Word press Quick Start Guide

Posted by Gaurav on June 20th, 2017

Welcome to the very interesting and fascinating world of blogging! A place where you can share your opinion and publish your thoughts on Internet. Now, if you’ve decided to start your own blog by using WordPress, this article can help you a lot having checklist to star. No doubt, WordPress is a great product for users having less technical knowledge because it is very easy to use, flexible and quite powerful. If you are new in using WordPress, this step-by-step plan is ready to serve you.

Step 1: Choose a Hosting Provider

To start a WordPress blog or any other CMS, the first step is to choose a best web hosting provider. There is a great list of WordPress hosting provider, you can select the one that is most suitable for you and support 1-click install of WordPress.

Step 2: Pick a Domain

The second step to start a WordPress blog is to pick a domain name; at the time of selecting of your WordPress blog title please keep consider following;

• Your domain name should be short enough to write down by the visitors easily
• Your blog name should be relevant to your target Market
• Your Blog name should have the extension relevant to your business nature like .com for commercial website or .org for organization or .edu for education etc.

Step 3: Install WordPress

Then install WordPress on your hosting; the process of its installation is very fast and manageable for a non-technical user and takes only 1-click to be installed.

Step 4: Choose Custom and Relevant Theme

WordPress is a popular Content management system; having hundreds of free themes and premium (paid) Themes. You should choose the theme that is very relevant for your custom blog with design flexibility.

Step 6: Set Permalink Structures

If you are making your WordPress blog for SEO purposes, the option of permalink is very much beneficial for you. The default permalink structure has post ID that is not liked by Google. You should change it with keyword rich permalink structure.

Step 7: Install Useful Plug-in

WordPress blog are very much liked by the people and has thousands of users because of its customization abilities. You can add hundreds of required plug-ins easily and integrate them as well without any technical knowledge. So after configuring permalink structure, just search and install required plug-in and start working on your blog.

Step 8: Create Root and Sub Pages

Now, your blog is ready to update. Everything in WordPress blog is considered as content, you can create a few basic pages first in your blog like home page, About Page, Contact Page and Subscribe Page.

So, these are the simple 8 steps checklist that will give you great help to start your own WordPress Blog. Have a nice blogging journey ahead!!! You can also join a Digital Marketing course to know more.