How to Build a Single-Page Wordpress Website in Minutes

by Nitin Kumar Digital Marketing Company

Single-page Wordpress websites are primarily meant to steer users towards a very specific concept that appeals to a very target user group while providing them clean, clutter-free user experience. There is no separate About page or contact pages with lengthy user information forms. These pages are easy to analyze for site visits, duration, and SEO, because of their simplicity and focused approach.

With 14.7% of the world’s best-ranked websites based on Wordpress, this platform is easily the number one choice for website designers and businesses to begin with. It is also highly customizable, giving you plenty of choices for themes, layouts, and powerful plugins that give you versatility with web design options. Here are the steps you need to follow to get your one-page website up and running within minutes, no matter what your product or purpose.

Because Wordpress is essentially a Content Management System (CMS), open-sourced, and based on plugins and templates, it is comparatively easy to install

1. Choose Between WordPress dot org or WordPress dot com

To begin creating any Wordpress site you have 2 options: WordPress.org or WordPress.com. To see which is the better fit for you you need to go over the pros and cons of each.

Wordpress.org is meant to unleash the full power of customization and control over your website. Note, however that there is a lot more responsibility that comes with managing a WordPress.org website by yourself. You will have to buy and configure your own domain name, upload and install all of your custom plugins and themes, rewrite your website’s code, and manage your site security. WordPress.org is free to use, but everything else that goes into owning and managing the website has to be paid for.

WordPress.com is your best choice if you want most of the hard work already done for you. You won’t need to manage your server, pay for web hosting, or purchase a domain. There are also a number of personalization options that come with a WordPress.com subscription to help you get the website look you want.

2. Install Wordpress on Your Computer: Once your hosting servers have been set up you need to download and install Wordpress onto your computer. If, for example, you use GoDaddy as your hosting service, all you need to do is go to ‘Options and Settings’ and choose Wordpress under the ‘Popular Apps’ section. It usually takes 24 hours for the CMS to link with your hosting service and GoDaddy will let you know when by email. From here on, the rest of the process is going to take minutes instead of days.

3. Choose a Web-Hosting Plan: Before your website goes live on the world wide web, you need to choose a hosting plan. Hosting servers have the bandwidth and network connections to make your web content accessible to users browsing the internet. Here’s a good article to get the most suitable hosting plans for your single-page website.

4. Create a Well-Researched Index: Even a one-page website needs a menu. Organize your website’s content according to UX principles based on the buyer persona. Research has shown that creating menus according to the user pain points that the product or service is going to solve helps users make faster decisions. Each of these menu items needs a hyperlink to lead to a certain section of your webpage.

5. Add Anchor Links to Each Title: You can either code in the hyperlinks in the HTML editor in Wordpress or you can use the Wordpress menu to create anchor links that point to specific places within your webpage.

A typical HTML line for an anchor link will look like this:

<a href=“#para3”>Go to paragraph 3</a>

When you add content to the webpage, your HTML will typically look like this:

<h1>Some Title in the Page</h1>

<p> Some paragraph content</p>

<h3> id=“para3”>Paragraph 3</h3>

<p> Some more content</p>

Alternatively, you can use the Wordpress HTML editor to put in your content and anchor links.

6. Choose Your Theme: Personalize your webpage by choosing a suitable Wordpress theme from among numerous layouts, formats, styles, fonts, colors, and other visual elements from the Wordpress menu.

7. Add Content to Your Website: Wordpress allows you customize the posts and content according to menus and headers at different levels.

8. Install Plugins: You can either purchase or download free plugins for SEO, website security, conversion sections or contact forms.

Some of these steps require experience with HTML and/or other website building platforms. For more information on Wordpress Development click here.