A news website is a form of a printed newspaper that showed in an online presence. WordPress is the most popular content management system that offer several web development solutions including e-commerce, blog, corporate website, and also news website. Instead of telling you that it is as simple as pie with a news website development, we will provide you with vital brief that will guide you in building a news website in the appropriate way.
This post is not a step-by-step guide, but it provides a case study and many important ideas and insights on what you should know before investing time and money in creating a news website using WordPress.
Theme Used for Music News Website
Themes are one of WordPress’ most essential and useful features; they allow you to change the design of your site and even include new functionality.
When you initially create a WordPress site, a default theme is installed. WordPress themes may be customized to meet your specific requirements and sector.
In fact, with the proper theme, you can modify your site to your exact specifications with little (or no) coding or design expertise.
NewsCard
NewsCard is a recommended WordPress Theme for Magazines and News. NewsCard is ideal for magazine websites (food, travel, fashion, music, health, sports, photography), news websites, retail websites, personal/photo blogs, and many more.
NewsCard provide a free version theme for users and this is one of the main reason to use this in the website development. It also support responsive view in multiple devices (desktop, tablet & mobile) perfectly.
Do we need to use any page editor such as elementor to design the website?
This WordPress theme support most of the layout that a news website need. Basically there are no page editor plugin needed to build the news website.
Plugins Used for Music News Website
A WordPress plugin is a piece of code that “plugs in” to your self-hosted WordPress site. There are 3 plugins are used during the news website development which are Wordfence security, UpdraftPlus, and Yoast SEO.
Wordfence Security
Wordfence is a multinational organisation comprised of WordPress security experts, threat researchers, software developers, and support personnel. We are the industry leaders in safeguarding WordPress websites and doing WordPress security research.
It can protect your site at the endpoint, allowing for extensive interaction with WordPress. Unlike cloud alternatives, it does not break encryption, cannot be circumvented, and does not leak data.
One of the plugin feature I recommended is the malware scanner which allow to scans core files, themes, and plugins for malware, bad URLs, backdoors, SEO spam, malicious redirection, and code injections.
UpdraftPlus
UpdraftPlus is a comprehensive backup and restoration plugin with more features and sophisticated tools than any similar backup plugins.
You can backup all of your WordPress files, databases, plugins, and themes manually or automatically and schedule backups daily, weekly, fortnightly, or monthly.
The suggestion for the UpdraftPlus’s schedule backup is once per fortnight as it is a perfect timing to catch up the version upgrade of most plugins.
Yoast SEO
One of the most popular WordPress plugins is Yoast SEO. It makes it easier to optimise your content for the targeted keywords. Yoast SEO can identify related keywords, synonyms for keywords, and other word forms for your keywords.
This allows you to write more organically and helps you optimize your content for audiences and search engines.
It is a very user friendly SEO plugin for every beginner to use to optimize their website’s SEO.
Conclusion
A nice design for a news website is important. It’s how you interact with visitors and leads, make a good first impression on new users, and increase conversions. The good news is that a news website development with WordPress doesn’t have to be difficult and it is user friendly to its user without any coding knowledge.
