{"id":96448,"date":"2012-09-05T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=96448"},"modified":"2015-06-29T22:22:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T02:22:32","slug":"a-visual-guide-to-setting-up-wordpress-for-business-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/a-visual-guide-to-setting-up-wordpress-for-business-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visual Guide To Setting Up WordPress for Business Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SimplyBusiness, a UK based company, has recently created an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplybusiness.co.uk\/microsites\/wordpress-for-small-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\">easy-to-read online flowchart<\/a> for installing and maintaining a WordPress website for business purposes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_96452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" data-caption=\"true\"><a rel=\"lightbox[96448]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/The-Wordpress-Guide-for-Small-Businesses-\u2013-Simply-Business-Intro.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-96452\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/The-Wordpress-Guide-for-Small-Businesses-\u2013-Simply-Business-Intro.png\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A WordPress for Business Website Design Process. Click image to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The WordPress installation flowchart follows a 24 step process where you answer simple yes\/no questions regarding your installation and WordPress acumen, and get design specific tips from leading WordPress websites across the globe (including this one!).<\/p>\n<p>For example, step 2 asks if you\u2019ve chosen a domain name yet. If the answer is \u201cyes\u201d, you proceed to the next step. If the answer is \u201cno\u201d you are referred to an article that provides a few tips for choosing a great domain name for your business.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[96448]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/The-Wordpress-Guide-for-Small-Businesses-\u2013-Text-Tip.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-96453\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/The-Wordpress-Guide-for-Small-Businesses-\u2013-Text-Tip-300x238.png\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Flow Chart Lesson Formats<\/h2>\n<p>The site does a good job of integrating multimedia formats with lessons based in both text and video.<\/p>\n<p>Simple instructions, like which pages your business site must include\u00a0are handled with text based tips; while more complex assignments are handled with video tutorials &#8211; like how to set up a Gravatar, or how to back up your website.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_96451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" data-caption=\"true\"><a rel=\"lightbox[96448]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/The-Wordpress-Guide-for-Small-Businesses-\u2013-Simply-Business-Video-Tutorial-1.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-96451\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/The-Wordpress-Guide-for-Small-Businesses-\u2013-Simply-Business-Video-Tutorial-1.png\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Popup Video Tutorial Guides You Through the WordPress for Business Process.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>WPMU DEV Makes Your Business Website Better<\/h2>\n<p>After\u00a0following the steps in the flow chart, you\u2019ll have setup a standard WordPress installation and configured a few plugins and sharing options that help you tweak your site for business purposes.<\/p>\n<p>But before you start doing business online you\u2019ll probably want to add a few more business specific WordPress goodies, and for that you might read the following resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/guide-to-building-a-small-business-site-with-wordpress-pt-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to Building a Small Business Site With WordPress<\/a> &#8211; 3 part series of articles taking you from planning through execution.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/monetize-your-blog-comments-with-disqus-promoted-discovery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monetizing Your Website Comments<\/a> &#8211; a new and unique tool to develop income streams for your blog.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Create your business website in WordPress by following this simple multimedia flow chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70852,"featured_media":96449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-96448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143142,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96448\/revisions\/143142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96448"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=96448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}