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Building a regular (non-bloggy) web site with WordPress

Intro

I recently was a first-hand witness to the building of a couple web sites. I was impressed as the webmaster turned them into “regular” web sites – some bit of marketing, some practical functionality – and removed all the traditional blog components. Here are some of the ingredients.

The ingredients

Background images and logo

unsplash.com – a place to look for quality, non-copyrighted images on a variety of topics. These can serve as a background image to the home page for instance.

looka.com – a place to do your logo design.

Theme

Astra

Security Plugins

WPS Hide Login

Layout Plugins

Elementor

Envato Elements

Form Plugins

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 Captcha

Ninja Forms. Note that Ninja Forms 3 includes Google’s reCAPTCHA, so no need to get that as a separate plugin. I am trying to work with Ninja Forms for my contact form.

Infrastructure Plugins

WP Mail SMTP – my WordPress server needs this but your mileage may vary.

How-to videos

I don’t have this link yet.

Reference and related

To sign up for an API key for Google’s reCAPTCHA, go here: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin

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