What Types of Websites Can You Build with WordPress Yourself

It is often said that one-third of websites on the internet use WordPress, so what types of websites can we actually build with WordPress? Today, Naiba will introduce the types of websites you can install using WordPress.

What types of websites can WordPress install?

The essence of WordPress is a CMS system with a database; you can modify the interface and install plugins to create any type of website. The following are some of the more commonly used WordPress website types.

Blog

Many people who build websites themselves think WordPress is a blogging system, so a lot of people use WordPress to build blogs. However, as you delve deeper into WordPress, you'll find that besides blogs, WordPress can also create many other types of websites.

Magazine/News Website

Microsoft News Center is a news website built with WordPress. The difference between news, magazine websites, and blog websites is essentially just a theme away. WordPress allows free design of webpage layouts, so with a suitable magazine theme, you can quickly create a news and information website.

Business Website

Nowadays, more and more commercial companies are choosing to use WordPress to build their official websites because there are many WordPress business themes and various marketing plugins that can help businesses develop and operate new users through the website. For example, email marketing plugins, contact form plugins, pricing table plugins, etc.

Online Store

E-commerce has been a hot topic in recent years, and using WordPress can also quickly realize your e-commerce website. WooCommerce is the most famous e-commerce plugin on WordPress and has a complete ecosystem with a large number of supporting plugins. Using WordPress and WooCommerce to build an e-commerce website is very easy. Of course, you also need aWordPress theme suitable for WooCommerce。

Portfolio/Case Study Showcase Website

If you have a skill and want to let more people know about it through the internet, building a portfolio website yourself is very useful. WordPress has many portfolio showcase themes and supporting plugins, for example,Astra ThemesupportingWP Portfoliois a very good portfolio showcase plugin.

Photography/Image Gallery Website

If you are an image enthusiast or a photography master, building your own photography/image gallery website with WordPress is very easy. WordPress has many image website themes and powerful gallery plugins, making the website much more sophisticated than those built with other website building programs. The latest version of WordPress also comes with built-in image lazy loading, so you don't need to worry about website speed impact.

Directory/Navigation Website

If you want to create a business directory website or a URL navigation website, WordPress can also easily achieve this. TheWebStack和VIKshared earlier by Naibabiji are two good navigation themes. At the same time, WordPress also has dedicated business directory plugins, such asGeoDirectory

Community Forum

Although using WordPress to create a forum community is not a particularly simple system (Naiba personally recommends Discuz more), if you want to create a personalized community, WordPress can meet your needs. BuddyPress is a forum plugin on WordPress, along with rich peripheral plugins. You can combine WordPress BuddyPress themes to create various personalized forum community websites, even a microblog-style website is no problem. The above are the types of websites that Naiba has summarized for you, which you can build using WordPress. Of course, there are more types that Naiba has not listed, but in short, don't just think of WordPress as a blogging system.

How to build a WordPress website yourself

After introducing so many use cases for WordPress, is there one that interests you? Then you can refer toWordPress Installation Tutorialto build your own website. Simply put, to build the types of websites introduced in this article, the steps you need to take are:

1. ReferenceWordPress Installation TutorialBuild your own website;
2. 到ThemeforestChoose a premium WordPress Theme you like;
3. Install the Theme and necessary Plugins, import demo data for modification;
4. Launch and operate the website.

Isn't it simple.