Step 3: Install WordPress 

You can find an icon to install WordPress on your hosting account dashboard (cPanel). You can ask about it to your hosting provider.

If you have signed up to Bluehost, you can ask them to install WordPress for you. It’s a free service with Bluehost.

Step 4: Select a Theme Suitable for Your Website

The great thing about WordPress is that it works with interchangeable designs – called themes. Meaning,

A WordPress theme is a collection of templates and designs that are used to create a website. With the help of these themes, you can switch the way your WordPress website looks with just clicks.

There are free and paid WordPress themes. You can choose themes according to your taste and business type.

• First login to your WP-ADMIN dashboard. You can log in with the URL”https://yourdomain.com/wp-login.php. After you log in, you will see your WordPress administration dashboard for your website (see below). This may look completely foreign to you if you have never logged into a WordPress website before. But don’t worry, you will get familiar with it very soon.

• Open Appearances > Themes: In left-sided menu first click the appearance then click themes.

• Click on the “Add New” button on the top. And choose from one of the themes displayed or search for a specific theme.

• Install the theme which you like and activate it.
• Now you have to customize the You can access this under from Appearance > Customize. You can do several things to your site’s appearance from here.

Step 5: Install Must-have Plugins

WordPress has a wide range of “add ons” known as plugins that you can use to extend the functionality of your website. Plugins help get some great features without knowing any coding.

Here are names some useful and free plugins you should consider getting:

• Yoast SEO: It helps your website be more accessible to the search engines in general.
• Google Analytics for WordPress: This integrates your website with the most popular traffic analysis solution on the web.
• UpdraftPlus: It is useful for automatic backups of your website.

You can add some more plugins according to your need

Go to your WordPress dashboard and then to Plugins → Add New. From there, input the name of the plugin that you want into the search field, and then click on “Install” and “Activate.”

Step 6: Create Basic Pages

There are some pages that all websites should have, regardless of their purpose or goal.

First, you must learn “how to create a page”.

To do that, simply go to your WordPress dashboard, and then Pages → Add New.

You will find different places as given below:

• Heading section: A place for the headline of the page.
• The body section – the main content of the page. The interface is similar to MS Word. You get all the basic text formatting features (like bold, italics, aligning text to left/right/center, creating lists, etc.).
• The Publish section. This is where the main Publish button is.
• Featured image section: Most WordPress themes take that featured image and display it somewhere in a prominent spot alongside your page.

When you’re done editing the page’s content, click on “Publish.”

Here are the names of pages you should consider creating:

• About: Here you get to tell the story of what your website is and why people should pay attention to it.
• Contact: This is where you can display some contact info along with a nice contact form, through which people can reach you directly.
• Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: This page has become a hugely important element on today’s web. To know about the content of these pages, you should visit your 2 to 4 competitors’ websites and study their Privacy Policy and Terms of Use pages.

Step 7: Write And Publish Your First Blog Post.

A blog post is among the most effective ways to promote not only your website but also any products that you want to sell through your blog.

To create a new blog post, all you need to do is go to Posts → Add New (from your WordPress dashboard).

The process itself of creating a blog post works nearly the same as creating a new page. The editing panel looks nearly the same, and the options are mostly the same as well.

One of the few differences is that you can also assign your posts to categories and tags.

Once you’re done working on a blog post, click on “Publish.”

Conclusion:

That’s it! You have just learned how to build a WordPress website from scratch.

The best thing about the process presented here is that you can do it all by yourself and don’t have to hire anyone. Creating a website with WordPress as your platform is the newbie-friendly method.

I hope this article will help you get started. If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask me in the comments section below.

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