4 Tips to Start your Wordpress Blog

 

Are you planning to enter into the blogging profession? But don’t know how to start a blog? There are “n” numbers of issues that a newbie comes across while starting a blog. One of the most common issues that newbie usually faced is the selection of the blogging platform. There are multiple free and paid blogging platforms available in the market but which one is ideal for your niche and how to begin your blogging journey? In this article, I will cover 4 important tips that will help you to start your own WordPress instantly.

1. Select the domain and hosting:

Getting a domain name for your business is the crucial factor for your blog. Therefore, you should research for the best and catchy domain name. Also, make sure that domain which you have selected is unique and memorable.  As soon as, you decide the domain name your next step is to register your name with the provider. Next step is to buy the self-hosted version of WordPress.  If you are looking for complete control over the content, designing and advertising you should go for self – hosted WordPress hosting. Buy WordPress hosting from one of the reputed web hosting providers to host your blog.

2. Install WordPress Hosting

After buying the domain and hosting your next step is to install WordPress CMS through cPanel.

• Login to your cPanel dashboard
• Scroll down to Softaculous Apps Installer
• Click on the Softaculous Apps Installer
• You will redirect to Softaculous dashboard
• From the drop-down list download WordPress CMS and follow the process of resetting the password and username.
• After installing WordPress, you will get an email on registered email address.
• In Email, you will get your admin login URL, username and password, etc.
• After that, you can log in to your WordPress via https://example.com/wp-admin/

3. Select a theme and install plugin:

 

 After login to your WordPress account, you are required to select WordPress theme for your blog. To install the theme, click on the “Appearance” option on the left sidebar and go to Themes. You will get various options for plugin and theme, you only need to click on Add New button and search for themes. After selecting the theme, click on install and activate the theme. Moreover, if you are not satisfied with the current theme, you can follow the same process to change the theme. It is suggested to preview and check the theme before installing.

Apart from this, you can also insert plugin to your blog. With the help of the plugin, you can add features without using a coding language. Finally, after installing the plugin and theme, you can preview your blog and publish the same.

4. Add the first post in your blog:

Last but not least, finally you to have start working on the content for your first blog post. To publish the post, select the “Post” section on the left sidebar and click on “Add New”.

From the above screenshots, you can easily identify the process to add the new post.

Conclusion:

By following the above-mentioned steps you can easily install the WordPress and start your blogging journey. Found this article worth? Do share the post in your social networks.