Building a WordPress Website: BASICS

Follow the handy tutorials below in the order they’re listed here for maximum effectiveness, and minimum amounts of frustration!

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GETTING SET UP:

  1. Register your domain name
  2. Set up hosting for your website
  3. Connecting your domain name to your hosting
  4. Logging in to your c-panel account
  5. Set up custom emails for your domain
  6. Installing WordPress on your domain

CUSTOMIZING HOW YOUR SITE LOOKS:

  1. How to view your site
  2. Logging in to your site’s dashboard
  3. Posts – Adding & Editing
  4. Pages – Adding & Editing
  5. Customizing your header (the stuff at the top of your website)
  6. Comments – what are they and how do they work?
  7. Working with plugins
  8. Widgets – what are they and how do they work?
  9. Website design basics
  10. What are themes and how do I use them?
  11. Where can I get good, affordable, easy-to-customize, professional looking themes?
  12. Footers – what are they and how can you use them?

ADDING YOUR OWN CONTENT

  1. Website content basics
  2. Adding a picture
  3. Adding a video
  4. Adding audio files
 

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