{"id":1803,"date":"2021-06-20T12:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T12:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/academy\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2023-02-22T09:34:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T09:34:54","slug":"how-to-create-a-blog-on-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/academy\/how-to-create-a-blog-on-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Blog on WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1803\" class=\"elementor elementor-1803\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6b7204da elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6b7204da\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-48ba8bfd\" data-id=\"48ba8bfd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7777c4c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"7777c4c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=itjqGsX0gCo&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7697f038 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7697f038\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-64a76db2\" data-id=\"64a76db2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67d48f8e elementor-tabs-view-horizontal elementor-widget elementor-widget-tabs\" data-id=\"67d48f8e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1741\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1741\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Overview<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1742\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1742\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Transcript<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1741\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Overview<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1741\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1741\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><p>This video will guide you on how to create a blog on WordPress in just a few minutes. This video also covers a lot of valuable information on blogging and web building for all levels looking to learn about:<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1742\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Transcript<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1742\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1742\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p>this video was created to help walk you<br \/>through creating a blog on WordPress<br \/>whether it&#8217;s your first blog or your<br \/>revamping your old blog whether or not<br \/>you&#8217;re new to blogging or internet<br \/>technology by the end of this lesson you<br \/>will know how to get your blog up off<br \/>the ground and running if you have any<br \/>questions thoughts or ideas please write<br \/>them in the comments below and if you<br \/>find this video interesting or if you&#8217;re<br \/>interested in finding out more on this<br \/>subject or related subject then be sure<br \/>to click on the subscribe button and tap<br \/>that bell so that you don&#8217;t miss out on<br \/>videos that could help you with what<br \/>you&#8217;re hoping to create online now also<br \/>will be leaving lots of links in the<br \/>show notes below &#8211; lots of related<br \/>information as well as a link to a more<br \/>detailed and in-depth article that we&#8217;re<br \/>publishing together with this video but<br \/>right now let&#8217;s get started on setting<br \/>up our blog in three simple steps<br \/>we set up a website for our blog we&#8217;ll<br \/>need the following things a registered<br \/>domain name a subscription with a<br \/>hosting service and WordPress installed<br \/>and set up and we&#8217;ll be walking you<br \/>through every step of the way explaining<br \/>what these are why we need them and how<br \/>to get them beginning with step number<br \/>one how to get a domain name for our<br \/>site now a domain name is the address<br \/>it&#8217;s where we tell people to go when we<br \/>want them to visit our site or blog and<br \/>once we&#8217;ve decided on a name<br \/>we need to register that name so that we<br \/>can keep it as our address and we do<br \/>this by going to a specific domain<br \/>registration site such as Namecheap or<br \/>Google domains but these days plenty of<br \/>hosting services will register your<br \/>domain name for you and we&#8217;ll be needing<br \/>hosting services anyways so let&#8217;s move<br \/>on to step number two subscribing to a<br \/>hosting service Hosting is a service<br \/>that stores all of the data for our<br \/>website on a big memory bank called a<br \/>server making sure that it&#8217;s readily<br \/>available to visitors from all over the<br \/>internet but for our purpose here we&#8217;ll<br \/>want to go with hosts such as site<br \/>ground or Bluehost that provide domain<br \/>name registration as well as a hosting<br \/>service that is WordPress dedicated and<br \/>if we&#8217;re already talking about WordPress<br \/>let&#8217;s move on to step number three<br \/>installing WordPress WordPress is a<br \/>platform initially designed for online<br \/>blogs and has been one of the most<br \/>popular choices for bloggers worldwide<br \/>ever since and probably why hosting<br \/>services with WordPress dedicated<br \/>hosting have made it so easy for<br \/>bloggers like us to set it up through<br \/>their service now when we subscribe to<br \/>one of these hosting services will<br \/>select the WordPress dedicated package<br \/>and register your domain name and once<br \/>we&#8217;ve completed the short subscription<br \/>process it&#8217;s a simple matter of clicking<br \/>a few buttons and just like that we&#8217;ve<br \/>installed WordPress for our blog on our<br \/>host server so let&#8217;s get right down to<br \/>accomplishing our goal of creating and<br \/>publishing our first post on our blog<br \/>[Music]<br \/>now once we&#8217;ve logged into our WordPress<br \/>account we&#8217;ll find ourselves here on the<br \/>WordPress dashboard the dashboard is<br \/>organized and designed to be efficient<br \/>for online bloggers with the functions<br \/>most frequently used by bloggers<br \/>appearing at the top of the menu on the<br \/>Left panel now here we have our posts<br \/>tab where we can review and edit our<br \/>blog posts in the all posts option but<br \/>right now we&#8217;ll click on the add new<br \/>option to create our very first blog<br \/>post now this takes us to the wordpress<br \/>post editor will give our post a title<br \/>let&#8217;s get started in WordPress we add<br \/>our content as blocks stacked upon one<br \/>another by using this little plus icon<br \/>here just below our title box we can<br \/>access a library of blocks for<br 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