For many companies, they want to sell products online. The only problem with that, is they do not know where to start. Most business owners want a feature rich cart as elaborate as Amazon, but fail to realize the sheer size and amount of money it would take to do that.
WordPress is a great CMS (Content Management System) but the first thing you need to learn while using WordPress is the difference between pages and posts. For the most part they are very similar and it depends on what type of site you are running.
When first installing WordPress, there are some great out of the box features for the CMS. There are also some free plugins that help enhance your Worpress site. In this first WordPress tutorial I am going to cover some of the essential plugins to use with WordPress.