Updated on February 29, 2020
Today blogs are one way path of internet users who gain knowledge from blogs reading articles on internet. Today blog is best way to recognize best way and express your thought in presence of users.
If you are not familiar with coding like HTML, PHP, CSS and Bootstrap don’t concern about this things because here you have don’t need any types of coding you have just understand the installation process and finish. WordPress is open source where you can create a website in a few minutes.
Making a blog make easier for you to share your Ideas and thoughts in front of internet users who is beginner in this field. Making a blog also gives you money when you fulfill users desirability.
WordPress is a open source platform for creating a website without any programming knowledge with a great plugins and feature themes. This is one of easiest way to create a blog website within few hours. If you want a create blog website on WordPress here we tell you with few steps from begging to ending in simple ways.
Steps for create a blog on WordPress
- Step – 1 : Buy a Domain
First you have to buy a domain from any domain seller website. Here I have added how to buy a domain from GoDaddy.
Before choosing domain name research well on internet and then go for purchase. This is beginning steps of creating a blog website where you have to choose domain name according to your choice. There are many websites who gives domain some of them are GoDaddy.com, Register.com and Bigrock.in .
There are many types of domain extensions i.e .com, .net, .co, .in, .org, .gov and many others, most of famous one is .com which mostly taken by users on different domain seller websites with cheap price.
- Step – 2 : Choose Hosting Company
Now it’s time to choose a web hosting company for hosting your blog.
Choosing a web hosting company really so confusing, many times we think that this company is better, again your friends or colleague suggests you this one is better it’s really so confusing
Before choosing a web hosting company consult their customer supports and understand what type of features they provide is really useful for you understand thoroughly.
- Choose according to your plan which suitable for you
- Always choose server in your country for high speed of your website
- Keep in mind they have 24/7 customer supports or live online supports
- If you creating a blog first time you should choose shared hosting server, which comes with unlimited bandwidth, after one year if you feel that your website get large amount of traffic then you can switch on dedicated servers
- Check their customer testimonial on their websites and also check reviews on reviews websites
- Step – 3 : Select your order price
Now this is step where you have spend certain money for your hosting, If you want hosting only one domain with all features and you are from India then you should choose advanced plan which mostly chosen by user as shown on below image.
If you want to buy hosting from Bluehost then go for Most popular which is business plan.
- Step – 4 : Configure hosting servers
If you’ve purchased hosting then it’s time to configure your c panel. Go to your account find manage your domain and web hosting.
On that panel you can see all the details what you have purchased.
- Step – 5 : Install WordPress
Login to your C panel and scroll down or either search on top “softaculous apps installer”.
In scripts section you will find the WordPress with logo click on that logo.
After clicking on WordPress ion new window open and going to WordPress link, here you need to click on icon called “Install”. After clicking on Install new screen page opened related your website setup.
After that you need to fill up few details like protocol if you have already purchased SSL then fill HTTPS otherwise left it. Now enter your full domain name like example.com, next is your directory path so just type dir and left blank to install only in domain.
Next is site setting , here you need to enter site name, site description and if you want to enable multisite than check on this box if you won’t then left blank.
Scroll down one more here again you need to fill up few Admin details like Username, Passwords, Admin E-Mail and choose your preferred language.
If you want secure your admin login area then check mark on Loginizer this help you to protect website unnecessary login attempt and attackers.
Now click on Install button, and wait for a minutes or few second for installation, sometimes it’s take a time depend on your internet conectivity.
- Step – 6 : Customize your WordPress Blog
Go to your link which domain you have purchased example : “http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin” and new window open fill up here username and passwords which you have created before during installing of WordPress. Then click on Login for your dashboard.
- Step – 7 : Select Theme for your Blog
Go to your WordPress admin panel on appearance > Theme > add new. If you want most famous themes then select popular here you will get all types of themes which most of famous and recommended by WordPress, scroll down for more themes and select your favorite theme.
- Step – 8 : Set Blog logo and Favicon
For applying your website logo Go on Appearance > Click on Customize > Click on Site Identity. Here you can choose your website logo and site Favicon i.e site icon. Which you have created.
- Step- 9 : Install plugins for your blog
Install your favorite plugins for secure your WordPress blog website from attackers. Plugins give you great features for your blog without any coding. You can also add plugins by manually, Go on Plugins section > Add New > Upload Plugins > choose file > Install now.
- Step – 10 : Add first post on your blog
Now it’s time to add your first post on your blog. So go on section posts and click on Add New.
After click on add new post new window open regarding adding new post.
On top section you need to add title of post when you added title then permalink URL automatic shown below the title.
Now add main content on the large blank space. Here two way to adding a post by Visual and text. Text is related to HTML coding and visual is related to without HTML, you have just add content and customize according to your view.
On Right side in Publish section here you can save your blog as draft, select your visibility mode like private or public, publish here you set your date and also schedule your post according to date and time.
You can also preview your blog by pressing preview button.
At last if you want to publish your blog then click on publish button for publish your blog.
Tips for choosing right hosting company
There are many web hosting companies some of most popular Bluehost, ipage, HostGator, justhost, GoDaddy, Hostingraja and Bigrock(Famous in India). You can choose any one of them by visiting their websites.
Here we added few steps for how to create a blog in WordPress with help of images, If you have still trouble related to WordPress then let us know by putting comments on below comments section, we will help you.