How to Start a Blog on WordPress in 2019?
Are you thinking to start a blog in WordPress soon? Are you getting confused about how to set up a brand-new website in WordPress?
This post is dedicated to all the people who are searching for a step by step tutorial on how to start a blog on WordPress in 2019. With this guide, you can be able to build a brand-new website using the world's most popular Content Management System.
Before going to the tutorial part let me tell you the required things that you need to ensure to build your website.
When building a brand-new website, you must need two things.
Domain Name: The name on which your brand will be recognized. Every website has a unique domain name. You cannot start building your website without the domain name.
Web Hosting: This is the thing that is also required before creating any website. Web hosting is the place where you will put your files to show on your website. You can purchase both the domain name and web hosting plan from GreenGeeks. This is one of the leading and my favorite hosting company. You can get a discount from GreenGeeks and save some money during the upcoming Black Friday sale. Make sure you pick the right plan that is suitable for your website type.
How to Start a Blog on WordPress?
Here I come up with the step by step tutorial. This will help any new and experienced people to setup WordPress perfectly and start their blog within 30 minutes.
Let's start:
Choose our domain name and hosting plan and purchase both. There are so many domains and web hosting providers out there. You may pick any of them and get these two things ready.
After having the domain name and web hosting plan you are ready to start building your website.
Open your cPanel and find the Softaculous app installer. Most of the renowned hosting provider offers this automated app installer through the cPanel.
Once you find the Softaculous app installer open it and install WordPress using this app. This will automatically install WordPress on your hosting server.
After finishing WordPress installation, you will be notified via email.
Finally, log in to the WordPress dashboard.
After a successful login, your next step is to customize the blog and make it professional. You will find thousands of themes and plugins on the WordPress directory. Check and find the right one that fulfills your needs and install it.
You may need to customize the theme and plugin to make it work perfectly.
You are done!
This is the step-by-step on installing and setting up a WordPress blog. You will need around 30 minutes to do all the things and run your blog.
If you have any questions regarding WordPress installation feel free to ask me. I will be happy to help you. Drop a comment below and I will try to assist you to build your first website on WordPress. If you find this post helpful make sure you share it on your social media.