Building a new WordPress website requires careful planning, including a detailed knowledge of elements that make the site successful and help you run your business or a platform online. According to you, what makes the WordPress website a good web property for your visitors? 

Here are some of the factors that you should know before acquiring the best WordPress website development services from any expert. 

1. Select the Right Domain Name 

One of the major decisions that need to be taken before building a WordPress website is choosing the right domain name that depicts your brand, which means what your brand is all about and helps users get an estimate about products or services. Your domain name should be unique because it is your brand identity that helps people land on your site directly from the website address. For example, if you want to sell products like cakes, chocolates, or flowers, you should get a domain that has a hint of flowers and cakes or that indicates everything about your business. It should be memorable and short. It is easy to remember by your audience. Don't use a domain that has any separator or hyphens. Also, you should avoid numbers and characters that make your domain hard to understand. Once you have finalized your domain name, you can jump into the next step, which is given below.

2. Select a Web Hosting Provider 

After choosing a domain name, you need to submit this domain over a hosting provider like GoDaddy, Bluehost, Hostinger, or any other in order to store your files in databases, and applications data and help you run the website from the server. If you are new to this thing, you can take the assistance of any WordPress developer who can help you in choosing a domain and setting up a domain with hosting. 

3. Install a WordPress 

After setting up a domain with hosting, you need to install WordPress on your own, or you can get support from any expert who has mastery in WordPress installation. Mainly, hosting service providers provide step-by-step guidance to install WordPress with ease. Still, in case of no knowledge, you can choose a WordPress developer who can readymade work for you and install the setup in quick minutes. 

4. Build an Interactive Theme 

WordPress offers in-built themes, but that is not an option when you want to represent your brand unique because you need to have customization according to your niche or project requirements. When choosing the Wordpress website development services, the chances are high that theme installation, customization, and maintenance services are included, or you can build a personalized theme to captivate the attention of your audience. 

5. Add Essential Pages to Your Website 

Home, About Us, and Contact Us are some of the essential pages that the website contains with a piece of information to help the audience know about the business details and its information. Apart from that, you must focus on navigation to move from one page to another. Having two or more pages is not enough if you don't help the users know what they have to do with these pages and how they have to use or move throughout the website. 

6. Add Plugins 

There are various in-built plugins that you can use to enhance the functionality of your site, and some of the plugins that are always preferable by customers are WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, Classic Editor, Elementor, WP Rocket, and more. You can use plugins to make your site SEO-friendly, integrate email capabilities, add contact forms, two-factor authentication, or any other functionality that helps boost the performance of your website. 

7. Customization of Pages 

When it comes to designing headers, subheaders, and footers with interactive fonts, colour schemes, or image styling, customization becomes an essential factor for your landing page or inner pages. After all, a good design means your products are understood by the audience and help them take any action. If you want to customize the pages of your website, don't forget to hire a WordPress developer who has specialization in both front-end and back-end development and creates a consistent feel and look that impresses your audience. 

8. Improve Site Load Time 

The loading time of your site is not more than three seconds. Once you are done with the customization of your pages, themes, plugins, and any other functions, you can test the loading speed of your website and get suggestions from the expert in case of the requirement of any improvement of site speed. The load time of the site can be enhanced by optimizing the file sizes of images, removing unnecessary plugins, using a CDN (content distribution network), and enabling browser caching.

9. Identify Glitches 

Apart from that, you can conduct testing of your site to find any errors or glitches that may cause harm to your site and create so many problems in the future. You can perform A/B testing to obtain better outcomes and improve the overall performance of your site.