WordPress from Scratch
Basic issues like domain, host, installation, themes, plugins, and content structure are long-standing topics on this site.
About Naiba
Post-80s Dad, WordPress Practitioner
Hello, I'm Naiba. This website is my public notes from years of practical experience in WordPress website building, server maintenance, and independent site operations. I don't make website building sound mysterious; I only record real pitfalls, troubleshooting, trade-offs, and long-term maintenance experience.
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About Naiba and This Website
This story is not complicated. It started as a domain meant to record life, which gradually turned into notes on WordPress website building.
Hello, I am Naiba. I started building websites in college and have been primarily using WordPress since 2009. I've been working with WordPress for many years.
naibabiji.comThis domain was originally intended to document my daughter„s growth. Later, I found that life updates were more often shared on social media and phone albums, while the content I had been tinkering with—themes, plugins, servers, SEO, and foreign trade website building—was more suitable for articles. So this site gradually evolved from “Naiba„s Life Record“ to „Naiba“s Website Building Notes.„
My original intention for creating this website is to help foreign trade professionals, individual webmasters, and beginners in website building follow public tutorials to handle domains, host configuration, WordPress installation, page layout, and Google SEO step by step, ultimately owning a website that truly belongs to them.
I don't like to mystify website building in my writing. Whether a website can run well long-term often depends not on some magical plugin, but on a suitable host, clear structure, fewer useless features, stable themes and plugins, maintainable code, and continuously updated content. The content shared on this site revolves around these real issues.
What I Mainly Tinker With
These directions are not fabricated labels; traces can be found in the timeline, old articles, and the site's revision history.
VPS, Caching, and Migration
I've changed servers, CDNs, and tinkered with caching. Many articles are not just theoretical but compiled after encountering issues on my own site.
Install as few plugins as possible
I've used commercial themes and also written my own themes. Eventually, I increasingly feel that fewer messy plugins make maintenance much easier later on.
From Title Descriptions to Search Performance
Category structure, title descriptions, internal links, content updates, and search data review are more important than simply piling on plugins.
More Focus on Practicality
A foreign trade independent website is not finished once the pages are done; there is still content, speed, security, maintenance, and long-term SEO.
Using Tools in the Website Building Process
AI website building assistants, prompts, multilingual translation—these are essentially to make website building and content organization more efficient.
What I Can Offer You
Feel free to learn here for free first. There is no chain of marketing tactics here. If one day you get tired of tinkering or encounter a bug you can't fix, then consider reaching out to me for paid assistance, precise troubleshooting, or applying for website building coaching.
Website Building Coaching
If you want to learn to set up a WordPress website on your own, I can help you map out a route based on your actual situation, saving you some detours.
WordPress Installation and Troubleshooting
Including host selection, domain resolution, SSL, backend settings, plugin conflicts, migration, and common troubleshooting.
Foreign Trade Independent Websites and SEO Advice
No ranking promises, no mysticism. Mainly help you straighten out site structure, content direction, basic SEO, and long-term update strategies.
Website Hosting and Daily Maintenance
Suitable for users who don't want to deal with server management, caching, backups, and minor troubleshooting over the long term.
Projects and Tools
Over the years, besides writing tutorials, I've also developed some WordPress-related tools and projects. Most of them originated from problems I encountered while building and maintaining websites, and I turned the solutions into tools.
I don„t package these as a “product matrix.„ Most of the time, I encountered issues while building, maintaining, migrating, or creating sites for users, and I thought they could be reused, so I gradually turned them into tools.
WP PanelServer Management / WordPress Operations
Server Management / WordPress Operations
WP Panel
A dedicated server management panel for WordPress, mainly aimed at simplifying common server operations for website building.
Visit ProjectLinghang ThemeCorporate Website / Lightweight Theme
Corporate Website / Lightweight Theme
Linghang Theme
A lightweight WordPress theme oriented towards corporate websites, suitable for business sites that don't want to build pages from scratch.
Visit ProjectOther WordPress.org Plugins
- B2B Product CatalogA product display and inquiry plugin for B2B users, already published on the official WordPress plugin repository.
- EdgeOne Cache PurgerTencent Cloud EdgeOne CDN cache clearing plugin, automatically handles cache when WordPress content is updated.
- Global Connect HubA plugin for unified management of social media and contact methods, suitable for websites needing multi-entry contact buttons.
- Coming SoonA plugin to display a „Coming Soon“ notice, suitable for when a site is not yet built but needs a placeholder.
This Site's Tech Stack Public
This site itself is a long-term experimental field. I've changed themes many times, switched SEO plugins, used and removed AMP, and experimented with directories, caching, CDN, servers, and structured data.
ThemeThe new direction is to write a classic theme + theme.json + patterns, minimizing uncontrollable dependencies.
PluginsIt's not about not using plugins, but installing as few as possible; core functions prioritize necessary items like SEO, redirects, SMTP, and caching.
Server and CachingLong-term focus on VPS, CDN, caching, migration, and stability, because these issues will eventually affect real websites.
EditorContent sites prioritize using the WordPress native editor and maintainable templates, not relying on page builders for all articles.
Changes to the Site Over the Years
For a complete record, see the timeline page. Here, only a few stages are kept to help understand how this site has evolved.
Registered naibabiji.com, initially intended to create a blog for my daughter to record things.
The blog shifted to WordPress website building records, and the site name changed from „Naiba“s Notes„ to “Naibabiji WordPress Website Building Notes„.
Started more systematically exploring Google SEO, foreign trade website building, category structure, title descriptions, and homepage content.
Experimented back and forth with AMP, directories, SEO plugins, multilingual, stores, and server migrations.
Switched to a self-written theme, reduced plugin dependencies, and streamlined the site towards lightweight and maintainable.
Launch website building coaching, AI website building assistant, multilingual plugin, WP Panel and other tools and services.
I am better at helping you break down the problem
If you just want to learn website building on your own, you can slowly read through the tutorials on this site. If you are stuck on a step or want someone to help you determine the path, you can also contact me. Rather than giving you a solution that sounds impressive but has no one to maintain it later, I prefer to first break down the problem clearly.