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Over the past few years, content management platforms have dominated the method of creating website content and have become the language of the era when it comes to building various websites in a simplified and easy manner. The WordPress platform had the largest share in the field of content management.

If you do not know how and where to start your journey in creating your own WordPress website from scratch, we have prepared the following map that will be your guide and guide to all the details you need to know to create a professional website through detailed and comprehensive articles on the WordPress website in Arabic.

You may now be wondering what content management systems are and are there several options to choose from? Well, you will find your satisfactory answer to this question in our simplified article: Explaining content management systems (CMS) – and how to choose the system that is best for you .

Create a WordPress website

Creating your own website is no longer a fantasy. Through the WordPress platform , you can create any type of website, from blogs and forums to online stores, official company websites, and many more.

The first question that might come to your mind is: Is WordPress free? How much will it cost me to launch my own website through WordPress? The answer actually depends on the type, nature, and degree of professionalism you want for the site. You can see our featured article: How much does it cost to create a WordPress site? Basic and optional costs for more valuable details.

You may also be hesitant about the types of websites that you can create with WordPress. Well, you can create most types of websites. However, you can check out the types of websites that can be created with WordPress – 14 types and ideas to gain more knowledge about this topic.

How and where will you start building your website? The first step is to obtain hosting. You can see our article: What is hosting? A comprehensive explanation for beginners . To get a comprehensive picture, there are free and paid hosts, and you can learn about the difference between them through our article: The 8 best free hosts – advantages and disadvantages , and also the 8 best WordPress hosts that suit different site sizes | The most important recommendations and advice . 

The second step is adopting a suitable domain name, and we have prepared for you our simplified guide: What is a domain? A comprehensive explanation for beginners so that the ideas are organized and clear for you.

What’s next? The next step is to install WordPress on the hosting. How? Well, the process is simpler than you think, and here is our distinguished guide to accomplishing this: How to download and install WordPress on your hosting .

You now have to choose the appropriate template for the site. What is the template? Well, here is our simplified article about templates and their role in your site: What are WordPress templates, how do they work, and what is their best use? A comprehensive explanation for beginners . There are some templates dedicated to specific types of sites. Learn about the best ones in our article: The best WordPress templates according to your site type (+50 templates) .

If you are still hesitant about how to choose the appropriate template for your site, then our article is: How do you choose the best WordPress template for you? 8 practical steps will be your best guide.

Do these stages seem a little complicated to you? Well, we have prepared for you a comprehensive guide that summarizes and simplifies all of these steps: Steps to creating a professional website.

If you do not want to go into the details of creating a WordPress website yourself, you can simply appoint a person specialized in this field to accomplish the task for you, but how do you choose the right person? Well here’s how: How do you hire a professional freelancer to help you develop your WordPress site?

Website hosting

Why should you delve into the details of hosting and how to get it? Because it will simply be the foundation on which you will build your successful website, so this foundation must be correct and appropriate. You can see the best reliable hosting company and 12 criteria for choosing the best hosting to know the details of choosing the best hosting.

There are some concepts that must be known in the field of website hosting, the most prominent of which are:

WordPress templates

After obtaining suitable hosting for your site, your next stop will be choosing the general design of the site. One of the most prominent features of the WordPress platform is that it offers you ready-made designs that include very diverse details for each type of site through what are called templates.

It is worth noting that there is a long list of templates suitable for Arabic websites, and you can see our article: The 10 Best WordPress Templates for Websites . You can also see how to get an WordPress template? Determine the best option for you .

After choosing the appropriate template for your site, we will move to the stage of installing this template on your site’s hosting. We have prepared a simplified article that includes all the necessary details and steps entitled: How to install a WordPress template correctly.

There are some necessary concepts about templates that will enable you to create a professional website, including:

WordPress plugins

Plugins are a utility tool that you can download to your site and use to accomplish a specific purpose or objective without the need to add complex code to your site. These add-ons provide you with the features you want through a simple interactive interface. You can learn more about hosting and how to use it. And its work through our comprehensive guide: explaining WordPress plugins, their functions, and features | A comprehensive guide for beginners .

There is a long list of plugins available in the WordPress store, and each plugin offers specific features that suit the nature of your site. In the following article, we have prepared the most popular plugins for different types of sites: The 16 best WordPress plugins that every website owner needs .

Some plugins are widely known for the many features they offer. Here are the most popular ones with a detailed explanation of the use of each of them:

Site analysis

The process of analyzing the site is the basic criterion for your progress. By analyzing site data, you can know the speed of the site, the number of visitors who interacted with the various pages of the site, the pages that attracted the largest number of visits, those that did not receive many visitors, and other data necessary to evaluate the overall performance of the site.

Is website analysis complicated? No, it’s simpler than you can imagine, especially with the unique tool Google Analytics. We have prepared a comprehensive guide on how to use these features in our article: The Complete Guide to Using Google Search Console .

All you have to do is install this add-on on your site, and you can learn the steps to accomplish this from our simple article: Explaining installing Google Analytics for your WordPress site .

One of the most important stages of site analysis is site speed analysis, and site speed is one of the basic criteria in optimizing your site’s search engines (SEO). Our article: The best tools for testing website speed and solving problems resulting from the test represents a good asset if you want to learn more about this topic.

There is another essential tool for monitoring the performance of the site in general and for search engines in particular, which is the Webmaster Tools (Google Search Console). You can learn more about this tool in our featured article: A comprehensive guide to using Google Search Console . You can also learn how to use this tool and link it to your WordPress site through our article: Explanation of Webmaster Tools (Google Search Console) and how to link it to your WordPress site .

Bounce rate is another stop you should stop at during the stage of analyzing your site. It represents the rate of visitors who enter and exit your site pages within a short period. Why is this rate important? Simply because Google and other search engines see it as a basic criterion for the value and quality of website content.

You can learn more about this topic in our detailed article: What is the bounce rate? What is its importance? How do you improve it? Comprehensive guide .

Marketing your site

Marketing is the main driver of your site. No matter the quality of the content you provide, if your site is not a well-known destination, where will you gain traffic from? Digital marketing is the language of the era, and in our article: E-marketing: what is it? What is its importance? How do you start? | A comprehensive guide where you will find plenty of room to learn about this new approach to the marketing era.

There are actually many digital marketing strategies you can adopt to get your site noticed and gain more traffic. We can summarize these strategies in the following points:

  • Email marketing : If you have a list of emails from visitors or potential customers to your site, or emails from previous visitors to the site, then it is a treasure that you must invest in. How? Simply by marketing and promoting your site’s content through emails.

You can summarize the content of your site and send it to your visitors in the form of email messages through WordPress plugins, and our article: Explaining RSS and how to use it for your WordPress site represents a good guide to learning about this effective strategy.

We have prepared a comprehensive guide on this topic: What is email marketing? How do you manage it on your site ? You can also view our simplified articles about the most prominent tools that you can use to send messages automatically through your WordPress site: 

Improve website SEO

Search engine optimization, or what is known as (SEO), is one of the basic pillars of making your site appear in search results and gaining many visitors to it. In order to master SEO and apply it correctly to your site, you need a comprehensive guide, and this is what we have prepared in our detailed article: Search Engine Optimization Guide for WordPress Sites | WordPress SEO .

We have also prepared a special article entitled: 21 of the most common SEO mistakes and best practices for preparing your site, which will serve as a comprehensive guide to avoiding errors and improving your site’s performance.

There are many concepts and terms related to search engine optimization that you must become familiar with in your race to the first search results on Google and elsewhere, which are:

If you own a blog or plan to create one and compete for the top of search results quickly, here is our distinguished guide: Improving SEO for WordPress blogs in 13 practical steps to advance in search results . If you are about to launch your first online store, here is the guide that will be the best starting point for you to get your products to the top of search results: Improving the SEO of your online store in 11 practical steps .

Improve the site

Pop-ups are another topic that raises widespread controversy among website owners because of the bad reputation they have among browsers. These are the windows that suddenly appear to the browser when it clicks somewhere within your site’s pages. We have prepared a detailed article on this topic if you want to learn more: What are pop-ups? How do you benefit from it on your WordPress site? Comprehensive explanation

Logo : The logo is the visual essence that connects visitors to your site, whether it is an online store, blog, forum, or other. It is quite similar to the trademark that major companies take as a symbol of the value they provide to their customers through their products.

How do you choose the right logo and where do you start? Well here is good news, you do not need to be a professional designer to come up with a distinctive logo for your website. Our comprehensive article provides “ The 11 Best Tools for Designing an Amazing Free Logo!” “A great guide and a good starting point to start designing your own logo.

If you wonder: What is the best tool for designing a website logo? We have a great answer that you will find in our guide to the unique design tool Canva: design a free logo using Canva without the need for design experience .

It is preferable that the site’s logo be in harmony with the visual elements on it, including the colors and the general character of the design. For example, if your site features Arabic calligraphy in writing the titles, then adopting a logo that keeps pace with this design would be a great step.

You can see how to modify the logo and change its size in this article: How to modify the size of your site’s logo to be in harmony with the rest of the design elements .

Website design : If we are going to talk about what attracts visitors to websites, we must mention the appearance and design of the website. This broad title has four basic pillars that you must pay double attention to, which are:

As for the background color, you can change it easily, and here is our detailed guide to that: 3 ways to change the background color of your WordPress site

  • The home page : which will be the first interface that the visitor encounters, and from it will form a general and prior look and evaluation of your site. Therefore, you must take care of a good home page, and our article here will be a good starting point for you: How to create and customize the home page on your WordPress site.
  • Compatibility with all devices: Computers are no longer the only tool for browsing the Internet. Smartphones and tablets entered this arena not long ago, and each device has a special screen size, so the look and feel of your site will differ, and some elements in it may become distorted, so it is necessary to pay attention to this point. This article will be a good guide for you: 3 ways to preview the appearance of your site on different screens

Site arrangement and indexing: You do not want your site visitors to get lost in their search and browsing of site topics, do you? So you have to pay double attention to classifying site content, whether it is written content (articles) or commercial content (products), and here is a great guide to start indexing and organizing your site: Using WordPress classifications to classify your blog articles or your store’s products.

WordPress problems

While you are managing your distinguished website based on WordPress, you may encounter many technical and technical problems. Fortunately, most of these problems are easy and you can solve them with simple steps. We have prepared in our following list the most prominent problems that WordPress website owners face, indicating the solutions to them:

There are many other common problems you may also encounter and we’ve gathered them for you in these comprehensive guides:

Website management concepts 

Creating a professional website that competes at the local and global levels requires effective management and careful organization of the site’s content, and the WordPress platform provides you with everything you need to achieve this through the control panel and advanced organization settings provided by the platform.

The first stop that will be the comprehensive platform for site management is the WordPress control panel. We have prepared simplified articles as a comprehensive guide that will serve as your shortcut to mastering work on the control panel:

The second plan that you must master for effective and organized management of your site is what is known as the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). You can learn about this concept and how to use it through our simplified article: Explaining FTP for beginners, and how to use it to manage your site’s files .

The third stop will be the tool used to create and organize the site’s pages, which is what is now known as the Gutenberg component editor. You can learn more about this tool and how to use it optimally on your site through our comprehensive guide: Explanation of the Gutenburg component editor for adding articles and pages .

You can see the content management systems used by competitors, and it is not that difficult, and you can learn about the steps to accomplish this in our article: How to know the programming used or the content management system for any site .

Profit from your site

If you are wondering: How can I make profits through my website? Can I really make money by… starting my own website from scratch? Well, the answer is simply yes, you can. Of course, it takes some effort and good planning… and certainly a comprehensive guide that directs you to how to achieve these profits, whatever type of site you choose for yourself.

Here are some articles we have specially prepared to guide you on how to monetize your site:

Blogging 

If you are planning to launch your own blog and are seeking to compete and top the list of the best blogs at the local level and perhaps at the level of the Arab world, then you need professional planning, proficient management, some effort, and the correct investment of time, financial and human resources.

If you are not familiar with the difference between the concepts of “blog” and “website,” then let us simplify: the difference between a blog and a website, and which is better? It will be a good starting point for you. 

To build a blog from scratch, we have prepared for you a comprehensive guide that outlines your workflow regularly and professionally in our distinguished article: Creating a WordPress blog from A to Z (an illustrated guide for beginners) . You’ll find additional information about starting a blog for free in these two simple guides: 

The element that represents the basic building block and essence of the blog is the articles, so coming up with valuable professional articles should be your primary goal, and in our article: How do you write an interactive article that achieves wide spread on the Internet? We have prepared a simplified guide on how to prepare professional articles.

The fastest and most effective way to confront your competitors from other blogs is to carefully take care of the SEO standards for your own blog. How? We answered this in detail through our comprehensive article: Improving SEO for WordPress blogs in 13 practical steps to advance in search results .

How do you make profits from your blog? Here’s a unique and valuable guide to find out: How to create a blog that generates $981+ per month? (Step by Step) .

Site protection and security

One of the most prominent concerns that frighten website owners is that site data is infected with malware and damaged or even stolen, including user data on your site. This may become a real disaster if your site includes banking data or private and sensitive information for your customers or users of your site.

Fortunately, the WordPress platform provides a very satisfactory level of protection and security. However, the user must be aware and knowledgeable about the methods and steps to protect site data. Below we have prepared a list of the most important steps you can take to protect your site, with detailed articles about each step:

Site performance

If you want to provide a fruitful browsing and shopping experience for your customers and visitors to your site, the performance of your site must be satisfactory, fast and smooth. There are many strategies to achieve this, and do not worry, they are all simple and do not require a lot of effort from you. We have collected them in our following list with detailed articles about them:

Concepts for beginners

If you do not have a lot of information about WordPress concepts, how this platform works, and how to use its various tools to build and customize your site, then our following list will be a good starting point for you:

Create an online store (WooCommerce)

E-commerce has dominated the markets for most products and services, and entry into this world has become inevitable for various business owners. If you are not familiar enough with what e-commerce is, below is our simplified article: Explaining e-commerce for beginners 2021 .

If you are planning to launch your own online store, the WordPress platform will be a short and effective way to achieve good profits and quick success with good planning. The WordPress platform offers all the means and tools that help you set up an integrated online store in simple steps, away from programming complications.

As for how to create an online store via WordPress, I have prepared comprehensive articles that provide you with everything you need to know about the steps to establish your own store:

The first step to establishing a successful store is choosing the market for that store, and in our featured article: How do you choose the market for your online store (Niche)? 7 practical steps We have detailed all the information you should know.

There are some concepts that you must understand in order to be able to create a successful professional store, and we have collected them for you in our following list with detailed articles for each of them:

If you want to compete and top the list of the best Arab and perhaps international stores, there are many stations that you must stop at and the methods and strategies that you must follow. We have prepared below a list of the best of them:

Website translation

One of the unique features of the WordPress platform is its support for the Arabic language in many of its settings, plugins, and templates, but sometimes you may need an add-on or template that provides you with what you need on your site, but it is not available in Arabic. The solution in this case is translation.

In our article: The Best Plugins for Translating Your WordPress Site, we have a comprehensive guide that includes an explanation of how to translate your site with various plugins, and another distinguished article: An explanation of translating your site and all its elements using Loco Translate for how to use the unique Loco add-on to translate the site.

You can also create a site that is not limited only to the Arabic language, but includes several languages ​​(a multilingual site). We have prepared our guide: Creating a Multilanguage Site in 7 Steps using Polylang to explain how to accomplish this.

Moving to WordPress from other systems

Sometimes you may own a standalone website (Blogger) or a website on one of the other popular content management platforms (such as Wix and Joomla) and want to transfer your website content to the WordPress platform. Well, accomplishing this is not a difficult task, but it requires good planning.

In order to transfer your site (Blogger) to WordPress, you can see our detailed article with pictures: An illustrated explanation of transferring a Blogger blog to WordPress without the effect of archiving, to learn the correct steps.

In order to transfer your site on the Wix platform to WordPress, we have prepared our comprehensive guide: Transferring your site from Wix to WordPress step by step , which you can view.

If you own a website on the Joomla platform and want to transfer the content without errors to the WordPress platform, you can read our simplified guide: How to transfer your site from Joomla to WordPress in simple steps to find out how to accomplish this.

You may also want to transfer the hosting of your site on WordPress from the current hosting to another that is better or less expensive. In fact, it is not that difficult and we have prepared a comprehensive guide entitled: Explaining the transfer of a WordPress website from one hosting to another in the correct manner, to detail how to do this.

For business owners

If you are planning to launch a website for your company or next project, the WordPress platform will be a very suitable starting point for you. In our comprehensive article: Step-by-step explanation of creating a website for your business, we have prepared a detailed guide on how to launch your first commercial website on WordPress in simple steps.

There are also some strategies that you can follow to invest the Internet in your project and company, including:

Different sites

Through the WordPress platform, you can launch different colors of websites. We have prepared below a detailed list of the types of websites that you can design through the WordPress platform, along with a detailed guide on how to accomplish this:

Another great feature of the WordPress platform is the ability to create several types of sites on the same hosting. For more details on this point, you can review our detailed article: Learn how to create a multi-site network in WordPress from within your site’s control panel .

Advanced concepts and explanations

When you make good progress in dealing with the WordPress platform, you will find a long additional list to learn from the advanced features that you can exploit to build an integrated professional website. In the following detailed list, we will review the most prominent advanced WordPress concepts and tools, with detailed explanation articles about each of them:

Just remember that proper planning before launching the website is the most important step, and you will find a valuable wealth of information and golden advice on how to prepare to launch your distinguished website in our comprehensive article: The most important procedures that we advise you to take before launching your website and even publishing it to users .

Launching your website on WordPress, whatever the type of site, will be a successful start. Because the WordPress platform offers the facilities, features, and tools to customize a professional website from A to Z. The comprehensive map of the WordPress site in that we provided to you is a comprehensive guide that you can follow to launch your own distinguished website.

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