
Learn a beginner-friendly, step-by-step guide to starting a blog with WordPress, no prior experience or coding required, and complete the process in about 40 minutes.
Discover the five steps to start a blog with WordPress.org, including hosting and domain, a quick WordPress install, theme setup, an about page, and posts with comments.
Register a domain name and web hosting with HostGator, select the hatchling or baby plan, and secure a dot com domain with optional privacy.
Delete demo content by removing demo pages and posts in WordPress from the dashboard, hover over items, trash them, and verify the site shows no demos.
Install WordPress on your domain using HostGator, log in to the cPanel, run WordPress manager, configure admin credentials, and launch a live dashboard ready for customization.
Navigate the WordPress dashboard, open appearance, install and activate a new theme such as Primer, then visit your site to see the updated blog look.
customize your WordPress theme by updating site identity, including the site title, tagline, and logo, cropping when needed, and deciding to display or hide the title and tagline before publishing.
Select a preset color scheme or customize the color palette and individual colors, then publish to preview changes and add a header image via header media.
Upload a header image and crop it as needed, then preview in the live view and disable the 'use featured image' option to keep the header from changing, before publishing.
Manage your WordPress sidebar by using widgets: delete unwanted items, add text and image widgets with titles and content, rearrange order, and publish changes.
Create an about page on your WordPress blog by using the dashboard, adding headings and an image, then publish to appear in the menu on the live site.
Create and publish blog posts in WordPress by using the dashboard to add a title, headings, and images, then set categories, tags, and a featured image.
How To START A BLOG using WordPress – Step by Step
A Complete Beginners Guide to Starting a Blog with WordPress.
Even if you’ve only used your computer for sending emails and browsing Facebook, you should still have no problems starting a blog with WordPress.
You don’t need to have any previous experience.
We’re not going to be using any complicated coding.
And the whole process is only going to take us about 40 minutes to complete!
What's Covered:
Registering Hosting / Domain Name
Logging into Hosting cPanel
Installing WordPress
Viewing Default WordPress Installation
Delete Demo Content
Installing WordPress Theme (Primer Theme)
Customizing WordPress Theme
Site Identity (Blog Title, Tagline, and Logo)
Changing Blog Colours
Adding a Blog Header Image
Changing WordPress Sidebar (Widgets)
Adding an About Page
Adding Blog Posts on WordPress
So if you want to start a blog TODAY, in less than 30 minutes...
ENROL in this FREE course and we can start YOUR blog TOGETHER!
Previous Course Reviews
Below are some reviews from a previous course of mine (just so you know what to expect).
Susan M Tharp
★★★★★
I loved this course!!! It is very practical. You can put it to use right away. Learning to navigate through the WordPress interface was great!!
Shammim Shaik
★★★★★
Course is great for a beginner it helped me a lot. Thank you
Nicola Williams
★★★★★
Great intro course for learning the basics of WordPress!
Diane Dunwoodie
★★★★★
Great WordPress introductory course, easy to follow, to the point - awesome! Thank you Martie Dread!!
Ashok singh
★★★★★
This is really helpful and good for beginner, thank u.
Juan Ferrera
★★★★★
Great and easy to understand.
Eraldo Guri
★★★★★
Very helpful, thank you.
Dharma Prakash
★★★★★
Awesome.
Pieter Marx
★★★★★
Simply yet effective course I love it, Thanks.
Yehuda Siboni
★★★★★
Thank you.
Abdelkabir Houmari
★★★★★
I have learnt many technical elements which will help me surely to go ahead and build a new business website thanx.
Sandeep Kumar
★★★★★
Best crash course for complete beginners...Thanks Martie!
Olga Kwiatko
★★★★★
Great tutorial!
The reviews (above) are only A FEW of the 5 star reviews I have received from ONE of my courses... I literally have THOUSANDS of reviews like this on my different courses. (I slightly fixed up some spelling mistakes and punctuation).