WORDPRESS GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS

WORDPRESS GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS

Hello everyone what's going on? Today I'm going to be teaching you how to put together a simple little website that looks just like this. I'm going to take you through step by step. I'm going to show you how you can get the site. A site just like this up in about 15 to 20 minutes with no steps skip. I'm going to show you. I'm going to walk you through everything installing on your hosting buying your hosting installing your hosting installing WordPress. Then also putting up your posts your featured images all that's going to be included like. I said step-by-step and before we get started though I just want to go over a few things. Then we'll jump right into building the Web site hosting is where your website is going to live online. It's where all your content is stored all your videos your pictures anything.

Basically that's on your website is stored there and then all that information is stored on the server here's another way I like to explain this people think. if you're going to build the house you would need the land to put the house on when you're building a website you're going to need somewhere to put the website on so basically the land is the website hosting in your website is the house website hosting normally costs about sixty to a hundred dollars a year sometimes more.

But today I'm going to show you how to get website hosting for just $12 a year plus a free domain name a website domain is the link to your website so for example.

Here's some other website domains google.com youtube.com Amazon com godaddy.com. You get the idea. So now that I've finished explaining what a website domain is and what website hosting is. We're now going to move on to building the actual site. So the first thing we're going to need to do is. We're going to install website hosting so to do that we're going to head over here to my site which is create WP site and we're going to go over here to special deals and this is where we're going to get the coupon for the website hosting this is going to be the discount. So you guys only had to pay one dollar a month and this is only going to be 12 bucks for an entire year. So what we're going to do is click view this offer and then when you land on this page just click the economy for one dollar a month this is going to automatically apply the coupon code by itself now with this what's going to happen next is this post is going to cut to a previous. That I recorded it's going to show you how to install web site hosting and how to install WordPress and then after that we're going to start building the actual site.

Now pick your domain name just whatever domain name you want something that's going to be relevant to whatever your website is going to be about. I'm just going to do this one real quick okay finances solutions is available click ahead and continue. Okay and then after you did that you land in this page right here. This is just going to show you your total and since you click that link it automatically applied this promotional code and just to show you it will remove at 12:18. If you don't have that it's back up to 60 bucks. So put that code I'm going to put that code back in for sure and then I'm going to go here and I'm just going to go to proceed to checkout okay and um my signup is a new customer. I just entered all my information in it's going to be blurred out for obvious reasons but um when you get to your account information right here email address username password make sure you write all that stuff down or I just make a note of it somewhere even though I'm pretty sure they're going to give it to you anyways and the next thing you need to do is go down to payment information. Pay however you want I'm going to choose PayPal okay and then after you pay you're going to land on your confirmation page and I'm going to do is everything looks right 12:18 should be your total click. I agree and then place your order and um that's it you now have website hosting okay now before we go and install WordPress.

First I want you to go up here and go to manage my domains and we're going to verify our email we're going to do that before we can do anything so just come right here click verify email now check your email and there should be some type of message there okay so I'm going to go check my email now okay and if you can see right here it says action required verify your email okay now that's it your account is verified now we're going to click here go to my account and we're going to set up WordPress and you can just you can do this. If you want to or you can just skip and I'm just going to click no thanks okay so when we get on this page we're going to go here we're going to go to web host and click manage and right where it says new cPanel click setup now you can select from your domain it's already selected. I go here and I'm going to create a username and a password okay now after you do that make sure you make some kind of note of that and then click finish then we're going to click get started Now you should be in your cPanel and to install WordPress we're just going to scroll down here to web applications and click WordPress okay and then come right here and hit install this application. Now when it gets to this part we're just going to leave it blank so anytime anybody goes to this length the land on your page scroll down here the stuff should be all figured out for you right here. And I click install okay and then you land on this page after you're done and if you ever need to edit your password or you know any of those type of things you can go here view edit details it'll give you all your stuff right here you can add it all that I'm going to go here and I'm going to click this one that says back slash WordPress ad all right guys we're back and you should now have your website domain you should have your hosting installed and you should have your WordPress installed and you should be looking at your dashboard page on your WordPress blog that looks something like this now as always we're going to take a look and see what the blog looks like and as you can see a blank as usual and we're going to make it look a little less blank so let's get started okay so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to head over to settings and we're going to click general and this is what we're going to change the name of the of the blog the site title and the tagline and I'm going to name my site daily real stay tips oops and then I'm going to put my tagline as this and you guys can put whatever you want for your site title depending on what niche you're in you can just make it accordingly and then click scroll down here and click Save Changes and then we'll just come up here and we'll right-click this and open it just so we can see how it looks right there new title new tagline now we can move on to the next step okay so let's head over to the post section. So we can get some content up and this is the UM this is the default post that always comes with when I WordPress is just installed so you can just you can you can edit it or you can move it to the trash. I'm just going to move it to the trash and then I'm going to click add new up here okay and then right here is where your title is going to go for your post and then just going to come over here I'm going to grab some example text this is just example text just to show you guys how the book how your post will look and then we're going to come down over here actually we're going to go here and add new category for this I'm going to put real estate and you guys can add you know whatever it is if you have a weight loss site then maybe you want to add diet or you know whatever. You think is right for your website and then let's come down here to set a featured image and then I'm going to click this upload files let's go my first post.

You  don't have to have a featured image but it's better to have it that fills your website out a little bit more it just makes it look a lot better and the images um you select for it they can be pretty much any size but try to keep try to keep the try to get bigger ones. Because it'll just automatically get scaled down by WordPress you don't want them too small because it won't look right and then just click set featured image and then there it is right there and we're going to come up here and we're just going to hit publish okay and there we have our first post up. Before we continue on the posts I almost forgot we need to do the most important thing which is install the theme for the site and you just come over here click add new and as you can see there's go-to popular over 2000 themes. You know you can use you guys can use any of these themes right here if you want but for this example we're going to be using a theme called Reba light.

I'm gonna click install then I'm going to click activate and then we're going to take a look at it and see how it looks with the first post that we got in there okay the first post right there. Now I'm going to I'm going to come back after I created about six to seven more posts and then we can continue. I just finished up my last post and I just need to add the feature image actually. Before I add the feature image. I just want to show you guys if you ever want to add an image or a video into your eyes content right down here. You just click this add media and it's the same thing as adding the featured image you just go click here select whatever file you want and it'll be wherever you click it. It will show up right there and say you wanted to Center it you put in you can click that and that aligns it in the center. You can click this button right here the toolbar toggle and it's got some other stuff if you were wondering what any of this stuff is just rest your mouse on it and it's pretty clear right there it shows what exactly it does so I'm just going to scroll back down here. I'm a click set featured image get my last one wait for this to load okay click set featured image I'm going to scroll up click update now we can take a look at what the site looks like with some content on it finally and as you can see it's already looking way better once you get the content on there that's when you start what's that's when your site really starts to come alive. So now we're going to move on to the next step okay guys so the next thing we're going to do is we're going to change this little logo right here. We're going to add our site title instead so to do that you just click I don't know if you guys see me do that one second you go up here and you click customize and then you go here to general options click logo and right there you see it says rebar and you just put in whatever you want for this I'm just going to put it as real estate and after that you can click Save and publish that's it and then you close this lead page take a look at okay so we got that now alright. Now we're going to move on to the next style. So the next thing we're going to do is we're going to go.

Add some pages so I'm going to close this back to my dashboard. We're going to come over here to pages and you guys might see a page right here I actually just deleted a couple minutes ago I wasn't recording though and it's just the it's just like the demo page just like the demo post you can just get rid of it if you want so I'm going to add three pages these are three pages that every site needs to have and that's the contact us page the about Us page in the privacy policy page and what I'm going to do is I'm going to create these pages and then I'm going to have a link right here which I'm going to show you in a few minutes. Where you can go to and each one's going to teach you how to make a Contact Us page how to make an about Us page how to make a privacy policy page all for free so you're going to see that when I come back okay guys so I just finished creating the three pages. I said I was going to make as you can see right here okay got the about us that contact us and the privacy policy page made and now I'm going to add in about five to six other pages and then I'm going to come back. I'm going to explain more about the privacy policy and then we're also going to make a menu for the site. I just finished in adding my last few pages as you can see right here and now the next thing we're going to do is we're going to go down here to appearance and we're going to click menus.

 We're going to create a menu for our website so to do this you're gonna have to first give the menu a name it can be whatever you want I'm just going to name it main menu then you click create menu okay and then when that comes I'm just going to use my pages that I have so I'm going to click all these you guys can do the same or if you just want to add your three main ones right here that's fine too it doesn't really matter and then you click Add to menu and then um well that's loading over here in the menu settings uh you want to click this one header menu and footer menu that way I'll show up at the bottom and the top or you can just do the header menu whatever you want to do and then click Save menu and we're just going to open up this page close this and as you can see there they are right there all that and it should be down here yep there they are right there and now you have the pages.

Alright guys before we move on to the next steps I just wanted to come back to this privacy policy page actually these three pages right here where I said that there's going to be a link which is right here for the privacy policy and just to show you how this works this is just going to send you to a page it's going to show you it's going to create a custom privacy policy page for you if you don't already know how to do that it's all 100% free whoops same with the contact us page go right here ten in the bed it gives you ten examples right here and same thing with the about Us page too so now let's move on to the next step.  

One more thing before we move on to the next steps is I'm going to show you how to get rid of some of this stuff right here it's just kind of it's you know it's not really necessary and it doesn't make the site look that good so to do that we're going to come back over here to our dashboard and we're going to go down here to widgets and now this is all the stuff right here. I'm just going to get rid of this you can keep it if you want but I feel like it looks better without some of the stuff categories. I'm going to remove that but actually. I'll leave that archives. I'm going to get rid of that again some of these will be useful once you start getting tons of content up and you get people commenting and all that these are you can bring these back and just to do that like I just deleted recent comments. You can go right here you just drag it back in there and now and click Save and it'll be back in there but again I'm going to get rid of this just so there's those three right there and we come here you'll see all those are gone so it just helps clean it up a little bit all right now we can move on to the next step all right so now what we're going to do is I'm going to show you how you can add you. Your own links into these social share buttons right here.

 I'm just going to go back to this page and we're going to go up here and click customize and then we're going to go to general options and then go to contact details and this is where you will add in your custom URLs for each one of these social networks whatever ones you have you can just add in if you don't have them you can just leave them blank. And then once you do that and you add them all in you just come up here you click Save and then you close out and I just wanted to show you guys too in case anybody's a little confused by what you need to do here for example if your Twitter account name was real estate tips it would be your URL would look like this so it'd be you just type in www.shopnobari.com backslash real estate tips or whatever your account name is and that's pretty much how most of these will be you'll have a custom link once you have gotten each social site arab map made an account on each social site. And I was going to get ready to move on to the next step but I just realized that we are actually done.

I know it seems pretty quick but as you can see we got the site up and it's full but this is obviously example stuff but like. I say and um most of my post just try to focus on getting some content up and at least get some featured images going just so your site is or full or at least has the appearance of being full so people don't land on it you know maybe before you get ready to release it and see it and go home there's no good content here and then they just leave. So just try to UM when you get your site up get some content up and really that's all you're going to need to do to make it look filled out and have people come and visit your site and do whatever you need them to do so if you guys like this video um give it a share and also give it a thumbs up too and if you have any questions as always leave them in the comment section below. I will get back to you as soon as possible so enjoy your new site