There’s no question about it, WordPress is a great publishing platform, but beware of the pitfalls of blogging and self-hosting websites.
I have struggled for about two and a half years with the self-hosted website WordPress.org. The problems were unstoppable, and the problem-solving forums were equally unstoppable. You find yourself trapped in a deep maze of “solutions”. Is the blog too slow? Speed up with the plugin! Is not safe? Protect the plugin! Do plugins give you trouble? Order them with the plugin? Instead, get a mastery of WordPress encryption and solve these problems yourself.
There are more additions and coding solutions available than most of us have eaten hot dinners, but more often they add to the dilemma, rather than eliminate them.
Then you become obsessed with one problem or another. Mine was the speed of the site. I tried it in Pingdom from Dallas to the Netherlands, I installed the reel speed, Wt3c or W3tc, sorry I’m confused with all these shortcuts.
This caching makes all sorts of interesting modifications to your encryption to make your site the best, and everyone recommends it. It took me some time to understand how to use this without blocking the site every time I install it. Oh, but you need MAX CDN for the setup to work, as you can see W3tc alone, it looks like a three-legged horse.
I can follow, the amount of time wasted on plugins, themes, modifications and dresses for the self-hosted WordPress site that I hadn’t thought of.
In the end, that was the old familiar, and the internet hacker introduced me (he had just sent a good message about subscribers inviting them to post articles through the website). I discovered a blank screen with terrible information about how my site was down.
The end?
Well, I don’t have much “control” of things, but I do have a secure website. Leave the security, speed, subjectivity, and encryption to the experts, forget about your add-on addiction and don’t worry about AdSense and all the bad (I think I’ve made £ 29 all the time). Above all, disregard your need to “play”, leave all these forums behind and focus on what matters to you. In my case, writing and publication.
So much better, I hope you did that years ago. Costs? The bare minimum compared to wasted time and money trying to conquer the self-hosted version of WordPress. With WordPress.com, I can host my domain for $ 15 and buy a good theme and you’re done.
Or I can spend just over $ 200 on, and I have a dubious advantage in changing features as much as I like. WordPress has a bank of “premium themes” that can be high in price and low in coding, but it’s still better (for me) to go to the hosted track and download a theme from the developer.
My advice, are you looking for a good topic? And stick to it.
With the commercial version of WordPress, you get e-commerce if you want to sell things on your site. It may be worth it for some, but if you want an effective website to showcase your items, you won’t need it all. Good theme, $ 70 or $ 80 and $ 15 to host your domain.