When you start planning something new online, it’s almost impossible not to consider WordPress at least once. But while it may seem easy in the beginning, many people give up when they start facing problems they can’t solve right after they think they’re getting the hang of it.
This isn’t a problem limited to beginners— even people who know a bit of WordPress, and even those who call themselves WordPress developers, experience the same issues. That’s why I decided to write about WordPress again: to explain why these problems happen, whether solutions exist, and to share the experiences I’ve gathered so far so I can offer some direction to those who truly need help. So, instead of a long introduction, let’s jump straight into the practical part—starting with the installation.
For a successful WordPress installation, it’s essential to have the right prerequisites prepared in advance. These are the ‘domain,’ which serves as your website’s address, and the ‘web hosting,’ where your website files are stored. Many people’s successes and failures begin right here. You can certainly start with a basic hosting plan and a simple domain—experience matters. But if you’ve run into problems multiple times and want to move in a better direction, there are two things you must get right.
these two things may look simple and insignificant. But once you begin studying WordPress seriously or move into real business use, this is exactly where people decide whether to give up, keep going, or discover something even bigger.
You can simply search for domain registration guides and purchase an inexpensive domain from anywhere.
However, what you must understand is the method of connecting the domain—specifically, the difference between changing the nameservers and temporarily pointing the domain using an A-record, and how these methods affect the speed at which the connection propagates across the globe.
I’ll write a separate post that explains each of these steps in detail. Here, my goal is not to walk you through the installation process step-by-step, but to help you understand the overall direction you need to take.
Even many web agencies build sites carelessly and connect domains as a routine task.
But afterward, you often find delayed propagation, missing SSL security, and in some cases even broken images.
This is why you must pay close attention to these two things:
whether your domain supports Let’s Encrypt SSL, and whether Cloudflare CDN can be applied. These two elements are essential for domain security and for delivering your site across the global network.
You don’t need to understand the technical details of how excellent Let’s Encrypt or Cloudflare are just develop the basic habit of checking whether your domain is configured with them.
If the domain is your website’s address, then web hosting is the ‘server space’ where all your website files content, images, databases, and more are stored. When a visitor accesses your site through the domain, the hosting server retrieves the data and displays it in the web browser. Stable and fast hosting has a critical impact on both website performance and user experience.
Criteria for Choosing Personal WordPress Hosting:
Performance and stability: The loading speed of your website affects not only user experience but also search engine optimization (SEO). Fast and reliable hosting is essential.
Because of this, the importance of the server cannot be overlooked. However, the biggest mistake beginners make is choosing the cheapest server. Of course, blindly choosing an expensive server without understanding anything isn’t wise either.
Cheap hosting should only be used for light testing. In WordPress, light testing means installing the simplest theme and trying basic posting.
Even using essential tools like Elementor can be difficult on a low-end server. Actually, this is a story that’s off the topic of the day, but I need to know that I shouldn’t use the Elementor itself, but this is difficult.
If you want to install WordPress and build a proper, fully functioning website, you need at least SiteGround’s GrowBig hosting plan. Even then, the low price only applies for the first year—after that, it rises to $29.99 per month. So you should be prepared to migrate your site in the second year.
So what exactly is a good server? Am I recommending one just for affiliate income?
Sure, it benefits me if you sign up through my affiliate link but that is absolutely not the reason I recommend better hosting.
If you plan to use WooCommerce or build a website with at least ten pages, you will need a more powerful (and often more expensive) server. Not because it’s WordPress, but because that’s simply how the internet works.
Whether you build a site with custom code, use WordPress, or use Webflow, once the number of pages and the amount of database data increase, the website inevitably slows down.
This is completely natural. With custom development, you pay developers to prevent that slowdown. With WordPress or Webflow, you pay through hosting, plugins, or additional development. There is no such thing as a website that never slows down.
People think something is wrong because they want to do more while staying fast—but that desire itself is unrealistic.
So, can you overcome these problems without spending money?
No. These problems are solved by paying for the necessary resources.”
This is exactly why I continue to recommend WordPress. When it comes to the difficult problems that must be solved with money, the cost you pay for WordPress—hosting, plugins, and everything else—may look high, but in reality it’s relatively small.
What matters is paying these reasonable costs and gaining far more value in return. WordPress is designed to make that possible. Beginners avoid spending money and therefore lack experience in solving problems. Experts have simply solved many problems—and that’s the only difference.
Starting today, the many posts I plan to write will be my way of guiding you toward becoming a true WordPress expert.”
I’m not a developer either, and I dislike complicated technical explanations. But WordPress is a tool that allows you to tap into unlimited resources in an unlimited business world—that’s why I live in this ecosystem and hope to grow even further. And now, I want to invite those of you who are just beginning.
There are countless blogs and AI tools that can teach you the technical steps of installation and setup far better than I can. But places that can give you clear direction are extremely rare.
So let’s move forward together—slowly, but in the right direction, one step at a time.
This has been Webilogan.
