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Making websites with WordPress is easy even for beginners without much HTML code knowledge. You do not need to hire professionals and spend thousands of dollars to build a website with WordPress. In this guide, you will learn how to build a website with WordPress from scratch. Here is a quick list of how you can create a website with WordPress:
Install & configure WordPress
Add content to WordPress site
Before you can do anything online, you need an address for your website, and a place to host your website, they are domain names and hosting servers.
Domain Name and Registration
A domain name is the name of your site on the web. You visitors find and browse your site through the domain. Click here to see how a domain works? The first step to make yourself a website is to choose a good domain name. There are some guidelines and rules can help you with that. Check out the top 10 tips to choose a domain name?
Your website is going to be stored somewhere on the internet. A web host offers hosting service for your websites. There are many good WordPress hosting services you can choose from, such as Bluehost, Justhost, Arvixe hosting and many more. Read this guide to learn how to choose WordPress hosting.
You can use domain registration and web hosting services from the same vendor or keep them separate. For example, GoDaddy is a well-known domain registrar, you can buy domains with them from here. Additionally GoDaddy offers web hosting service as well. Bluehost is a famous WordPress hosting service provider, domain registration service is also offered by Bluehost. When you purchase domain and hosting space separately with different companies, you need to add your domain name to your hosting account and point domain name servers or DNS records from its registrar to hosting. You can see an example here: Change name servers from GoDaddy to Bluehost.
WordPress is an open source CMS, you will be able to download the WordPress installer from WordPress.org to your computer for free. After that go to upload it from your computer to your web server through a FTP client, then start installing WordPress site online.
There are basically two way’s to install WordPress on hosting servers, either installing WordPress manually or with a hosting provided script that will do most of the job for you.
Install WordPress Automatically using a script
Install WordPress Manually all by yourself
If you want to make a website using wordpress in an easier way, you can use the auto installers or script provided by your web host. Many good web hosts now integrated WordPress 1 click installers in their hosting control panel. Below are some examples:
Easiest Way to Install WordPress with Hostgator
Create WordPress Blog with BlueHost
If you prefer to create a site with wordpress all by yourself, choose a manual installation of the WordPress. The famous 5 minutes WordPress installation can help you quickly set up a hosted wordpress site.
Basic steps to build a site with WordPress
Create a MySQL Database in your hosting account
Download WordPress installer from WordPress.org
Upload WordPress installer from computer to your server
Configure database connection in the wp-config.php file
Install WordPress from web browser
Basic Configuration of your WordPress Site
The first thing you may want to do when the WordPress site has been created is to give your site a different look. Go to WordPress Dashboard >> Appearance >> Theme to change a new theme. Then you may want to set link structure for your site from Settings >> Permalinks. For sidebars of your site, go to Appearance >> Widgets. If you like to custom your site menus, go to Appearance >> Menu. For new features, you can go to the Plugins section to download and activate new plugins to add new functions and extend WordPress possibilities.
Add Content to WordPress Site
Now you can compose and publish posts and pages to your WordPress site. Go to Dashboard of your site, add categories for your posts from Posts >> Categories. Go to add new posts from Posts >> Add New, create new pages from Pages >> Add New. Make sure to preview your posts or pages before publish. Once a post or page has published, do not forget to check out your site at the frontend to see if everything is working fine.
Now you know how to make a WordPress site. Happy blogging!