How To Make a Blog - Step by Step for Beginners
Blogging is all about sharing your passion about your thoughts, feelings, opinions or experiences. What is your passion for? It is about fashion or health and fitness.
Do you know you can make money blogging about what you love? Oh yeah! You can make a lot of money blogging about what you love.
There are different types of blogs that you can start your blogging career about. We have a Fashion Blog, Food Blog. Food blog, Travel Blogs, Music Blog, Lifestyle Blog, Fitness Blog, DIY Blog, Sports Blog etc
Now pick one of these areas that you are passionate about and let start with "How To Make a Blog".
Today I'm going to show you how to make a blog with no step skip. So if you are ready then I'm ready so let's begin.
You can create or make a blog in 4 steps. These are as follow:
- Hosting
- Domain name
- Install Wordpress
- Create a Blog
Hosting
Hosting is the computer that is on 24 hours day that host all of your information like your texts and images. Without hosting if someone went to your website, your website will come up blank.
Domain Name
Get a domain name, Your domain name is the same as your website name. Your domain name will probably be like yourbusiness.com or yourname.com. Google domain name is google.com and my domain name is techtricksexpert.com
Install WordPress
Here will be installing WordPress. WordPress is Content Management System (CMS) which is a fancy way of saying it helps you manage all of your contents like texts and images.
Instead of having how to know code, all you have to do is type in your texts or drag in your images just like you would in Microsoft Word.
WordPress is used by fortune five hundred companies like CNN, Forbes, Reuters, New York Times, etc and people like Jay-Z, Katy Perry and it is also used by professional web developers and is by far the most popular Content Management System.
Create a Blog
We are going to have some fun and create your blog
But first, let go over how much everything is gonna cost.
For hosting which allows your website to be on 24 hours a day is going to cost $10/ month.
For your domain name which is the same as your website name is going to cost $15/year.
Luckily for us, WordPress is free and because we are creating our blog ourself instead of paying web developer thousands of dollars creating a blog is also free.
So the only thing that costs money is Hosting and domain.
Luckily for you, I have included discounted pricing that I personally negotiated with a web host, Bluehost so that you can start your blog for cheap. You will also receive a free domain name through my link!
BlueHost
One of the oldest web hosts started in 1996, Bluehost has become the largest brand name when it comes to WordPress hosting. They are an official 'WordPress' recommended hosting provider.
With Bluehost, you never have to worry about your website being slow even when there is a lot of traffic. Their 24/7 expert support is always there to help when you need it by phone, email, or live chat. They are rated #1 in web hosting for small businesses.
On top of that, they are offering our users an exclusive 50% off discount, a Free Domain, Free SSL, and a free Site Builder with templates.
First Click here to go to BlueHost Website and click on the green button "Get Started" as shown below.
On the next page, you will see different plans BlueHost offer. To be honest the Choice Plus plan is a little bit overkill since we are just getting started which just leave it between the Basic plan and Plus plan.
So if you just planning to have one blog you can go for the Basic plan or if you are planning of building or making more than one blog, you can go for the Plus plan.
As I'm just doing this for the tutorial I'm going to go for the Basic plan and as we've decided we can click on the Select button underneath as shown below.
So if you just planning to have one blog you can go for the Basic plan or if you are planning of building or making more than one blog, you can go for the Plus plan.
As I'm just doing this for the tutorial I'm going to go for the Basic plan and as we've decided we can click on the Select button underneath as shown below.
On the next page, we can register our FREE domain name which comes with our account.
Type the domain name or your blog name you wanted to register if you are lucky your domain name will be available and if it's unavailable you just keep trying until you find a good one that is available which matches your business or blog and it's short as possible because short domain names rank higher in Search Engines.
If you already have a domain you can enter it in where it says "I have a domain name"
you need to change the nameservers at your domain registrar to:
NS1.Bluehost.com
NS2.Bluehost.com
Or you click on Choose Later and continue to the next page.
Ensure you have clicked on the Discount provided above for 50% Off your hosting or you can Click Here For 50% Off Discount.
Type the domain name or your blog name you wanted to register if you are lucky your domain name will be available and if it's unavailable you just keep trying until you find a good one that is available which matches your business or blog and it's short as possible because short domain names rank higher in Search Engines.
If you already have a domain you can enter it in where it says "I have a domain name"
you need to change the nameservers at your domain registrar to:
NS1.Bluehost.com
NS2.Bluehost.com
Or you click on Choose Later and continue to the next page.
On the next page first, fill in your account information, proceed to package information and choose your account plan(you can either go with 12, 24 or 36 months it is completely up to you),
now go to the package extras uncheck the optional add-ons.
But if you want any of them leave the boxes check, and then if you are happy with everything enter your payment details underneath and if you don't want to use a credit card you can click on where it says more payment option and choose Paypal instead.
Finally, accept the terms and conditions and click on submit.
After paying for your order you will be brought to this confirmation page as shown below. At this point click where it says "Set password".
Next set your password and click on "Next" as shown below.
Congratulations you have successfully set your password now click on the login Button as shown below to start installing Wordpress it will only take a few seconds.
On the next page, you will be shown a few different themes you can use for your WordPress Blog.
If you see the one you like the lookup you can hover over it and click use this theme or if you don't see the one you like you can skip this step at the bottom and choose a different one later.
All done! now click on the Start building button to log in to your WordPress Dashboard.
This is the WordPress Dashboard where we can add any content or make any changes to your blog which by the way is live online.
The next thing we going to do is to install your WordPress Blog Theme if you haven't done so previously.
What you need to do is click on Appearance then Themes and click on Add New.
There are thousands of themes to choose from. You can choose the one you like, hover over it click on install and activate.
As you can see your blog doesn't have content. To add content to your blog go to the Wordpress Dashboard hover over the posts then click on add new. This is adding a blog post.
But if you want any of them leave the boxes check, and then if you are happy with everything enter your payment details underneath and if you don't want to use a credit card you can click on where it says more payment option and choose Paypal instead.
Finally, accept the terms and conditions and click on submit.
After paying for your order you will be brought to this confirmation page as shown below. At this point click where it says "Set password".
Next set your password and click on "Next" as shown below.
Congratulations you have successfully set your password now click on the login Button as shown below to start installing Wordpress it will only take a few seconds.
If you see the one you like the lookup you can hover over it and click use this theme or if you don't see the one you like you can skip this step at the bottom and choose a different one later.
All done! now click on the Start building button to log in to your WordPress Dashboard.
The next thing we going to do is to install your WordPress Blog Theme if you haven't done so previously.
Themes
A theme is the design of your blogWhat you need to do is click on Appearance then Themes and click on Add New.
There are thousands of themes to choose from. You can choose the one you like, hover over it click on install and activate.
Posts
As you can see your blog doesn't have content. To add content to your blog go to the Wordpress Dashboard hover over the posts then click on add new. This is adding a blog post.
Plugins
plugins enhance the functionality of your blog.To add plugins to your blog go to WordPress dashboard hover over the plugins then click add new. Here you can search for any plugin that you want to add to your blog by searching for it in the search box.
Pages
The process is the same for pages.
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