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title: "My First WordPress Site"
date: 2023-05-10
author: "Courtney Robertson"
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categories:
  - name: "WordPress"
    url: "/category/wptips.md"
---

# My First WordPress Site

Do you remember your first encounter with WordPress? I do. Looking back at how different things were then, I truly believe it’s grown much easier to get started. And we have so much more control when considering design options. This post is [day 2 of the FromBlogsToBlocks campaign, celebrating WordPress 20th anniversary.](https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/09/day-2-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/)

I first installed WordPress on my own domain in 2006, I believe. At the time, WordPress was still exclusively a blogging platform. Pages were not yet introduced, nor were widgets or custom post types. I had to build the database and configure my config file manually. At the time, many folks opted to install WordPress within a folder of their website. At the time, I believe my site was configured to be `courtneyengle.com/wordpress`. The top site was built with, get this, Joomla. But the blog content portion was WordPress. What a crazy configuration.

The default theme was also commonly referred to as Kubrick. It appeared the way you see in the information below.

> [Default](https://wordpress.org/themes/default/)



It would be at least several years until WordPress was truly ready to shine as a fully-fledged content management system (CMS), and shed the idea that it was just a blogging platform. By 2009 I had moved my WordPress subdomain install to the top level of my domain. I changed themes a few times and began blogging more consistently on the site. Traces of the original installation are still around on my site today. I have since changed my domain name a few times, but I keep the old posts to show how far WordPress and I have come in all that time.