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How to host a WordPress site for $5 a month

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a virtual private server with DigitalOcean and install WordPress, the most popular website app in the world for only $5 a month, in addition of subscribing to a domain name. Subscribing to a cloud server The few big names in cloud hosting are: Amazon Web Services (AWS) DigitalOcean Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Microsoft Azure In this post, I will use DigitalOcean’s lowest $5 droplet to create and run a WordPress site. A DigitalOcean’s droplet is a virtual private server that you can subscribe to host a web app. DigitalOcean has many…

Starting a New WordPress Site

In this article, I will explain some fundamental knowledge of using WordPress for a beginner. This will help you to get your site up fast so that you could start writing posts for your audience. The content I will cover in this article is Logging in to the administrator dashboard Changing the theme of your site Difference between a page and a post Tying up the navigation with menus Logging in to the administrator dashboard To start working on your WordPress site, you need to log in to the admin dashboard. The default URL to log in to the admin…

Setting up email in WordPress

Many beginning WordPress users discovered early that their sites do not deliver emails to the inboxes. This failure to deliver emails could cause them to lose potential customers or readers. Another important consequence of this failure is that they or their readers do not receive the email resetting passwords.  https://quiklaunch.com/how-to-setup-email-in-wordpress/ This post contains useful settings to setup your WordPress email SMTP servers.

How to install a new WordPress theme

The appearance of a WordPress site is the most important criteria to any WordPress site owners. In this post, you will learn how to install your WordPress theme from the free themes in the marketplace and other internet sources. https://quiklaunch.com/how-to-install-a-new-wordpress-theme/ Installing a WordPress theme is a simple process.

Increase WordPress maximum file size

When you install WordPress on LiteSpeed server, you will use FPM instead of the default apache server to handle the web requests. However, a standard WordPress install only allow a maximum 2 Mb upload file size. To change the limit, you have to identify which php.ini to edit. To do this, type This will list all the php.ini files from the root directory. If you are using LiteSpeed, you should have a local php.ini in a directory similar to Note that 72 or 7.2 may differ depending on your default php version, which is 7.2 in my case. Change the…

WordPress makes up One-Third of the Web

The path here has been very exciting. In 2005, we were celebrating 50,000 downloads. Six years later, in January 2011, WordPress was powering 13.1% of websites. And now, early in 2019, we are powering 33.4% of sites. https://wordpress.org/news/2019/03/one-third-of-the-web/ I started using Joomla in 2009 to create my learning site. After that, I started using WordPress and Drupal, exploring the power of the three different Content Management Systems. I settled down with WordPress because it is easiest CMS to use and it is powerful. Its custom post types and custom fields allow anyone to create any type of web sites, from…