How To Create A Blog on WordPress

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So you want to learn how to create a blog on WordPress? That’s great!

This guide will take you through ten walkthroughs which are to be followed to start a blog successfully on WordPress.

But before I begin here are a few facts about WordPress I have gathered for you: WordPress was founded by Christine Selleck Tremoulet, a blogger, and a friend of Matt Mullenweg who is a co-founder of WordPress.

WordPress is an open-source software which means anyone in this world can download it, modify it and use it.

WordPress is not owned by a particular company, that means WordPress has no CEO. Volunteer developers across the world run it.

WordPress has more than 50,000 plugins and is available in 68+ languages.

WordPress is crafted in PHP programming language and 20% of it consists of JavaScript.

The first version of WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, and now it powers over 172 million websites across the globe (including WordPress.com).

So you got a bird’s eye on little facts about WordPress. Now let’s come to the point.

How To Create A Blog on WordPress?

I have divided the whole guide into ten simple steps. Do not worry. It’s very simple and I will help you guide through them.

Here you go…

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1) Set Your Blog Name When you are going to create a blog on WordPress you first need a relevant name for your blog. Without a name, no one cannot identify your blog in the crowd.

So in order to choose a good name for your blog search for the topic you are passionate about and have enough knowledge to write on it. It may be travel, technology, cooking, fashion, accessories or something different.

Choosing a good blog name is crucial. When choosing a name try to be short, simple and easy to remember. That means your blog name should be • Easy to spell • Easy to remember • Easy to write • Have your main keyword There are lots of online blog name generators you can use in case you get stuck in this level. Tools like Name Boy, NameMesh, Domain.com, IsltWP, Panabee, Domain Wheel are great for getting a catchy name for your blog.

In my case, I chose my name as Bulksinfo. You can read our About Us page to know why I named my blog so.

2) Register A Domain This is one of the interesting parts to create a blog on WordPress. Once you are done with your blog name your next job is to register a domain name for it. A domain is basically an address or URL your blog is located over at.

For example. Facebook.com (domain), instagram.com (domain) etc. In my case my blog name is Bulksinfo. So I got a .com domain registered for it. Whatever name you gave to your blog getting a domain for it is essential.

For a domain, you can go on to GoDaddy and search for a domain as per your blog name.

Sometimes what happens is that you may not find the exact domain name because someone already bought that. For example, Google.com is already owned by Google.

You cannot have the same name twice.

However, no need to worry. Your domain providers will bombard you with few more alternatives you can choose from to ensure you do not go empty-handed. Whoa!

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For your convenience, I have given a quick walkthrough regarding how to buy a domain from GoDaddy: a) Head over to GoDaddy’s website from Google. b) In the search box put your blog name and hit enter. In my case, I entered the name ‘enterwpsite’.

c) GoDaddy will show you if the domain is available for me or has already been bought by someone.

As you can see, ‘enterwpsite’ is available so I can buy it. If bought, you will get alternatives or you can edit your blog name according to your choice also. See the picture belowd) Next click on Continue to Cart. But before that always check the spelling thoroughly.

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e) You will be directed to this page where you will be asked to choose several additional options. Select only Privacy Protection as I did and click on Continue to Cart.

f) Fill up your payment details in this page You can use your credit card or debit card or go for net banking. Click on Save.

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g) Finally hit on Complete Purchase. Now you will be redirected to the payment website where GoDaddy will automatically deduct the total purchase amount from your account.

Note: When registering a domain try to buy extensions like .com, .net or .org. Because they tend to rank better on search engines including Google. And who says in the next of years you might rank on the top pages!

3) Get Your Hosting If you are going to create a blog on WordPress you should not neglect the hosting.

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A hosting is a server which keeps all the data and information of your website stored securely on the internet. As servers remain active 24×7 hours anyone can access your website from any time. This helps you avoid the headache of downtime of your website.

Different companies are out there who proud themselves of providing high-quality server uptime and security for their customers. If you belong to India there are many Indian hosting companies like ResellerClub, BigRock, HostGator, etc. Personally, my website is hosted on ResellerClub hosting. I have been using it and till now I faced hardly any problem with it. To be frank, I am happy with this buddy!

Here is a quick walkthrough regarding how to host a WordPress blog on ResellerClub: a) Head over to ResellerClub official website from Google and sign up for a new account. ( Don’t forget the login details) b) Go to HOSTING and from the drop menu choose Shared Hosting. As you are a beginner I will highly recommend you to buy a shared hosting first. c) On the next page, you can see there is three type of plans of ResellerClub – Personal, Business and Pro (see picture below).

d) Choose the personal plan. Set the year limit and click on BUY NOW. e) In the following page untick CodeGuard and SiteLock as they are not necessary if you are a beginner. Enter the domain name you purchased from GoDaddy and click on CONTINUE TO CHECKOUT.

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f) Before you checkout finally, check your hosting details and payment amount in this page. Next click on PROCEED TO CHECKOUT.

g) Just like GoDaddy, you will be redirected to the payment provider’s website. Enter your payment details and checkout from there.

It’s as simple as I said. Never get too tensed. Just stay calm and all will be done.

4) Connect Domain to Hosting And finally, you have a domain and a hosting ready to structure your website.

Connecting domain to hosting is very easy. I say it a cakewalk. You can say anything!

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After buying your hosting you will get an email in your account which your hosting provider sent to you. There you will find two nameservers which are of our use.

If you are done till now then next login to your GoDaddy account. Hover to Avatar > My Products. GoDaddy will show you your domain which you have bought recently.

Now just follow as I say: • Click on DNS just beside the domain name. You will see sections like Records, Nameservers, etc.

• Go to Nameservers and click on Change > Custom • Next copy the nameservers you got in your email and paste them here. Do it separately and one by one in two slots.

After putting the nameservers check it properly and then click on Save. Now all you have to do is to wait till your nameservers get updated. It takes roughly a day or less than 24 hours.

You need not open your GoDaddy account again and again to check the update. When the whole process will be done you will receive an email from GoDaddy saying you successfully change your nameservers.

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5) Installing WordPress This is one of my favorite methods when it comes to creating a blog on WordPress.

Because you can easily install WordPress on your hosting with a couple of clicks only.

However, if you want you can do it manually also. I did my WordPress installation manually. Because I wanted to learn the basics first so that if any hosting company even do not allow one-click WordPress installation I can do it on my own.

So here I am going to take you through the manual process. Again I ensure you do not worry, everything will be fine. Initially, I did not know anything about these, so I learned from YouTube and tried my own. And hopefully, it worked!

So let’s do it‌ See the live video below. I borrowed this video from SidTalk.

https://youtu.be/Z8YLi2X2p1I (Video Credit: SidTalk)

6) Designing Your Blog This is the most interesting part when you make a blog on WordPress. After you successfully login your WordPress admin dashboard your first job is to find a nice theme for your blog.

As you decorate yourself with beautiful apparels and colorful equipment, simply you need to decorate your blog with a beautiful theme. So that it can create a good impression on your readers.

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In WordPress, there are lots of free themes and premium themes you can use for your blog to make it shine beautifully. Since it is your first time in blogging, I will ask you to choose a free theme first.

Head over to Appearance > Themes.

Choose your desired them and install it by clicking on the blue color install button. After that tap on activate to make it work.

If you want to install a third-party theme you have downloaded from Google, go to Add New at the top on the same page and upload the zip file from your computer.

Here I am suggesting some awesome WordPress themes you can use to make your website user-friendly, simple yet beautiful. Here you go…

OceanWP Astra Genesis They all are cool themes and ready to bombard you with full customization options. That means you can make your website look whatever you want to. Amazing, isn’t it?

7) Get Some Plugins Installed In WordPress, there is a popular concept which is a plugin. A plugin basically works like software which is great to execute any task easily, even when you do not have knowledge of coding. This is the best part of plugins.

In the WordPress plugin store, there are thousands of plugins available. Among them, some are necessary to install after installing a fresh WordPress blog.

Here you go…

• SEO by Yoast: This plugin is most popular. Millions of people actively use this plugin to enhance their WordPress blog search engine optimization (SEO). This helps you check your blog post SEO before publishing your content.

• Ninja Form: This plugin helps you create a contact form for your blog. So that if any of your readers want to contact you they can do it easily.

• Autoptimize: It helps your website load faster by optimizing the CSS, JS, HTML code of your blog. This plugin is good for clearing cache from your site.

• Analytics helps you know your website page views, traffic source, their locations, active users, bounce rate, etc.

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• EWWW Image Optimizer: This plugin decreases the size of any image on upload. Plus it also optimizes the older image files in bulk also without losing quality. It helps save space on your server.

These are some of the basic plugins you should try on your blog from day one.

8) Creating Pages: Pages are what makes your website looks credible and trustworthy to your readers. So don’t forget them when you have come to start a blog on WordPress.

In the WP admin dashboard, you will find an option called Pages. Click on that. A page is already created. That’s the default and is no use to you. So simply move it to trash first.

In order to create a new page, click on Add New which is located on the top left corner( see picture).

How many pages should you create? There is no certain limit. You can create 5 pages or even 15 pages. However, when you are going to make a blog on WordPress prioritize the following pages first: About Us: In this page, you will provide all the information related to the blog. This page should cover things like the owner of the page, his identity, website purpose, its goal, the targeted audience, etc.

Privacy Policy: Your privacy policy page should inform your readers about your data collection practices. How your website collects data, how it uses, whether they are shared with third parties and how they are stored, etc.

Terms and Conditions: This page should include all the rules and regulations that you want your readers to follow in order to access your website.

Contact: A contact us page helps your readers stay in touch with you. If your readers want to ask you for something or suggest something they can easily do that.

Disclaimer: A disclaimer is a statement you attach to your website in order to limit the responsibility of the outcome of the usage of your site.

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This five-pages are essential for a website. So hurry up and create them first. You can also take help from different online page generators to help you create these pages easily.

9) Writing The First Blog Post Welcome to the world of Blogging! You have successfully learned how to create a blog on WordPress. Now write your first blog post to kick start a boss free life.

In the WP admin dashboard head over to Posts section and then click on Add New. Before that delete the default post already created on your site.

Now just for sometimes feel the essence of using on a WordPress site! It gives you a great feeling, believe me.

Done? Okay, let’s jump to writing… > Choose a topic on your niche first. Done? > Now let’s do some keyword research. A keyword is a word or phrase users search on search engines most. For example, how to make money online in India is a keyword.

Keyword helps you enhance your website exposure and thus your rank better.

Learn about these popular SEO tools for keyword research and find out the most valuable and profitable keywords for your website. > From keyword research collect at least 5-6 keywords that are in low competition and carries high CPC and search volume with it. Out of them choose a keyword that will be your focus keyword. > Now give a title to your blog post and start writing. Remember you have to use your keywords from time to time necessarily. > After you finish your writing go for proofreading and then hit Publish.

Congratulations! Your blog is live.

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After you successfully create your blog on WordPress next it is time to monetize (making money) it. This the easiest part of blogging. To make money from blogging you need to monetize your blog first. How you can do so?

Lots of ways are there for monetizing a blog.

Affiliate Marketing Paid Promotions Sponsored reviews Selling digital products like eBook Offering online courses etc.

Read: How To Make Money From Blogging? 9 Ways How To Make Money Fast?

Bonus Tip Promoting Your Blog: Only writing and publishing contents won’t help you become successful in blogging. You need to focus on writing. You need to focus on reaching your blog to as many people as possible so that they can read what you shared.

In order to share your contents you can do these things: • Create pages on social media like Twitter, , Instagram, etc. Start sharing your blog posts there.

• Join Q&A sites like Quora and Yahoo Answers. These type of platform works great in blog promotion.

• Start email marketing by sending emails to your targeted readers.

• Indulge in some guest blogging.

• Join forum sites and participate in discussions.

All these methods I have mentioned are off-page SEO techniques which help you build your website authority on search engines like Google.

Enjoy Blogging!

I hope this guide on how to create a blog on WordPress comes useful to you. Before closing this article one suggestion to you is that whatever you do never stop learning.

Learning helps you know what step to take next.

Here are a few articles I have handpicked for you:

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Have you faced any problem to create a blog on WordPress? What is the problem? Let me know through a comment so that I can help you out.

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