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How to start a WordPress Blog with simple steps in 2021
Are you curious to create a WordPress Blog in no time? There are plenty of ways to make blog but WordPress is totally different and easy to create Blog for you and your business also. We will show you how to start making Blog using WordPress with user friendly guidance. Even, if you are not a tech person, you definitely can handle the blog easily.
What do you need to start a WordPress Blog?
There are few things you need to make a WordPress blog:
1. a Domain Name (Name for your website, i.e google.com )
2. a Web Hosting ( where your website will live on the internet)
3. Dedication with only 25 minutes
In this tutorial we will maintain some steps to create WordPress Blog:
- How to Register a Domain Name for FREE
- How to Choose the great Web Hosting
- How to install WordPress from cpanel by one click
- How to change WordPress Default Theme by new one
- How to publish your first blog post?
- How to install WordPress Plugin?
- How to add a Contact Form using plugin?
- How to Setup Google Analytics Tracking Plugin?
- How to Setup SEO plugin for your website?
Above are the only for Beginner’s guide. if you are totally good at, proceed with advanced ones. so, let’s proceed with this.
Step 1 : Setup
We are talking about the WordPress blogging platform to make blog easily because majority of blog users are interested to use WordPress for their blog. undoubtedly, WordPress is user-friendly platform for making blog in no time.
WordPress.org this is totally open source for all people so it is free to use, you can install plugin freely, customize or make money using blog. you can do whatever you want using free blog.
Generally if you want to buy a Domain, you have to buy it by at least $10 from domain provider as well as need to buy Hosting also by its providers packages. if you buy domain and hosting from Bluehost.com , no need to pay them for domain. so, you will get FREE DOMAIN from Blue host.
We Recommend this hosting provider because they are the trusted companies of WordPress.org . They provide 100% great satisfaction for customer.
Open Bluehost
Create New FREE domain from the left box. if you want to check the domain name availability, you may check it from here.
Choose Recommended plans it will be best option for your website.
Choose plan for 3 years that will be best option for hosting.
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Step 2 : Installation of WordPress
After buying domain and hosting, you need to access on cPanel to install wordpress by one click. In cpanel, there are plenty of options are available for different works. you don’t need to know the all things. you should check the WordPress installation(with wordpress icon ) from cpanel and click on it to install it. After clicking on it, you will see the next screen like below :
After that, you need to put your website name, username and password on like the below screen. You need to check the all check boxes and then click green install button to proceed.
After Selecting your domain please add name, username and password after that click on install menu.
After clicking on install button, it will take few seconds to install on server. you will see the ‘overall website progress’ above the exactly on the blue bar. And then, it will show you the screen with your WordPress login credentials. you need to keep your username and password safely to login with your website dashboard.
your website dashboard login will be like this :
yourwebsite.com/wp-admin
Step 3 : Selecting WordPress Default Theme
WordPress installed and activated its by default theme at the very beginning. Since its their default theme with simplicity, there is no need to worry about it because you install and activate more and more attractive themes easily.
Just check the first look of your WordPress website with default theme. I know that you never like this at all. Please do not worry because we are going to elaborate all things properly.
You can customize all things of any themes so we will see how to change default theme by any themes.
Step 4 : Create and Publish your first WordPress Blog post
After installing and activating the themes, you need to create your first blog post from “Posts” menu . you need to click on “Posts” menu and “Add new” menu to create a post.
you need to add “title” , “description”, “featured images” for a blog and then click to “publish” button to publish it on website. There are also category and tags to create for blog post. if you need specific category for blog and tags as well, you can add category and tags for each blog post.
Step 5: Install Plugin on WordPress
WordPress has the biggest strength and it’s their “Plugins”. There are thousands of plugins are available in plugin directory so you can use them without paying any penny. so, don’t panic. i will show you how to do this .
You can install any plugins from here. just search on search bar on by what plugin you want to install. just click on install and activate it.
if you don’t want to install from wordpress plugin repository, you may upload plugins also from “upload plugin” button.
Step 6: How to install some required plugins for website
After creating website, you need to know some required plugins to add on website so that user and admin may get more features. let’s check some plugins :
Contact form Plugin:
In our website, we always want to make a contact form for our user so there is a easy way to make it on your WordPress website using contact form plugins. There are plenty of plugins are available in plugin directory but among them i will prefer some free plugins that is more effective.
Preferred plugins :
Contact Form 7, WP Forms, Gravity forms ( Paid) etc.
to install the plugin, search on bar by “wp forms” and click on “install now” button to install it. after that, activate it.
Click on WPForms menu and click on “Add New” button to make new forms using this plugin.
You will see below screens when you click on “create contact form” option. you may add any input fields from left side. just drag and drop the from left to right on the forms. after that save the form using ‘save’ button.
after saving the form, you need to copy the shortcode from “Embed” option. just copy the shortcode and paste it where you want to show the contact form.
Step 6: How to Add SEO on your WordPress website easily?
SEO means Search Engine Optimization. SEO is most important for any website because by SEO you can rank your website on google and will get millions of traffic from around the world.
Suppose, you want to make a online business. now you want to start promote your products in the specific areas of the world. So, you have to do SEO for your website. in WordPress, you can set up SEO plugin easily in WordPress plugin directory. YOAST SEO is the best SEO PLUGIN for WordPress website.
More useful plugins for your WordPress website.
Caching Plugin : W3 Total Cache
Back Up plugin: updraftplus
Google Analytics: Google Analytics
