind of page rendering effect WordPress can have:

Make an atmospheric picture and text sharing platform

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