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How to Start a WordPress Blog (Self Hosted) – Step by Step

A Beginners Guide to Starting a Blog in 40 Minutes or LESS!
Free tutorial
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 (29 ratings)
3,514 students
31min of on-demand video
English
English [Auto]

Register a domain name and web hosting
Install WordPress (.org) onto domain name and hosting
Install and customize a WordPress theme
Create an about page
Publish different blog posts

Requirements

  • No previous experience is required, this course will teach you everything you need to know to get started.

Description

Learn how to start a blog, step by step, using WordPress (.org).

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).

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners looking to start their own WordPress blog.

Instructor

WordPress Instructor at Udemy
Martie (Let's Build WordPress)
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 3,865 Reviews
  • 330,043 Students
  • 13 Courses

Hi, my name is Martie.

I've got nearly 10 years experience of working with WordPress (at the time of writing) and I run the YouTube channel Let's Build WordPress.

Between Udemy, YouTube and my website, I've taught hundreds of thousands of people how to use WordPress (over 295k students on Udemy alone).

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