Module 1 of 6
Training / Start here / Lesson 1 of 3
Before you change anything, it helps to know what you’re looking at. A website has a handful of parts, and each one does a single job. You only ever work with two of them.
You'll learn
What the parts of your website are and what each one does
Takes
About 4 minutes
You'll need
Nothing, just a few minutes
Watch: “Introduction to WordPress”, an official video from WordPress. It shows the same job on their own demo site, so your screen may look a little different. The written steps below are the ones to follow.
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The domain is the name people type to find you, such as yourbusiness.co.uk. It’s rented by the year. It doesn’t hold your website. It only points people to where the website lives.
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Hosting is space on a computer that is switched on all day and night, so your website is always there when someone visits. If you host with us, we look after this for you.
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WordPress is the software your website runs on. It stores your pages, blog posts and images, and gives you a private area to log in to. That private area is called the dashboard.
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Elementor is a page editor that sits inside WordPress. It shows your page as visitors see it and lets you click on something to change it. Most of your editing happens here.
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A plugin is an add-on, such as a contact form or a booking calendar. You don’t need to touch these day to day.
Ask us. It’s worth knowing before something needs renewing.
You don’t. If you can log in to WordPress and open a page in Elementor, you can do most everyday jobs.
Tell us which page it’s on and what you’re trying to do. We can talk you through it or make the change for you.
