How to make a WordPress site

WordPress is the world’s most popular content management software solution, with more than 60 million users around the world. With a community that large, it’s only logical that the development community is appropriately robust itself.

As adoption of WordPress continues to increase worldwide, more and more theme developers are bringing their private skills to the public marketplace.

They do this by offering custom WordPress themes either for free or for a small price, and they demonstrate each theme’s appearance using a demo site.

This is far different from simply displaying an image of the theme in action. Instead, a theme demo site actually lets users peruse an entire, complete WordPress installation with the theme in action. This actually helps to sell users on a theme, as enabling them to use the theme itself proves its usefulness and high quality.

This can be done by any user of WordPress 3.0 (or higher) more than a single extra plugin. All it requires is enabling one of the new WordPress “sleeper” features that goes unnoticed, and unused, by all but the most advance WordPress customers. Here’s how it’s done.

WordPress networks: the key to a theme demo site with WordPress 3.x

Previous versions of WordPress before the 3.x line of releases were big on using plugins to make a theme demo site. And this process wasn’t simplified by simply installing one plugin; instead, the vast array of features a user required often meant that they’d have to enable two, three, or even four plugins and widgets to get the job done. With WordPress Networks, this is essentially a deprecated way of creating a theme demo site.

Enabling WordPress Networks will require a bit of PHP knowledge, as well as some basic coding of server files like .htaccess. It will use the Dashboard to perform most of the setup, and then the user will simply modify a few files to complete the process. After that, new sites can be created to display the content of WordPress themes within one website.