As known for almost all of us WodPress may be one of the best Blogging platform, or the best one 😉
But not that many people is using it as CMS, that will bring us the power of WP (Themes, plugins…)
It’s really easy to do and within few minutes you will have it working and in multi location.
Steps:
- Download the latest version of WP http://wordpress.org/
- Install it
- Add new page called for example Blog (optional, only if you want to use blog)
- Go to Settings -> Reading
- Here where says “Front page displays” select an static page like the Home, or any other page you have created before
- “Posts page:” you can leave it blank as I said or select Blog
Done!
Recommendation:
- In Settings->Permalinks, select some friendly URL and not the numbers
- Change the default theme, it’s really easy from Appearance->Add New Theme
- Speed up your WordPress installation by following this steps
You can’t forget to install this plugins !
To install them go to Plugins->Add New and search the name
- All in One SEO Pack (improve your SEO)
- Contact Form 7 (great contact form)
- Global Translator (optional)
- pageMash (easy way to short your pages, you will need it)
- WordPress Database Backup (really important to set backups)
- WP-Optimize (every X days perform this)
- XML Sitemaps (sitemaps for google)
How to make your WP multi lingual/location
- Go to Plugins->Add New
- Search “WPML Multilingual CMS”
- Install and activate it
- Now in the bottom right of your dashboard, you can find a new menu called WPML
- Go to “Languages” and the first time follow the installation
- From now on, every time you add a new page or post you can select the language.
You would have lot of pages and to short them is difficult, since it’s like this you need to use pageMash to make you life easier 😉
As an example you can check the Open Classifieds site, where this config works great!