How to Choose a WordPress Website? Keep it Simple

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Wow! Choosing a WordPress website... Where to start?

Keep it simple.

  1. What is the purpose of your website? Is it a newsletter, a review website, an e-commerce website, a magazine or a blog. I choose blog.
  2. Free or Premium? Is it Free or Premium. I choose Premium with my WA Premium membership.
  3. Research and explore the WordPress Themes available. So much to choose from. I researched magazines, affiliate and blogs.
  4. Choose your top 5 WordPress Templates. I choose a shortlist my top 5 WordPress templates to choose from.
  5. What are the key features? This is an opportunity to select your 'Must haves'. My list included: Responsive: must be able to be viewed on all devices, phones, desktops or laptops. Modern: must have simple, clean modern style. Social Media: must be able to be shared on multiple social media platforms. Theme Preview: must be a nice font to work with and user friendly layout.

It take some time to go through this list but after your work through the most important 'must haves' finally a WordPress theme can be selected.

This will be my first website, so now the real work starts. Woohoo!

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Thanks for sharing, Tasna!

You're welcome.

Thanks for sharing this!

You're welcome. Glad you like it.

Thanks a lot for the information.

Wish you all the best!!!!

You are welcome Marie. I hope you find it useful.

Many thanks for sharing your list.
Cheers, Tosh :)

Thanks Tosh.

A great list of things to look for in theme development Tasna. Thank you!

Thanks. I hope it was helpful.

You're absolutely right with that Tasna. The first thing I make sure of with a Wordpress theme is that is mobile friendly or responsive like you said.

For the rest, I try to choose something that is not too complicated or take a long time to customize.

Something that look simple and clean that make my content stand out and not interfering with it.

But that's just my personal preferences. But the first one, response or mobile friendly is essential in a SEO point of you.

Totally agree. With the increase of people viewing and reading from mobiles and tablets, it's important that the website is mobile responsive.

Good thinking while choosing.....thanks for sharing!

Thanks. I hope it was helpful.

Thanks for sharing. Great information

You're welcome. I hope it is helpful.

Great way to break it down. Thanks for sharing

Hope you found it helpful.

I did. I have a site that I received feedback from and aside from adding a little more content everything else was great but I still feel like something is missing. So I may change the template that I chose. This gave me good insight on how to pick one. Thanks

Thanks for sharing, Tasna.

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