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Building a website requires a server and a domain name. This article covers the entire process of purchasing a server, registering a domain name, configuring the server, installing WordPress, and successfully setting up a blog, as a reference.
First, prepare by installing the Elementor plugin, a theme, and supporting plugins; then import a template and visually edit the site with Elementor; finally, update the site navigation in the WordPress admin dashboard.
In WordPress, content is mainly divided into two parts, posts and pages. WordPress plugins can add, modify, or remove functionality from a WordPress site. The Media Library is mainly used to manage attachments uploaded through WordPress, such as images, videos, and other files.
For the 413 Request Entity Too Large issue, nginx limits the upload size. The solution is as follows: 1. Open the nginx configuration file nginx.conf, usually located at: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. 2. Add client_max_body_size 64m; to the http{} section. 64m is the maximum allowed upload size. 3. Save the file and restart nginx with service nginx restart
When entering the admin dashboard/working in the admin dashboard, you may find that the page loads very slowly. One reason is that WordPress uses Google Fonts. Solution: install the Disable Google Fonts plugin (personally tested and confirmed working in 2021.1). (Research suggests another cause is that user avatars fail to load properly, but this has already been fixed in the latest version of WordPress.)
Download the installation package from the official WordPress website, extract it, and place the contents of the worpress folder in the html folder. Enter localhost/phpmyadmin in your browser to open phpMyAdmin, enter your phpMyAdmin username and password, click the Databases tab, create a new database, enter a database name, and click Create. No database tables are needed for now.
