Preparation work
A server
Before starting to build a website, the first step is to purchase your own ‘server’.
You can choose the following channels for purchasing:
Alibaba Cloud
Amazon Cloud
Other
I bought it on Alibaba Cloud. At the beginning, I just need to buy a server with the lowest configuration. If it’s not enough in the future, I can gradually upgrade and expand.
An exclusive domain name
After buying a server, you will have a public IP address. If the website is built, you can use this IP address to access it, but it is only for development and testing purposes.
If you want to truly operate and have traffic, you also need to create a domain name to facilitate your promotion.
The recommendation for purchasing a domain name is to use the same vendor as the server mentioned above, which can save some trouble. For example, to register a domain name purchased by Alibaba Cloud, you need to have a server under Alibaba Cloud.
A remote login software
Due to the manual deployment method used later, I need to log in to the server to perform the operation.
There are two ways to log in:
1.Manufacturer provided console interface login: Workbench and VNC
2.Download professional remote login software by yourself: Xshell or CRTSecure
When using these remote login software, you need to obtain three pieces of information on the server manufacturer’s console first
Server public network IP
Server SSH port
Server remote connection password
For how to use Xshell, you can search on Baidu, there are many tutorials.
You can buy it on Alibaba Cloud, and the minimum configuration is enough. You can expand and upgrade it later when the number of visits increases.
Environment construction(Two options)
There are two ways to deploy:
1.Use server management software to achieve automated deployment. I recommend servbay, www.servbay.com
2.Manually log in to the remote server to achieve scripted deployment.
Using Servbay for deployment has a low threshold, as long as you know how to click on the interface.
Using scripts to deploy manually requires you to learn
Here I choose servbay as the deployment environment and directly install php, node.js, mysql and psql.
Servbay can directly perform https encryption and SSL distribution.
Install WordPress
WordPress is a blogging platform developed using PHP (which is why we installed PHP above), that is, a blogging framework.
The use of Servbay in the previous step only ensures the basic operating environment of WordPress.
If you want to run your personal website, you still need to install WordPress.
The method is also very simple, just follow the steps below.
Step 1: Install the wordpress installation package and unzip it to /home/wwwroot
Step 2: Log in to MySQL (you set the password when deploying LNMP), create the wordpress table, and enter exit after creation.
Modify the wordpress directory permissions:
$ cd /home/wwwroot && chown -R www wordpress/ && chgrp -R www wordpress/
Open http://ip/wp-admin/setup-config.php with a browser, you can see the following content:
Then follow the system prompts to operate
Dress up your website
At this point, your website deployment has been completed, but there is still one last step, which is also the most core step of using WordPress: making your website look more professional and mature.
To do this, we need to do two things:
Install the theme: make the website look good
Install the plugin: enrich the website’s functions
5.1 Install the theme
Websites that use the same WordPress look very different. Some are very cool, and some are very simple, because they choose different themes (which can be understood as skins).
After you install WordPress, it comes with several free themes.
Almost no one will use them because there is really nothing special about them (just ugly).
In WordPress’s built-in theme store, there are a large number of free themes, all kinds of them, and you may like them.
5.2 Install plugins
At present, I have installed relatively few plugins, but they are basically enough. Here are some of them. If you have any good plugins to recommend, please recommend them in the comment area:
- WP User Avatar
Native WordPress uses Gravatar avatars by default. The avatars of users (including visitor comments) are retrieved according to the Gravatar avatars matched with the email addresses left.
What if there is no Gravatar?
Just install the WP User Avatar plugin and you can use the pictures in the WordPress media library as the default avatars.
- WP-PostViews
After installing WP-PostViews, you can count the number of views of your articles.
3.WP Editor.md
Perhaps this is the best and most perfect Markdown editor in WordPress.
Like md2all and mdnice, it can instantly display the rendering effect of Markdown. If you like to write articles in the background, you can install it (in fact, I wrote it locally in Typora first and then copied it).
4.LuckyWP Table of Contents
With my theme, there is no table of contents index on the article page, which is actually quite inconvenient for readers.
Therefore, I installed LuckyWP Table of Contents, which can generate a table of contents in my article. The table of contents is hidden by default (of course you can set it to be displayed by default), and you can click to expand it if necessary.
5.Smart SEO Tool
Smart SEO Tool is a smart SEO optimization plug-in developed specifically for WordPress. Unlike many WordPress SEO plug-ins, Smart SEO Tool is simpler and easier to use, helping webmasters quickly complete the basic SEO optimization of WordPress blogs/websites.
Optimize your website
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