Week 1 recap and quiz

Week 1 is done. You now know what WordPress is and what it takes to put a site online, which puts you ahead of many people who’ve only heard about it.

This week covered:

WordPress is a content management system: you manage a site without writing code.
It powers a large share of the web, so help is easy to find.
The software is free, but a domain and hosting usually aren’t.
WordPress.com is a hosted service, and self-hosted runs on hosting you choose.
A domain name is your site’s address, and you renew it to keep it.
Hosting is where your site’s files live.

Next week, we make a simple plan, create your site and start exploring the screens you’ll use every day.