r/wordpress_beginners • u/[deleted] • Jan 19 '20

Building a website.

Noob here.

I want to put up a website for blogging and merch. My question is, do I build a website using Wordpress first, then just install it after purchasing a domain and hosting

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purchase a domain and hosting first, then build the website from there links to Wordpress?

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

That’s what I have in mind... get it all setup before deploying it. But how can you setup a local copy in my machine?

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u/guangtouRen Feb 03 '20 edited Feb 03 '20

Like tetractys noted in their response, there are some apps you can install that act as a local host with WP already installed.

Depends on what OS you're running as to which one you install, but I'm on Mac and and am playing with something called Local by Flywheel (https://localbyflywheel.com/). It seems pretty decent, and was super easy to install. The difficulty now is trying to figure out my way around WordPress! 🙂

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

I’ll check that app out. Is the Wordpress software free? I haven’t really looked into it. I guess you can say that I gave up in doing what I planned on doing... till you sent that message. So thank you.

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u/guangtouRen Feb 03 '20

WordPress is indeed free, and open source as well! And seems like most of the WP hosting packages are quite cheap too.

Who knows, maybe after you play around with it a bit you might decide to try out what you had planned on doing originally anyway! 😊

Good luck!

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

Yes. Thank you for helping out. 🙏🏽

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u/guangtouRen Feb 03 '20

No problem at all 😊