WordPress is another powerful platform for creating a blog
or website; it offers professional and quality output. WordPress is different
from other platforms in so many ways and thus, it is associated with
experienced people. There are two types of site you can create with WordPress
and this is the free blog already hosted by WordPress and the self hosted blog.
Both of them are created using the same method which I will discuss with you.
The free WordPress blog has a sub domain with WordPress in it which makes your
URL lengthy and somehow ugly while the self hosted wordpress has a shortened
and more appealing URL. There are a lot of limits to the things you do on the
free blog such as the prohibition against the placement of ads. The self hosted
wordpress gives you full control over your blog and you can place whatever ads
you like on it without any penalty. Self hosted wordpress blog is really costly
compared to the free one. Wordpress offers lots of themes which you can use to
beautify your blog and also, there are millions of plug gins which you can add
to your site for easy accomplishment of task. i will make this tutorial as
simple as possible with each steps accompanied with screen shots on how to go
about it so let’s get started already.
STEP 1: open your
web browser and go to www.wordpress.com
and on their homepage, click “get started” or “create a site”.
STEP 2: a page appears asking you what your
website is about as shown on the screen shot below. Choose what your website is
about and this will open another page
STEP
3: on this page, choose what you want your homepage to look like. This options
include: a list of my latest post, a welcome page for my site and a grid of my
latest post. See image below
STEP
4: when you make a choice in step 3 above, another page appears asking you to
choose a theme and this theme can easily be changed by you anytime, any day you
want to change it. See sample below
STEP 5: after selecting your theme, you will be asked on the
next page to choose a web address and also to choose whether you need either a
custom domain or a free .wordpress.com domain name. Make your choice based on
what you want. You can upgrade from a free blog to a custom domain blog anytime
you are ready so let’s proceed.
STEP 6: after choosing a domain name, another page appears asking
you to choose a plan that’s best for you. The plans include the free plan,
premium plan and business plan with the other two except the free plan being
paid for.
STEP 7: a form appears asking you to create your account. On
the form, enter your email address, username and choose a password. Click create
account to create your blog.
STEP
8: on clicking create account, a page opens telling you to give them few
minutes and which later displays a success message. During the process of
giving them few minutes, a mail is sent through your email address which you
have to open in order to verify that you actually owned the email address you
entered.
STEP 9: when you click on continue from step 8 above, a page
displaying your dashboard displays and at this point, you can be said to have
successfully created a wordpress site. Navigate through your dashboard and make
your first post. Congrats!
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